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Old 11-02-2013, 06:37 PM
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Originally Posted by manaboutown View Post


A reader may find it difficult to follow the train of thought of a writer if he encounters more than a couple of obvious typographical spelling errors. Spelling errors are distracting and hijack a reader's focusing on content. Furthermore, spelling errors tend to reduce a reader's opinion of the writer's intellect.

As a related observation, some posts are so replete with grammatical errors that a reader may simply give up on trying to understand what the poster is attempting to present.
I have to agree with the original poster.
So the attitude is now that we're older we're not supposed to care?
Once again someone posted their opinion and got jumped on.
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