come on ...

[morgiah]

You know, I have ranted at people in World of Warcraft general chat for using unforgivably bad spelling and grammar only to get yelled back at me juvenile comments about being a Grammar Nazi or what-have-you

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[grimmus]

I would be set for life if I could be hired as an editor for the internet.

Of course, the downside is I'd probably go insane before long.

[tygrrtwo]

oh my lord.

What I find marginally forgivable in people such as my manager (!) and coworkers I find absolutely UNforgivable in the press and anyone who has business releasing statements of any sort to the public. Language is a living thing, new vocabulary and word usage is added almost daily, proper words are changed all the time (hello Toronto Maple LEAFS? !!) but that being said, the press has a responsibility to be accurate in all things, it's the public who changes language to suit their needs, not the press. I'm aggravated to no end. gah!

[pers]

Amen! Especially when it's an online resource and it is so easy to go back and correct a typo!

[anonymous]

That is TEH own.

[innmerchant]

unbelievable. my wife's an internet news producer for a tv station... she spends the majority of her time editing stories b/c the anchors/reporters submit them like that all the time... lame. she also pulls stories off AP feeds, many of which are butchered... it just makes no sense to us :P i'm sending her that link, maybe they can post it around the station to inspire higher education...