Spelling and grammar police

[Churchill]

Humourless rant coming, to confirm your predjudices:

I don't go around slagging people's errors, at least not nearly as often as I see them. I have to need to "look smarter" by criticising someone else's mistakes. But they are mistakes, please don't pretend that they are not, that it's just that some people write well, some don't; so it is those who notice it that are out of order for noticing.

If in your native language you can't spell, use the right word, or punctuate properly, then either your education or your attention is defective. Of course we all make mistakes, but those who simply do not know how to do it are just wrong; as much as those who cant count. Of course there are those who are writing in a language other than their native language, who must be forgiven their mistakes (as I hope to have mine forgiven), and there are those who are genuinely limited in mental abilities, who must also be allowed space; but those who are clever enough to write properly, but do not, are either under-educated or lacking in care and respect. I'm sorry, I may refrain from commenting on it out of courtesy, but I do not for a moment think that it is "all right" or just a lifestyle choice or some such.

Room 101 is funny. That doesn't change anything.



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One or two.

[Drewster]

One or two.

but as ....

those who are genuinely limited in mental abilities, who must also be allowed space;

....we will

[Amiga500]

I would agree with you apart from the fact that I find some bad spelling and grammar very hard to read. I'm somewhat dyslexic and I rely on people using the right words to maintain the context of a sentence or I have to work out what they're saying from 1st principles.

Scalextric

[Mich the Tester]

Humourless rant coming, to confirm your predjudices:

I don't go around slagging people's errors, at least not nearly as often as I see them. I have to need to "look smarter" by criticising someone else's mistakes. But they are mistakes, please don't pretend that they are not, that it's just that some people write well, some don't; so it is those who notice it that are out of order for noticing.

If in your native language you can't spell, use the right word, or punctuate properly, then either your education or your attention is defective. Of course we all make mistakes, but those who simply do not know how to do it are just wrong; as much as those who cant count. Of course there are those who are writing in a language other than their native language, who must be forgiven their mistakes (as I hope to have mine forgiven), and there are those who are genuinely limited in mental abilities, who must also be allowed space; but those who are clever enough to write properly, but do not, are either under-educated or lacking in care and respect. I'm sorry, I may refrain from commenting on it out of courtesy, but I do not for a moment think that it is "all right" or just a lifestyle choice or some such.

Room 101 is funny. That doesn't change anything.



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can't

[Amiga500]

Humourless rant coming, to confirm your predjudices:

I don't go around slagging people's errors, at least not nearly as often as I see them. I have to need to "look smarter" by criticising someone else's mistakes. But they are mistakes, please don't pretend that they are not, that it's just that some people write well, some don't; so it is those who notice it that are out of order for noticing.

If in your native language you can't spell, use the right word, or punctuate properly, then either your education or your attention is defective. Of course we all make mistakes, but those who simply do not know how to do it are just wrong; as much as those who cant count. Of course there are those who are writing in a language other than their native language, who must be forgiven their mistakes (as I hope to have mine forgiven), and there are those who are genuinely limited in mental abilities, who must also be allowed space; but those who are clever enough to write properly, but do not, are either under-educated or lacking in care and respect. I'm sorry, I may refrain from commenting on it out of courtesy, but I do not for a moment think that it is "all right" or just a lifestyle choice or some such.

Room 101 is funny. That doesn't change anything.



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Prejudices. Uneducated.

[Churchill]

can't

Prejudices. Uneducated.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

[Mich the Tester]

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Indeed. And although I´m not usually inclined to quote from the bible I quite like the bit that reads ´Let the one without sin cast the first stone´.

[Amiga500]

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Qui nunc lasciuae furta puellae
hac mercede silent? crimen commune tacetur.

[Amiga500]

Indeed. And although I´m not usually inclined to quote from the bible I quite like the bit that reads ´Let the one without sin cast the first stone´.

"let he who is without sin, cast the first stone."

[TheFaQQer]

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

I knew that this thread would revert to Juvenal comments eventually....