Originally Posted by
engineeringatUI
To everyone who provided me with some insight or constructive criticism, Thanks.
To everyone who felt it necessary to talk some smack, you would be correct in pointing out that my spelling and grammar is about as far from good as you can get. I am horrible at English, to give you a general idea, I will provide you with my act score, I got a 17 on the English, a 34 on the math and, a 32 on the science. I would like you to consider a couple things; first of all you are on a forum talking smack, what does that make you? Smart? Second and probably more important is why are you talking smack? What purpose dose it serve? Does it make you feel better about yourself? If I was a weak-minded individual I could let it get to me and give up on this project. I am working toward becoming a productive member of society and you are discouraging me, which doesn’t make any sense. From a simple economic standpoint the more each member of society is able to produce, the better standard of living everyone within the economy enjoys. I don’t understand non-constructive criticism it doesn’t get anyone anywhere but whatever, to each his own right? I won’t let bogus comments kill my sprit.
Non-constructive criticism would be calling you a idiot for considering giving up on an engineering project because you can't spell. Suggesting you implement a spell checker when making requests for engineering help when you readily admit that english is your weakest subject is far from that.
The inabilty of prospective fellow engineers to effectively communicate via the written word is one of my pet peeves.
Sorry to harsh your mellow dude. Carry on.
That's a gross generalization, an insulting stereotype, and just generally an a**hole thing to say. For what it's worth I'm an engineering physics student with better spelling, grammar, and vocabulary than most language majors. [READ: In the 99th percentile, nationally] So not only are many of us "able to spell correctly" we can do vector calculus much better than the average bear. The image of the snorting lab dork in front of a basement chalkboard is a bit outmoded, to work in the engineering industry today you are expected to be well rounded. Perhaps the OP's spelling issues were rooted in something as simple as typographical errors or maybe, like me, his hands are too large to comfortably fit an average keyboard. Why be hateful?
FWIW Facts is facts. There was nothing hateful in what I typed.
I have no image of snorting lab dorks in front of a chalkboard and I had very few classmates that gave a **** about the english language. Being well rounded should include having the ability to spell and if you aren't sure perhaps running a spell checker to do it for you rather than throwing up multiple incorrect spelling variations in the hopes of getting one right.