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I only take offense if the price is a typo. Has happened more than once on a site I won't name at the moment. A really big turn off to see a discrepancy in the cart vs what the page says.
They probably don't pull the price from the mysql database for the page and manually edit it.
They probably don't pull the price from the mysql database for the page and manually edit it.
Oh, Zacsz....This is my lucky day. Please tell me what you think when you hear a newscaster talking about someone getting run over by a car. They will typically say, "The car 'ran them over'. Is it ME, or should it be "The car ran over them". Please don't grade my post...LOL! Just answer me , please!! This drives me to distraction! To myself, I always say, "ran them over" what????
Ouch, I'm dyslexic. Everyone of my posts is filled with grammatical and spelling errors. I try my best but I can't help it.
Don't worry about a thing. I'm sure 99% of us can read what you post and that's all that matters. I write longer posts in MS Outlook so it Spell Checks it and then I Copy and Paste it into the Reply Box. That's how bad I spell.
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BTW WomanOfHeart, Shouldn't nazi have a Capitol N? Ie: Nazi, Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei.
Oh, Zacsz....This is my lucky day. Please tell me what you think when you hear a newscaster talking about someone getting run over by a car. They will typically say, "The car 'ran them over'. Is it ME, or should it be "The car ran over them". Please don't grade my post...LOL! Just answer me , please!! This drives me to distraction! To myself, I always say, "ran them over" what????
It should be "the car ran over them." Sentences shouldn't end with a preposition if it can be avoided.
Yes. I should've capitalized Nazi, zoid. Danke für den Hinweis!
In my humble opinion, spelling errors and errors in grammar show a laziness on the part of the web designer. My wife is a freelance writer and I have been editing her work for almost 40 years for spelling and grammar errors. When I see poor spelling on a web site I most likely will just move on to another merchant. If the seller is too lazy to check his own site for errors, then there is a good chance he is too lazy to take care of me as a customer.
I will oftentimes make errors when writing on my own and it is because one must never edit their own work. I will mike mistakes and not see them because I know what I think I said, even though my train of thought slipped off the tracks several miles back up the road.
I do have a few pet peeve words that will cause me to leave a site (or even stop reading a post) quickly. Things that get my dander up are mistakes like... there/their, your/you're, who's/whose, its/it's, and my all time detested word... ISSUE, when you mean PROBLEM. Issue means to eject, send out, etc, as in Smoke and lave issues from a volcano. If you have a problem, you have a problem and not an issue, unless foul words are issuing from your lips.
I will oftentimes make errors when writing on my own and it is because one must never edit their own work. I will mike mistakes and not see them because I know what I think I said, even though my train of thought slipped off the tracks several miles back up the road.
I do have a few pet peeve words that will cause me to leave a site (or even stop reading a post) quickly. Things that get my dander up are mistakes like... there/their, your/you're, who's/whose, its/it's, and my all time detested word... ISSUE, when you mean PROBLEM. Issue means to eject, send out, etc, as in Smoke and lave issues from a volcano. If you have a problem, you have a problem and not an issue, unless foul words are issuing from your lips.
This is a quote that always makes me laugh, but, it is rather mean. 
Your is possessive, like, "Your spelling and grammar is just terrible."
You're is a conjunction, as in, "You're an idiot for not knowing the difference."
Your is possessive, like, "Your spelling and grammar is just terrible."
You're is a conjunction, as in, "You're an idiot for not knowing the difference."
I do have a few pet peeve words that will cause me to leave a site (or even stop reading a post) quickly. Things that get my dander up are mistakes like... there/their, your/you're, who's/whose, its/it's, and my all time detested word... ISSUE, when you mean PROBLEM. Issue means to eject, send out, etc, as in Smoke and lave issues from a volcano. If you have a problem, you have a problem and not an issue, unless foul words are issuing from your lips.
Steve, I'm having an ISSUE! (Just kidding! Please, don't hurt me.)
I have a coworker who has a problem with the different forms of those words. There were times when we couldn't even read his tickets because of the lack of complete, intelligible sentences. He blamed this, and whole slew of other problems, on ADHD. These problems seem to have disappeared since we got a new manager.
This is a quote that always makes me laugh, but, it is rather mean.
Your is possessive, like, "Your spelling and grammar is just terrible."
You're is a conjunction, as in, "You're an idiot for not knowing the difference."
I must be a complete Dolt because I do not understand what a Conjunction is in grammar.
I do know that Mathematically a Conjunction is a Mathematical Operator that returns an output of True If and Only If ALL of its operands are true. A very useful tool for determining things like Vector Spaces.
Also Very Critical in writing computer code for decision branching.
I think he meant contraction. A conjunction connects two words, sentences, phrases or clauses together. Does anyone remember watching "Conjunction Junction" on Saturday mornings?
I've noticed that as well ZACSZ. When I used to work the third shift in my small town I would correct all of the errors in our local newspaper with a red pen. I would then stuff the paper in their mail slot before the staff arrived. When I sent my wife her letter back with corrections to her grammar she stopped writting me. Lighten up, or don't. Just sayin'
I'm with you on skipping over posts that don't capitalize or use punctuation. It's hard to follow a rambling long post that is one sentence long. I just move on.
I don't know if it's a browser thing or what but I've been trying out Google's Chrome browser and every time I misspell a word in one of my posts I get a red squiggly line under the word and when I right click on the word, a list of possible corrections pop up. I love it. If it didn't do that, you all would probably skip over my posts or silently chastise me.
Oops! Yep, that's what I meant
See this is where I'm a Rube. It seems their both right. Or is it there? Anyway.
A Conjunction, joining of two words. You are => You're
A Contraction, to make smaller. You are => You're
It all seem so confusing and somewhat meaningless to me. Maybe Concatenate is a better word
This is why I was a Mathematics Major.
I don't know if it's a browser thing or what but I've been trying out Google's Chrome browser and every time I misspell a word in one of my posts I get a red squiggly line under the word and when I right click on the word, a list of possible corrections pop up. I love it. If it didn't do that, you all would probably skip over my posts or silently chastise me.
I Think it is a Chrome thing. I could use the Spell Check on this forum but don’t like to suck up the band width of the ECF.
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It definitely bothers me. I can understand occasional spelling mistakes in a post, but a website should be double (or triple) checked before it goes up IMO. And there's no excuse for not knowing the difference between their/they're/there, your/you're, or for an apostrophe in a plural (non-possessive) word. I've never had it get to me so much that I won't do business with them though.
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."
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."
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