<p>I instant messaged a poster on LSD who had gotten into Harvard and other T14 schools besides Yale, and I was surprised and somewhat shocked to see that he was misspelling a lot of common words which I guess made me think he may just be posing as a Harvard student.</p>
<p>How can I know if I'm getting advice from someone who doesn't know what they're talking about? He has plenty of posts on LSD, but his spelling is just not good. . .and he was a political science major.</p>
<p>um
spelling doesn't determine anything ok
its just the internet!
haha
speaking of which, it's just the internet--why would u lie? unless it's to protect your identity. it honestly does NOT make you feel better about yourself that a bunch of random people online who you'll never meet think you're amazing</p>
<p>I think spelling does determine something, actually. There are egomaniacs in the world, or others who seek aspirations which have yet to be fulfilled. I'd expect someone from Harvard Law to know how to spell "definitely" and know the difference between "your" and "you're."</p>
<p>lol, yeah the your/you're thing is annoying...although i sometimes spell it wrong as well, but i always realize it and so it depends if i'm tired to see if it would be edited.
but sometimes people just have slippery fingers, lol, or are purposefully annoying by tYpInNgG lYk d1sS</p>
<p>Well. You can just try confirming the advice. If he's lying but giving good advice, then it doesn't really matter. On the other hand, if he got into HLS but is giving bad advice, then the source doesn't make the advice any better.</p>
<p>I wouldn't worry about the misspelling as much as grammar. You can be a bad speller and still be smart, but you can't be a liberal arts major and be THAT smart if you have bad grammar.</p>
<p>I am talking basic stuff like your/you're, to/too, and the most annoying for me THEN/THAN. Misspelling on message boards can be dismissed as laziness, but there is no excuse for these previous examples.</p>
<p>Why does it matter anyway? Sure, people on the internet lie, but of course just because he does drugs and doesn't type well doesn't mean that he isn't a Harvard student. Some people choose to type a certain way in casual internet settings.</p>
<p>Wow, when I saw that someone was posting on LSD, it didn't have the same meaning to me. I must be really old.</p>
<p>:D LSD = <a href="http://www.lawschooldiscussion.com%5B/url%5D">www.lawschooldiscussion.com</a></p>
<p>Cartera, it seems you are not the only one.</p>
<p>Liars reveal themselves by telling lies.</p>
<p>There was a New Yorker cartoon when the Internet was relatively young that showed a dog saying, "On the Internet, no one knows you're a dog."</p>
<p>It may have seemed that way back in the nineties, but the phrase rings less true today. Some of us have been posting on these boards for many years. You can click on our on-screen names, and see what else we have posted, and judge it for consistency.</p>
<p>I'm also enough of a curmudgeon to believe that spelling, punctuation, and grammar do indeed matter, in letters, briefs, email, and on-line postings. It takes sustained effort to learn to write well, and people who have taken the time and effort to improve their writing are generally loathe to abandon the care they bring to the craft even when the setting is less formal. A careless writer with little posting history who claims to have graduated from college with sufficient credentials to have been admitted to HLS is just another poster making unsubstantiated claims. By contrast, sallywp's discussion of her background at Wharton, and Penn's law school, and her in-house and law firm experience are completely credible, due to the consistency of what she has written, and the skill with which she writes.</p>
<p>Or it could be that people who post online enjoy the sharing information on certain things (or discussing certain topics that normally don't find an audience). That's why there are internet groups devoted to things like cigars, single malt whiskeys, certain thinkers and the like. Sometimes you don't live in a place that can cater to all of your personal tastes (so you go online). (Or in other cases it presents a convenient location for information).</p>