Originally posted by reader1107High scoring? Bub has a lower rating than you, although it's still provisional, so it may be quite inaccurate.
No, no, don't correct them! When I play chess against these high scoring people, I feel like a dunce. Then I come here and see that in many cases their intelligence and skills begin and end on a chess board.
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Originally posted by dottewellYes, but the content is often lost on me if I am distracted by all the mistakes. You don't need to understand a post to be able to correct it. And if it's a longer post, I'll often not read it at all because it would be too difficult to make out the meaning.
You could read it well enough to correct it.
Originally posted by NordlysShe's not posting in a "foreign" language. You can understand her posts. You have demonstrated many times that your English is near-perfect. If, despite this, you are "distracted" by mistakes to the point where you stop reading posts, that's your problem. But (given the number of times you correct people), that's clearly not the case.
It's her problem if she wants me to understand her posts.
Originally posted by dottewellAs I said, it's possible to correct a post without understanding it, although I may understand it after having corrected it. It's true that I can understand most posts with bad spelling if I make an effort (first correcting it in my mind, then rereading to get the content), but I don't always make that effort, especially if I know that the person could spell better if xe wanted. I am more willing to make an effort if I know the person is doing xyr best. As I said, it's as much her problem as mine if she wants me to understand her posts. If she doesn't, fine.
She's not posting in a "foreign" language. You can understand her posts. You have demonstrated many times that your English is near-perfect. If, despite this, you are "distracted" by mistakes to the point where you stop reading posts, that's your problem. But (given the number of times you correct people), that's clearly not the case.