I hate to act like the Grammar Police when I am reading individual posts on threads such as I've been reading regarding the Anthony trial but once I see a blatant error it is difficult to continue reading without focusing on that error. I am not talking about using "to" instead of "too" or something that easy to miss in a spell-check. For example, I was reading a post today and the writer wrote the following:
" RML, your automatically aloud to have an appeal in federal court."
Okay, the first error is the "your". People confuse "you're" for "your" all the time and it is a lesson we should ALL have learned in when we were beginning to read! The second error, "aloud", is a result of someone that is not well educated or is totally clueless or is very careless when they are writing. In any of those three circumstances it is distracting to the reader. I know I've made many mistakes in my writing both in my job and in my posting online but I do try to be aware of the words I am using and when in doubt I look them up in the dictionary so that I do not look like a total idiot. Even then though, I have made mistakes. Everyone does but re-read that sentence above and you see that the meaning of the sentence changes because of the errors. In those cases it is even more important to be sure that the thought you are trying to express it interpreted correctly.
In closing, all I am trying to say is that we should all be more careful before we hit 'enter'.
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