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Who cares if your other harf carnt spell proper?

05 Feb 05:45am

Filed under: Alison Urquhart, Dating, Love, Society

Alison Urquhart won’t date a bad speller, full stop. At the first sign of a misplaced apostrophe or relative pronoun - she’s out of there.

I luf you, Alison

And good on her - dating can be an exhausting and miserable process and bad spellers really get your goat. Trust me, I know that because I happen to be one. It’s also human nature to value certain behaviours in others – especially when the other ends up being someone we spend a great deal of time with.

But things are starting to get a bit out of hand. In this era of online dating, the notion of the ideal partner has reached a terrifying peak – and Urquhart’s parameters are small pickings.

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Louise says:

06:27pm | 05/02/13

I wouldn’t consider it a deal-breaker, but it could be an indication that the two of you aren’t intellectually compatible. More than that though, it could also indicate an entitled attitude, if they’re making deliberate errors such as routinely starting sentences with lower case letters. That to me shows a… Read more »
Pattem says:

05:54pm | 05/02/13

@Colin If the shoes are missing they become: where shoes? Read more »

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