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Have been having trouble with my autocorrect and go back to correct and as soon as I send it has auto corrected again. Then I have to edit the post. Many times the correction isn't even close. Yesterday it favored the word watercress!!! Have no clue how to fix this.
Have been having trouble with my autocorrect and go back to correct and as soon as I send it has auto corrected again. Then I have to edit the post. Many times the correction isn't even close. Yesterday it favored the word watercress!!! Have no clue how to fix this.
Yep auto correct on the iPhone is my biggest reason for editing my posts LOL
Good communication includes care for proper spelling and grammar as well as what one says with them. We should always care, in a public forum, to write well. It is respectful to oneself and to one's audience as well as to the topic in discussion. One should also respect that the nature of online communication is naturally more error-prone than formal writing due to its speed of delivery. However, one does have time to edit one's posts in these forums, so it makes sense to check your post for errors and fix them if found.
Good communication includes care for proper spelling and grammar as well as what one says with them. We should always care, in a public forum, to write well. It is respectful to oneself and to one's audience as well as to the topic in discussion. One should also respect that the nature of online communication is naturally more error-prone than formal writing due to its speed of delivery. However, one does have time to edit one's posts in these forums, so it makes sense to check your post for errors and fix them if found.
Different people have different skills. Some people write well but are terrible at, say, math or science. My dad was awful with things like spelling & grammar but was very smart in other ways. I might have a slightly better grasp of grammar, spelling, and punctuation than some of my co-workers. But they have other skills I only wish I had.
Different people have different skills. Some people write well but are terrible at, say, math or science. My dad was awful with things like spelling & grammar but was very smart in other ways. I might have a slightly better grasp of grammar, spelling, and punctuation than some of my co-workers. But they have other skills I only wish I had.
This, pretty much.
If someone is posting on the Writing Forum, I expect a higher degree of literacy than I might from most any other.
For the most part however, on any forum, I try to focus on the core message and not necessarily how correctly it was presented.
I know my verbal/literary skills are above average but I'm not allowed near power tools.
I'm wondering when it became the norm to leave out the comma before "and" in a list...is this a new rule or just something people are doing now because they don't know any better? I've been noticing this a lot lately in professional writing, i.e., novels, magazine articles, etc. Every now and then I see it left out and it affects the meaning of the sentence, but I can't think of an example off the top of my head.
When I was in school (granted, a long time ago) we learned to write it this way: "...special guests, dancing, and games."
Any professional writers around that can answer my question?
If I understand it correctly either usage is correct. In other words, it is up to the writer. I was taught to use that last comma too. Somewhere in the back of my mind, I have it that the no comma usage is an import from Britain. But someone else may have better information about that. But I see no last comma usage all the time in well written stuff, so I assume it is now standard.
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