Now I need to depart,
Jan

I’ve noticed that in some newsletters I get. It always made me laugh - until I realized sometimes I’ve mistakenly inserted an extra letter in a word because my keyboard gets stuck sometimes when I’m punching away at it (suppose I should be a bit more gentle…)

That will teach me for relying on spell checker though. I actually try and write in US english, and use a US spellchecker for my articles, though I am Australian. So, I can only wonder at the mix of (correct) spelling and incorrect grammer that produces :-)

Ah well, one of the hazhards of the global internet.

Rebecca

Jan

People write “loose” or “looser” when they mean “lose” or “loser”.

(I’ll refrain from the obvious repartee we could have with this particular set of words!)

When did it become so difficult to tell the difference between “loose” and “lose”? They’re not even pronounced the same!

Don’t get me started on these kinds of problems. It doesn’t take much for me to loose my cool!

Kevin

Quotations/Punctuation are similar to commas. They are not necessarily always used for the same purposes, and grammar rules don’t always apply.

For instance: You can use either a comma or a colon after the “For instance” at the beginning of this sentence. Either is appropriate.

Grammar often becomes a complaint or pet peeve, when it doesn’t agree with a local dialect. The other difference I see frequently, is meaning of words. Whenever I see words used differently than I prefer to use them, I read the surrounding sentences to see if there’s a variation in meaning that I missed. Usually, there’s a difference.

Hey Lance, I like Industry Slang; it gives me something to stumble over besides my bi-focals.

Jan

“Dear Reader, I could care less about you, I just want to sucker people like you into my website to make money. I win, you lose sucker”

I wish people would stop abusing things. I am glad that most authors here are much better than that.

My pet peeve is keyword overstuffing. Writing for search engines won’t help you much if you annoy your human readers into clicking the back button within the first paragraph–search engines don’t have credit cards.

Why this word gives such a huge amount of people so much trouble is beyond me. I guess it’s just one of those words.

Spellings are varied: definately, defanitly, definitly, definatly… and any other ‘guesses’ because they can’t figure it out.

Solutions to spelling and grammar errors are to just take the time and check. Review your work before posting - not once but 3 times if necessary. I probably review mine 5 times, every time I re-read and make a change.

Turn on the spell check and grammar check feature in Word. When you find an error, log it as an ‘auto correct’ so next time it just fixes it automatically. Look up any word that gives you trouble - that you’re in any way unsure about.

I can’t believe I read here that someone is in too big a hurry to post their articles to bother reviewing them. Makes one wonder.

Sylvia

Example, LOL can mean:

Lots of Love,
Lots Of Luck,
Laughing Out Loud,
Lots Of Laughs,
Lots of Laughter,
Lack Of Life, etc…
http://emoticonuniverse.com/slang/

“LOL”