Muppet grammar grinch creeps into class

[crazycanuck]

Umm hello..I'm here to whinge..

I'd like to be a grammar grinch plus a spelling witch today & complain about both round here.

Can we learn to spell and check grammar please?

Please please do before i pop into small maple leafs, kiwis & kangaroos. I can assure you tis not a pretty sight & quite messy to clean up.

Muppet grammar grinch off & away..

[Crankin]

Thank you.

[spotlightmama]

Do I get to edit your post? I see some typos...

(Sorry, I'm a writer by trade and DH is an English teacher; I have to tease. I hope you know I'm trying to be funny, not mean.)

[uforgot]

Do I get to edit your post? I see some typos...

(Sorry, I'm a writer by trade and DH is an English teacher; I have to tease. I hope you know I'm trying to be funny, not mean.)

Do you really see typos? I'll be darned if I can find any.

[Zen]

Do you really see typos? I'll be darned if I can find any.

An incomplete ellipses and incorrect plural?

[bmccasland]

Umm hello..I'm here to whinge..

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Whine has a "g" in it? Or is that a south of the equator spelling? I know, I know, we misspell "color." Apparently some people think it's spelled "colour"

Frankly if I misspelled anything in the past day or so it's because my eyes are giving me fits. They hate me. I've had to go to computer settings and increase the size of the font I see on the screen. I really really (meant to say that twice) don't like not being able to see clearly. Don't like the pain either.

[KnottedYet]

lack of commas and incorrect capitalization of the word "I"

Thanks CC, that was a funny joke! Made my evening (just spent some looooong minutes talking to the phone company, so your joke really cheered me up!)
Gimme a hint, what other grammar and spelling boo-boos did you put in there?

Edit to add: oooh! I found another one! No apostrophe in the contraction " 'tis" (short for "it is") Cool! Don't give me any hints after all, this is more fun!

Edit again to add: Oh, oh, and no apostrophe for " 'round" (short for "around"). this is awesome! Thanks, I needed this!

Edit again again to add: are the ampersands considered a grammar no-no?

Edit again again again to add: no infinitive with "check". ("to spell and to check grammar") That one was subtle, good one!

[kat_h]

Can we learn to spell and check grammar please?

No.

I'm not going to launch word just so I can spellcheck posts for here. I'm not going to pull out a dictionary just to post here. I admit that writing isn't my strong suit and if that bothers you then that's what the ignore list is for. I have people proofread any formal writing I do, but a forum isn't formal writing.

[singletrackmind]

Then can I compliment everyone for the generally decent posts? After reading a few of the youngster's posts on a few of the truck boards this site is a relief for my sore brain! Text-speak creeps in and what little is regular stuff runs together in crazy not even sentences conglomerations.

(now I'm all self-conscious...)

[Veronica]

Pull up Word... why?

Google Spellcheck on the toolbar.

Poor grammar and spelling makes some writing hard to comprehend.

V.

[kat_h]

I'm not going to install a toolbar just to post on forums either. The ignore user option is nice and handy if that bothers you.

A post like this will not change the spelling habits of established users. The only end that it may achieve is to make newer users feel unwelcome and discourage them from posting. If you don't want to read their posts then just don't read them, instead of trying to push the posters away.

[Veronica]

I'm not going to install a toolbar just to post on forums either. The ignore user option is nice and handy if that bothers you.

Thank you. Your advice is greatly appreciated.

V.

[Irulan]

Pull up Word... why?

Google Spellcheck on the toolbar.

Poor grammar and spelling makes some writing hard to comprehend.

V.

Mozilla Firefox has a built in spell checker. Really now ladies, illiterate posts here are pretty much a non-issue. Or so I thought.

[Trek420]

Mozilla Firefox has a built in spell checker.

So I thought, until I ran my last review past Knott. There's no built in punctuation reminder. Maybe that's only on Vista.

It's so nice to have an English major in the house. Well, not in the house till two weeks from now.

I don't ignore poor spelling and grammar from TE'ers. I may read those less often but won't put on ignore. The level of literacy here is amazing. Most of of our TE'ers who I know to live in non-English speaking countries write in English very well. Thank you all for that.

And writing to me is thinking or indicates how we think. We're one smrt thoughtful group!

[Bruno28]

are the ampersands considered a grammar no-no?

Yes they are!!!! Although anyone under 35 at my work seems to think that it's perfectly acceptable to include ampersands in formal reports. Grrrrrrr

Now, where did I put my revolver......