As a teacher, I introduced my students in how to: punctuate a sentence properly, use capitals, and spell correctly. For some of these first and second graders these are new concepts that they are learning and require repetition and lots of practice. What I don't understand is why adults are so poor at this. Why is it in blogs, e-mails, letters...there are so many errors. Do they not re-read what they just wrote? Do they not care? Maybe they are ignorant to this fact?
A pet pieve of Gina's and one that I don't truly understand why it happens.
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May I say that there are several reasons that there are several very obvious reasons that misspellings/poor puncutation occurs in blogs/comments/ emails.
No, many do not reread, especially if they are trying to work through 50 different blogs or emails in a short time and trying to respondton those that deserve response in a fairly short time. I know I seldom do when commenting or emailing: I never know when I will be interrupted by one of my three children or some other emergency that will pull me away, but I don't want to let that stop me from posting/commenting.
Typing fast produces errors as well and going back to fix wastes time, esepecially if your focus is on the point and not on the spelling/puncuation.
For me most often poor spelling/punctuation is a result of my keyboard having several broken/sticky keys as well as my dyslexia which produces quite interesting spellings, which I don't notice.
It is nice to read a well written/spelled/and punctuated bit of writing but keep in mind that other's circumstances are not the same as yours and you don't know what it is that is keeping them from having grade A work. :)
May I also suggest that I am less likely to comment on/email people who I know are picky about these things and let that get in the way of what I have to say. For instance, it is quite stressful for me to try to write something to someone I know is picky about these things because I admit my issues with them--in fact, writing this comment was exhausting because I had to go back and fix repeatedly lest I offend with my "interesting" spelling/typing mistakes.
Il semble que vous soyez un expert dans ce domaine, vos remarques sont tres interessantes, merci.
- Daniel
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