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[cherry]

@Noel7 kindness wins every time

[Mama Mia]

ON!  oops, I   mean no.

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[straykatz]

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@Tinkrbl44 wrote:

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@Big Sister wrote:

Proofreading is a good thing!!!

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@Big Sister

Yes, it is.    We all make mistakes and typos sneak by, but repeated errors grate like nails on a chalk board.   JMO

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True...but nails on a chalkboard is just a noise....why does that noise bother some and not others?....basically we have the control in how we react to things not control over others.   I mentioned earlier my pet peeve is how toilet paper is hung....once upon a time I would flip out if someone in the house hung it wrong...now I just turn it to my way and let it be.  It was my pet peeve to deal with not theirs.   And less stressful for me in the end.  

[viva923]

I proof read just about everything, but sometimes my proofing still errors occur.

[x Hedge]

Do I proofread my post before submitting it?

Yup!
Then I see the error that slipped through anyhow.
But I figure ya'll can fathom what I was tryna say.

[Moonchilde]

Yes - but occasional typos still happen depending on how fast I'm thinking-typing. Depending on the error, I often go back and fix; sometimes not for obvious simple typo.

[Imadickens]

@cotton4me. Ditto!

[Imadickens]

@Drythe. One of my biggest problems is my auto correct! If I type quickly and don't catch it right away, it insists on writing what IT thinks I said as opposed to what I REALLY said!  lol

[Moonchilde]

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@Zita wrote:

Agree with all posters. Have to admit, I do judge people by their spelling and grammar, and yes, getting old is not for sissies. (note spelling)

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I judge as well, when posters cannot spell simpler words in general, make consistent (every post) multiple grammar errors, run many sentences together, don't use periods or breaks for paragraphs, or use mostly/only exclamation points and periods rarely if ever. These things are far more irksome to me than typos.

I see posts with multiple typos where it's clear that the poster can construct a sentence and knows punctuation and grammar, but they just made simple typos or left out a word. It doesn't bother me much if at all.

I do not tell people of their errors (really, no point) unless someone is posting condescendingly to others - then IMO they are fair game; nobody's perfect, including them.

[x Hedge]

I'm loving a post I saw today in which a writer poses a question, but rather than finish with a question mark there is a line of 21 (yes 21!) exclamation points.

So while it reads like a question, I'm inclined to be generous and think it's intended to be sarcastic and/or rhetorical.

But I'll admit, when seeing that surplus of exclamation points my reading came to a full stop, and I went back to count them. I'm still chuckling . . .
My question was, how did she decide 21 was the right place to stop hitting that key?