Slippery slope if you adopt the ‘you know what I meant’ though. Get it right then.
Saying ‘you know what I meant’ doesn’t mean that they know how to get it right.
I’ve just received a couple of texts from a very dear friend of mine. Her texts always make me smile because they are full of the most imaginative spellings I have ever seen. She is an intelligent woman but very poorly educated, coming as she does from a poor rural Irish family.
She knows full well that her spelling is always hopelessly incorrect. But she also knows that as long as I understand what she means there is never a problem.
Sometimes it takes me a little while to figure out what she means as her texts can never be read at a glance, but I always get their in the end.
Bizarrely she has a passion for Shakespeare, art galleries, and the preforming arts. I always end up feeling a bit of a philistine in her presence as she stands admiring works of art that go right over my head.
EDIT : Just noticed this : but I always get their in the end. No it wasn’t deliberate. 🙂