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<blockquote data-quote="Mercule" data-source="post: 1949373" data-attributes="member: 5100">I've used Dvorak for a few years, now.&nbsp; I occasionally get &quot;teh&quot; as a typo, but I don't often seem to get other common typos.&nbsp; I'm a grammar/spelling nazi, though.&nbsp; Even without a spell-checker, I think my posts are usually pretty clean.&nbsp;Mostly, I think it's a matter of people either being lazy or inconsiderate.&nbsp; There seems to be wave of people who think it's cool to sound illiterate and uneducated, or who at least seem to think it's unnecessary -- but that could get into politics pretty quickly.&nbsp;What bothers me more than mispellings that may or may not be typos is the incompetent use of homonyms.&nbsp; I, truly, cannot fathom how it can be difficult to understand the difference between their, there, and they're; your and you're; or two, to, and too.&nbsp; To graduate high school without that knowledge is just absurb.&nbsp;I can excuse it some on a messageboard where everyone is being casual.&nbsp; What drives me absolutely nuts, though, is finding those sorts of things in professional documents.&nbsp; And I see it all the time.&nbsp; I've been reviewing some training documents lately, and it's probably a good thing the person who put them together has left the company because I'm pretty sure I would have acted... uncivily toward her.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mercule, post: 1949373, member: 5100"] I've used Dvorak for a few years, now. I occasionally get "teh" as a typo, but I don't often seem to get other common typos. I'm a grammar/spelling nazi, though. Even without a spell-checker, I think my posts are usually pretty clean. Mostly, I think it's a matter of people either being lazy or inconsiderate. There seems to be wave of people who think it's cool to sound illiterate and uneducated, or who at least seem to think it's unnecessary -- but that could get into politics pretty quickly. What bothers me more than mispellings that may or may not be typos is the incompetent use of homonyms. I, truly, cannot fathom how it can be difficult to understand the difference between their, there, and they're; your and you're; or two, to, and too. To graduate high school without that knowledge is just absurb. I can excuse it some on a messageboard where everyone is being casual. What drives me absolutely nuts, though, is finding those sorts of things in professional documents. And I see it all the time. I've been reviewing some training documents lately, and it's probably a good thing the person who put them together has left the company because I'm pretty sure I would have acted... uncivily toward her. [/QUOTE]

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