I've found that reading a paragraph that is riddled with catastrophic mispelling is much easier to read than one that is horrifically puncuated.

Probably some trick of the brain.

I simply cannot believe the person who wrote that was other than attention-seeking for his vehicle. Like the lettered signs in front of an establishment where some of the letters are turned backwards or upside down in order to grab your attention. I can't imagine a person intelligent enough to send pictures back and forth on his cell phone or iphone being uneducated and stupid enough to write something like that. It's a sham! He might have misspelled a couple or a few words, but not that many.

I find the advert to be more eloquent than many a jargon riddled waffle from the educated who are trying to impress.

It is clearly nothing to do with stupidity, uneducated, maybe. I know people like this, intelligent people who missed out on an education; for example, someone I know would write in a similar way, they left school at 15, got a job in a factory, learned the job, started to manage, got a lucrative job abroad in a country setting up a similar industry, but they were unable to move out of that niche because they could not write a CV; actually I am talking about me dad, and I think I inherited a few of his grammar and spelling blind spots, an education stopped me being as bad as he had been, but I do have a sense of empathy with the advert writer.

I'm not going to speculate on why some people write at that level. There are probabaly as many reasons as people. But if you think it's a sales trick, you don't spend a lot of time on CL! Actually, it's not limited to CL, I've seen examples of creative spelling and random acts of punctuation at various places on the internet, including BE.

I'll also state that an individual's crimes against the written word are not an accurate indicator of overall intelligence. Try it and you'll eventually get burned.

It must really get on your goat then, if it's your first post in a year!

Welcome to BE

I just think the guy typed the entire thing from his phone. I have a horrific time trying to text in perfect English and I use very little text speak. Some of the shit I text when I'm in a hurry is insane. He probably could have done a lot better but just didn't care.

Example from a recent text conversation:

Them: Can you have visitors at work? And do you want to grab a late lunch?

Me: I byself tidy si u can drop by antime. We canest somewhere around here.

I have a Blackberry issued by work. Trying to compose and send an email on their microscopic keys is crazy. My thumb tends to hit three keys at a time. I'm also pretty anal about checking my spelling and making sure the grammar is reasonably correct so composing an email the length of that guy's CL ad would have taken me a good half hour or more. As a result, the emails I send from my BB tend to read like Magic 8 Ball predictions.

I have a personal cell as well, but don't text or email on it.

I'm not sure about that. There are several phonetically sound misspellings that are not the kind you'd get from typos on a keyboard: "it has a 350 turbow tranny", "it has crom rimmes" and "i have fearly new parts".

I did a lot better before I had a touch screen. Gag a maggot.

Especially since she is a she I wonder where she has the nut.

It's on the crom rimmes.

That's certainly how Chaucer used to spell it!

Never heard of it!

yes.

You text beter than I do which is why I don't text. I just use the excuse that I don't have a text allowance as part of my phone plan,