Merged spelling/grammar threads

[EricNoah]

Seriously. I hate smilies more than Steve Guttenberg.

Oh, I don't know -- I hear he hates smilies quite a bit!

 

[Buttercup]

Oh, I don't know -- I hear he hates smilies quite a bit!

No, Eric. You misunderstand. Tewligan hates smilies more than he hates Steve Guttenberg.

 

[Crothian]

How about getting people to stop using so many U's

 

[KnowTheToe]

Does he hate smiley face avatars?

 

[KnowTheToe]

How about effect and affect, do these bother any of you?

 

[Cheiromancer]

Here's an idea: badly spelled or ungrammatical posts could be reported to moderators, who will edit or delete them as appropriate.

Then not only will EN World be a friendly and (relatively) flame free community, it will be a sanctuary of graceful prose.

Who is with me?

 

[EricNoah]

How about effect and affect, do these bother any of you?

Yeah, that's a hard one too! You can't just say "one's a verb and one's a noun" because each actually is both depending on the meaning!

 

[EricNoah]

Here's an idea: badly spelled or ungrammatical posts could be reported to moderators, who will edit or delete them as appropriate.

Then not only will EN World be a friendly and (relatively) flame free community, it will be a sanctuary of graceful prose.

Who is with me?

That's "whom."*







*yeah, I know it's not really, but SHHHH! It'll be a fun trick to play.

 

[Lazybones]

There was an op-ed piece in my local Sunday paper recently about the decline of writing in America. As a former community college instructor, I can say that I've seen legions of employment-seeking adults with the functional literacy of a sixth grader. The worst part is that most of them had no idea that they were doing anything wrong.

But I don't get worked up over postings on a message board. Actually, ENWorld's prose is Shakespearean in quality compared to that on some of the CRPG boards I frequent...

 

[KnowTheToe]

There was an op-ed piece in my local Sunday paper recently about the decline of writing in America. As a former community college instructor, I can say that I've seen legions of employment-seeking adults with the functional literacy of a sixth grader. The worst part is that most of them had no idea that they were doing anything wrong.

But I don't get worked up over postings on a message board. Actually, ENWorld's prose is Shakespearean in quality compared to that on some of the CRPG boards I frequent...

I know I have never had a single class after the sixth grade that covered sentence structure, diagraming or anything else focusing on grammar. It could be why so many people still write like sixth graders.