Re: Grammar Checker for OE?
- From: "DGuess" <majik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 18:23:41 -0500
Whatever point you take, there still ain't gonna be no grammar checker in OE ever. It generates no revenue for Microsoft so they won't put a spell checker much grammer.
"Gregg Hill" <bogus@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%231ofCMkrFHA.1256@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Mac,
I offered constructive criticism in order to improve the overall quality of the groups and that poster's grasp of written English, and all you could do is put me down? That is interesting, and it shows your complete lack of character. I do not claim to be a grammar guru, but some common mistakes should be mentioned.
I have seen postings that look as though they were written in jive, with "prolly" and "pry" in place of "probably" and other glaring mistakes. Was that just slang, or ignorance of the correct usage? I have seen professionally-made signs on stores that were atrocious. I have even stopped by some of those stores and pointed out the mistakes, with the business owners thanking me for stopping. I worked as a mechanic at a Ford dealer where the president of the company would bring his letters to me after the office manager had corrected them. She missed lots of errors, both in spelling and grammar. He was a college educated man who could not spell or write a coherent letter to save his life, and he admitted that it embarrassed him. Rather than send out an important letter that would embarrass him and the company, he asked for help.
Misuse of English makes people look less than intelligent in these newsgroups and in many aspects of life. I have helped several people fix résumés that were so full of grammatical errors that it was no wonder they could not get a job. Their résumés probably got round-filed rather quickly, right after the HR director finished laughing. If you sound like an ignorant dolt, people are less likely to pay attention to you long enough to find out if you know how to do your job.
You may think it is trivial, but the degradation of our language is a shame. Kids in school say "I seen that movie" instead of "I saw that movie" and can barely spell their own names. "I axed him a question" instead of "I asked...." is another common one that makes the speaker sound stupid. Maybe that goes over with a laugh in some back-woods swamp or ghetto (Ebonics? No, IGNORANCE!), but it should be a cause for shame.
Yes, I know it takes time to type messages, but there is still time to improve on one's English writing skills. Ask any HR director on the planet what is done with poorly-written résumés and you will see the effect that poor writing skills can have on one's future.
Gregg Hill
" mac" <macknever@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:OqgXNhvqFHA.1616@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"Gregg Hill" <bogus@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%236bgMyqqFHA.3640@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxWhile we are on the subject of grammar, I thought I would point out that
"it's" should have been "its" without the apostrophe. It shows possession;
it is not a contraction of "it is" or "it has" which would both be written
as "its."
That one gets almost everyone, because it is the exact opposite of the usual rule.
A good site for common English errors can be found here: http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/
Gregg Hill
Try this suggestion Gregg? - Go play in the traffic :-))
BTW, I like this site better: http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/a.htm
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