“wt due respect check da script b4 sndn it”
Last week Kontax 2: The Big Win was published on a mobisite and on MXit, unfortunately with spelling and grammatical errors in the text. This was embarrassing for the author, proofreader and myself, especially as m4Lit is about mobiles for literacy! We’ve since fixed the issues and will implement more rigorous proofreading next time.
What is really interesting, however, is that the readers on MXit told us about the mistakes. Remember that this is generation txt, who apparently can’t spell or write properly. This may be true based on the txtspk they used to inform us of the mistakes (see below), but what is clearly evident is that when they read they know their spelling from their splng.
Here are the 28 reader complaints. Thank you, readers, we promise next time to “check da script b4 sndn it”.
Natalie: I lykd the first half of the story n cnt wait 4 the next part. Bt there r allot of spellin faults or missin letters or letters replaced with others……. Pls pls pls just fix them. Mwa ur gal NATALIAN.
Luthando: The pers0n hu was writtn tha st0ry skipz sum othr w0rdz n tht z c0nfusing