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I wasn't attacking Rivergurl & am sorry if I came across that way!!
She is a wonderful Lady & has always been respectful in the forums.
Almost EVERY Frickin time I go back & read my posts they've came out sounding differnt than what I was thinking..

My point was peoples feelers would take it wrong & nobody wants that...

Hey, Karen, stop and take a deep breath! LOL Good post, Karen, and I might be guilty of that one, too!

Sorry FineP that was ment for Cater

It's the damn i before e thing......wish they'd make up their(i get that right this time?) minds......

maybe it's generational, but i don't get the "what R U doing" thing, either.

GAWD!!!!! Is this still going? Sighhhhhhs, backs out to find something a bit fresher.

my spelling is usually pretty good but i am guilty of using alot.

all I have to say, os that I have nto read all the way through so if someone else already said this I am sorry.
But, to the topic of the thread, I know I for one am soemone who takes greatprode in their englsh and using the correct words. BUT, I also type os fast that I tend to typo without een trying to, and Ihave gottent ot he point thatr I dontalways check everything first.
But I completely understand how omeoine can get discouraged from using the wront word (there versus their) as I read a passage by how it is writen as well.
However, I DO take into account that tohers dont always stop andmake sure they use the right word (again there versus their) and I try to keep that in mind.
But fot hose that are worried about it, people like me who read it the way something is written, there is a destination and their is a group of people. Needless to say these two wrods if mixed up can make things extremely confusing.
Another common english rule that a LOT of poeple dont know is the use of te word you. you is both singular and plural. I use the word you in both contexts and there have been several times that it has meen misconstrued as a personal attack when it wasnt.
Hope this helps.....

Karen, I agrree, people. who, use too, much or, too little, punctuation? are really, really! really, annoying, and should: be, sent to, Baffin, Island,,

Its vari loanly their...

I didn't misspeak in my original post.

good ansur.

Aren't there more important things to worry about than bad spelling and punctuation?

... and for all those pedants out there ... SPELL CHECK THIS, SUCKER ..

Eye halve a spelling checker
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marcs four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.

Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.
Eye have run this poem threw it
Eye am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My checker tolled me sew.

Thanks Belushi...now I can't get that song outta my head!

It's like the story of Ladle Rat Rotten Hut...going to visit her Grand Mudder!

Thanx D, that story broke my spell checker!!!!!!!!!

Right or wrong, I'm anal about the spelling/grammer thing, too. However, I am MUCH harder on myself than others here. I find it impossible not to correct a mistake of mine if I see it after the post. I have been dubbed the grammer monitor on other sites which is a little irritating, but hey......I'm my worst critic!

Not Too Shy, it's spelled grammar. Don't let the temperature get too high. Bye LOL

OK, so I'm wrong....I'm NOT my worst critic......

So sorry.............


grammar

Not So Shy, I'm a former school teacher. You know we can't help ourselves. LOL

and it's Not 2 Shy, not Not SO Shy...... demerits for the obvious, teach!

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