[Marileangorifurnimaluim]

The agony of poor spelling. I titled this thread so for a reason. It is wincingly painful to read poorly spelled, sloppy work. Why would anyone embarrass themselves so?

The foreign speakers are generally quite obvious. Not from the bottom of their post, but their stiffer sentence construction, odd though not incorrect word choices, and especially lack of vernacular. Most foreign posters carefully craft their posts, and the effort is unmistakable.

It's carelessness that bothers me.

Here's a case in point. I couldn't for the life of me remember how to spell 'vernacular.' The 'vern' looked wrong. I copied the word, plunked it into a blank email, then ran spellcheck. I do this all the time. If I didn't delete the 'edits' at the bottom of the screen (et tu, Birdie?) they would really stack up.

My point isn't to embarrass anyone into behaving better. My purpose here is to whine.

-Maril

[ October 17, 2002: Message edited by: Marileangorifurnimaluim ]