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Let's put it this way: people spend more than 10,000 of their lives talking and writing (including hours spent at school), and the majority can hardly put toget
by badman_ting 13y ago
Let's put it this way: people spend more than 10,000 of their lives talking and writing (including hours spent at school), and the majority can hardly put together a good sentense.
Heck, an awful lot cannot even distinguish between you're and your.
I once wrote (coined? invented?) a law which says that one cannot point out errors of grammar or spelling in another's writing, without committing embarrassing errors of one's own.
- krallja 13y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry%27s_law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry%27s_law
- coldtea 13y agoWell, the situation he described is not really Murphy's law. It might be a case of "something gone wrong" (and in that sense covered by Murphy's law too), but that's overly generic, and he was going after something far more specific.
- D-Coder 13y agoThis is known as Muphry's Law. (Yes, like that.) It's on Wikipedia.
- coldtea 13y agoYeah, I commit those all the time when posting. I usually need 3-4 passes if I want to make sure a post is error-free. But I was not really talking against spelling or typos (that can happen to anyone), but more fundamental difficulties people have with syntax and especially with being coherent.