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Leothwyn, I love your avatar and signature. I took two great courses on Renaissance Counterpoint. Do you know what your signature is, or is it just some unidentified piece of Middle Age/Renaissance music? I don't recognize it by sight, nor the tune when I hummed it.

EDIT: Ten Words You Need To Stop Misspelling, from theoatmeal.com

10 Words You Need to Stop Misspelling - The Oatmeal
 

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Well, now that this has turned into a discussion about grammar in general, spoken grammar mistakes don't bother me anywhere near as much. It's just the inherent different between descriptive and prescriptive grammar. (For those that don't know, descriptive grammar is essentially the "grammar" of everyday speech, warts and all, and prescriptive grammar is the hard and fast rules. I'm oversimplifying a lot, but that's basically it.) I'm in school as a partial linguist so I hardly even notice spoken mistakes anymore since they're just a part of life and are honestly kind of interesting because a lot of grammar inconsistencies are regional/cultural, even for people who might know better. I'll be the first to admit every once in a while I'll say "me and so-and-so" instead of "so-and-so and I/me" despite the fact I know the latter is correct. I just generally feel that in this day and age, especially with spellcheckers, people should take the time to review what they have written... whether it be on a forum, website, letter to a friend-- anything. Of course no one is discounting or being judgmental of certain circumstances that make spelling and/or grammar a challenge such as dyslexia or true lack of knowledge, and there are certainly people in the US and all over the world who did not even receive an adequate or any elementary education through no fault of their own. My overarching feeling is the people that SHOULD know and probably do know what is correct should ensure to the best of their ability that their written words are true to the English language... because most people who should and do know would then make almost no mistakes.

Confession: when I was typing quickly, the first thing I typed was "because most people who should and do know would them make almost know mistakes." :p

Should your post have a few more Paragraph breaks in it? :)
 

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I am reminded of a time in my first professional employment. A coworker had drawn a rather clever cartoon. I saw fit to insert the cartoon into the pocket of the sports coat of my employer. The coat was draped over the back of his otherwise empty drafting chair.

The next day I found the cartoon atop my drafting board. Added to the paper were the words, "Are you guys running out of something to do?"
 

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I think he meant contraction. A conjunction connects two words, sentences, phrases or clauses together. Does anyone remember watching "Conjunction Junction" on Saturday mornings?

OMG!!! YouTube - ‪Conjunction Junction‬‏

Schoolhouse Rock.. rocked. When you where a kid... to your buddies and such .... it was lame and not "cool".. .but you watched anyway AND LEARNED. I always secretly liked it (but never let on...'cuz it wasn't cool), and think the re-runs should be mandatory Saturday a.m. stuff even today!!!

P.S. Yes contraction..... You are = You're. Cannot = Can't. Do not = Don't........
 
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It's these kind of silly little things that can drive me bonkers as well. Sometimes I even go so far as to send a "jokey" email to let them know they have an "oopsie".

you see so many e-cig websites with grammatical errors and spelling errors in their ads or other places on the site? I can name more than a few I've seen in the past but it's not worth calling any one company out. I'm apparently in a bit of a complain-y mood and I'm only half serious about this because it's clearly not any sort of big deal, but it just so irks me when professional company's (intentional error) make mistakes like that <----. Maybe someone out there sympathizes with my near pathological urge for all grown adults that attended elementary school, especially those who design websites and sell products, to spell things right and know how to differentiate plurals from possessives. Granted, one of those companies that is a prime offender is one of my favorites-- I know, I know-- but still sloppy, sloppy, sloppy! :p
 

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Thanks. It's 'Three Ravens' by Thomas Ravenscroft. Those classes sound like a lot of fun. I wish there were classes like that available around here. Were/are you a music major?

Of the 10 words in that list, the one that gave me trouble in the past was the possessive 'its'. I don't know why. It seems obvious now.

Leothwyn, I love your avatar and signature. I took two great courses on Renaissance Counterpoint. Do you know what your signature is, or is it just some unidentified piece of Middle Age/Renaissance music? I don't recognize it by sight, nor the tune when I hummed it.

