Hey, Hero, if you want to be illiterate, fine. This thread is for people who don’t. Writers defending poor writing skills is…well…indefensible.

I couldn’t disagree with your philosophy more. Relying entirely on a computer program to correct your mistakes means that you probably don’t actually possess any writing skills. Without your computer, your writing is probably so poor as to be unreadable.

This conversation is like déjà vu. And yet I’m always amazed that anyone would have to defend good writing skills to someone who professes to be a writer. One would think that a writer above anyone else would be the staunchest defender of striving to attain good spelling and grammar skills. But sadly, thanks to people like you, our art has degenerated to the point that writers themselves defend poor writing skills by grasping at every straw of an excuse.

Quoted from Breanne Mattson Hey, Hero, if you want to be illiterate, fine. This thread is for people who don?t. Writers defending poor writing skills is?well?indefensible. I couldn?t disagree with your philosophy more. Relying entirely on a computer program to correct your mistakes means that you probably don?t actually possess any writing skills. Without your computer, your writing is probably so poor as to be unreadable. This conversation is like d? vu. And yet I?m always amazed that anyone would have to defend good writing skills to someone who professes to be a writer. One would think that a writer above anyone else would be the staunchest defender of striving to attain good spelling and grammar skills. But sadly, thanks to people like you, our art has degenerated to the point that writers themselves defend poor writing skills by grasping at every straw of an excuse.

you want to kiss me don't you?


im not defending poor writing skills and im obviously not illiterate either...  anyone who went to grammar school can write. i majored in English and creative writing in college....

so please spare me the lecture

Quoted from Herodreamer79 you want to kiss me don't you?

Well, at least you finally said something funny. I truly got a laugh out of this. You may be cute but your sense of humor is badly misplaced.

Quoted from Herodreamer79 im not defending poor writing skills and im obviously not illiterate either...

Let me get this straight: you come to a website for writers, go to a thread about spelling and grammar, declare it’s not relevant, and expect the comment to just be blown off. Sounds like you need a lecture.

Quoted from Herodreamer79 anyone who went to grammar school can write.

This would be funny too if it weren’t such a serious subject. I simply do not agree with this statement. I have worked with executives who have horrible grammar skills. Some of the emails I’ve read are atrocious. And these people are rich and had the finest educations money could buy. Look at George W. Bush. What a waste of a quality education. He has a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Yale University and earned an MBA (Master of Business Administration) from Harvard Business School. Both Harvard and Yale should be ashamed that a graduate would speak so poorly in public.

Quoted from Herodreamer79 i majored in English and creative writing in college.... so please spare me the lecture

I refer you to the above paragraph and would add: pardon me if I’m not impressed with your major.

Quoted Text Sean, “onto” is a combined form of the prepositions “on” and “to.” In other words, it’s a slang - one that has gained acceptance as its own word. Dating back to the early 18th century, in this case, it’s a slang that makes a lot of sense because they’re both propositions and so regularly used together. Both usages are correct and interchangeable.

Whoa, haven't been here in a while. Anyways, thanks for clearing that up for me Breanne.

Sean

BREANNE
i didnt say grammar and spelling aren't relevant - i said im not going to lose sleep over a few typos or misplaced then-thans...

thats what we have proof readers for does that make me lazy?  maybe. but thats me...

Well, you’re persistent. You just don’t give up, do you? You’re like Spiderman. Okay, you’re starting to wear me down so I’m going to lighten up on you. I still think you’re a crazy illiterate though.

Quoted from Breanne Mattson Well, you’re persistent. You just don’t give up, do you? You’re like Spiderman. Okay, you’re starting to wear me down so I’m going to lighten up on you. I still think you’re a crazy illiterate though.

superman

Old, but funny.

The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union  Rather than German, which was the other possibility.

As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded  that English spelling had some room for improvement and has  accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as "Euro-English".
In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard  "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up konfusion, and  keyboards kan have one less letter.
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the  troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like  fotograf 20% shorter.  In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have  always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the  horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is disgrasful and it  should go away.
By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v".
During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords  kontaining ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl  riten  styl. Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it  ezi  tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru. Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in  ze  forst plas.