I generally don’t nitpick unless the error lends itself to humorous misinterpretation. While I don’t like to use the word ‘appalling’ when describing bad grammar(other than in jest) I have to disagree.
Poorly written prose reads like a linguistic maze. Eventually you figure out the writer’s intentional meaning, but every inintentional one is like a wrong turn. You mentally have to back up and redirect your stream of thought in the intended direction.
It’s annoying, that’s what it is!
~~Baloo
[sup]And the word you should have used in the above example is means, not mean.[/sup]
Ha! That’s so true, dropzone. I’m horrified by the errors I see perpetrated by my co-workers. Fortunately, I had the grammar-Nazi of all time for 9th and 11th grade English, and learned touch-typing in 10th grade.
Only if I can point out “except” and “accept”. But lose/loose is probably the second most annoying boo boo i run across. The most annoying has to be the use of “irregardless”.
Oh, and it’s not “Canadian Goose”, they’re called “Canada Geese”.
Well, think about it this way. What if you consistantly addressed your friend Tony as Tory all the time? Or if we typed Annie instead of Anniz when addressing your posts, how would you feel?