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How much do you care about how correctly you write?

?

  • not at all im gonna rite what im gonna right and good luck to you trying to figure it out

    Votes: 4 3.1%

  • Meh. If auto correct catches it then fine by me.

    Votes: 3 2.3%

  • I always make an effort and do my best to punctuate and spell correctly.

    Votes: 112 87.5%

  • I speak the King’s English and never end a sentence with a preposition.

    Votes: 9 7.0%
  • Total voters
    128
#104
blastoff99 said:
And this is why I get really cranky when content providers who should know better get it wrong. Not only is it a poor reflection on them (do they not know? do they not care?) and creates a trust issue with me, it perpetuates errors that help none of us.

Today I read an article by a national media outlet about an NFL player who suffered a terrible injury. The article described the injury as 'grizzly.' I could bear-ly keep myself from screaming; what kind of a clawd wrote that??? (Translation: the injury was grisly. I barely kept myself from screaming at the clod who wrote it.) This particular news source is hardly alone - errors like this abound, and since 'grizzly' is a valid word, spell-check isn't going to catch it.

But somebody should have. If your skills with language aren't good enough to keep you from that error, you should get an editor to save you. If your editor doesn't have the skills to save you, you both need new jobs - perhaps jobs that allow you enough time to read broadly, deeply, and often.

grizzly/grisly error from someone for whom English isn't a first language? Eh, I might correct in person if we have that kind of relationship. Online, no. Online from a native speaker? I'll make a pun and follow with a smile. Published by a big-time content outlet? Inexcusable.
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Funny you should cite that example (grizzly/grisly). I remember a self-published eBook on my Kindle that not only used that homophone incorrectly, but the author managed to include about a half-dozen more in his 300-page novel. It actually was a decent story and the writing wasn't half bad, but the prevalence of these type of errors made the book seem amateurish.

Hopefully, some of these self-publishing authors will learn to utilize a proofreader in the future, as this is not uncommon. They depend on spellcheck... however the spelling is correct, it's the the wrong word being used. One or two I can overlook, but when it becomes a habit, it detracts.
 
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#108
Gorn said:
Do you care? Not at all? A little bit? If English isn’t your first language or you have some sort of cognitive issue then that’s a different story. I’m asking native English speakers primarily, although I’m often impressed by people who speak English as a second or third language and do it well.
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Spelling, Grammar, Punctuation, etc., I try hard. My penmanship, on the other hand, is horrible
 
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#109
What irks me is how english influences my first language. I don't mind new words being introduced, but when we already have a suitable word no need to replace it. Also in dutch the rule is a space before a question mark. Nowadays everyone does it like english punctuation. That really grinds my gears. My little act of rebellion; the liberal use of the semicolon when writing in english as I'm allowed to do it in dutch.
 
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#110
Jeff Scott said:
A friend of mine was a professional proofreader until that occupation was no longer required................

She works at a library, these days.
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Oh it is still required but people are too cheap to pay or too conceited to admit they need one these days. Far too often I see things broadcast or published that could use your friend.
 
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#116

Can it be 'how correctly'? Correct by degrees? Degrees of correctness? (I have a number of degrees in Correctness — excessively educated — always with a Manglish, Major ;)) Would leaving out the word 'correctly' alter the meaning, or the (un)intended, (tauto)logical direction for potential responses? Does it mater alot, the (un)intended meanness? Is it cruel to be kindness?

No such thong as mistakes in written meaning, just faux pas inner fashion. Everything's mean something to somebody. Nobody would place a full-stop here, period. …

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[one more, for good measure]​
 
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#119
René_Julien said:
What irks me is how english influences my first language. I don't mind new words being introduced, but when we already have a suitable word no need to replace it. Also in dutch the rule is a space before a question mark. Nowadays everyone does it like english punctuation. That really grinds my gears. My little act of rebellion; the liberal use of the semicolon when writing in english as I'm allowed to do it in dutch.
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A question mark is a sentence ender, just like a period. So there’s no need for a space. Same as using a period or exclamation mark.

The proliferation of homophones in the English language is what gives most people fits. Just like the previous example (they’re, their, there) writers get confused and don’t use the rite word for the wright meaning.
 
#120
JRA said:
How much do you care about how correctly you write?
i could give a :poop: . but then, you already know that.

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great idea! i would actually look forward to punctuating that thread once in a while...with my best effort(s). :D


per the OP: i voted "not at all im gonna rite what im gonna right........"
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Well... If ya need a written invitation...
Running Poetry Thread/Contest
 
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