That's a great simile! I wish I'd thought of it, instead of getting bogged down in all of my tradesmen analogies. It sums up exactly the way I feel about the issue. I've enjoyed the responses that have presented the other point of view to mine, but I haven't been convinced by any of them yet. I honestly can't think of any time (apart from msn) when I wouldn't care about spelling words correctly. It just doesn't make sense not to do that. Why even bother writing if you're not going to get the basics right?
Sometimes it's funny to glance back over something you're writing and see a bizarre mistake. Every now and then, I try (or perhaps my subconscious tries) to write "paid" as "payed". I'm certainly not claiming that I don't make keyboarding errors or typos - I do, but I always fix them as soon as I notice them. It would seem wrong not to do so.
On an off-topic note, I adore the quote in your icon. Good old Jane.
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on 2006-02-28 12:10 am (UTC)Sometimes it's funny to glance back over something you're writing and see a bizarre mistake. Every now and then, I try (or perhaps my subconscious tries) to write "paid" as "payed". I'm certainly not claiming that I don't make keyboarding errors or typos - I do, but I always fix them as soon as I notice them. It would seem wrong not to do so.
On an off-topic note, I adore the quote in your icon. Good old Jane.