Scott Sampson

Why is it so hard to find web sites without gram­mat­ical errors?

I’m just as guilty of it as a lot of people, although I do try and make sure my posts are at least spelt correctly!

I appre­ci­ate that for a lot of people Eng­lish isn’t their first lan­guage, and for those people and sites I tend to make an excep­tion. It’s the idi­ots who have Eng­lish as a primary lan­guage and have no dis­ab­il­ity to jus­tify it, and still type like stoned baboons that annoy me!

How hard is it to tell the dif­fer­ence between their, there and they’re?

How about where and we’re? loose and lose?

Incor­rect use of cap­ital let­ters is another one that bugs me. Take the fol­low­ing quotes:

I had to help my uncle jack off a horse…

and

I had to help my uncle Jack off a horse…

The only dif­fer­ence between the two is a single cap­ital let­ter, and yet the dif­fer­ence it makes in read­ing and infer­ence is amazing.

Which would you rather people thought you were saying?

Gram­mar doesn’t only apply to the web (obvi­ously), you should take extra care when writ­ing any­thing, take the extra five minutes to proof-read your document/post/page before hit­ting that publish/send button.

[sits back and waits for the abuse RE the ter­rible gram­mar in this post]