Do you appreciate people correcting typos in your listing?

[noikmeister]

It is an interesting debate this has opened up. I don't think it is being judgemental to want to correct spelling or grammar, there is nothing wrong with keeping up standards of written language and how else are we to learn? And let's be clear that I am talking about a listing and not a log or forum post. This is a document you are writing that is going to be listed for years (hopefully) and read by hundreds (again hopefully). Logs and forum posts will usually get read once by most people and be seen as an ongoing dialogue rather than a document.

A guy at work commented on the fact that listening to the Sherlock Holmes audio books was depressing. When I asked why he said it was because today the English language was do degraded and that the language from the time of Arthur Conan Doyle was still beautiful....

[caughtatwork]

It is an interesting debate this has opened up. I don't think it is being judgemental to want to correct spelling or grammar, there is nothing wrong with keeping up standards of written language and how else are we to learn? And let's be clear that I am talking about a listing and not a log or forum post. This is a document you are writing that is going to be listed for years (hopefully) and read by hundreds (again hopefully). Logs and forum posts will usually get read once by most people and be seen as an ongoing dialogue rather than a document.

A guy at work commented on the fact that listening to the Sherlock Holmes audio books was depressing. When I asked why he said it was because today the English language was do degraded and that the language from the time of Arthur Conan Doyle was still beautiful....

Doh!

[winterdragon]

Aaargh, Pesky-speak offend delicate sensibilities and make brain hurt!!

My pet grammatical peeve is misuse of affect/effect...

[Yurt]

Ah I know this will become a spelling/grammar Nazi thread!
(I love when someone jumps in and then can't even spell grammer right. I mean gramma. Or is it grammarr?)

The odd stuff-up doesn't bother me in a listing. When the cacher doesn't bother with capital letters to start sentences or for proper nouns then I think that smacks of pure laziness. How hard is it to hold down a SHIFT key? There are some (regular) posters here who seem to type as though their cat ran across the keyboard too. The posts are so hard to comprehend that I don't bother reading them.

A few other examples of the "less then" type (should probably be 'fewer' anyway! )
This is the worse I've seen.
Is a good idea. (rather than it's)
Oh dear I've forgotten the other one.

[noikmeister]

It is an interesting debate this has opened up. I don't think it is being judgemental to want to correct spelling or grammar, there is nothing wrong with keeping up standards of written language and how else are we to learn? And let's be clear that I am talking about a listing and not a log or forum post. This is a document you are writing that is going to be listed for years (hopefully) and read by hundreds (again hopefully). Logs and forum posts will usually get read once by most people and be seen as an ongoing dialogue rather than a document.

A guy at work commented on the fact that listening to the Sherlock Holmes audio books was depressing. When I asked why he said it was because today the English language was do degraded and that the language from the time of Arthur Conan Doyle was still beautiful....

Doh!

My point exactly!

[SecretSquirrel-BJC]

Matt:

after a full days caching

Feedback: Don't you need an apostrophe in there?

just being a friendly smartass

[caughtatwork]

Matt:

after a full days caching

Feedback: Don't you need an apostrophe in there?

just being a friendly smartass

The word there never, ever needs an apostrophe, unless you mean they're.

[noikmeister]

Matt:

after a full days caching

Feedback: Don't you need an apostrophe in there?

just being a friendly smartass

The word there never, ever needs an apostrophe, unless you mean they're.

A full day's caching. The caching that belongs to the full day.

[SecretSquirrel-BJC]

Yes but as C@W pointed out, that wasn't what I asked!!

[homedg]

Shouldn't it read, a full day of caching?

[noikmeister]

Shouldn't it read, a full day of caching?

Both are correct.

[homedg]

Shouldn't it read, a full day of caching?

Both are correct.

Really?

[blossom*]

Shouldn't it read, a full day of caching?

Both are correct.

I don't think it matters as long as you get to cache for the whole day