Thank you, Kristen, for such a nice answer. I've managed to toss a great
deal of my perfectionist bits aside. It is so much easier, however, for us
old biddies to read when we're not putting white-out on our monitor screens.
Polly


"Roberta Zollner" wrote This is actually an interesting issue. Yesterday
I listened to a lecture by
a German political scientist on American-European perceptions of each
other
and the feeling in the rest of the planet that American culture (or lack
thereof) is taking over. After pointing out that nobody twists any arms to
force anybody to eat disgusting junk food or watch brainless action
movies,
he said that a large percentage of today's classical music performers and
literature writers come from the U.S. And one reason we have so many
American writers, he said, was because university students are taught to
write. European universities apparently assume their students already know
how. But I have large doubts about this statement!
Roberta in D

"Kristen L. Renneker" wrote Sorry...

It's me being lazy. Half the time I go back and fix them, often I don't
think of it. I never took any typing courses and so there was never
anything
drilled into me in that regards. so, when I'm typing, the shift key is
not
natural. If i'm posting on a message board that has a preview screen I'm
more likely to go back and fix them, because I do see how bad it
looks...here I usually just type a message out quickly and hit send.
Though
I've read that in handwriting the use of a lowercase "i" is a sign of
low
self esteem...wonder if it works the same way in typing? g

I know what you mean about not being to pay attention to the content of
a
post because of some grammatical/style issue of the writer. My issue is
with
people who can't spell...I mean truly can't spell and don't use
spellcheck...or they don't know the difference between sight/site...
there/their/they're... weather/whether...where/wear/we're. I've seen
some
convoluted sentences, no punctuation, etc. and it drives me nuts.

I try to keep my posts coherent (though last night I had already had a
couple of cocktails but that capital "I" is one that usually slips
right
by me.

So, there's my confession...I can admit when I'm wrong I promise I'll
make more of an effort G

Kristen