On 7/18/2014 Pook said: On 7/17/2014 stilltamn8r said: On 7/17/2014 Lila Belle said:
Anyone who can't get the intent of a post or overlook a misspelled word and feels the need to correct the poster really needs a new hobby or perhaps a new forum with other sanctimonious, pseudo-big brains.
Intent is one thing, typos on a BB are to be expected, but hey , come on, ANYONE who has to communicate in writing on a daily basis, with clients, coworkers, etc., HAS to know that, yes, you ARE being judged by the way you spell. Yes, you ARE being judged by your words, and in many cases, your job, whether you know it or not, depends on it.
When my customers show me quotes which have been sent to them by my competitors, I sometimes cannot believe how horribly they are written! No WAY would I want to spend $50,000-$100,000 with someone who comes across on paper like an idiot! (and they tell me so!)
There is nothing "pseudo big brain" about making a good first impression. In the workplace, you ARE your words, so they really need to be correct!
Agree with the first post but the reply is way off base! This isn't a professional business and in probably most areas of any kind of work posters do it doesn't matter as most don't work in such a business and have the need to formally communicate. Even in business you would not be so presumptuous as to correct others unless you were in a supervisory or managerial position.
Posters who do this are not being helpful even if they think so and probably most are just wanting to show how intelligent and superior they are. A sign of a truly intelligent person is being compassionate and not wanting to throw their "intelligence" in anyone's face!!
If you knew a co-worker had sent out something to a client, full of mistakes, you would find it compassionate to NOT say anything? And to potentially lose the client?
Spelling and grammar have nothing to do with "intelligence", it is more like a "formula" as is math- some of the most intelligent people I know, cannot spell, and while I KNOW how smart they are, people reading their correspondence might not be so enlightened.
Of course, such people usually recognize their own shortcomings and SEEK advice, rather than be threatened by it.
To say that spelling and grammar in the written word are unimportant , as long as one gets "The intent" of what is written, is ludicrous. It reminds me of my nasty Aunt, who loved to insult people, and and when people objected, she would say, "Well, I am simply telling the truth!"
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