Spelling/Grammar and your Opinion of People...

[46Tbird]

Please allow myself to introduce...., myself.

[347Mike]

I will say that advise and advice have been big offenders lately.

[Venom]

I get coaches that misspell offence/defence. They get mad when I call them on it. It's usually by some smart ass comment like " it's a good thing that we are playing football and not building a fence or we would be screwed."

[03trubluGT]

I have the great pleasure of reading statements from our employees that can not compose sentences as simple as "I see Jane is wearing a red dress". You can forget about the proper usage of "where, were, wear, war" and "two, too and to". Hell, I work for managers that submit official government reports and they too are retarded. For the kind of money they pay us out here it is a crime.

I can understand the plumber making $100,000 a year over here not knowing the difference but for our managers to not it just makes me cringe.

Usage mistakes are the errors that really bother me. The worst is when people try to repeat a saying, and have obviously never seen it written down, so they mangle it. I think that's what's disappointing, that a lot of folks just don't read anymore, so they don't know how to write or even talk like an adult.

For the most part, I look at it in the context of the situation.
When it is informal, it doesn't bother me as much. However, like Keith mentioned, when it is a situation where someone would be expected to present a professional and knowledgeable image, it is beyond frustrating.
Spell check and grammar check are good tools to have, but they shouldn't be relied on 100%. When a word is spelled correctly but used in the wrong manner is just as bad. ("Go pick up too dozen Bartlett pairs from the produce department and way them")

Of course I'm not completely OCD about it. An occasional slip is understandable. But when you get people like Mr. EDD, who would make a second grader shake their head, trying to be taken seriously...well, that's just not going to happen.

Company email with higher-ups drives me batshit. How can you run a multi billion dollar company and not put together a fucking paragraph? The rest of the time, I notice it, but let it slide unless it is reaaaaally bad. Like dipshits that actually type out that they "seen" something instead of "saw" it.

I'm in agreement with these ^ folks.

Try taking a victim statement and asking them if they can read, write, and understand the English language, and then get handed a hand-written statement that looks like a 6 year old wrote it. That statement will be scrutinized by a judge, jury, and defense attorney.

It's even worse when you read an officer's report and it has errors. As mid-management, I tend to make corrections instead of sending it up as it was.

[SVT Lurch]

If it only applied to informal messages, etc. it wouldn't bother me, but it doesn't stay here. It becomes habit and when people use shorthand or have grammatical errors on here or in text messages and it carries over when they're asking me to get them a job or some other professional help. If you can make the distinction good for you, but that has not been my experience.

I throw that one on here every once in awhile just because myself knows it ticks you off.

Wow.

[KBScobravert]

I'm in agreement with these ^ folks.

Try taking a victim statement and asking them if they can read, write, and understand the English language, and then get handed a hand-written statement that looks like a 6 year old wrote it. That statement will be scrutinized by a judge, jury, and defense attorney.

It's even worse when you read an officer's report and it has errors. As mid-management, I tend to make corrections instead of sending it up as it was.

I hear you Matt. If the report goes past my desk and it still reads like a soup sandwich it then reflects on my reputation. A lot of times I have to send it back to the report author in an email so they can verify I did not change their content and intent with all of my corrections.

[lxturbo]

Yep to most of this ............. Best one was the Folks calling and asking for parts foe a burick duece an a quarta !!

I was like WTF are talking about I don't speak ebonics !

Soo glad I don't do retail parts any longer . I hate being nice to someone I want to choke the shit out of . Just saying

Thank you come again

[red95gts]

When I sell parts (or anything for that matter), I have developed the following strategy:

- Post parts for sale
- Wait 24-48 hours before responding to any e-mails, PMs, etc
- Find the message with the best spelling, grammar, and sentence structure and reply to it first.

My theory is that anyone who can write a coherent sentence probably has a job and therefore has money. The aforementioned job also means that they don't have the time to fuck me around on shipping, meeting at JITB, endless idiotic questions, etc.

It's a strategy that has worked quite well over the years.

[mystic96]

One of Katrina's friends on Facebook types like a retard and it annoys the shit out of me...

"Lol but dnt feel bad ima gun get me one 4 my birthday"

"Itz kul we all still luv u"

She says its so she can type faster but I really think it's just because she's an idiot

[slow99]

An occasional typo here or there on a message board is fine, imo. Hell, I've made a handful over the years. A poorly written message in a professional environment will immediately discredit an otherwise competent author. I see some of the memos drafted by our competition and they are terrible. These notes are written by authors with stellar academic backgrounds (people with a Harvard, Wharton, U of Chicago education...in addition to holding a CFA/CPA designation). I know exactly what Asset Managers who use equity research think of this. The head of the legal department at one of my old jobs used to send memos to every client we had that read, "If you have any further questions, please contact _______ or myself." I used to cringe every time I read it.

[Leah]

My favorite is at school on blackboard when people are posting discussions and spew incoherent, unreadable ramblings that are filled with grammar and spelling errors.

There are some students that are absolutely there because diversity is promoted.

NO DOUBT! That drives me fucking bonkers! I'm doing all of my Masters program on blackboard and some of my classmates should not only NOT be in a Masters program, they should go all the way back to grade school and learn how to formulate a fucking sentence first.

Hell, I'm certified to teach English (and have) and I still make mistakes, but learn how to freaking spell. If you don't know how, it's not like there aren't 1000 places on the web to help you out.

[talisman]

In class group project in my ethics class tonight. We're supposed to compare religion to morals, and I tell the girl that is writing our responses that "People use the guise of religion to do terrible things." She writes down "Men" in the place of guise. I don't know what to do without sounding like a total cock. Finally I say, that word should be guise, as in g-u-i-s-e. She has no idea what I'm talking about. She thought I meant people use the guys of religion to do terrible things.

[Rach]

NO DOUBT! That drives me fucking bonkers! I'm doing all of my Masters program on blackboard and some of my classmates should not only NOT be in a Masters program, they should go all the way back to grade school and learn how to formulate a fucking sentence first.

Amen sister. Classes aren't even a week strong and I'm about to go insane with some of these idiots. How they are expecting to be a librarian when they still don't grasp there, their, and they're.

If an adult makes spelling pattern errors like my fourth graders, I usually get pretty bent out of shape.

[TX21]

I have to read technician request all day. Most of them are so bad you people would put a gun in your mouth and pull the trigger (judging by how worked up some of you get). I am so used to having to decode that crap I have no problems with anyone else outside of work.

[Rach]

She thought I meant people use the guys of religion to do terrible things.

That's so awesome!