Grammarians UNITE!

[ORChick]

Haven't seen it mentioned yet: at the quick check out at the supermarket - 11 items or less - !?!?!)

 

[crtrlovr]

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Good for you! I've seen so many documents produced by so-called "professionals" that are rife with obvious spelling and grammatical errors... makes me want to immediately reject their firms and keep looking elsewhere.

 

[Reinbeau]

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I was Project Administrator for a large engineering firm down here and I had to do the same thing. They really didn't like it when I bounced a drawing back to them, but I reviewed every drawing electronically before printing it out for signature, if they printed it out themselves first it was tough tookies, they had to fix it. I describe my job as babysitting 40 engineers

 

[mom'sfolly]

It is truly amazing the number of people who can't understand that effective communication includes proper punctuation, spelling, grammer and word use. I am a poor speller, but I check my work, and if it is something important, I also have someone else proof read. In a business setting people notice, and make judgements based on writing skills.

Forums like this are more casual, and far more errors can be tolerated. I generally let my spelling errors ride here. I can't figure out how to spell check them, and I don't want to type and use a dictionary.

I've also talked to my son about proper pronunciation. He is an avid reader and is developing a reader's vocabulary. This means that some of the words he knows, he doesn't know how to correctly pronounce. I correct him, and when he says he wants to say it his way, he gets the "people will judge you" comments.

So....pet peeve #367

Penultimate. Used to mean the very best in a sentence like "he was the penultimate player in his league". Unfortunately, penultimate means next to the top, not the top. There is a local movie reviewer who likes this word, but uses it incorrectly every time. I've seen it in his columns repeatedly, and each time it makes me cringe.

 

[dacjohns]

The Google tool bar I'm using has a spell check. Sometimes I even remember to use it.

I learned something today, penultimate. I am probably guilty of using it incorrectly in the past.

 

[dacjohns]

Using an apostrophe to indicate plural.

 

[conradpdx]

I can olny iginmae how smoe of you wlil rsepnod to tihs. The biarn ralely olny lokos at the frsit and lsat lteters. Now smoe mgiht hvae porlbmes raednig tihs, but for smoe it wnot mkae a dfifreecne it wlil be udnresotod ayaawy.




lol........enjoy.

 

[Riocotesei]

I read it just fine. Lol

 

[conradpdx]

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I did msiselpl ayaawy...It sulhod be ayanwy, or awnyay. My alogoieps.