Are Typo-Tyrants Out of Touch?

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trendiness is no excuse for laziness

Besides being an awfully revealing comment, the following quote is not true for most college educated adults who are interested in reading..well anything: "It's nearly impossible for us to catch the errors that Spellchecker misses." Punctuation, grammar and typos have a direct effect on our ability to understand written language the first time through. I don't know about you, but I was slowed down by the typos and syntax errors in the above article. If we want to be taken seriously and expect busy, intelligent people to give up valuable time to read our thoughts, we should respect communication that is both terse and easily digested on first read? Why not adopt a 250-word lexicon or speak in the dialog of the movie Idiocracy?

JD of PA @ Apr 09, 2008 10:59:40 AM

Tpyos

First and lsat letters? So that's my prolbem!

Sam C of CA @ Apr 08, 2008 00:48:59 AM

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