Spelling/Grammar/Punctuation stickling passé

I’m a fairly renowned pedant and things like 10 Words you need to stop misspelling warm my cockles. Something to do with having a decent education and a love for this wonderful, malleable, subtle thing we call English.

But.

I wonder if it’s time to call time on such pedantry.

Provided the meaning is clear, which is should be if the words are read, and who doesn’t read aloud inside their heads, isn’t their a case for loosing such rules? As long as the overall meaning is clear, is it to much to expect, in this Twitter age, that we respect these archaic strictures?

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2 Responses to “Spelling/Grammar/Punctuation stickling passé”

  1. Anthony says:
    February 25, 2010 at 5:44 pm

    I’m not sure if you’re being sarcastic, but I don’t read aloud inside my head, and phonetically-correct abbreviations and errors drive me nuts, m8.

  2. ali says:
    February 27, 2010 at 7:08 am

    Were those errors deliberate? They were slightly painful to read… “loosing”?? “their”? “is”?

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