obsession with language - spelling and grammar
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i *think* this post could be placed in this forum...
please tell me i'm not the only one who's extremely *annoyed* (yet somehow strangely "happy", for want of a better word...;-) when he or she finds a misspelled word or a sentence that's really *badly* put together!
one of my best friends has dyslexia, and so i'm *not* talking about laughing at this kind of problem...
it's just that i feel that if someone's gone through all the trouble of printing a magazine/newspaper/book/pamphlet or something "public", they should/could at least have checked the spelling and grammar!
finding a really glossy and expensive-looking brochure with bad spelling and/or grammar is (almost) like *christmas* to me!
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sure am - i'm working on "the great swedish novel"!
seriously, though: i've *always* been a writer...
my first "book" was a little thing i wrote in 3rd grade: "the cat eyes in the closet" - a thriller that was *very* scary!!!
i *"love"* writing and languages (do i come off as *too* weird-sounding if i admit to reading dictionaries and thesauri just for *fun*?!), and i also *"love"* reading!
i recently read john steinbeck's "east of eden" (in english), and it was *amazing*!!!
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