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Kid #1 is an excellent writer and Kid #2 is a very clever writer. Therefore, they have different styles (both perfect, btw) but Kid #1 is incredibly accurate with punctuation and homonyms. It's the journalist in him. I'm old school, went to school on Long Island when grammar was all of 7th grade and bad grammar wasn't tolerated even by science teachers.

I think we're missing that now; grammar, like civics and spelling, are not a high priority (no judgment, just observation). Sometimes, I rant about it and others I just try to ignore to get the substance rather than the grammar/spelling accuracy.

I don't know where we lost our desire to have and our emphasis on teaching good grammar and accurate spelling/punctuation, but I guess it's just not a high priority except maybe when you hire someone. I cringe when an employee sends a semi-literate email to a client and now review many of them prior to sending.

I think your way off base here. Its about content, rather then grammer.
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You mean hear, jaycee.

ARRRRRGGG!

If I can't understand it because the grammar is poor, the content doesn't matter.

If you can't get basic GRAMMAR correct, how can I trust your facts?

Let me rephrase in a way you can understand --

If you righting isnt right, than how is we shure yoU no anything.

DAmn! That was hard. I think I'm getting a migraine.

I have to agree with the editor on this one. It's an informal setting - and qitue fnarkly, as lnog as the fsirt and lsat lretets are in the poprer lcatoion, you can raed it and udrsntenad it.

I am guilty of "hear" and "here" and "there" and "their". I certainly understand the difference in the meaning of the words and their correct spelling.
I think it is a function of typing too fast without proofreading.

They left out "teh."

It's "your'n." And that's plural only; a synonym for "y'all's."

And in that last sentence, that semicolon should have been a comma, dang it.

SUE: "I think we're missing that now; grammar, like civics and spelling, are not a high priority (no judgment, just observation)."

Sue, don't you mean that grammar, like civics and spelling, IS not a high priority?

Here's wierd quirk of mine: like Sue, whenever I make comments about grammar, spelling, clarity--as an English teacher, I do this often--I always misspell a word, make a grammatical error, etc. I think there's some internal gremlin that won't let me correctly correct the writing flaws of others.

And then there's the issue of computer-generated error: the kind of errors that result from incompletely revising on-screen. I think probably grammar was better when people couldn't revise so easily, and thus had to envision a whole sentence before they began writing it.

Not a single word but a common error -- apostrophes added for no particular reason other than the presence of the letter s.

Stuff like "Richard's runs for office" or "Bond's returns to Giants."

Beau, you just hit on one of my biggies -- the rampant improper use of apostrophes. That absolutely makes me crazy!!! Any drive through the country and you'll see them on the big yellow signs and sometimes even on professionally-made signs. "Tomato's for sale"

This isn't an example of the extra apostrophes, but here's one of my favorite mish-mashed signs from my dry cleaners:
"Due to the respect of other customers, no cell phone use is allowed."