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sifting throught the banes of other people’s existences is a privilege, not a right.
why can’t you just live in the moment and not waste your life pointing out grammar mistakes?
get off yer high horsie.
this is where people come to fart out complaints,
not english lit, my dearies.
—Thomas Felix Glendenning III
This article appears in Apr 9-15, 2009.
17 Comments
Why? When a OP writes a post that is almost unreadable, it lends itself to a person that can’t put a sentence together to save their life. It only takes 2 seconds to spell check and a couple seconds longer to put a legible sentence together.
The “a” in fart is silent.
I’m sorry what? You’ll have to learn how to spell and use grammar for me to make sense of whatever it is you’re trying to say.
If we don’t the great novels of future generations will read like a text message from a 12 year old girl.
constructing a legible sentence and having someone nitpick are too(two) different things. i agree with the OP. i dont spell check. i dont care enough two(to) bother. so my posts will sometime contain typos. big deal.
A typo is someting like tihs where you accidentally hit the wrong key. Consistent misuse of two/to/too or their/there or consistently spelling the same word wrong is not so much a typo as a sign that you don’t know how to write and spell at a grade school level. It significantly weakens any persuasive power of your comment/argument.
*bam* Miles in the third, by KO!
yes miles, you caught me, i was guilty of using the demi-word typo as a euphemisim for broader reaching grammatical errors instead of its intended use as defining a mistruck or malfunctioning key on a keyboard. i suppose i have become a victim of commonly accepted, structurally incorrect practices.
john: please find a happy medium. 🙂
Wow, that was quite possibly the most dull and BORING post ever to be seen on this entire site. I immediately thought of my grade 10 science teacher, and his endless monotone droning which was an instant cure for insomnia.
Zzzzzz…
Thanks for that intro Jim,
I do have a point to make.
firefox does the spelling mistakes automatically. If it takes more than a second, you can’t spell for shit and have to look up every word. Do us all a favor, close the computer and get back to school. You NEED it. May I recommend stating at the grade 4 level.
Otherwise, you’re like the general population of 8+ year old’s who can form a legible sentence first try without too much difficulty. Congrats. *golf clap*
…I was refering to John’s post. Snoozefest!
nice to see you missed to point of my post jim, jammie seemed to get it. since you missed it jim, ill tell you. simply because some on here seem as though they cant spell or write worth a fuck, doesnt mean they cant.
Unfortunately John, i got the point.
“simply because some on here seem as though they cant spell or write worth a fuck, doesnt mean they cant.”
No, it just means that they’re as lazy as the fat people or the homeless people they come here to whine about.
perhaps we need a lazy, fat, homeless spell checker – a quick call to Jerry Springer or Maury (knocked up DNA results) Povich might supply a few candidates…
and zZz methinks you mean “starting” not stating at the grade 4 level
yup, me was meaning that thar fancy word you put extra special quotes on…..
I’m taking my grade 5 equivalency tomorrow so I can skip ahead a bit.