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To: Cincinatus' Wife
At first glance, Chung said about the July report, he saw obvious errors – some typographical, others that confused basic terminology.

Yet, every day, on web forums just like this one, the outcry against grammar and spelling "Nazis" continues afresh. It all "counts," despite the cries from the tablet- and smartphone-enhanced thumbtypists, just like that stick-in-the-mud, behind-the-times teacher tried to tell many of us when swimming against the technology tide.

12 posted on 12/08/2013 3:28:24 AM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: T-Bird45

Policy should be....Read what is intended, if you need clarification between their , there and they’re ask it , move on, don’t be a smug grammatical a hole.


13 posted on 12/08/2013 4:23:09 AM PST by Walkingfeather
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To: T-Bird45

You forgot “Well, you know what I meant.”


15 posted on 12/08/2013 4:32:40 AM PST by pa_dweller (Extremist tea-party-driven hostage-taking legislative arsonist without a life)
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To: T-Bird45

Spelling and grammar are more important when you are placing lives on them and getting PAID for “work”. FR, not so much.


31 posted on 12/08/2013 6:52:13 AM PST by mad_as_he$$
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To: T-Bird45
"he saw obvious errors – some typographical, others that confused basic terminology."

What this suggests to me is that the people who prepared the report are unqualified and don't understand what it is going to take to fix the problem. But that's the way the Government works in California.

38 posted on 12/08/2013 7:45:37 AM PST by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: T-Bird45

How would those effect the bridge? Is it really worth all the incontinence caused when spellcheck can fox everything just fine?


44 posted on 12/08/2013 8:48:42 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: T-Bird45

Whats the difference between stress and strain? Joe Blow doesn’t know, but to an engineer they have distinctions. The report reflecting findings should have been written by someone competent, someone familiar with the exacting language used by engineers to convey specifics. This appears to be a report ghostwritten to support a politically motivated conclusion.


52 posted on 12/08/2013 4:40:54 PM PST by Ozark Tom
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