R_Hatch opened this issue on Jan 22, 2011 · 177 posts
SamTherapy posted Sat, 22 January 2011 at 5:45 PM
I always keep the following in my mind when reading internet posts:
Some people do not have English as a first language
Some people are not well educated (but my no means stupid)
Some people can't type
Some people have dyslexia
Some people are plain dumb.
Misuse and poor spelling don't bother me much, except in books I have bought, advertising and product copy. Books because I've paid good money so I expect them to be right, advertising because it shows an overall lack of care, product copy for the same reason. In fact, any spelling and or grammatical errors in formal or commercial usage gets my goat. The rest I put down to my little list above.
It's often a pleasant surprise to find a post which is spelled correctly, has a reasonable standard of grammar and doesn't begin with "So".
Coppula eam se non posit acceptera jocularum.