Okay so I'm not the best speller. I will admit that. But oh my gosh, I can spell the simple words.
I'm on a mommy website, Cafemom.com. People are constantly asking for advise and telling us that sense things are happening one way, etc. It's really, really getting on my nerves. I'm not sure if I should go into every group I'm in and post the correct spelling/meaning. I probably won't, but I'm soooo tempted every time I see people making these mistakes.
There was one post that had so many things wrong, punctuation, spelling, missing words.... I was thinking the worst thoughts about how uneducated the person was. I had to remind myself that not everyone has had the life that I have, that has been fortunate enough to go to amazing schools, with wonderful teachers in a safe city. I'm so glad that I was blessed with parents that loved and provided for me, and took an interest in my life.
Back to my frustrations. I think everyone should read the book: Eats shoots and leaves. If you haven't heard of it, it's a book by a teacher, or a group of teachers. They take examples of student work and show how, without the proper punctuation, groups of words can have completely different meanings. For example, the title of the book was taken from a report on Pandas! The panda eats, shoots, and leaves. But they should have left out the commas. It's so funny to me, but possibly because I'm a teacher? I dunno.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Posts
AMEN! my pet peeves are: their, they're and there...your and you're. i also try to remember that not everyone is a fantastic speller...my husband, my dad, my brother (conor)...but those words mis-used still drive me nuts!
ReplyDeleteI had a post on this on my blog too about quite vs. quiet. Whenever we're looking for roommates, we have a tacit policy that anybody who says they are are a quite roommate is instantly blacklisted. Get it straight people.
ReplyDelete