Grammer and spelling in professional doc

[Sarah Atkinson]

I just need to vent some frustration. Those here who read my post know that in the informality of these boards my spelling and grammer often resided in the horific nightmares of english teachers everywhere. But I am actualy fairly meticulous when it comes to proffesional pieces. I have been working a lot latly with printed work that is handed out by the state to thousands of people. It is terrible. Most of it lacks subject verb agrement and has multiple posessive pronoun problems. the sentences are incoherent. It's and Its are used interchanably. AND EVERYTHING IS IN ALL CAPS. To top it off, as I am re working these doc for reprinting/publishing. I am discuraged from making changes due to the fact I do not have athority to make changes to state documents. It's just very frustrating. (Although I've been making a few changes anyway)

Sarah

[digitalghost]

Wow. I'm not trying to be mean, but given the errors in your initial post, I wouldn't feel comfortable knowing you were editing state documents. ;) Unless you purposely mangled the above text you need to slow down on the keyboard.

There aren't any grammar cops here, or spelling police, but, misspelling the word grammar in a post complaining about spelling and grammar probably isn't the best way to get your message across.

I agree that the informal nature here doesn't require perfect noun/verb agreement, or perfect grammar, or for that matter, perfect spelling. But, as a writer, I try to make sure my spelling is good. Typos and misspellings tend to haunt me when I don't catch them before the edit window vanishes.

[lawman]

You must have a grammar/spell-checker for your professional pieces. :)

[jecasc]

I know what you mean. I have received several emails of Nigerian government officials matching your description.

It is very annoying when people who want to get into serious business negotiations don't know how to use the English Grammar and spelling. Especially when high amounts of money are at stake.

Recently I received an email from my bank written in very poor english. If this were my bank I would have fired the guy who wrote them.

However I will soon change my bank anyway. I have reason to believe that they have some flaws in their security system because several unaccounted money transfers were made from my account.

However that does not bother me much since after I have completed the deal with the Nigerians I will have more money that I need.

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There aren't any grammar cops here, or spelling police, but, misspelling the word grammar in a post complaining about spelling and grammar probably isn't the best way to get your message across.

What DG said. :)

[vincevincevince]

jecasc, that's really amusing :)