That does puzzle me. You'd think they'd have noticed just from reading text in books that people don't capitalize every word.
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That does puzzle me. You'd think they'd have noticed just from reading text in books that people don't capitalize every word.
That does puzzle me. You'd think they'd have noticed just from reading text in books that people don't capitalize every word.
Also, how much extra work is it to capitalise every word?!
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I know people in very senior positions that still don't know the difference between 'your' and 'you're'. It's not just a one off either, I constantly get 'I hope your well' in emails.
80s, 90s isn't much better. They probably can't spell eighties and nineties.
Mistakes like that are everywhere. Is this because of bad teaching or bad students?
Also give it 10 years and grammar will be a dead subject we will all be using vocal Interfaces and our text will be auto spell checked, auto grammarized (I know it's not a word really thought it might frustrate you purists though 
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As long as it's readable and understandable, and you can communicate properly whats the problem
Studies have also shown that as long as the first and last letters of a word are correct, people can still read that sentance easily
I was giong to tpye taht sentnace lkie this, but I thuoght that wuold get annyoing
Studies have also shown that as long as the first and last letters of a word are correct, people can still read that sentance easily
I was giong to tpye taht sentnace lkie this, but I thuoght that wuold get annyoing
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i dont think they actually teach this any more. i see so many top management types with the spelling and grammar of 5 year olds.
i dont get how hard some people find too, to and two and they're their and there. its not rocket science. we were taught it when we were about 7 years old if i recall. really basic stuff.
Taht is creintlay not sicuenfift rsoean to tpye lkie an ioidt.
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I agree with you about "gotten" however, it's a perfectly legitimate word
Still hate it though!
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you do need to be careful though. i remember taking the pee out of someone and later found out they were dyslexic (why is dyslexic such a weird word to spell lol)
That's 2 extremes really. I can understand it when using a phone, as you've got a tiny keypad and lets face it, it's a pain to type on. There's no excuse when you've got a full keyboard in front of you, and it doesn't take any more effort to type correctly than not to.
I completely agree. If someone cannot be bothered to put the effort into typing a coherant sentence then why should I take the time to try and help them?
That is the first thing I notice in a post over everything else. God, I really am getting old and intolerant
Coherent.
And Nazi's!!!!!
It's like when someone uses CD's, DVD's, 90's and so on.
I don't really care about typos and easily made errors or issues that resulted from a goof up with autocorrect (we've all had them!) and those are pretty obvious too but too many people don't even know they're making highly obvious mistakes. I do the same myself sometimes but when I look back I think to myself "LOL RETARD" and quickly herp-derp to the edit button.
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1980s, 1990s is OK by me, it's just the apostrophe abuse I dislike rather than not writing in full.