Learn to spell, dumbasses

Attention fellow internet users! The following words are not to be misused or confused:

inciteful/insightful: First off, “inciteful” isn’t a word. Secondly, to “incite” is defined by Oxford as to “encourage or stir up (violent or unlawful behavior)”. So if you call a book, or someone’s thoughts, “inciteful”, you are essentially saying that their thoughts encourage or stir up violent or unlawful behavior. If someone’s trying to start a riot, they are perhaps being “inciteful”. However, if you think they’re providing useful insight, then they are being insightful.
wreckless/reckless: Wreckless driving is preferable. You mean “reckless”.
ironic: To make a long story short, it doesn’t mean “unusual” or “out of place” or “incongruent”.

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  1. Scorpius posted the following on December 14, 2005 at 7:54 am.

    man, I’m a rech wen it cums to speling

    I blame IMing

  2. Derogatory posted the following on December 28, 2005 at 11:06 am.

    Everyone gets fed up with people’s spelling eventually. It was only a matter of time until you had this breakdown.
    What really gets my goat is when people type “noone” instead of “no one.” What’s worse is that these people probably have decent jobs too.
    It’s one thing if it’s a typo, I can forgive typos, we all make them, but habitually misspelled words is a mortal sin in my book.


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