thefactor, I don’t blame you for no longer emailing with someone who spells it with an ‘a’. I have to correct everyone who spells it with an ‘a’ and it happens ALL the time.
Whenever I ask people what the word ‘finate’ means they always automatically correct the spelling of definitely after a few seconds and I sort of laugh to myself. I try as much as possible to use correct grammar, though I slip up every once in a while and let me apologize if I make any errors here (I’m on a hotel computer and the keyboard is less than cooperative).
And i totally agree about the puncuation inside quotes; it doesn’t make much sense to me either.
Oh, we all make mistakes. Often when we type our thoughts in a flurry and are in a rush to post it. And I personally have well-entrenched bad grammar that I can’t shake.
But when you see either a) a woefully poor assemblage of letters in a single post or b) the same people constantly writing the same things [believe me, I’m quite familiar with some ignorami on some fora; a couple of whose posts I have given up even bothering to read], you know it’s not just a mistake of the slip-up kind.