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Originally posted by Lebell
[BThere is no "cow" in Moscow (long O sound at the end) [/B]
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While the 'your/you're' and 'they're/their/there' errors cause me to cringe every time I see them, this common mispronunciation (often observed on television) gets the worm. I don't understand how news reporters can be that stupid, or possibly ignorant, to make the error.
I also dislike the damage that online chatting has done to the English language. I don't mind the occasional 'lol/rofl' in a conversation over an instant messenger, but truncations such as '2' and 'ur' are useless and extremely annoying. To me, using the number '2' indicates the inability to distinguish between 'to' and 'too'.
I could go on like this for hours, naming every little thing that annoys me, but I wouldn't want to take up too much room on your thread, so I'll stop here. Don't get me wrong though, I just prefer to see clarity and precision in writing, especially that of adults. It's a horrible thing to see simple errors, such as the ones mentioned above, in the work of so-called 'professionals'. It makes life a lot harder for us (us being those who end up correcting the errors of the lazy and/or ignorant).
I can understand that everyone makes mistakes, but when each and every sentence that somebody has written makes me cringe five or six times, it often gets on my nerves.
(Yikes, ended up ranting there!)