Comments on: Becoming Invisible

By: Freelancer

Freelancer — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:06:08 +0000

Spell checkers cannot differentiate between the past and paste. So a proof reading is always mandatory.

By: MadRooster

MadRooster — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 02:39:55 +0000

I don’t think that the Its/It’s line fully underscores the magnitude of the demonstrated problem. Misplaced apostrophes drive me bonkers! It’s partly because they are so common, and partly because the rule is so simple. Colons and semicolons are tricky. (hehe) I see plurals inappropriately apostrophed in signs, billboards, ads, and other legitimate-looking manifestations of punctuation desecration. How hard can it be!? Excepting the case of the lowly “it,” apostrophes denote possessives or conjunctions.

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More Flubs - oDesk Insider — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:43:37 +0000

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Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:05:58 +0000

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By: Kymbolina

Kymbolina — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:17:57 +0000

One of the most common, thereby most irritating, mistakes would be the verbal use of the word ‘supposedly’. How can a person go from the “ed” sound to “sub”?

Supposubly?! Either allow me to puncture my eardrums or rip out their tongues.

…and let’s not forget ‘their’, ‘there’ and ‘they’re’.

By: Nelson Manning

Nelson Manning — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 23:29:39 +0000

My comment is best written as a haiku:

Become invisible,
Like the writer ninja is,
For great profit! Ha!