Arrrggh!!!!!!

[pat]

I'd forgotten that if you edit a post with a poll in it, the poll goes away. Damn. Twenty people had already responded. I am going to repost the post:

tenacious_snail lent me Lynne Truss's book on punctuation, Eats, Shoots & Leaves. (My favorite quote so far: "Sticklers, unite! You have nothing to lose but your sense of proportion, and arguably you didn't have much of that to begin with.")

So, herewith a poll.

[Poll #435844]

I refuse to do a "clicky thing": this poll is enough of a piece of fluff as it is, and the trend has gotten out of hand, anyway.

By the way, I realize that, given the nature of the poll, I am bound to have made grammatical and spelling mistakes in this post. C'est la vie.

[Edit: it has been pointed out to me that I have omitted at least two punctuation marks: the ellipsis (...) and parentheses. It also occurs to me now that I have left out the hyphen, dash, tilde, and quotation marks, both single and double. My apologies to the partisans of these wonderful pieces of lexigraphical art.]

Comments

[dawnd.livejournal.com]

Have re-done poll for you. :^)

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

Emoticons /sometimes/ allow people to evade responsibility, etc etc.

[erin-c-1978.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I clicked the first and fourth choices on that question for exactly that reason.

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah, and I don't use IM type things (though I do use MUDs and such, and I use proper spelling and punctuation there, to the extent possible), and I've never sent a phone text message.

[firecat]

I think people might try to use emoticons to evade responsibility, but I don't think it really works.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I left out "Phone text messages" for question 1 because I have never sent a phone text message. In retrospect, maybe that was silly. I've sent messages from a pager, and even there, I did my best with spelling and punctuation. Here is a semicolon, my favorite; I am content and can stop writing.

[erin-c-1978.livejournal.com]

(I'm assuming everyone uses correct spelling for business email)

While I'm sure that's true for everyone potentially taking this quiz, I haven't found it to be the case for the world at large. Unfortunately. :-(

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

I know -- scary, isn't it?

[geekchick]

(I'm assuming everyone uses correct spelling for business email)

*falls into a gigglefit remembering the spell-checked email sent out by our previous admin to one of the business mailing lists apologizing "for any incontinence"*

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

See, that's the problem with spell checkers. They just don't catch mistakes like that. (which is pretty funny).

[geekchick]

I suspect that it was a matter of catching an error and just automatically clicking on the "yes, change it to this" button without paying attention. But oh boy, did all of us on the list get a good laugh out of it.