IRRITATING.

Here's the dealio;

I spend a fair amount of time READING on the internet.

News. Tech-related informational blogs. Reviews.

And I spend more and more of that reading time in irritation.

WHY?

None of these people frickin' SPELL things correctly, many of them use backwards, ignorant grammatical structure.

IF YOU ARE GOING TO PUBLISH YOUR SUPPOSEDLY KNOWLEDGABLE WRITINGS ON THE INTERNET, FACKING KNOW HOW TO SPELL, ALREADY!

Even Scientific American* is rife with spelling errors and interesting grammatical structures these days.

I have two words for everybody;

SPELL CHECK.

Turn it on.

It's not hard, it will put little red lines under the words you have misspelled, you can even have it correct the spelling for you.

And, if you are a professional publication, you should have proof-readers available to you, and doing their jobs correctly.

If' you've gone and fired them all....HIRE THEM BACK, DO IT NOW!!!!

When I am reading something, for the sake of the enlightening material presented therein, I do NOT want the progress of my mind hobbled by the irritation of junk spelling and crap grammar.

REALLY.

Oh. lest we forget.....

KINDLE**.

Kindle**, Nook**, EBooks**, iBooks***....whichever digital publisher you are; PROOF WHAT YOU ARE PUBLISHING, FERJEEZUSSAKE! When I am reading along in a novel by oh, let's say.... Bernard Cornwell,(excellent historical fiction, folks, I highly recommend it), I don't expect to have to hurdle spelling obstacles placed in my way. I would think that a digital publishing agent as high-profile as Kindle could do better. Some of the errors are just RIDICULOUS;

- "freind" as opposed to "friend"

- "there", when it should be "their"

- "wait", when it should be "weight"

And the list just goes on and on.

Its jest plane erksum, I telled ya!

snort.

* Did NOT change the name , not even a little bit, in the interest of propriety and risk of lawsuit because, if they are going to spell badly and then set themselves up as a publication for the intelligentsia, they just don't deserve it.

** DITTO.

*** REALLY, Apple! If you want to claim that you are ALL THAT, and try to compete with Kindle, you need to do WAY BETTER with your publications. Kindle's publication is still better than yours, and they don't cost as much. So there.****

**** I am an Apple user, not one piece of M#cr#s#ft anywhere in my house or back pocket, so I can fuss at Apple all I want. Humph, already.