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silverflight8) wrote2009-12-22 11:06 pm
silverflight8) wrote2009-12-22 11:06 pm
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Ya _think_ it's just a little typo
Oh, spare me your excuses. So you made a typo. Sure, we all do. Look, I just mispelled something. See? English is an amalgamation of languages, thanks to Europe's interesting and tumultuous history.
But when you misspell dozens of easy English words, don't know the difference between lose/loose, its/it's, there/their/they're, it makes me think you're a blockhead. They might be small mistakes, but that's not the point--the point is you can't tell the difference between a cant and a can't. They're two different words, did you know? And it makes the reader like me roll their eyes.
It isn't as though you don't have resources. There are online dictionaries--if you can post a message, you can search up words--fast. Plus, there's a bloody spell-check built into your computer. Homonyms--out of luck, but doesn't some kind of bell go off when you read sentences like: "She maid the bed quickly"?
But when you misspell dozens of easy English words, don't know the difference between lose/loose, its/it's, there/their/they're, it makes me think you're a blockhead. They might be small mistakes, but that's not the point--the point is you can't tell the difference between a cant and a can't. They're two different words, did you know? And it makes the reader like me roll their eyes.
It isn't as though you don't have resources. There are online dictionaries--if you can post a message, you can search up words--fast. Plus, there's a bloody spell-check built into your computer. Homonyms--out of luck, but doesn't some kind of bell go off when you read sentences like: "She maid the bed quickly"?