And you called yourself my Friend?

"The QUESTION is does the abuse of punition and Capitalization effect the professional feel as much as misspelled and misused words."

My response to this is - it all depends upon where the abuses occur. Errors in emails between colleagues are not as critical as those that occur in text meant for public viewing; as in web sites, business mail, and other written material where the writer wants to convey a sales or promotional message.

Such errors tend to indicate carelessness and to me that mea

Beth,

You're right about copies still existing sometimes. The Wayback Machine http://www.archive.org/index.php purposefully archives old web pages, but sometimes other copies are floating around in search engine caches, or copied on someone's blog, etc.

Jay

The QUESTION is does the abuse of punition and Capitalization effect the professional feel as much as misspelled and misused words.

Valerie :: there's another typo!!! Was this intentional?

Actually, it occurred to me that when you hit enter and something is on the internet... and then later you correct an error... there may be an electronic copy of that errant error laden prose you wrote...

I know I've deleted stuff from Y! 360 and the oddest things come up still in searches...

I

I have a friend, High School English teacher, Masters Degree in English, it drivers her crazy to edit my writing. WHY because I feel ad copy does not need to follow the same Rules.

IF you want to make a POINT in a plain text email, how else do you bold something in the eyes of the readers? It drivers her crazy!

Now I have to agree even though I am guilty (ignorant really) in most cases, there should never be misspelling or really baaaad English. I just choose to write anyway and do my

I find it much easier to find typos in other people's writings than in my own and I always appreciate someone letting me know, so I can make the correction.

Sometimes I hesitate to point out an error in spelling to someone, as they take it that I am picking on them.

We do need to be more careful and be sure that our copy says what we mean it to say.

KathyClark

I missed it! And I consider myself a good speller! DUH!!! Must have been on the computer way too much this weekend.

Lorraine

This is nothing to reflect on you Valerie, but I get so tired of seeing all those misspelled and misused words that are so prevalent on the Internet, that I guess I overlook many others. Things like the use of "then" instead of "than"; "it's" instead of "its"; and so many more. The Internet is populated by people who are so intent on trying to make money that they ignore basic grammar. It disturbs me to find a beautifully designed website full of grammatical errors, which happens more often t

TYPO ? I thought that was a blood type!

speaking of typos there is another one in your first word : Ok I personally believe it was OK.

jairo

I Feel like Jay. We read so much, our brains are ahead of our ryes?

If I stare at copy long enough, it all looks right to me.

That's why it's a good idea to have a fresh set of eyes look at it first.

Mark

It was writhing, instead of writing.
It's funny how one little letter can change the entire
meaning of a sentence. LOL
I've made a lot bigger mistakes than that.
What's really bad is when you're speaking
to someone and tongue twisted
and wind up saying a wirty dird.
That's one reason I don't do live interviews.

Becky

Been reading so much lately, I probably couldn't see a mizspelt word even if it hit me in the face!

*wink*

typo?

i definitely didn't see any typos!

(smile)

beth

Since I cant spell thought you had spelled it right

Pete

This is a very good lesson in writing...

People love the admission of guilt. It is a great attention getter don’t you think.

The misspelled word was Writing : )

I didn't see the typo.
What was it out of curiosity?

Chris

okay, where was the typo...I didn't see it....
LOL

I guess I knew what it was supposed to be, and read it that way instead of seeing what was.

Jay