Hee! Glad you like them. Trust me, you haven't see shaky grammar, until you've read that "the Elizabeth Settlemant began, when queen Elizabeth took the thrown"!
Well, I know QEI was rather well renowned for throwing things, so I guess she did take the thrown. She also had a fair amount thrown at her (I tell Iagoe that the last "big" conspiracy against her, her servants were amazed at how she went about her business as though nothing was wrong - I figure by then, she'd had people try to kill her for so many years, that she was thinking something along the lines of "yeah, yeah, you're gonna kill me, oooh, so scary, take a number buddy").
I have a friend who is highly intelligent, but writes very similarly. In her case, it's dyslexia. She manages fairly well as long as she doesn't have to write much more than computer code.
I know what you mean about someone who's intelligent but dyslexic -- those are the people whom one can forgive these kinds of mistakes. It's the ones who hand in a lazy, sloppy and poorly-organized paper that are chock full of these mistakes, when they have no real problem with which to contend? Those are the ones who make me growl!
sloppy and poorly-organized paper that are chock full of these mistakes, when they have no real problem with which to contend
guilty as charged as LJ goes. I correct mistakes I see as I go, but tend not to go back and fix my it's/its or teh/the or the/them mistakes unless the problem makes the meaning difficult to understand.
But my professional documents? Nope. It all gets fixed. And really, if one is a student, papers are professional documents. While I may be lazy on LJ when my fingers get ahead of my brain, I am not so in my professional documents (especially as the EPA keeps stealing our documents and posting them on their website with my name splashed all over them - along with the words PROPRIETARY - growl). If my name is going to be all over documents the EPA posts publicly, the least I can do is show some decent grammar (although - if one was to read the documents, they would find many an easter egg in them! A girl's gotta entertain herself somehow.)
They're great though.
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I have a friend who is highly intelligent, but writes very similarly. In her case, it's dyslexia. She manages fairly well as long as she doesn't have to write much more than computer code.
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I know what you mean about someone who's intelligent but dyslexic -- those are the people whom one can forgive these kinds of mistakes. It's the ones who hand in a lazy, sloppy and poorly-organized paper that are chock full of these mistakes, when they have no real problem with which to contend? Those are the ones who make me growl!
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guilty as charged as LJ goes. I correct mistakes I see as I go, but tend not to go back and fix my it's/its or teh/the or the/them mistakes unless the problem makes the meaning difficult to understand.
But my professional documents? Nope. It all gets fixed. And really, if one is a student, papers are professional documents. While I may be lazy on LJ when my fingers get ahead of my brain, I am not so in my professional documents (especially as the EPA keeps stealing our documents and posting them on their website with my name splashed all over them - along with the words PROPRIETARY - growl). If my name is going to be all over documents the EPA posts publicly, the least I can do is show some decent grammar (although - if one was to read the documents, they would find many an easter egg in them! A girl's gotta entertain herself somehow.)
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