How important is spelling and punctuation to you?

[Coyote machine]

Incorrect usage of weather above. Weather is cloudy. Whether is what you were trying to say. Put me on your ignore list; I have no patience for those who choose ignorance as a way of life. No one is professing to be a god here; and tell me how trying to better understand and use one's own language correctly is a bad thing to want to accomplish?!:confused3::duh:

 

[Bird]

I worked for many years on a job in which correct spelling, punctuation, and grammar were imperative. I had to carefully proofread manuals, orders, and assorted other documentation created by my employees. I think I'm pretty good at noticing other peoples' mistakes. And I also learned to have someone else proofread what I wrote.:laughing: It's much easier to see mistakes by others than to see your own.

 

[Jstpssng]

Am I the only one who finds it ironic that at least two posts written by authors who state how important correct spelling is to them, have 1 or more obvious errors in their posts?

Minor mistakes don't bother me... or I would be the pot calling the kettle black.
What DOES get my goat is intentional misspelling or excessive. We have one obviously intelligent member who I won't even read because of his writing style.


If somebody is trying to help me with a repair or problem I can overlook anything, so long as I can understand what they're saying.

 

[rmk700]

If somebody is trying to help me with a repair or problem I can overlook anything, so long as I can understand what they're saying.

:thumbsup: ....and that's what really matters.

 

[newbury]

From the start of the thread

Yet frequently I read posts with atrocious spelling and/or no punctuation. Usually one can "read around" poor spelling but sometimes misspelled words can totally change the meaning. On my system if I misspell a word spell check underlines it in red. And I see a lot of red.

Poor punctuation, to me, is worse. Often if I see a post with 10 or more lines and no periods or carriage returns I'll ignore the post until someone else cleans it up.

I wasn't meaning common or occasional misspelling or a missed period, which is why I put in the example.

Well , all I can tell you is Put me on your ignore list. cause, That's the way I think weather you, or any of the other grammar / punctuation gods like or not !

When you join many lines together without a paragraph you reach my visual ignore list automatically, "weather" you intend to or not. And apparently many other posters who responded in this thread work the same way and ignore long "posts without paragraphs". So if you continue to post like that you can consider your posts ignored by us. I realize it doesn't bother you and it doesn't bother me.

Am I the only one who finds it ironic that at least two posts written by authors who state how important correct spelling is to them, have 1 or more obvious errors in their posts?

Minor mistakes don't bother me... or I would be the pot calling the kettle black.
What DOES get my goat is intentional misspelling or excessive. We have one obviously intelligent member who I won't even read because of his writing style.


If somebody is trying to help me with a repair or problem I can overlook anything, so long as I can understand what they're saying.

That's why I wrote atrocious misspelling. And I apologize if my writing style offends you.

/edit - here's a current post that is difficult, thus not worth my time to try to parse:

Currently I am a CSO of a small (12 person) BioTech company that we started about 12 years ago. I grew up in Holland, Michigan, and my first job at 12 was picking blueberries, first by hand and then running the machine. The pay wasn't great but it sure taught you about work. In college, I worked as a star route driver for the Post Office delivering mail from the main office to the smaller local offices. Worked from 4-6 am, went to school from 8-3, and then did the evening run from 4-6 pm. I split this time with my future BIL who was in seminary at the time. It wasn't a bad job except when the Sears and Pennys catalogs came out. A truck full of them was some thing to move by hand. After that I took 2 years off, and worked in construction (steel buildings), and learned many of the skills that I still have fun with today including welding. I got interested in Pharmacy, and in order to put myself through school, I bought a snow plowing route from a National Guard person who was being transferred. I plowed the driveways for the houses on Lake Michigan. They were vacation homes that no one lived in during the winter, but insurance dictated that the house be accessible, so I had to plow them so no more than 4 inches of snow accumulated on the driveway. Needless to say we had the most snow that winter in 10 years, and I easily made enough to put myself through 3 years of Pharmacy school. After Pharmacy school, I worked as a Pharmacist for 1 year, but got bored just filling prescriptions, and went back to Graduate school in Kentucky and studies the metabolism of drugs. This was school as I liked it (they paid you to go). When I graduated I went to work at Glaxo in drug development, and spent the next 18 years in various positions there learning to develop drugs. After two mergers, I took one of the packages offered, and started our current company. We will see where it ends, but I really enjoy the current job, a good amount of stress (more work than we can do, but not sure if we want to expand), lots of travel, and the ability to combine business and pleasure with travel to Australia, New Zeeland, Japan, China, Sweden, and the EU. I still enjoy time spend on my tractor though. We had 3 inches of snow this past week, and I got to do my yearly plowing of our small development.

Ken

 

[Looking4new]

It's much easier to see mistakes by others than to see your own.

Excellent point, Bird.

 

[Jstpssng]

(snip)

That's why I wrote atrocious misspelling. And I apologize if my writing style offends you.

(End snip)

Actually I wasn't referring to you in either case... I'm sorry I that you took it that way.

 

[rmk700]

/edit - here's a current post that is difficult, thus not worth my time to try to parse:

Not at all a difficult post. It's only difficult if you worry yourself sick over the small stuff.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

From my own personal perspective, it's not my duty or my prerogative, for that matter, to critique or to correct other folks' grammar. You are, however making a statement about yourself with your posts and your mastery (or lack thereof) of the language, and if a clumsy and inept rendering of your written message is what you wish to convey, then so be it. I personally try to make my statement in a concise and cogent way with as few mistakes as it is practicable to do. To each his own.

 

[xzcVAbc5]

One pet peeve or annoyance that I have when reading forums is people that don't trim the original post they are replying to.

If you reply to one point of someone else's post that has four points in it you can trim the extraneous text out.

Also, if you ask a question you need to put a question mark at the end of the sentence, don't you?