Carole Fox on sat 18 aug 07
On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 10:26:20 -0400, Lili Krakowski
wrote:
> The site was beautiful, put together with much care. The pictures were
>glorious! BUT no one had bothered to check spelling or grammar!
>Quelle horreur!
>
I, too, find the lack of attention to spelling and grammar in formal and
business communication a source of irritation. People don't seem to
realize or care that such errors make communication more difficult. I
once had a college intern who worked for me, an English major, whose
primary assignment was to write a monthly newsletter. Her writing was
creative, but everything (emphasis on everything) she wrote had to be
corrected for grammar and usage by a senior writer. At the end of her
term, in spite of much coaching, she had not improved; I had no choice but
to give her a grade of "C" for her efforts. She was outraged, and
insisted that she deserved an "A". I think this issue is but one more
manifestation of the cultural drift toward "do your own thing". Anyone
who tries to enforce standards is labelled as "picky" or worse, because
standards supposedly get in the way of someone's doing his own thing. I
don't get it.
Is this thread OT? I think not. All of us need to know how to write and
speak well in order to succeed not only in our chosen professions, but in
life.
End of soapbox.
Carole Fox
Dayton, OH
Ingeborg Foco on sat 18 aug 07
Carole,
All of that is relevant.
What about the reporter on TV or newspaper reporter who uses the phrase "she
went missing" it makes me crazy. I hear and read it all of the time.
I don't know who the bonehead was who started that but it is a constant
phrase I hear and read. The general public thinks that is the proper way to
speak and write because it is on TV and written in the newspaper. Am I
picky or what? Whatever happened to he/she/it disappeared? They didn't
"went missing" they disappeared!!!!.
Wow, I feel better now.
Ingeborg
thepottersworkshop.com
> >
>
> I, too, find the lack of attention to spelling and grammar in formal and
> business communication a source of irritation. People don't seem to
> realize or care that such errors make communication more difficult. I
> once had a college intern who worked for me, an English major, whose
> primary assignment was to write a monthly newsletter. Her writing was
> creative, but everything (emphasis on everything) she wrote had to be
> corrected for grammar and usage by a senior writer. At the end of her
> term, in spite of much coaching, she had not improved; I had no choice but
> to give her a grade of "C" for her efforts. She was outraged, and
> insisted that she deserved an "A". I think this issue is but one more
> manifestation of the cultural drift toward "do your own thing". Anyone
> who tries to enforce standards is labelled as "picky" or worse, because
> standards supposedly get in the way of someone's doing his own thing. I
> don't get it.
>
> Is this thread OT? I think not. All of us need to know how to write and
> speak well in order to succeed not only in our chosen professions, but in
> life.
>
> End of soapbox.
>
> Carole Fox
> Dayton, OH
>
>
>
>
lela martens on sat 18 aug 07
I have to get this one in before Mel decides `Enough!`
`I could care less`..when what they MEAN is `I couldn`t care less`.
I could care less means they DO care.
I couldn`t care less means they don`t.
Thanks, I feel better now too.
From Lela who will stubbornly keep pronouncing `pumpkin`..
not `pungken`.
>
>What about the reporter on TV or newspaper reporter who uses the phrase
>"she
>went missing" it makes me crazy. I hear and read it all of the time.
> Whatever happened to he/she/it disappeared? They didn't
>"went missing" they disappeared!!!!.
>
>Wow, I feel better now.
>
>
>
>Ingeborg
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Fred Parker on sat 18 aug 07
Dear Lili Krakowski:
Now you've done it!
Every Clayarter with a website secretly wonders if it was his that you
visited. Self-esteem languishes as gumbo blurbs in overheated kitchens;
bitten nails infect pink intestines. Silently, dread infuses the
Nightingale's silver moonlight and I cower in awful anticipation. "Could
it be?..." I wonder in my confinement.
Who's wuzit?
Fred Parker
On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 10:26:20 -0400, Lili Krakowski
wrote:
>I almost never go to web sites. But I was intrigued
>by a post from a Clayarter whose name was not familiar to me...And I went
to
>the web site.
>
> The site was beautiful, put together with much care. The pictures were
>glorious! BUT no one had bothered to check spelling or grammar!
>Quelle horreur!
>
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