EDIT: Ten Words You Need To Stop Misspelling, from theoatmeal.com

10 Words You Need to Stop Misspelling - The Oatmeal
 

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Thanks. It's 'Three Ravens' by Thomas Ravenscroft. Those classes sound like a lot of fun. I wish there were classes like that available around here. Were/are you a music major?

Of the 10 words in that list, the one that gave me trouble in the past was the possessive 'its'. I don't know why. It seems obvious now.

I am a music major, and anthropology. Ravenscroft was late Renaissance-Early Baroque, right? Or something... the name is only vaguely familiar. I had a few Grammar Nazis in my life (my mother, for one!) so I've always been super crazy about it.
 

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No, I don't care. I had an ex that was like this though. He wouldn't eat in a restaurant if he saw a spelling/grammer error on their menu. I imagine he's still walking around with that huge stick up his a** checking menu's in restaurant windows for typos and it makes me :laugh:

After quickly scanning your post, I found a minimum of nine spelling, punctuation, and/or grammatical errors. Can anyone identify them all or find any more than nine errors? This is just for fun, of course!
 
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YES and I totally missed it. Who who who who who who who.

In fact, if you noticed, I was even inconsistent about it (which may be worse than the mistake itself). I said more than once in the post "people that" AND "people who". "People that" is definitely one of those spoken divergences from proper grammar that inevitably filters its way into writing sometimes.
 
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Heck yes. Or the incredibly poorly designed sites, with awful graphics and a zillion inexplicable categories... that usually have the grammatical errors too as a special bonus. Even more frustrating when they're actually good companies with great products, but you gotta wonder how many people just look at the website and are like "WTF, really?" and leave in disgust without buying anything.

Agreed. And when this noob had to make his first purchase I did not go with the site that had cheesy looking graphics, "click here for larger view" messages in the pages that didn't work half the time, "it's new, just throw it on any page" category "layouts" etc. etc.

I didn't exactly leave in disgust. But I did leave. Web design is the only front end most of these businesses have. And if the web site looks like crap and works no better I don't expect more from the overall experience and go elsewhere.

I just walked away from a new vendor last week. It was a very crudely designed site to begin with and when I lamented that they were only showing 4 100% VG liquids in their selection the response I received was "Oh, we can make anything you want in VG. Just tell us after you order."

So, the point of placing the order on web site is...? If we have to do post facto correspondence to change the order into something that doesn't even appear to be sold to begin with... Sigh... No thanks. Too complicated for the customer.

This was also the same place that couldn't get their "flat rate" shipping fee to stop climbing and climbing every time a new item was added to the basket. Something to be said for NOT prematurely launching a site/business until the owner has done the most basic checks for site functionality.
 

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This has turned into all sorts of tirades but has anyone else ALSO noticed that a lot of companies don't offer any kind of first class USPS shipping? This is a far less pervasive problem than the spelling and grammar goofs, but I placed an enormous juice order from 5 different vendors on Sunday and only one of them had first class shipping (and that one didn't have any other options, which is just as bad!) I have no problem paying for priority when I really want it, but after spending that much on juice every dollar I could have saved counts. I'm not in any sort of emergency and it sucks paying literally two times as much on priority as you would on first class just because there's no option....
 

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I am a music major, and anthropology. Ravenscroft was late Renaissance-Early Baroque, right? Or something... the name is only vaguely familiar. I had a few Grammar Nazis in my life (my mother, for one!) so I've always been super crazy about it.

That sounds like a great combination! Do you plan to do something that combines the two after graduation?
Ravenscroft's an easy one to not be familiar with. He wasn't a great (IMO) or prolific composer, but I do love that one song by him. There are tons of versions of it on youtube. Here's the Baltimore Consort doing it:


I know I'm getting way OT with this stuff... but, what the hell, it's your thread. :)

Back on topic. I've never bailed on a site because of bad spelling, but a crappy layout will frustrate me enough to leave pretty easily.
 
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