Re:Microsoft and Google jointly sue a patent troll who has s...
by Lost_BiomedE on Thursday March 03, 2011 @05:50PM
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Yes, it is about time to allow some wiggle room. I am glad that grammar and spelling correction became a meme. At one point, it looked like the web was going to deteriorate into all lol speak. It was also leaking into offline writing, as well. Ebb and flow has a great end result, but the process is often painful and/or annoying.
Re:Microsoft and Google jointly sue a patent troll who has s...
by pjscott on Thursday March 03, 2011 @05:52PM
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Case in point: I'm pretty sure that using "mis-grammar" as a verb (or at all) is not the officially approved way of saying what you wanted to say, but it got the point across just fine.
Some of the smartest people I know frequently mis-grammar a sentence every now and then. Sometimes even frequently.
A language is a tool for conveying ideas. If a given paragraph conveys the same mental result for each reader, then it doesn't matter if any given word is wrong; the tool has done its task. I wish more people would realize this and stop condemning frivolous mistakes...