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Originally Posted by JennyHallu
[Rant] In that vein Mithalwen, I assign poor grammar in the newspaper. I have far too many weaknesses of my own to assign pronunciation, although I have an evil tendency to laugh uproariously when the Southern girls on the newscasts down here let their careful Midwestern non-accents slip, but I can't STAND it when the newspaper is grammatically incorrect. The things are written on computers anymore anyway! Use Word's grammar check if you managed to get a degree in English or journalism without knowing how to write in that language! [/Rant]
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No, no, no, Jenny!
That belongs in the Shire! There are few things more delicious than the smug feeling of superiority that comes of knowing that one's English is classier than that of a professional publication.
On the other hand, the inability to proofread one's own work definitely belongs in Mordor. One really hesitates to point out other people's spelling mistakes, when one knows that his own always seem to pass him by...