Quote about poor spelling-- True or False

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wineturtle wrote:

No matter how bad the spelling or how egregious the grammar errors, none of that is representative of how smart you are; nor does it diminish the importance of the information you want to share with your audience.

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I can't actually add or subtract, but I'm really good at math, honestly. You'll just have to take my word for it.

wineturtle wrote:

No matter how bad the spelling or how egregious the grammar errors, none of that is representative of how smart you are; nor does it diminish the importance of the information you want to share with your audience.

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F- Poor grammar is a product of a lack of knowledge or laziness, neither exactly a positive reflection on the author. Bad spelling, especially today, is simply a product of laziness. While I suppose it doesn't diminish the importance of the information, it does undermine the credibility of the author.

Packs are for gum.... wrote:

Falce

lol

I was on another message board where we agreed that criticism of a post's spelling/punctuation/syntax/word choice meant that the one who was doing the criticizing accepted the *substance* of the post. I would suggest we make the same agreement here.

The one exception: when a poster is touting his/her own intelligence or education, or denigrating that of another, and commits such a solecism. Then nit picking is allowed.

Required, even.

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False. Not being concerned if a word is correctly spelled (or used) is usually a sign of laziness. Pretty common today, not only in in day to day communication, but in newspapers, magazines, and journals.

There is a large vinyl banner sign at a sports bar on 31st Street in Astoria (under the train station) that says "...showing Hockey, ..., Baseball, and Football as well as UFC and Paperview."

Several furniture stores in the same area have signs that say "kitchen and dinning room furniture".

Not as egregious, but a bit unfortunate (at the garage on 31st and Astoria Blvd.), is the sign that says "Tune Ups, Oil Change, Rear End Repair".

Yes, I have pics.

bowbridge wrote:

False. Not being concerned if a word is correctly spelled (or used) is usually a sign of laziness. Pretty common today, not only in in day to day communication, but in newspapers, magazines, and journals.

We are not talking about laziness. We are talking about smart.

It depends on the content of the message. If the content was about the rules of the English language or about how smart the author is, they would lose credibility with grammar errors. If a sub 2:10 kenyan marathoner came on this board and gave argument about running technique that differs from conventional american wisdom, I wouldn't give less credence to his argument because it was full of grammatical errors.

False. If you were smart you wouldn't make those types of errors.

Pick the incorrect word from the blog of Nicole Sifuentes and ask yourself if you want her making similar engineering errors.

This is why she should keep running.

Kidding Nic wrote:

False. If you were smart you wouldn't make those types of errors.

Pick the incorrect word from the blog of Nicole Sifuentes and ask yourself if you want her making similar engineering errors.

This is why she should keep running.

False. Making errors has to do with making mistakes. Every smart person makes mistakes. Thus making errors does not mean you are not smart, nor does the opposite.

bowbridge wrote:

There is a large vinyl banner sign at a sports bar on 31st Street in Astoria (under the train station) that says "...showing Hockey, ..., Baseball, and Football as well as UFC and Paperview."

That is my neighborhood ! Daly's on 31St?

Are you talking about "risk-adverse" when she should have written "risk-averse"? By the way, for a minute I thought you were talking about "mold" vs "mould" in the same paragraph. I Googled that word and found that American English has no "mould" and British English has no "mold" but what about Canadian English?

What do I win?

First part: false. An intelligent person would learn the conventions of the language he was writing.

Second part: true. Even an idiot could have something insightful to say.

True for both parts.

It's "The Sweet Spot" next to the post office. You can see the sign from the post office side of the subway platform.

"Smart" is too generic of a term. A person can be "smart" at math and even logic, but poor at spelling and grammar.

Poor spelling is definitely a sign of limited reading and writing and a lack of self discipline to learn how to correct oneself.

Poor spelling is a sign that most of your learning came by listening, not reading and writing, which indicates your learning is based mostly on secondary sources, and possibly very weak ones such as TV and movies.

Kidding Nic wrote:

False. If you were smart you wouldn't make those types of errors.

Pick the incorrect word from the blog of Nicole Sifuentes and ask yourself if you want her making similar engineering errors.

This is why she should keep running.

What line of work are you in?