Came a comment from across the pond many suns ago:
“Hey haven’t you got spell check?? There really should be NO excuses for typos nowadays if you have a modicum of education. If you were brought up in the UK – typos are a BIG no no in business! It shows unprofessionalism and sloppiness especially in the age of the spell check.”
I don’t normally reply to muppets.
But, in that case I made an exception.
My answer?
“Let’s make a deal: You keep drama queening about typos, and I’ll keep making money with them”
More:
This comment came in that same day:
(From reader Bruce Lilly)
“Grammar, syntax–I’ve taken all the university courses on them, from an English degree with a nod towards Linguistics. And because they know the Traditional English Manner of Spelling and Grammar, some people think these rules apply everywhere….What these people don’t understand about language and grammar and even spelling could fill our world’s atmosphere. Do they know that grammar is subjective, and that as long as one is understood then the sentence has performed its task? A sentence is a boat. It carries a meaning. If that meaning gets across to the other side–congratulations–your boat floats.”
Anyway, bottom line?
There is a reason proofreaders make peanuts compared to language-butchering email writers.
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Ben Settle
