Old Sarge, you are indeed an old guy like me, in that you still expect the art of proofreading to be applied today. My wife and I roll our eyes several times a day at glaring mispellings and typos both on the internet and in printed material. We see them in veterans’ group newsletters, magazines, and company websites. Kids today just don’t learn how to spell, or care, and nobody checks. It’s amazing. We even have seen them on brochures and websites from “brand name” universities trying to recruit our high school senior daughter! So no, they don’t surprise me one bit. Nobody cares. Nobody checks. Nobody gives a damn...but us old relics of a bygone day.
Yeah, Boss, you and I are of that same breed. I don’t tolerate it in my own writing, and check myself constantly. Part of the problem is, MS Word has made too many lazy people. Autocorrect is NOT your friend.
I’m not nearly as published as YOU are, but we both take pride in our works. Our writing is a reflection of ourselves.
But then, sometimes insisting on propur speling and gramer is a loosing battle...