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...you feel the need to run around your workplace and correct all the signs that have been posted for grammatical and punctuation errors.

Not an English Major and not quite that bad, but still I find myself cringing sometimes when I post some line of chat ingame and then realize.... There should have been a comma after that word!!!

Boinky wrote:Not an English Major and not quite that bad, but still I find myself cringing sometimes when I post some line of chat ingame and then realize.... There should have been a comma after that word!!!

Oh good lord, I do that all the time. And yet, I manage to play online games without getting angry at people who don't use punctuation. (Much less people who can't spell.)

I deal with it well, I'm not particularly sure why.

My general attitude is that ...
1. The person typing may have english as their 2nd language.
2. My english ain't perfect and I'm English.
3. If I understand what the person is saying then what they've said has done the job and who cares if they've spelt it right.

Edit - Though signs should not be corrected, they should be photographed and proudly shown round the world via the web...

Lykeios wrote:Edit - Though signs should not be corrected, they should be photographed and proudly shown round the world via the web...

*takes her digital camera to work.* Hehehe.

My grammar is far from perfect, yet I find myself getting nitpicky about other people's grammar all the time. For example:

[Meenies Playlist] seems to be lacking an apostrophe in there somewhere, but, if not for this thread I never would've pointed out the fact that little things like this bother me.

I recently PM'd someone with a link defining when to use "who" vs. "whom", though I'm sure that I'm often guilty of messing this up myself.

Correcting other people is a sickness. But I've mostly gotten it out of my system. I try to just let the things that bother me roll off my back. Yet still, I'm looking for a job right now, and so I'll be on a website perusing their opportunities. If I see an error, I want to tell them that if they hired me, this never would've been allowed to happen.

Oh I don't correct people...I just like to correct signs

I know I wouldn't want to be corrected, I take things like that...not so well

Danyoo wrote:...you feel the need to run around your workplace and correct all the signs that have been posted for grammatical and punctuation errors.

My bad... I should have sent them to you to proof read Danyoo.

ValliKat wrote:
I recently PM'd someone with a link defining when to use "who" vs. "whom", though I'm sure that I'm often guilty of messing this up myself.

*cough*

Although it was a lesson well learned but still *cough*

Hey I'm not shy of not knowing english... shoot, American English is the worst kind of english there is. Some ex-british people came here on a boat, got fed up with the proper english, got totally wasted and called it a language.

Nexeus wrote:Some ex-british people came here on a boat, got fed up with the proper english, got totally wasted and called it a language.

That...honestly has to be the best description I have heard of our language in a very long time.

Thank you Nexeus. As usual, you have amused me.

Nexeus wrote:Some ex-british people came here on a boat, got fed up with the proper english, got totally wasted and called it a language.

Americans: Rebelling against everything, including our own language, since 1620.

Well I must admit I must be the most Illiterate of all typeist in an online game. Not really because I can't spell or type but because I hit the print button before my brian kicks in . Really I even have trouble reading my own post at times. Run on sentences backwards wording swapped letters and left out letters. Just utter Lazy typeing .. I do admit I am a super slow typeist if I am trying to be Literate and look as if an adult typed it and not a 10 yr old but mostly the ten year old wins and hits those accept buttons to fast .. but you all fortuneately figure it out in the long run I do get and occasional HUH!!!!???? But Thanks for putting up with me Ill try to type better and not hit that button before I look to see what it is I have written.

Jugsmalone wrote:Well I must admit I must be the most Illiterate of all typeist in an online game. Not really because I can't spell or type but because I hit the print button before my brian kicks in . Really I even have trouble reading my own post at times. Run on sentences backwards wording swapped letters and left out letters. Just utter Lazy typeing .. I do admit I am a super slow typeist if I am trying to be Literate and look as if an adult typed it and not a 10 yr old but mostly the ten year old wins and hits those accept buttons to fast .. but you all fortuneately figure it out in the long run I do get and occasional HUH!!!!???? But Thanks for putting up with me Ill try to type better and not hit that button before I look to see what it is I have written.

I used to be just like you well when I started typing. Ever thought of getting something like Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, to at least become better skilled as a typist?

Nexeus wrote:Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing

This is a really good program. We use it at work to train people who may not be the fastest legible typers but still have the skills for tech support.

I heartily recommend it.







((I do not recommend letting a cat stomp in your eye.))

HUH!!!!????

Sorry, couldn't resist

And after all, none of us are English Teachers (at least I don't think so ) and even if we notice them, the little typos rarely keep any of us from getting the information.

And as for the English as a second language folks issue - some of my oldest friends in AO come from that group(mainly Norwegians I believe) and apart from the mt sometimes in their native language they have always shown a wonderful grasp at the written English language at the very least.