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Fair point mate - I'm with Mrs Satanfriendly - I never trust spell-checkers - nine times out of ten - they will correct British English forms with American - for starters - also they don't pick up on homophones - which English is riddled with. I'm okay with grammar and punctuation - a combination of having done some proof-reading and also - I am a massive pedant. If I'm writing old-school - and I am not convinced that I know how to correctly spell a word - just think of another - that means roughly the same thing - that you can. It is also an age thing - one of the few advantages we over 50's have - laptops, tablets and computers were not ubiquitous when we were at school. A former lecturer told me - I went to Uni at 40 - that she loved having mature students - as we could string a sentence together and write legibly - apparently - what were supposed to be the brightest and best of the young things - routinely turned in 3000 word essays in - what was not far off - text-speak. Digital communication has fundamentally changed the nature of inter-personal communication - if you are angry with someone - the very act of having to sit down - get some paper, a pen and then compose a response - go post it - gives you time to think - to consider - do I really mean that - or want to say it? As opposed to - dashing off an email - the sort that end with - oh, and another thing - I pumped yer dug! Better than yer ma was. At least the dug gave me a reach around. We've all done it.I think the biggest issue is spelling, as there is no spell check available. Between that and the basic use of English. Were, where, we're, etc. Makes me cringe. As for my wife she passionately hates bad English and gives no quarter. I guess having a masters in the subject goes a long way.
There are many reasons to - keep writing alive - I.
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