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One that bothers me ...
...unreasonably perhaps is "phase" for "faze" as in "that didn't phase me". Phase is a noun meaning a segment of a process. Faze is a verb meaning to affect negatively. They are pronounced the same but it baffles me why anyone would incorrectly choose the longer more difficult spelling. Phase as a verb is a Star Trek word.
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Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
I think a lot of the
I think a lot of the mis-spellings are due to the use of spell-checkers, on-line dictionaries and auto-correcting word processors.
If you're not sure how to spell a word, and the computer attempts to help you, the chances are quite high that it'll offer you the wrong one.
That's why editors and proof-readers are vital to good storytelling.
Auto-correction
is the work of Satan! It's pure evil! It attempts to sabotage perfectly good homonyms into something totally ill-fitting to the situation, thus mangling someone's work. Plus, it's pure laziness to not know how to spell a smattering of basic vocabulary without relying on some mindless computer program which was created and is maintained by a bunch of illiterate half-wits that make it impossible for you to craft your thoughts into words without interfering! Good editors are worth their weight in gold. (Or for those hard-core Star Trek DS9 fans, pure latinum!)
(And yes, I'm a bit opinionated on the subject!)
Imagination is more important than knowledge
A. Einstein
Thanks to a grammar nazi teacher
I'm very put upon by misuse of homonyms, such as their, they're, and there, too and to, ensure vs. insure, affect vs. effect, etc, ad nauseum.
Dangling participles can be annoying, and are one of the many grammatical errors, up with which I do not like to put.
Worst, though, are mutilated metaphors (malapropisms) and garbled cliches. A very close person in my life is a champion malaprope - saying things like "don't count your eggs before the chickens gather moss." Sometimes a cliche can be so mangled as to be quite humorous, but most of the time, it makes my head hurt by its simple presence. And yet, I occasionally stumble into use of a cliche!
If I buy a piece of literature and I find such errors, I get highly annoyed.
And I was so indoctrinated during my impressionable teenage years that, during boring PowerPoint presentations, I frequently grade them!
Okay, so I'm weird. We all knew that. Nothing new to see here, citizens. Move along please.
Imagination is more important than knowledge
A. Einstein
And then there are the folks
And then there are the folks who've never *seen* common idioms in print. Just heard them. So they come up with odd ideas as to how they are worded.
I recall back 30 years ago having to explain to someone that the phrase was "next door" not "next store".
And then there's "toe the line" (correct, derived from the way they use to line troops up for inspection) as opposed to the too often seen "tow the line".
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"Lola", the Kinks
Duo the unfortunate
Duo the unfortunate circumstance of having dyslexia growing up, and having a school system that thought the best way to deal with this was to take me out of the learning environment whenever the subject of English was discussed so as to not have me distract the teacher from the important students, (Thanks public school logic!) I have the ability now to overlook almost any misspelling, homonym, or grammatical error and read what the author probably intended to write without even noticing it.
Sure, it would be nice to be able to spot mistakes in my own writing, but I have the feeling that I'm probably happier in my ignorance than those who always notice such mistakes are in their knowledge. :P