And don't you just HATE spelling and grammatical errors in BOOKS? One of my pet peeves. I also can't stand when people put apostrophes everywhere when things are plural and not possessive. I had an English prof who would give an automatic F for that one. Too bad he's still not teaching.
those who find the current rules of English too hard to learn should have their spelling labeled variant, not wrong.
Or, they should be made to take some remedial phonics classes where the rules are taught. Beyond that, use the damn spell checker. We all make mistakes now and then, and I'm careless of online arenas like this, but at work or for higher ed, there's no way anything leaves my computer without being checked multiple times.
It annoys me when people write in "texting" grammar. It's fine for messaging and that's its place. In another context (email, blogs, comments) it's illiterate.
This week's Time magazine proposes a loosening of spelling standards.
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I totally agree, and it irked me when I was in college that most of my professors except the English ones didn't correct grammar errors.
That should have been "grammatical" errors. OOOOPS!
Don't you just hate when that happens Ting?
This makes me furee...furreeus...pisses-me-off. :P
I am one of the worse spellers. and spell check is making me even worser.
And don't you just HATE spelling and grammatical errors in BOOKS? One of my pet peeves.
I also can't stand when people put apostrophes everywhere when things are plural and not possessive. I had an English prof who would give an automatic F for that one. Too bad he's still not teaching.
Spelling mistakes are inexcusable when everyone has access to 1) a dictionary and 2)spell check in the word processor.
those who find the current rules of English too hard to learn should have their spelling labeled variant, not wrong.
Or, they should be made to take some remedial phonics classes where the rules are taught. Beyond that, use the damn spell checker. We all make mistakes now and then, and I'm careless of online arenas like this, but at work or for higher ed, there's no way anything leaves my computer without being checked multiple times.
It annoys me when people write in "texting" grammar. It's fine for messaging and that's its place. In another context (email, blogs, comments) it's illiterate.
Hear, hear! To the original post and to the "texting" grammar.
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