Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It only bothers me if the person is trying to prove a point or trying to convice us of something.

You sound annoying and in a field that values grammar over end products and results

Anyone else get a chuckle out of this response? Basic grammar really is a lost art.

Definitely. Although some of the iphone auto correct spellings, which seem to be on the rise, are rather comical.

If a whole post is filled with errors, it might lose credibility. The random error or WOHM's errors really don't bother me at all. It is a message board, people are tired and off the clock.

I made a grammar mistake once too. It definitely hurt my credibility since people debated my stupidity instead of the question I was asking. In reality, I'm not stupid. I was just tired and careless.

Typo, no. (Such as "do" in place of "so", "teh", that sort of thing. It happens to all of us.) Grammatical error, ("recommend you're toy kitchen!", the aforementioned SAHM's) yes, absolutely.

It only bothers me if the person is trying to prove a point or trying to convice us of something.

Your sooooooooo write.

I recently made a mistake in a post title. I usually proofread my posts pretty carefully but I realized after I did it that I don't usually look back at the box with the title because it is separated from the main body of the post. I was teased mercilessly about it by other posters. I thought it would have bothered me, but it was actually pretty easy to laugh off because I know myself and my writing skills. I am now much more forgiving of other people's mistakes. We all have careless moments. A post on DCUM isn't your CV or a cover letter for a job. I try to look beyond the mistakes to see what the person was trying to say.

It's credibility is not at all reduced.

You might mean "you're post"? Or "ur post"!

YES!! Punctuation errors also bother me especially the one about SAHM's (sic) and higher education.

I think your post is pretentious.

I can't take time to ponder this. I'm trying to loose weight.

Know

Yay or nay?

It does for me, instantaneously. There it is, and no, I can't help it.