Disappointment with the grammar and spelling of some TA users
I've noticed that many of the forum discussions that TA has tweeted lately have contained glaring grammatical and spelling errors. I find this disappointing and even personally embarrassing as it inevitably reflects not only on the original poster but on the forum as a whole and, by extension, the larger atheist community. I know written communication isn't everything, and it certainly isn't a high priority among the public generally, but we should try to meet a higher standard. Given the unlikelihood that individual posters will suddenly take more care when writing, I think the operators of the site's Twitter feed should consider not tweeting discussion titles with serious errors.
That's one poster's opinion, for whatever it's worth.
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Permalink Reply by Unseen on -
BTW, I am the opposite of many. My grasp of spelling and grammar is intuitive. If you ask me for the rule for this and that, I generally haven't a clue, and yet I seldom am wrong. "Place an 'i' befoe 'e' except after 'c'" is about the extent of my knowledge of the rules.
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Permalink Reply by SteveInCO on -
Not to mention "let's" for "lets" in his post previous to that one.
As an exercise I carefully read all of the posts on the last two pages and most of them contained one minor typo or another.
Unseen--and many other's--sentences scan and his mistakes are clearly that: mistakes. I think the real complaint here is people who are clearly ignorant because they make the same goof over and over--and especially those who are proud of their ignorance or excuse it; whose response when called on it is basically "fuck off."
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Permalink Reply by archaeopteryx on -
The big problem for me, Steve, is that now this has become such an issue, I'm seeing mistakes in comments that I never noticed before, and I don't like that about myself - I just want to go back to the way I was.
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Permalink Reply by archaeopteryx on
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That was some kid and his dog, whose names I can't recall, not Rocky & BW.
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Permalink Reply by Unseen on
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As Samantha affirms, they were one of the bits on the Rocky and Bullwinkle show.
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Permalink Reply by archaeopteryx on
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I ultimately remembered "Mr. Peabody," but didn't post it because I couldn't recall the name of his pet boy, but you're right, it was, "Sherman."
As for whether or not it was part of the "Rocky and Bullwinkle Show," I wouldn't know - unlike Unseen, I had more important things to do than sit around and watch cartoons.
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Permalink Reply by Unseen on
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Well, apparently, arch, the more important things didn't include learning that Protestantism began with a dissident priest and not a character from a comic book. So, while I was watching TV you were reading Superman.
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Permalink Reply by archaeopteryx on
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So you're saying you were watching TV, while I was improving my reading skills - that certainly explains a lot --
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Permalink Reply by Unseen on
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No, I was honing my observational skills. And I learned how to spell "Bullwinkle."
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Permalink Reply by archaeopteryx on
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"that let's people get by" - "'i' befoe 'e'" - "I seldom am wrong"
Except when you are --
What's that they say about glass houses?
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