Poor spelling…
I’m posting this in response to a question posted on another blog. Yes, I consider myself a good speller. I don’t know why, I just lucked out and it seems to come to me.
It’s a particular pet peeve of mine seeing bad spelling (and grammar) in professional situations. I work in a Fortune 500 company and I see more emails, and nefarious internal communications coming out that have what I deem as inexcusable errors in spelling and grammar. I can’t seem to grasp how this is possible as corporate America seems to be under the impression that an MS Word document is the ideal unit of information (yet another pet peeve), and this program has an “adequate” spelling and grammar checker built into it. How hard is it to use? Especially when you’re typing and the words it thinks are spelled incorrectly are already underlined in red for you? Come on!
I tease Jess a lot as it doesn’t come so easy to her, but I’m trying to help her as much as possible. She has issues with certain letter combinations producing the same sound… using ’sleap’ instead of ’sleep’, or ’sweat’ instead of ’sweet’. It sometimes makes for some funny sentences.
One particular favorite instance of mine that truly exemplifies the meaning of ‘One who never wins’ is the foolish attempt to refer to someone as a ‘LOOSER’ instead of the appropriate spelling ‘LOSER’. This one gets me everytime and usually results in a sudden outburst of laughter and amusement. After seeing this situation time and again without fail, it is not hard to imagine the “it takes one to know one” belief can be so wrong after all!
Comment by Marshall Hinojosa — 8/31/2005 @ 9:53 am
How about we not poke fun at Jess! She knows the difference between ’sweet’ and ’sweat’. Yes, ’sleep’ and ’sleap’ I always mix up… and ’speak’ and speek’. I am not sure why. But I ALWAYS use spell check and carefully read my documents before sending them (especially if it is for work). Now I am worried I spelled something wrong in this comment. You have given me a complex!
Comment by Jess — 9/4/2005 @ 7:34 pm