Point well-taken, and I apologize for not paying better attention to the OP’s purpose–actually, an interesting proposition: will internet misspellings change “correct” spelling?
It was the subsequent postings that prompted my comments:
Okay, I admit this is the only forum I use, so maybe I’m missing something. But even still, I’m not so sure it would really annoy me that much, unless it interfered with communication.
It’s also an alternate spelling on many municipal street signs (“Not a Thru Street”=“Dead End”) I hope it wouldn’t upset you so much that you’d continue down the street despite the warning and plow through the house at the end because a city sign painter decided to use a poetic contraction. Granted, it doesn’t save much space, but you have to think of the home owner whose house ends the street.
Unless, of course this was just facetious.
”Batty?” I’m hoping this is an exaggeration. The product is probably from China, and whoever wrote it probably just misheard a BBC radio broadcast. If every bad use of English in a Chinese product manual drives you “batty,” than you are either not much of a consumer or it’s nice that they give you internet access at the asylum.
jjim, take a Valium and just be glad that you know they’re wrong. . If you smash the glass enclosure of the Constitution (for instance), you’ll spend some time in the brink, and pay a heavy fine.
Do you really see this a lot on the net? I guess I don’t get around much in cyberspace.
Do you slam your keyboard when you read this?
First time I’ve ever seen this. I’d just chalk it up to sloppy or rushed typing, or perhaps a young person who’s not very well-read—I certainly wouldn’t start eating nuts.
These comments are all in just [sic], but I didn’t bother to put in the :)s–sometimes they annoy me more than any misspelling.
And then there was my customer who told me she had just seen “Even the Almighty” and how funny it was. Holy shit! She saw the movie and had no idea what it was called! It’s named after the main character! Holy shit!
