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Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate
See? I knew exactly what you meant and in any other thread I would have ignored the error. I was fully able to understand what you were trying to communicate. Mission accomplished.
But if your goal is NOT to communicate, but rather be 100% correct all the time, then what is your excuse?
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But I think many of the errors which drive people crazy are the ones that disrupt communication. I know the differences between your and you're, so when I run across a sentence where the writer uses an incorrect version it disrupts the sentence. I need to stop, beckup and reread up to the point to pick up what they intended to say instead of what they said.
A random spelling mistake or typo isn't as big an issue. The mistake is immediately obvious and can be metally corrected on the fly. But writing an incorrect word sometimes isn't obvious until later in the sentence when the context doesn't makes sense. Needing to go back and re-read a post really screws with the communication process.
And I don't think anyone is criticising non-native english speakers. For as much as he says english is easy, it was apparent The President™ was not a native english speaker. WHen I come across a post like that, I am already aware that a bit more effort will be required to understand the message.