I don't show it when I write as most of my choices for spelling are
for personal expression & done on purpose (ie: "cuz"), I am a former
proofreader & errors just leap out at me. I'm like your daughter,
Trisha, in that I'd love that kind of work too! I did do some
proofreading for a small entertainment newspaper locally. The problem
was w/cp & deadlines...not good for one another!
Kindly & sometimes Kidn'ly,
LoriBoB
On Jun 14, 1:19 am, trisha
gmail.com> wrote:> On Jun 11, 1:27 pm, "Navy"
sc.rr.com> wrote:
>>> Of course, with
>> texting now, I guess knowing how to spell is obsolete.
>
> That's okay. It's been joined with the pitiful excuses today for
> grammatical correctness as well as glaring errors even on educational
> TV in verb tenses, forms of nouns when it comes to picking verb
> tenses, and punctuation - not to mention that half the country doesn't
> know any more which noun, form, and spelling is proper in written
> communication. You see it on signs, in the newspapers, on TV, and
> everywhere else. When the Discovery Channel and its affiliates
> stopped recognizing that the word "team" is singular and not plural, I
> gave up hope.
>
> The whole thing is going to Hades in a handbasket and nobody seems to
> care.
>
> Trisha in MO, a sometimes disgusted ex-English major
