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Originally Posted by BluesMan
Last thought, any ideas on how to improve this deficiency?
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Do everything on a manual typewriter so making corrections is painful enough to cause process improvement. As long as the mistakes are painless, the mistakes will remain.
This is actually a great discussion. I struggle with spelling and grammar, and generally spend a good bit of time proof-reading my posts before I submit. And even with that I always find mistakes after the fact. Too many commas, missing words, mis-spellings that didn't get caught because they are another real word.
What bothers me is the tendency to use 'chat-isms' in posts. Not the occasional lol or rotflmao. But the shortcuts for regular expression and conversation. I catch my kids doing it on school work and go ballistic. They are doing it out of habit from doing it when they chat. And some teachers accept that lowered standard because they don't want to get in the way of the creativity of the student. What utter crap. School isn't about creativity, school is about discipline of the fundamentals. You can be as creative as you want when you graduate, and if it doesn't get you far in life, at least you know the fundamentals.
I feel like the Henry Higgins of the Internet.
I did chide someone about spelling, content and grammar the other day, but it was just one aspect of the point I was making at the time. What I personally learned quickly when posting here is to know the meanings of the words you are using, and use them correctly. That will come back and bite you here!
Bill
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