Check your sp3lling!!

[CopierTechofOmens]

AHHHHH can't anyone take 2 seconds and proofread their inane banter for grammatical and, or spelling errors...

My second grade teacher is laughing at me from the 7th level of Hell...

[techspec]

AHHHHH can't anyone take 2 seconds and proofread their inane banter for gramatical and, or spelling errors...

My second grade teacher is laughing at me from the 7th level of Hell...

Sumwon haven a bad day

[11x17]

Gramatical has 2 m's dumbass!

[CopierTechofOmens]

Gramatical has 2 m's dumbass!

You should work at the suicide hotline. You are good with people.

BTW you also incorrectly spelled grammatical

[Sgt. Hulka]

Gramatical has 2 m's dumbass!

Oh no you didn't!

[blackcat4866]

"Dumbass" was not spelled correctly either.... dumb ass. =^..^=

[Baphomet]

"Dumbass" was not spelled correctly either.... dumb ass. =^..^=

An ellipsis only has three dots ...

[nmfaxman]

Poor spellers of the world UNTIE!
Dyslecsics of the world nteui!

I never said I was perfect.

[10871087]

Copier techs can't spell or use punctuation other then an occasional period.

[CopierTechofOmens]

"Dumbass" was not spelled correctly either.... dumb ass. =^..^=

I thought it was a kitty cat
Good kitty
(>")> =^..^= ....purrrr

[CopierTechofOmens]

Copier techs can't spell or use punctuation other then an occasional period.

Don't make fun of female techs...

[DadO]

"If" u can" ' "t understand common language, then I" ' "m sorry for you.

How" ' "s this?



LOLz

[fixthecopier]

Houked un Fonicks werked fer me! I B spellin now.

[prntrfxr]

Check your sp3lling!!

Techs don't spell as a general rule. They also don't read very good. Don't believe me, look at all the dummies that don't read the service manual and what about those who keep asking for free service manuals or cheap ones. People have been posting links for a long time to sites that sell them or give them away, yet week after week they are still asking.

[Llama God]

Right, ok, so begins the venting of my spleen on this particular topic.

I have, in the 9 years or so which I have spent with my current employer, built up a solid reputation of being overly anal regarding the frankly pitiful standard of spelling and punctuation displayed in emails from collegues. This almost got me into hot water a week or so ago when I inadvertently sent an email to the entire company accusing them of being "illiterate dimwits" but, such is the reputation which precedes me for pursuing excellence in this regard, it passed without comment; this is itself a sorry indictment.

The principal offenders in respect of spelling and grammar have to be the following:

1) Text-speak - replacing the word "for" with "4," "you" with "U" and abbreviating perfectly simple words with nonsense by simply missing out letters.
2) Misuse of the words "your" and "you're" by randomly substituting one for the other.
3) Misuse of, and this is my biggest bugbear, apostrophes or, as is more common in correspondences which I receive, apostrophe's. IT'S A PLURAL YOU MORON, DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND? This also includes pluralising such words as PCUs and CDs.
4) Not bothering to use capital letters at the beginning of sentences or inexplicably using capital letters for nouns.
5) Mixing up the use of the words "to," "too" and "two," principally by simply typing "to" for any of the above or, to refer you back to point 1, "2."
6) Not being able to choose between using "there" and "their."

I am currently devising an in-house training programme to cover linking multifunctional devices to networks, however I am sorely tempted to do another, Basic English for Beginners & Retards, including an end-of-course exam which must be passed in order to proceed to anything more challenging than making a cup of coffee.

On a note related solely to the final point of the previous paragraph, is it too much to ask that people wash their (not there) hands (not hand's) after going to the toilet or, if the filthy mongrels continue to fail to do this, that they stop looking mortally offended when I turn down every offer of tea/coffee/chocolate/physical contact?

Seriously, the standard of literacy being displayed these days is frankly appalling. Just don't get me started on handwriting on job sheets. What makes it unforgivable in emails is that there is a resident spell-checker to cover up your inadequacies, if only you knew how to use it.

This really boils my piss, as you may have noticed.