I try not to be a pedant after hours as proofreading everything takes some of the pleasure out of reading.  Also, I don’t want to judge other people’s writing too harshly as I often make careless mistakes myself.

So I was amused by a conversation with my 20-year-old daughter. She was telling me about a friend of hers who had recently broken up with her boyfriend. My daughter read some of his texts and exclaimed:

‘You are well rid of him, he can’t even spell.’

‘Does spelling matter?’ asked her friend.

‘Of course, it does,’ said my daughter. ‘You don’t want a guy who can’t spell.’

Posted on March 9th, 2009 by admin
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