One thing that was forcefully driven home to me, when I put myself through college typing other people's papers, is that the ability vel non to spell is not correlated with the writer's intelligence or with the cogency of her arguments. Not in the slightest. sentence fragment

So I read what people say and ignore how they spell (or punctuate) it. Just as in conversation, I listen to what people say and disregard variations in accent or grammar.

A perfectly spelled, rude and intolerant post is far more offensive to me than a post that's thoughtful and helpful, but riddled with spelling and punctuation errors.

I'm just sayin'. slang