What Does Spelling Have to Do with Dating?by Kori Rodley Irons | More from this Blogger 08 Jan 2008 01:27 PM My daughter says I am a language snob and I have to get over myself. This is one of my hang-ups when I am trying to do the instant messaging with my daughters-I just cannot get on board with all the abbreviations and acronyms and all that modern written lingo. I expect full sentences and capitalization otherwise I am just working too hard to figure out what is being said. My daughter is of the theory that this is really holding me back in my hipness. Not to mention, I am finding with the whole online and internet social networking, bad spelling is a big hang-up for me... I am absolutely certain that I have probably overlooked some very nice and decent people because of their spelling and grammar. Is it fair? No. Does it make me a nice and worthy person? No. I am sure there are some of you that might be thinking, "No wonder she's been a single parent all these years, she's waiting for a good speller!" The truth is, I don't even really subscribe to the "idea" of perfect or decent spelling. I don't think I really should care. AND, when you meet a person "in person" you have no idea what sort of a writer or speller they are anyway so it might not become a factor until much later in the relationship or never, if the two of you can get away with never having to write anything to each other. So, I think that this new development of online dating and internet social networking has put some pressure back on the ability to communicate with written language. Not since the golden days of letter-writing has this been the case. With my children's generation, they have just adjusted to the natural poor spelling habits of youth by making up their own versions of words, shortening everything and coming up with acronyms and abbreviations. I might be able to learn some of that, but I don't really see myself dating people in my children's generation anyway. Meanwhile, I continue to wrestle with my language snobbery. If you would have asked me twenty years ago if spelling and grammatical skills would ever factor into my dating life, however, I would have been horrified-but now, I'm finding that spelling has everything to do with dating as a forty-something single mom... Also: Single Parent Dating...Don't Take Things Personally Single and Dating...Learning to Ask Better Questions A Little Stimulating Conversation Would Suit Me Just Fine Learn more about Kori Rodley Irons  Bio has been removed by administrator Relevantsingle parenting tags User Comments No comments on this article yet. Be the first to comment! Community Tags communication, dating, spelling, writing Discuss this article
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