Are you bothered by spelling and grammar errors on a forum?

[Phoenix]

Date: 1/19/2009 7:46:55 AM
Author: Phoenix
Not really, no. I view PS as a place where peole can come and 'converse' and share their everyday life without having to worry about whether or not their spelling and grammar are correct. It's also because I am most definitely an offender too. When I see people write 'your' instead of 'you're', or 'definately' instead of 'definitely' or 'dependant' instead of 'dependent', all I can think of is what similar mistakes do *I* make, and whether it annoys other people, LOL!!

What really *does* irk me however is IRL when people who profess to be experts or senior/ experienced in their field and then make really stupid mistakes in formal reports like this one guy at work (who got his job purely through his connection) who tried to correct my English. So, I wrote something like 'Mr X and Mr Y are [insert as appropriate]' and he rewrote it as 'Mr X and Mr Y is [insert as appropriate]'!! and then he *insisted* he was right!!

ETA: Don't *even* get me started on the name thing. It's like people to into a coma when it comes to getting someone else's name right!! I mean, how difficult can it possibly be?!! Granted, I don't have a "conventional" name (and by "conventional" I mean it's not an English name, not a Chinese name but it IS a perfectly regular name in Vietnamese - in fact, my surname is very distinctive and all Vietnamese would recognise it immediately). Ok, granted, most people I deal with are not Vietnamese, BUT when my surname is written in my email signature in CAPITAL letters and is UNDERLINED in my emails;AND I invariably sign off my emails (almost every single one of them) with my first name (which is followed by my signature right underneath), they STILL get it wrong. It's even worse when I've already met them in person and/ or have exchanged emails with them sooo many times and yet when they email me, they still get it wrong!!

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Ok, double rant over!!

 

[AGBF]

I really love good writing and, as some other posters have said in this thread, it is my own writing errors on Pricescope that bother me the most. When I look back and see errors that I made and didn''t catch in time to edit in earlier posts, I cringe.



Deborah

 

[Harriet]

Deb,
Your writing is impeccable.

 

[Haven]

Date: 1/18/2009 1:25:57 AM
Author: Dancing Fire

Date: 1/17/2009 5:24:13 PM

Author: Haven

Writing errors on a forum only bother me if they obscure the writer''s meaning. Other than that, I find text-speak a bit irksome, and it makes me assume the poster is very young, but it doesn''t really bother me.


I''ve only corrected a poster once, and that was AFTER that poster corrected the OP on her choice of title for the thread. I only said something because the correcter was incorrect. I suppose I felt I was sticking up for the OP. Otherwise, I just read posts and move on. I type so quickly that my posts are probably filled with errors. I''m often embarrassed to read old posts because I see all the errors in my own writing, and THAT bothers me.


I''ll admit that I''m less likely to read a post written in text-speak, or without punctuation, or some other ''style'' that is clearly the writer''s choice, and not just an innocent error.


I do have one pet peeve, and that''s when people misuse ''i.e.'' and ''e.g.'' It happens so often on forums and in real life that I just need to get over it. I do teach the correct use of each to ALL of my students, though.

no excuse for a teacher.

DFire--OUCH!
And I teach literature and not grammar, thankyouverymuch.

Grammar is for the comp teachers! (Kidding. Kidding.)

 

[2Artists]

No they do not bother me at all. I have learning disabilities that impact my own spelling and grammar prowess. Plus English is not a first language for everyone.
Mr.2Artists and I both have the same mistake filled grammar as well so often having him check over a post for me does little good. Also we both tend to use the dash way too much. Sorry guys.

Mrs.2Artists

 

[swimmer]

I''m just annoyed by text-speak and that is the teacher in me coming out. But as a reminder of how pedantic grammarians can be, this in an op-ed from the NYTimes "Language pedants hew to an oral tradition of shibboleths that have no basis in logic or style, that have been defied by great writers for centuries, and that have been disavowed by every thoughtful usage manual."