Yay! Go, Teal!!!!
I loved this part of the article"At the Grand Canyon National Park, the men had found a 60-year-old sign with a misplaced apostrophe and a missing comma. They duly whipped out Tipp-Ex and pen, and made the corrections. They then spotted that "immense" was spelled as "emense". They were shocked, but stayed their hands. Mr Deck later wrote: "I was reluctant to disfigure the sign any further.... Still, I shall be haunted by that perversity, "emense" in my train-whistle-blighted dreams."
Yeah, mistakes on signs and movie posters come back to me in my sleep as well. Ever read the book , "Eats, shoots and leaves"?
Had a uni lecturer whose favourite rant was apostrophes especially on whether the word its is its or it's. One lost marks if used incorrectly. Like correct it is blue can use it's as a contraction. But its raining has to be its.
talk about annoying.
But its raining has to be its.
Eh? The raining of it?
About as confusing as the pedantic lecturer. Can't use it's behind rain, one must use its. To lose marks over that I considered ridiculous at the time and still do.
Yes Shrek one must be very careful in spelling when programming. my son has borrowed bits of code available on the internet and found out much to his annoyance spelling mistakes within rendering the code unusable till fixed. The school he is going to will be allowing him to attend university early for IT programming as he taught them a thing or two. And showed them some completed programms of his. Mainly emulators to run obsolete programs (each programm has its own sector) plus his unique compression software for flash drives (an invention!!) 2 gig to 250 gig ! Now working on a reformulation programm to allow transmittal of small bits of info and reformation of the full amount automatically at the other end. Uses a major variation of public / private key security protocols. Which is where the idea came from.
OK its bad enough, well not really unless one is writing an academic research paper that people really can't tell the difference between its and it's. Glaring spelling mistakes on public billboards are not acceptable especially since someone actually had to pay for that mistake. And that its. Or is it it's?
They can always run spell check. The grammar is a different matter. And they are throughly peer reviewed just for that eventuality. No mistakes acceptable.
Seems to depend on the degree. Mine being chemistry is almost all symbols and equations with a very weird grammatical style being past tense and third person with no mention of ones self. To mention ones name (a big no no) or even, I hypothesise that ("it was hypothesised that"..is correct) is to commit professional suicide. Much effort is expended in weeding out normal grammatical/conversational language to this artificial stilted style. A very strict style.
A paper by me might start... It was hypothesised that the degree of electronegativity surrounding the metal central atom in the cytochrome P450 model was influenced by the degree of alpha bromination ..... In order to test this bromine was added .... It was found that .....
Lets say the hard sciences are just that. Hard and weird to keep out outsiders. One can't even directly write about ones own papers.