Phoenix.pm: New thread: Spelling, Grammar, and other annoying stuff

[Hal Goldfarb]

Good, Steve!  Can you find the other errors?

-h


On Wednesday 04 December 2002 11:47 am, you wrote:
> Hal, you missspeeled "more".
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hal Goldfarb [mailto:codewell at earthlink.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 10:52 AM
> To: phoenix-pm-list at happyfunball.pm.org
> Subject: Phoenix.pm: New thread: Spelling, Grammar, and other annoying
> stuff
>
>
>
> PLEASE!  I love chatting, but I am getting tired of all the tons of
> spelling
>
> and grammar errors.   This is another thing that compromises any hope of a
> professional image for this field.  We all need to keep on each other about
> written presentations.
>
> Every day, I see this in newspapers, TV (especially the crawlers on the
> news
>
> networks), and on web pages.  It is particularly disappointing to see this
> lack of professionalism on premier web sites, particularly the ones who
> purport to be experts in some field or another.
>
> I hate:
>
> * Spelling errors.
> * Grammatical errors.
> * Run-on sentences.
> * Misused words.
> * Lack of understanding of difference between "its" and "it's" (first is a
> possessive pronoun; second is an abbreviation for "it is").
> * Lack of commas.
> * Too many commas.
> * Using period where there should be a semicolon.
> * Using "but" or "and" when the opposite is meant.
>
> There are moore ,and, I canot thimk of then know.  Its taken to long to
> decypher whant I read, and sometimes I half to re-read a think more than
> onec
> to get it.  Big waist of my thyme.
>
> Sinserelly,
> Hall