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In two decades and more of corporate-world copy editing, first as a typesetter and layout artist and then as a desktop publisher, I have run into a truly appalling quantity and variety of other people's egregious mistakes in spelling, grammar, punctuation and syntax. Not meaning to seem arrogant or conceited, I speak as someone who scored in the upper 2% of students nationally in the English portion of the SAT and ACT college tests in 1981. For more information on such mistakes, see the excellent book, The Mac Is Not A Typewriter by Robin Williams (no, not the male comedian, but a female desktop publishing and Macintosh expert).
I know some of you on my flist or in my growing readership share my frustration with those who can't seem to use the mother tongue properly even when they supposedly grew up speaking it and nothing else. (How much you wanna bet a lot of those folks who make so much noise demanding laws to make English the only language used in this country can't even use it correctly themselves?) Anyhow, I thought I'd post this and invite y'all to compare notes. Here we go...
I know some of you on my flist or in my growing readership share my frustration with those who can't seem to use the mother tongue properly even when they supposedly grew up speaking it and nothing else. (How much you wanna bet a lot of those folks who make so much noise demanding laws to make English the only language used in this country can't even use it correctly themselves?) Anyhow, I thought I'd post this and invite y'all to compare notes. Here we go...
