Being literal and thinking too far into left field

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OKC is so confusing sometimes

Can someone be educated and writing in an illiterate manner ironically? Is this, like, a hipster thing or something?


(the photo was of a buff guy, no shirt no face)

Did he send that message to you randomly or did you mention something in your profile about time of your life?

No, that's not a message, that's the entirety of his profile. He visited my profile so I went to look at his and that's all that was there. What is a person supposed to think?

I would assume that the person who composed that nonsense is an illiterate, gibbering idiot.

I think you are right.

No, I think that he truly is illiterate. By educated he probably means that he got his GED. I've seen my fair share of profiles like that also.

Wow that's really surprising especially on a site called OKstupid.

you can go to college for stuff thats not writing. I for example got a degree in automotive technology. only stuff with phds, writing and teaching would need to be literate. there are way more degrees that don't require it.

as for the use of u instead of you. I started doing IM and irc a alot. That is how the majority use to type on there. I slowly adjusted to it and its hard to undo that.

Everyone who goes to college has to pass English 101. Does it just not stick with some people?

Some people simply don't care to use correct spelling, however it is cruel and rude to make fun of someone's lack of education or to assume that they are stupid based on spelling. Illiterate? Yes, stupid? No.

As a previous poster said, there are a many jobs that don't require you to maintain a high level of spelling. Many service based jobs are based on appearance or social skills and many physical jobs are based on skill and speed.

I think he is educated. It is an indictment of the U.S. education system. He might even have a college degree. He just did what he had to do to get by but is by no means an intellectual or of above average intelligence.

well my college just had a bare min requirement only needed writing 121 and they don't require perfection.
I imagine like any other skill, it dissipates with lack of use. I don't write papers every day. I haven't written a paper in years. I use to speak German too. I never planned or like to write. to maintain my grammar would require someone to teach me it on a daily basis. I just feel my time is better spent on doing stuff that is more likely to get me a job. If I had a better brain that worked right I would be better

smarts are a tough thing for me. I'm highly intelligent, but I'm just not into stuff people consider intelligent fields like:righting, science, math, etc. I guess i lack book smarts(probably from my reading difficulty) I'm good at learning stuff and passing school.

people who are turned off or hate those who lack perfect grammar are a turn off for me so it works out lol. There are far more important things in life then grammar and spelling.

for me I was held back from advanced writing cause my disorder, I did take one regular writing class due to a fluke and passed it so it wasn't that I couldn't just they assumed I couldn't same with them saying I couldn't learn German.

out of curiously. If I notice his errors and they bother me a bit, but my grammar is so bad(as I've been told) where does that place me? can there not be people who just have decent or ok spelling and grammar or are we all seen as the same by the perfectionists?

Maybe by educated he means educated with life but he could also mean he has a high-school, trade school or college degree. I don't think that was ironic. i graduAtid from a catholic colidge prep hIsckewl & i uzed2 tIp lik dis onlIn 2b difrent. may-B i culd sue the skewl 4 letin an ill-iterate lik me graduAt

"Well for the best time of your life??" is not even a misspelled sentence. I think this is what threw me the most because it just makes no sense whatsoever and this is why I wondered if he was perhaps being obtuse on purpose. Perhaps it's dysgraphia but in that case he should have made a friend proof read this for him. I really do not enjoy making fun of people but willful stupidity does annoy me, I cannot help it.

I think that the lack of care people show when posting publicly sloppy writing is interpreted by others as sloppiness in general as well as lack of developed interest in writing, reading and associated intellectual pursuits. This will then translate into general incompatibility as you have already deduced.

From my personal point of view, your writing is cogent enough to convey that you are someone who thinks about more than where his next Big Mac is coming from but perhaps lacks further education or has developmental issues such as dyslexia etc. that make it difficult to express himself eloquently in writing.

There are many levels of ability out there and people have varying levels of acceptance and tolerance for others.

For me, it's often a case of - hm, I wonder if this is what kids consider cool these days; like what Nick wrote above for example and what took me a while to decipher, lol.

I used to think that anyone who read extensively was automatically a good speller, since that's how it worked for me. But, as it turns out, some of the most intelligent people I've known couldn't spell for beans. That's why I asked. But I'd think to that posting a profile on a dating site might lead one to at least use spell check on their profile content before posting.

My late fiance (IQ 160, aerospace engineer) was one of those brilliant bad spellers, but he used spell check (or, once he and I were together, ME) to check over anything he'd written before sending.

In the beginning of our relationship (since we lived 150 miles apart) we exchanged a lot of mails, and he spell-checked all of those. Later in the relationship, once he learned that I wouldn't judge him for it, he didn't *always* spell-check quick messages to me.

But that message leafplant posted in the OP is beyond mere bad spelling or learning disability. I didn't understand half of what he wrote.