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To: Fiji Hill
I see this problem all the time when reading comments by readers on Internet sites including Free Republic. One particularly annoying trend is the use of "there" in place of "their" and "they're"--even among seemingly intelligent writers.

So one misspelled or overlooked grammatical error makes an entire piece unintelligent? That is a pin headed view IMO.

26 posted on 03/28/2012 6:53:12 AM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va
So one misspelled or overlooked grammatical error makes an entire piece unintelligent? That is a pin headed view IMO.

One misspelled word or grammatical error indicates that the writer either does not care about doing his best work or that he was not educated well enough to work for me.

61 posted on 03/28/2012 8:25:49 AM PDT by HIDEK6
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To: central_va
So one misspelled or overlooked grammatical error makes an entire piece unintelligent? That is a pin headed view IMO.

I'm not referring to the occasional typo or grammatical error. I, too make occasional typos and an occasional grammatical error, especially if I get careless when using "cut" and "paste" features on the computer to move text around. However, in my view, any adult whose native language is English and who doesn't know--or maybe doesn't care--about the difference between "there," "their" and "they're" is a pinhead.

79 posted on 03/28/2012 10:44:27 AM PDT by Fiji Hill (Deo Vindice!)
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