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You’re basically describing almost everyone under a certain age nowadays with the advent of texting. It was bad enough with the advent of email but texting is all about throwing spelling and grammar out the window and making up abbreviations, using shortened words where spelling is of no concern, no punctuation, no capitalization, etc.</p>
<p>It’s a changing world when it comes to writing practices and skills.</p>
<p>We just hired someone to teach English at our CC who was dropping names in her cover letter, one of which was misspelled. Additionally, she misspelled her university name (Loyal University instead of Loyola), AND she made subject-verb errors during her interview. I am sick about it, but it may be good news for your son.;)</p>
<p>I’d be inclined to agree that it’s an error in judgment not to proofread the missive. I’m an appellate lawyer and I edit, edit edit and not infrequently experience shadenfreude when reading an opponent’s brief with glaring spelling, grammatical, or other errors (I got one a month ago that had a bold “check this cite!” typed next to a case reference in the index; I guess he forgot to check it, or to check the index before binding it with the brief. :rolleyes:)</p>
<p>Having said that, though - it’s an email. Emails are generally a bit less formal than specific documents like resumes, proposals, etc. The kind of typos described wouldn’t put me off, particularly if the position isn’t really writing-oriented.</p>
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<p>I believe you mean “schadenfreude.”</p>
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<p>I pride myself in being a careful proofreader. Last year when I was being observed, I made the site/cite/sight mistake in a slide. I did not even catch it in my first class, but my boss got there late, so I did not think that he saw it. I went home that night agonizing over my error and told DH about it. The next day, he was in a meeting out in the community that my boss attended and he ratted me out. The next time I saw my boss, he called me out. It all was pretty funny. Typos happen.</p>
<p>Get with the program and use Firefox with the built-in spell-checker!</p>
<p>Ha. I have bad luck with Firefox; it tends to lock up the computer and shut down more. Does that spell-check catch homonyms?</p>
<p>Firefox doesn’t do homonyms and I’m unaware of any add-on products that provide that functionality. A quick search shows that there’s a Microsoft Word add-on that does homonym checking.</p>
<p>My bosses D is off to college for journalism. She wrote me an e-mail looking for advice on a trip. I wrote her back. Got this response: “well look in to it” (certain she meant ‘we’ll look into it’). It drove me nuts. </p>
<p>I review resumes for architectural internships and you know what, if there are spelling and grammar mistakes, all I can think is “your building will fall down” because you didn’t take the time double check your work. </p>
<p>I think it may matter. Especially these days with ANY work being vied for by 100s of qualified individuals.</p>
<p>People do make mistakes, "just"aMom. You wrote bosses when you meant boss’s or **boss’<a href=“depending%20on%20where%20you%20stand%20on%20the%20style%20for%20indicating%20the%20possessive%20form%20for%20words%20ending%20in%20the%20letter” title=“s”>/b</a>.</p>
<p>Does it matter whether errors are made in communications with consequences? I don’t like them anywhere, but I’m inclined to breeze past a “well” for “we’ll” in an email. I’d go the same way for confusing possessives and plurals, but I had to comment here since "just"aMom seems to consider her boss’s D’s email gaffe a meaningful clue regarding the young woman’s general competence as a writer.</p>
<p>I guess we will see what happens, I’ll let you know. He re sent the e mail, without typos. It’s going to depend on how that particular reader feels I guess. It’s interesting to see that there are plenty of people here who think it does matter (myself included) but who have typos in their own correspondence. :)</p>
<p>Say, HisGraceFillsMe, I am pretty certain that in post #13 you wrote, “I’ve noticed that my siblings and I, as well as my friends who are bookworms, make fewer mistakes in general than my fiends who don’t like to read for fun.”</p>
<p>Typos happen to the most careful of us. I have sent out some cringe-making typos in messages to people who matter a lot to me, though not often to my “fiends.”</p>
<p>Hahaha! We’re all a bunch of arrogant grammar snobs. :)</p>
<p>Years ago, my boss asked me to proof her government application. She had worked at Ft.Rucker and just guess what her typo was. And I missed it.</p>
<p>Reminds me of that “Clam Farts” thread. One of the funniest things I’ve ever read.</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/470497-clam-fart-oh-my-god-what-did-i-do.html?highlight=clam+fart[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/470497-clam-fart-oh-my-god-what-did-i-do.html?highlight=clam+fart</a></p>
<p>QuantMech–I shall now proceed to curl up in the corner in shame. -.- (I just KNEW something like that was going to happen.)</p>
<p>Obviously you will never make a politician. You should have just denied it was an error and said that your nickname for your friends is fiends.</p>
<p>^LOL!! I’ll remember that for next time.</p>
<p>It’s ok, HisGraceFillsMe. When I was in high school, back in the days of stencils, dittos, and mimeograph machines, I typed up the National Honor Society induction booklet, according to which the students were committed to upholding “the high pruposes of the society.”</p>
<p>omg! Fort ****er ??</p>