Speling allways cunts.
What annoys me is when college grads do not know the difference between the plural and the possessive.
When I was in college the standard acceptable limit before receiving an F was 3 grammar/spelling errors per 1,000 words.
Considering how much effort was put in standardizing spelling, it seems idiotic to abandon it because people are too lazy and/or stupid to try and spell correctly.
My spelling isn’t the greatest but I try because I recognize the importance of it.
In Hebrew, Greek and Roman numerals, yes, very much so...
I loathe texting. But when I inevitably receive a text from my kids or my wife that contains lazy ‘text speak’ I have a generic response::
That does not make sense and it does not look like anything in the English language that I have seen. Reply to me with what you need in normal written words or call me like an adult.
"What difference does it make?!!!"
If you can’t spell...
...people can’t find what you publish on the ‘net.
...nobody will care about what you write, because it hasn’t been thought through well enough to even get obvious spelling right.
...people will laugh at what you wrote, because autocorrect will do some amazing things with misspellings. See damnyouautocorrect.com and imagine being a feature there.
I read a number of resumes. With the technology that’s available today, anyone putting out a resume with spelling errors is just flat lazy. My opinion is, if you don’t take yourself seriously enough to run a spellcheck on a document that is your attempt to impress me with your abilities and experience, then why should I take you seriously?
Spelling is a major discriminator for me. Any misspelling on a resume, and the candidate is trashed. It tells so much about the person.
Spelling is necessary.
The correct use of possessive pronouns has gone the wayside with the boon of electronic messaging “shorthand”.
The earlier inclusion of barbaric “ebonics” into the English language, was a mistake heralded by the Politically Correct and Revisionist crowd.
I worked for a time at the local state employment division, as a part-time mentor, for those ignorant of computer usage and the English language. This included high school graduates, and a few college graduates, as well as middle-aged men who have worked with their hands all their life, leaving their wives to do anything involving a pencil to paper.
The computer usage ignorance I was prepared for, but NOT the lack of ability to create a simple resume, i.e., “What was your job, and what did you do?”
I kept thinking, “in the future, THESE humans will be those that will be deciding about MY financial future????”
“you’re” or “your.” , is not a matter of spelling. It’s knowing which to use.