So all these pedants who correct posters grammar

[MamaMaiasaura]

Seen posters correcting grammar on here, do they do so in RL situations?

Argh. I have just made my first correction. In fairness it was for a university student's survey (on weaning) and might have lost her marks.... and I was very polite, I hope. (hides head and weeps).

My spelling and grammar certainly aren't 100% but when I worked as a receptionist/typist I had to correct letters my boss had written all the time, he had a habit of using "as" instead of "has". I used to shit myself when I took them to be signed

Which is the greater crime? Poor spelling? Poor typing?

Personally I hate typing errors. Learn how to type!!!

why ability to type isn't required on a chat forum
I'd rather read an interesting thread with mistakes,than a perfectly punctuated but turgid thread

I'm always bemused people care

Please explain the apostrophe rule again!?!

Amen to that, sm. I get why people care on cvs, sure, but why can't people distinguish between when it does and doesn't matter?

Terrified to right anything!

People need to get lives. I am a very bad typist. I dictate letters at work and don't type them so I donm't get much practice. I miss letters out, I hit the wrong keys. Not everyone is a good typist. I'm sure I've made mistakes in this post already. I don't care about it here as it's a chat forum.

I mentioned my profession as solicitor in one thread and some cunt woman said out of the blue and without provocation that I must be a bad solicitor given my poor written skills and that she'd never instruct me. Christ on a bike. A nightmare woman like her, I would decline instrucitons from anywhere, she sounded like the client from hell.

It's a chat forum, it doens't matter in this context if you've typed a few words wrong or not proof read.

I tell people when its on shop fronts.

Shop on romford called "julie know's beauty". She may do, but her grammar is shite.

Schol uniform shop sells uniform for "cubs, beavers, brownie's".

I am going to write on postits "NAN. No Apostrophe Needed" and distribute when and as, or as and when. It drives me up the bloody wall. Or wall's?

Melika
An apostrophe means :
a) something is missing for example when two words have been contracted into one - It is = It's // He has = he's // They are = They are
b) possession something belongs to someone - this is Susan's bag. (The bag belongs to Susan. When the object belongs to more than one person or their name ends in s the apostrohe goes after the s...All my friends' babies sleep through the night // James' girlfriend is tall.
HTH
There, they're and their is another kettle of fish!

The ironic thing is mrsmaltesers, that you wrote "its" instead of "it's".

Now where are my post its?

Errrrrrrrr. I blame my ipad as the apostrophe is hidden.

I do think that with shop fronts which are fairly permanent it would be an idea if prospective owners could all just check in with me first to see if their signage is going to drive me mental because of bad grammar every time i might drive past it. Having said that, should mc donalds be mc donald's as it is really mc donald's restaurant?? Hmmm. The need for me to get out more is great, i realise.

Hmm.

For some of us, as Edam points out upthread, this is a forum where written communication matters.

I came to MN, ages and ages ago (gorblimey, I wanted advice on childbirth and child in question is now eight) and stayed precisely because it was full of well-written, witty posts. I like the fact it is a written medium. And that much of that writing is funny, and is well put together.

Mind you, I put words on the page (as does Edam) for a living.

And it is of course entirely debateable whether the fact I've stayed or not is a Good Thing .

We all make simple errors in grammar or typing, but if the first post is littered with poor spelling, misuse of capital letters and is generally difficult to understand then I must admit I tend to give it a miss.

I used to study the written word for a living, MI. It doesn't mean that people need to constantly be picking up on grammar, etc. (fwiw I like "split" infinitives. They add to communicative clarity).

A1980 - that reminds me of when my (lovely and brilliant) obstetrician took my bloods himself once. Never Again.

Got a business card yesterday from: The cleaning fairy's

How can you have never learnt how to spell to/ too/ two

But when typing quickly on the internet I rarely correct my own grammar and spelling as it's a quick comment, not a letter of application!

How incredibly presumptuous to think you're doing a poster a favour by correcting their grammar or spelling as you may be furthering their career by preventing them from producing the same errors on a job application. How do you know anything about them or their careers? Or to even presume they take as much care of their grammar on an internet forum as they would if applying for a job? I don't tend to make grammatical errors but have to say I would proof-read a job application far more carefully than I would a post on MN!

precisely,it's the bumptious it's for your own good, how ever will you submit a cv or get a proper job? if some full of it goon, online, doesn't correct your punctuation and syntax

mn is online blahblah with strangers it's not a job application, nor peer reviewed, not a significant piece of work

best of all, I love when the pedants correct an error, and them themselves go onto make a mistake.it's deliciously right back at ya