Spelling

[legalmoose]

Okay, I admit it, I'm (mostly) a grammar and spelling fascist.

< rant >
So it irritates the hell out of me when I get memos, especially from attorneys, with spelling errors on them.

I mean, c'mon, word processing programs even have these little red squigglies that appear under misspelled words now, so you get a really big visual clue-in that something's not right. Ugh!
< / rant >

Comments

dictionary fascism ...

[virtualexile.livejournal.com]

Could you tell which word they meant?

Sometimes I pine for the days before the dictionary placed a straightjacket on written expression ...

Re: dictionary fascism ...

[legalmoose]

Yes, but it was sloppy, and unprofessional (I have since learned it was a draft that was not supposed to have been forwarded by the secretary...).

Re: dictionary fascism ...

[virtualexile.livejournal.com]

Once, when I was still relatively new at my job, I forwarded a memo to several people with one typo in it ... I was mortified! Nobody ever mentioned it, though.

Re: dictionary fascism ...

[legalmoose]

The attorney in this case was not terribly amused, but she sent a nice apology.

[madgenyc.livejournal.com]

Ewe like rilly need too relax, ok? spelling aint all it's craked up to be, mr atorknee man. So enuf alredy and keep yer red pen to yourselve.

[legalmoose]

*chuckle*