spelling rant

[celticdragonfly]

I just have to rant here a bit, this was fired off by an otherwise amusing article on the Mars rovers,

Get your spelling right, especially if you're publishing something!

I get annoyed when I see someone write "sneak peak". Unless there's a mountain trying to creep up behind you, it's not a sneak peak, it's a sneak peek. Or the times someone writes "it peeked his interest" when what they mean is "it piqued his interest". There are many examples of these. Your/you're is another one that gets mangled. There are SO many other homonyms that people misuse badly. To me it says the person writing really doesn't know what the words are.

I wish I could get a job as a proofreader. Okay, rant over, I feel better for getting that off my chest.

Comments

[archangelbeth]

Thank you. Thank you. No sneak peaks. No ninja mountains. No cat-burglar cliffs. No stealthy gigantic bosoms...

[ciorstan.livejournal.com]

Or freakin' trouper. Aren't people troopers? Or a historical fiction heroine being given a box of chocolates, like, fifty years before they were invented... gaah!

Wallbangers.

Laura, check your email. ;) I sent you something.

(Just kidding, if you weren't sure)

[yesthattom.livejournal.com]

Wen the revalushion cums, u gud spellurs are gunna b the first agasinst the wahl!