RE: Friday Fun: What Pet Peeve makes you puke?

["Clare Turner" <cturner -at- redflex -dot- com>]

Maybeeee - but I think it's just that people are poorly educated, don't
really care, and that has always been the case.  We're just more aware
of it now with the internet, etc. - and, perhaps us'ins notice it more!

Clare L. Turner
Technical Writer
Redflex Traffic Systems, Inc.
15020 N. 74th Street
Scottsdale, AZ 85260
480.607.3583

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Subject: Re: Friday Fun: What Pet Peeve makes you puke?

I have a theory. (I've _always_ got a theory!) Our multimedia culture 
full of sound bytes encourages our brains to focus on the sound of 
things rather than their symbolic representation in text, hence "their" 
for "they're". Also, we just don't think about it when hurriedly typing,

and don't take the time to check. See my archived post on the sleeper 
effect as well. Next up, the proliferation of text message spelling: Wat

u tk bout at?

Ron Hearn wrote:
> A curiosity more than a peeve I have is the "homonym phenomenon" found
> in emails and IMs (but hopefully not our docs). That's when people use
> "your" for "you're", "there" for "their" etc. Just wondering why
people
> do that? Is it that people are in a hurry that they don't think about
> what they're (got that one) typing or is it a lack of spelling and/or
> typing skills? Any thoughts?
-- 
Beth Agnew
Presenting "Podcasting & Vidcasting: The Future of TechComm"
at the STC Conference, Las Vegas, NV, 2 p.m. May 10, 2006

Professor, Technical Communication
Seneca College of Applied Arts & Technology
Toronto, ON 416.491.5050 x3133
http://www.tinyurl.com/83u5u

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