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That wasn't his profession, but he's a stickler for grammar and punctuation

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We're a bit like that in my family - makes all the difference, I think. Glad there are still some of us left.

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I don't read newspapers but, I'm finding lots of spelling mistakes, "he" instead of "she", wrong character names, bad punctuation etc. in the novels I get from the library these days.

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Capital letters have almost vanished, I gather it's optional if you want to use them today, I'm slowly slipping into dropping them, don't know if that's just my laziness or this forum corrupting me.

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What's wrong with I'd written it down? I had written - I wrote. Both correct surely?

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It does not bother me at all, never read anything that i could not understand, perhaps ignorance is bliss not knowing how to spell every word, or where to put punctuation.

However it does seem to give a few a chance to have a growl, probably helps relieve their Hypertension.

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So mixing up gentile with genteel is fine ? to me they mean such different things they make a nonsense of the article. People I believe are paid to write the articles least they can do is use a word at least close to the meaning.

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I was in "The Range" coffee shop yesterday and stopped to read their recruiting advert. They need kitchen staff to start 'immidiately' !

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It bugs me too, as it just seems to reflect generalised lowering of standards. And I also hate seeing things like 'tonite' instead of 'tonight', something which seems increasingly common.

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I had to laugh today, I opened the door to a courier with a parcel to be signed for. "It smells nice in here" he says. "I can't think what it is" I replied. "I know - it's incest!" he said. Ooh er, best get my bro out of the cupboard and back into his clothes then ... sorry, off topic but it did make me chuckle.