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Does anyone care about, or sheer my distress at the examples of mangled English in many PropertyTalk postings?
I don't think mistakes help clarrify the message. They detract.
This yer their have been quite a few relay striking errors already.
See bellow for my candidate for the most annoying one last yer:
tennant
--- not once, not twice, but multiple times by different posters. It seems lazy. There is no such word as tennant, and a spell-checker will highlight it. And to make it worse, it is a description of our main income source. How ignorant or sloppy is that then?
This is not to denigrate otherwise excellent postings, and the very good subject matter in most or all of them.
I also admire those PropertyTalkers with English as a second language, in my mind, their willingness to have a go more than compensates for any lack of polish. (Orkibi for one comes to mind as a tremendous contributor). I don't include them necessarily.
I think it actually matters when someone takes the time to turn on their spell-check or take a bit of trouble to at least try to get it right. I reckon that if no-one does that, our ability to communicate must deteriorate, like unmended potholes getting worse, and we risk finishing up grunting and writing in ambiguous graceless code.
Does anyone agree?
I don't think mistakes help clarrify the message. They detract.
This yer their have been quite a few relay striking errors already.
See bellow for my candidate for the most annoying one last yer:
tennant
--- not once, not twice, but multiple times by different posters. It seems lazy. There is no such word as tennant, and a spell-checker will highlight it. And to make it worse, it is a description of our main income source. How ignorant or sloppy is that then?
This is not to denigrate otherwise excellent postings, and the very good subject matter in most or all of them.
I also admire those PropertyTalkers with English as a second language, in my mind, their willingness to have a go more than compensates for any lack of polish. (Orkibi for one comes to mind as a tremendous contributor). I don't include them necessarily.
I think it actually matters when someone takes the time to turn on their spell-check or take a bit of trouble to at least try to get it right. I reckon that if no-one does that, our ability to communicate must deteriorate, like unmended potholes getting worse, and we risk finishing up grunting and writing in ambiguous graceless code.
Does anyone agree?
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