Is spelling important?

[Levo-Lon]

It is shoot

Shirley it's shot

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Shirley it's shot

Due Bares shoot an the woulds?

 

[Ming the Merciless]

You can't acuse me of being a sesquipedal!

 

[MontyVeda]

Spelling is important... but not being a grammar nazi is more importanterer.


...unless of course you're being paid to write or proof read.

 

[classic33]

My response would be " You can order, or have a Latte, and then I shall get you the Latte",
This way of ordering has now become very common.

Wouldn't the honest response be Yes, or No?

 

[lazyfatgit]

Not that I give shīt, but your post is a couple of commas short of an A grade

Doesn't surprise me.

I still be believe there are more typos in ebooks than there used to be in paper copy.

 

[steveindenmark]

Of course selling is important. We would have no economy without it.

Reading is important as well.

I used to live there.

 

[MontyVeda]

This appeared on the local FB group... I've read it several times and i'm still baffled

 

[classic33]

Last one failed/didn't work. Another required.

 

[srw]

I can't believe no-one's done this yet.

' precision and concise use of standard English is important'.

There are two concepts in the subject of this clause - precision and concise use of standard English. So "are" is correct, as well as being stylistically more elegant. Sometimes it's better if the verb is attracted into the singular by the last of list; not this time.

Starting a sentence with a number is poor style, so 'Thirty years ago'.

Twenty nine million, three hundred and seventy one thousand, six hundred and thirty three people in the UK would disagree with you.

 

[srw]

This appeared on the local FB group... I've read it several times and i'm still baffled

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Like most of facebook it was probably not written by the young people who this thread seems to be designed to complain about. I can't say I've noticed much correlation between age and inarticulacy in writing - you get it as often from the middle-aged and old as from the young. However, I am concerned by those poor sods going through school at the moment. They're being taught English in a way which has previously only ever existed in the fantasies of previous Secretaries of State for Education.

 

[theclaud]

if the verb is attracted into the singular by the last of list

Nicely put!

 

[srw]

Nicely put!

An extra indefinite article would have been better.

 

[nickyboy]

An extra indefinite article would have been better.

Methinks the problem was mixing up nouns (precision) and adjectives (concise) in a list. Were one to say "precise and concise....is...." that feels kinda ok