View Single Post
Old 01-04-2016, 09:51 AM
  #63  
Peckish
Super Member
 
Join Date: May 2011
Location: Pacific NW
Posts: 9,395
Default

Originally Posted by RST View Post
Those of you who want to take a red pencil to internet postings -- to what end? Why is it so important?
Answered upthread.

Originally Posted by justflyingin View Post
As to the misspellings, etc. Sometimes it is easy to see they are spell checker changes. Sometimes they are funny. But constantly writing "boarder" (someone who pays to live in another person's building/home, etc) instead of "border" just looks uneducated. I can't help but wonder about that person's lack of observation skills.

My biggest problem when I see a lot of mistakes --it can quickly add to the perception that we are uneducated/unskilled, and that people who sew "only sew because they can't do real work" type of attitude.

That attitude exists among many people. We can help combat it by using the best grammar we know.
Peckish is offline