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ownedgirlie -> RE: Watching what you say (6/12/2006 12:07:23 AM)
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ORIGINAL: mnottertail
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A hagio what??????
graphy.... more or less it means writing.
Huh, I thought most people would be stuck on the hagio part.
Well, guess ya learn something new every day.
Ron (a sweltering smartass)
LMAO Ron, you kill me.
I looked it up. If I am unsure how to spell something, or if someone posts a word (like hagiography) that I do not know, I look it up. I proof my posts before sending them. I am human, and occasionally I might miss a word.
As for the rest of the thread...
I do not comment on the spelling or poor grammar of others, however. It's just not my thing. I will notice it, but the moment I criticize someone for something like that, I will sure enough be humbled by accidentally including a typo in my post. I guess it's a Murphy's Law thing.
I also know English is not everyone's primary language on an international message board. As the daughter of a foreign mother, and a dyslexic one at that (we both are, actually), I understand not all folks who speak English as a secondary (or third, or...) language have mastered all of the spelling and grammar rules and exceptions of this language. In Spain, for example, the noun comes before the adjective. I grew up hearing things like, "Hand me a towel paper." (Ha, maybe that's where my dyslexia came from!).
Having said all that, a few years ago I was speaking with a Dominant online who lives near me. His writing was so difficult to read it was almost unbearable. It became such a distraction that I could not continue our correspondence. English was his first language. He could speak; he just never learned to write very well.
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