<p>The only thing missing was someone tpying “mipselling.” I love threads like this.</p>
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<p>Different country’s English, different rules. You forget that the title is actually Eats, Shoots and Leaves, which irks Americans to no end.</p>
<p>Brits don’t hyphenate compound adjectives? Interesting.</p>
<p>I excuse misspellings when I assume the writer knows the correct way. An English teacher marking a stack of papers surely knows how to spell “awkward”
but was probably writing at 2:00 A.M. as fast as her little hands could scribble.</p>
<p>Refocus on fixing your awkward sentence and thank the teacher for working hard to do her best by you.</p>
<p>I always admire the pharmacists who can decipher doctors’ prescriptions.</p>
<p>I’m a fan of “Eats, Shoots and Leaves” just because somebody tried to tackle the beast.</p>
<p>My cousin used punctuation in an unusual fashion for his book title “(God) After Auschwitz” to make a serious theological point. It’s hard to believe after such an experience. </p>
<p>Keep a high standard for yourself, and forgive others. Easier said than done. Sentence fragment there? Forgive me. ;)</p>
<p>I can’t help it, when my daughter’s dance studio sends home newsletters with your/you’re and there/their errors, it makes the owner look uneducated. Those are second grade mistakes. I just read a flyer from a woman who wants to give a presentation to the parent group at school. She has a masters degree, and her flyer contains a half-dozen type-os/spelling error/grammatical mistakes. She may in fact be an excellent adolescent psychologist and parenting counselor, but I’m having a hard time taking her seriously.</p>
<p>Last week I saw a poster distributed by the Friends of the (local) Library, inviting children to hear a local celebrity read the story of The Nutcracker ballet. The local celebrity, my daughter’s dance studio owner, was described as a “renowed choreographer.” And this is the Friends of the Library! </p>
<p>Of course, I don’t hold anyone writing in casual conversation or on a website like this to anywhere near the same standards as a printed, distributed piece of literature.</p>
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<p>I’m not entirely sure, as I’m not British, but I think that the rules with compound adjectives are different in UK English.</p>
<p>I dunno, I still think they need to drop the superfluous ‘u’s’. And it’s aluminum, not “aluminium.”</p>
<p>My favorite was on a flyer that appeared in my mailbox one day, advertising themselves as “a tudor for elementary school math and english.”</p>
<p>We stood out in the street reading our flyers and snickering. Whoever distributed them never dared show their face in our neighborhood again.</p>
<p>Well, I’m not going to comment on the main thread topic here, but I do want to add that I think it is highly unlikely that poor spelling and poor intelligence walk in lockstep. I consider my W and D very intelligent folks and neither of them could spell “CAT” if you spotted them the C and the T.</p>
<p>As to me, I can spell. I just can’t type for beans , have no idea how to call down the spell check gods from their home on Mt. Vista, and edit so much I get timed out before I get everything corrected. </p>
<p>(Like now.:edit:edit:edit:edit)<<<<<(see?)</p>
<p>^^^ lol ! A chuckle a day[ courtesy of cur] keeps the winter blues away!</p>
<p>She’s got zero tolerance as two words which is the way I’d write it too.</p>
<p>One of my son’s welcome banner had an egregious spelling error on the welcome banner at the beginning of the year. Let’s just say she was my least favorite teacher…</p>
<p>I am spelling challenged but have an excuse, I’m an engineer. For a time I spelled only as olny.</p>
<p>I’m a pathetic speller! I used to carry a tiny dictionary in my pocket when I worked as a nurse. I wish that we had spell check on here!</p>
<p>The other thing that gets me is the misuse of the apostrophe. Our neighbors have a carved sign over their garage that says “The Neighbor’s”. I guess the house belongs to ONE of the Neighbor family…</p>
<p>whenever one of my teachers last year handed out any kind of worksheet, i’d always count the spelling/grammatical errors…there were always at least three… on tests, i cross out incorrect double letters or words, because it distracts me otherwise…<br>
i know i should be more forgiving, but it makes it hard for me to take someone seriously. (ironically, i just caught myself typing “grammatical” as “gramattical.” go figure.)</p>
<p>I sometimes end up “arguing” with spell check. Today it kept trying to get me to spell supercede with an “s”, as in supersede. I went to dictionary.com and it was supercede. It was for a covering fax for a work document and not crucial so I went with my spelling. But as I was checking dictionary.com and asking my co-worker and IMing my son, I did comment that I hate to make a mistake as I feel it makes people think the writer is ignorant.</p>
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And then there are the posters (me) who leave out words and manage to repeat a phrase twice. I think I changed my mind about where the sentence should go and forgot to edit, but who knows… I’m sure there are readers thinking “that Mathmom she should stick to math.”</p>