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We should not get overly obsessed with making spelling mistakes or typos, because they are not what makes our writing good or bad, says author and Financial Times columnist Lucy Kellaway.
*runs and hides*
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Well Nayg,. I tri hart to avoind speling misstakes as they tend to iritate the I,.
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eye din kno t ft gv job a 12yo
I didn't know the FT employed the under twelves.
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There is a big difference between SPELLING MISTAKE and that crap you wrote. 
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I agree.
But you can read the first version and it's considered valid by some. And if quality media start slipping standards (especially in a world where everything they submit is written on a computer, edited on a computer, and printed by a computer so there is no damn excuse for such mistakes to get through) then the first version is what you get very quickly - look at the kind of cr@p that gets posted on "yoof" sites, and that's pretty normal! 
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The Grammar Man[^] is not going to like that!
Your time will come, if you let it be right.
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So lets see if @DalekDave sees this and gives us his valuable input 
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You mentioned his name! Now all hell will break loose...
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I started the countdown to DD Day (Double D...  )
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Agree wholeheartedly for most writing*
Mostly spelling/ grammar mistakes don't matter - the meaning is unchanged Generally it's possible to remove the vowels and still be understood - some writing systems actually work like this. Hell, English had unstandardised spelling until relatively recently, and when it was standardised the got it wrong. Worse in the UK (not the US) we decided to balls it up to make it look like a romance language - hence we now write "music" instead of "musick" or "musicke" and even more oddly have a "u" in words like "colour". Personally, I'd rationalise the whole spelling system
Worse spelling/grammar Nazis actually detract from from debate, switching the focus from what (rarely does a mistake change the meaning) is being said to how it is being written. Pedestrian minds feeling superior by criticising others with one of the few sticks at their disposal
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Really ducks and covers.
* Wouldn't be OK in books or articles etc.
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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Oh, you picked up the underlying point. I feel as long as the effort is there to write well, then the odd hiccup/hiccough can be ignored.
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I wish you Hell.
(You could guess that I meant "Well", right?)
It is NEVER ok.
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If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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We know you! It wasn't a typo! You just meant it...S(h)ame on you...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
תפסיק לספר לה' כמה הצרות שלך גדולות, תספר לצרות שלך כמה ה' גדול!
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I think that is a great example though.
And, obviously, everyone who thinks the other way has never had an interaction with the MSDN (Microsoft documentation) where one word was wrong.
I assure you, it must be right.
Oh, wait, did I mean correct or on the right-hand side? 
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newton.saber wrote: has never had an interaction with the MSDN (Microsoft documentation) where one word was wrong right.
FTFY... 
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Point 1: If there's a chance of what you write being misunderstood, take special care that it does not contain errors.
Point 2: Murphy's Law.
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Maybe in English it is not that bad, but languages - like Hebrew - that the writing done without vowels for 90% of the words, typo can take you really far...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
תפסיק לספר לה' כמה הצרות שלך גדולות, תספר לצרות שלך כמה ה' גדול!
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If I buy an expensive product, then the documentation better be looking good and not like it has been written by someone learning the language. Spellings checkers are free.
A single character can change the complete meaning.
Now, if you are in a position where all you do is spout meaningless fluff-words, drivel that everyone ignores, then indeed - you'd even be allowed text-speak.
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No, of course spelling, punctuation, and grammar don't matter. It's not like a missing comma could change the meaning of a sentence, is it?
"Let's eat Grandma!" 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Thurber was asked by a correspondent: "Why did you have a comma in the sentence, 'After dinner, the men went into the living-room'?" And his answer was probably one of the loveliest things ever said about punctuation. "This particular comma," Thurber explained, "was Ross's way of giving the men time to push back their chairs and stand up. Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
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Today, saw a resume having spelling mistakes, incomplete sentences, bad punctuation, bad formatting, bad capitalization, and to cap it all, had the phrase -"Language – English (Full Professional Proficiency)". I know that English is not a natural language for most of the Indians (me included); but this was unpardonable.
As an icing on the cake, this resume had the mobile numbers of two of his references. I shudder at the thought that if he becomes my colleague, he may quote me as a reference, and my mobile number would get broadcast across all employment sites
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Often, when sorting through dozens of resumes trying to find a new programmer for my team, I have rejected someone because of bad spelling and punctuation. It shows a distinct lack of thoroughness; the point isn't that a word was spelled incorrectly, typos are a way of life, but that the document wasn't properly checked before a push to "production", especially in this most important document! I make typos all the time but I go back and re-read everything I write so I can correct it before I publish it. So, if a typo gets through then either the work hasn't been checked, or it wasn't checked well enough - and with modern spelling and grammar checkers being widely available there is little excuse for this. Being a pendant is a job requirement for a good programmer.
When looking at an Indian's CV I usually allow for odd phrasing because of the second language issue (my second language is German and I am sure I butcher it even though claiming fluency) but I have actually been surprised by how good they are when it comes to spelling and punctuation. In fact I would say that Mercans have had the worst record on average amongst the ones I have seen.
On my own CV I always put "References available"; I never list them and their details up front; that is bad practice.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Good writing is more than the sum of its parts.
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The Financial Times apologises for the error in yesterday's news section.
The company found to be at risk of going into receivership is Mocrosoft, not Microsoft.
BREAKING NEWS
Following fears of its going into receivership, Microsoft had lost 738,000,000,000,000 by close of business, yesterday, and is going into receivership.
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