How important is spelling and punctuation to you?

[newbury]

To the original post: Spelling is important to me. I generally read my forum posts and emails at least twice before I send them.

If more people would reread what they type before sending, I think that would clear up some of the communication problems. Look at what you type from your audience's perspective.

If you agree with someone's post and reply to them with "Your right." would you catch that and replace "Your" with "You're" or "You are"? If Jack has a baseball in each hand does he have "two" baseballs "too" baseballs, or "to" baseballs?

I don't think anyone is elitist by spelling and writing well. To do your best job do you try to copy the best example or try not to copy the worst example?

And again, I was writing about atrocious spelling and it's importance to you. If it's not important that is fine by me.

Here's a good question for you grammartarians. What is the longest word that can be spelled on the first line of a keyboard?

perpetuity, prerequire, proprietor, repertoire, and typewriter

Well, I've actually learned something from this thread! :thumbsup:

And do you know why it's that way? Sales.

In 1873 Sholes's backer, James Densmore, successfully sold the manufacturing rights for the Sholes & Glidden Type-Writer to E. Remington and Sons. The keyboard layout was finalized within a few months by Remington's mechanics and was ultimately presented as follows:[10]

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 - ,
Q W E . T Y I U O P
Z S D F G H J K L M
A X & C V B N ? ; R
After it purchased the device, Remington made several adjustments which created a keyboard with what is essentially the modern QWERTY layout. Their adjustments included placing the "R" key in the place previously allotted to the period key. This has been claimed to be done with the purpose of enabling salesmen to impress customers by pecking out the brand name "TYPE WRITER" from one keyboard row. While this claim is not formally substantiated,[10] the odds of this occurring by chance are about 5500 to 1 (.018%). Additionally, there are only five English ten-letter words that can be spelled using just the letters in the top row: perpetuity, prerequire, proprietor, repertoire, and typewriter.

QWERTY - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

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[riptides]

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It caught my eye. I thought it, well thought out.

 

[MossRoad]

Here's a good question for you grammartarians. What is the longest word that can be spelled on the first line of a keyboard?

CtrlAlt

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[MossRoad]

 

[MossRoad]

Heck, if we're going to get picky.....

I realize this is a world wide (should be worldwide) forum and many members do not have English as their native language.
However, for the "run of the mill" TBN'er I think that most of us have made it at least partially thru (thru is generally considered a lazy form of through) high school and I know we ALL have computers.

Yet frequently I read posts with atrocious spelling and/or no punctuation. Usually one can "read around" poor spelling but sometimes misspelled (should be hyphenated 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.

Recently I had an instance (not on TBN) where I was "flamed", the poster put it all in one big block and misspelled frequently, but not consistently. Then after I replied, showing I had not done what he thought I had done and used his own misspellings in quotes, he took offense in a reply. Then afterwards he PM'd me that after he reread my original post he realized he had misinterpreted it and was wrong, but he couldn't spell and it was too late, "can't teach an old dog new tricks".

Are we doing wrong when we attempt to get posters to spell and use punctuation?

For those who don't think so:

 

[kenmac]

Heck, if we're going to get picky.....

Didn't you know ??
Thou shall not question the God of Spelling & Punctuation..

 

[MossRoad]

Didn't you know ??
Thou shall not question the God of Spelling & Punctuation

The 11th commandment. :dance1:

 

[rmk700]

Didn't you know ??
Thou shall not question the God of Spelling & Punctuation

OMG, you forgot to put a period at the end of your sentence. Some may not want nothing to do with you now.

 

[smstonypoint]

OMG, you forgot to put a period at the end of your sentence. Some may not want anything to do with you now.

Fixed it for you.

Steve