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I had to laugh when I read this article from The Telegraph entitled Texting is fostering bad grammar and spelling, researchers claim. Apparently the notion does not apply to teenagers exclusively, although I do not know the age of the writer of this piece. But I count at least three glaring spelling/grammar mistakes in the article, which is kind of ironic considering the subject.
“Includes” is spelled wrong in the second paragraph. And the sentence just sort of ends. Not even a period. Sigh. Wonderful editing there, no?
Finally in the seventh sentence (I’m no longer calling them paragraphs because that just gives them more importance than they deserve) the use of the singular “text” is annoying; it’s either “texts” or “text messages”.
And there are probably more that I’m just not seeing. What has happened to spell check as a final step before publishing?
P.S. If you find any grammar or spelling mistakes in this post or indeed any of my posts please let me know. There are still people like me who care about things like that. 🙂
It’s shocking to me to see the number of egregious errors made by professional writers online. I see it every day on Yahoo. It’s also shocking that many errors could be corrected before an article is published if the writer were required to use a spell checker. But it seems that quality writing isn’t respected any more or that writers and editors know that anything can be corrected after it’s published digitally.
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So true Laura. And so often something that could be corrected simply isn’t, after publication. It shows such a lack of professionalism, in my opinion. Bring back the copy editors!!
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Haha I totally agree with this. Bad grammar (and spelling) is annoying!
I wonder how true the article is though, because with smart phones it’s much easier to type out a word in full. I haven’t used text speak for years as there’s no need on an iPhone!
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Good point!
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