spelling rant
Mar. 26th, 2004 01:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
celticdragonflyI 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.
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.
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Date: 2004-03-26 12:56 pm (UTC)