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This post iz an ezy one fur me to right. I love to rite about my pet peavs, becase I am passhionate about them of corse. Lots of u luv to right. I know you do, becase I reed your stuff almost evry day. I realy lik most of it-I really do. You are onest with yur feilngs, you put yur thots rit out there for all of us to see, and you have some origenal idees that you wont us to think about.
You think thru the post, you chooze your werds karefuly, you spend a little time at the keebored, and wahla, a knew letter or blog post or artikle or editorrial is borned. It goes out to the internet and reeches millions of reeders. It makes an impack. It teaches peeple things that they never new befor. I applaud you for that.
However, my per peave is that many of you relie of things lik spell chekkers to catch the mastakes taht you mite make as you send out this good informashion. It is much easier to finnish writing, click on a buton, leeve the heavy lifting to the computter, and call it done. If it gets caught by the chekker, it's all good. If not, well, one or two mitakes wont hurt anybdy, rite?
The problem is, whether or not it's a tecknical document, a letter, a blog post, an editoreal, or even a note in a medical rekord, eventully somebody else is going to reed it adn try to understand it. The speeling and grammer mistakes that litter taht little jem of a document that you rote are going to take away from the genyous that I know is there, lerking in the back ground waiting to be transferred to the reeder.
Do me adn the rest of us a favur? Pleese, pleese, pleese, prufreed you're on work. Check the spelling. See if it flows, if it makes since, and if the words are spelled correcly. It will make reading your idees, which I am quiet sure are worth my time to reed, much more plesent.
Have a grate Tusday!
Funny!!! My pet peeves ? The mistaken use of "your" and "you're", and since when did the phrase "a lot" become one word, "alot" ?
ReplyDeleteOuch! This has to be directed toward me. I don't plan my blog posts, I write off the top of my head. I rarely proof read and often even forget to use spell check. I write, quick scan for obvious errors and then hit publish. Consequently, when I go back and read my post the next day I find missing commas, too many commas and typos. I guess I will be more careful from now on.
ReplyDeleteAnna Rachnel
ReplyDeleteYes! Yes!
Greg
Sandy, dear,
ReplyDeleteYour content is THE most important thing about what you are writing. Rock on.
Greg
On my blog, I try to make sure that there are no obvious errors. Unfortunately I do not always reread my post in its entirety before hitting the "publish" button. I have been embarrassed at obvious and silly/stupid errors. Even on your blog, I have found errors in my comments and have giggled in embarrassment at my mistakes. There's no way to make corrections. Once I posted a comment with an error that I considered a "biggie." I ended asking the blog owner to please make a correction for me.
ReplyDeleteMy best and favorite spell-check story, though fortunately was not my error, is really, really funny. I was reading a request to file an extension to the appellate court filed by the public prosecutor as I was working on our calendar making sure it was up to date. In their request, they identified themselves as the public prosecutor however, they left out the letter "L" in public. Obviously spell-check would not pick up this error. The request for an extension was filed with the court with the funny spelling error and boy did we get a good laugh.
And yes, the court did grant them the extension. I am pretty sure from that point forward they did not rely on spell-check only but also read their work-product before submitting.
p.s. just watch, I bet that there will be an error in this comment. Kind of like going to the mechanic and that annoying noise mysteriously disappears at that particular time.
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ReplyDeleteThat is classic!
One of my all time favorites from medical school years ago was the op note that bore the stamp of a doctor's signature under the words "Signed But Not Read".
In the body of the note (what a bad pun I've set myself up for already) was the following phrase: "The patient was prepped and raped in the usual manner." Of course, I'm quite sure they meant "draped". Not sure if it was curtains for that doctor or not, but I'll bet he read those transcribed notes before he signed them from that day forward!
Greg