As someone who has spent the last 25 years professionally supporting people with learning disabilities (specific and general), I applaud any attempt by anyone identified as such to express themselves in writing.

However ..... the fact remains that the facts just weren't there. It's not spelling I'm criticising, or syntax, or inexperience. It's sloppiness - don't write that Palace have lost their first five matches without checking the facts.

Simples!

Crystal Palace - dull it's not!

It's not just two-bit rags that make mistakes, the BBC regularly makes gaffs...

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What that shows is that spelling is important. One still has to get the first and last letters in the correct place as well as the correct letters within the word itself. Without all that, what you suggest doesn't work. Furthermore, poor spelling can lead to the use of the wrong word, or an inappropriate one, confusing the meaning of what someone has written. Add in poor grammar and syntax, as has been mentioned, and one often ends up with incoherent vomit on paper.

All this should be obvious from a cursory look at Palace Talk.

Edited by NickinOX (02 Oct 2016 9.06am)

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