A TRUCE

 

The bloggers in this community poke fun at each other for grammatical errors - particularly spelling mistakes. The worst offender (for mistakes) is Robert but this is just his default (see what I did there?) setting. The worst offender (for pointing out mistakes) is Richard who, being an ex schoolteacher is pedantic and a 'grammar Nazi (I know, I live with one).

I admit that bad grammar and incorrect spelling is inexcusable in the body of posts but, when it comes to comments, the Google settings aren't kind to someone in a hurry - which is the case for a commenter on Richard's or Robert's blogs who just wants to get the hell out of there - as there isn't an editing option after the bloody spell check changes a word written to something else like 'odist' to onanist' for example.

I think a truce is called for where errors that are obviously simple spelling mistakes or auto-corrected are excused. This does not excuse serious knowledge gaps though.