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geilematz -> RE: Yes, I AM the spelling police! (10/19/2011 6:43:41 AM)
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just from another ESL point of view: in some way it is a shame to see the worthlessness of what was endlessly taught to us at school about English spelling when one sees "spelling anarchy" here and elsewhere - in another way it feels relaxing to be hopefully understood with a little less effort than expected back in my schooldays ...
I confess being a lazy typer (or should it be typist?) when it comes to some apostrophes: I usually dont care about the proper apostrophe in don't. I 'd agree it makes quite some difference when it comes it "its" and "it's" ... and wonder why nobody seems to be teaching permanently writing "it is'" in the first place.
As to punctuation: having a first language where punctuation is a minefield (and the last "simplification" of rules messed it all up even more ...) I probably make hundreds of English punctuation mistakes without even knowing ... sorry. My personal rule of thumb is NOT to set commata where I should set them in German (with some very few exceptions).
And I guess many ESL users/speakers have some similar personal rules. We/Us (which is the correct one here? I guess "we," except when talking to some of my friends in the UK and Eire ...) ESLs probably all have some flaws of our first languages slipping into "our" English nonetheless, and thus phenomena like Maltese English, Indian English, and from my knowledge also Japanese English asf are growing. Not to mention German English: we invent English words for some things (there are no German words for these ...) like "handy" (=mobile phone) or "oldtimer" (=vintage car) to be used in everyday German ... forgive me this hopefully amusing sideslip - and in case is should have been side slip - just another "Germanism."
Finally about the missing "u" in color asf ... personally I think it is simply more beautiful with than without ... and to my beloved friends on the Isles: please please please dont drop all the "h"es they are so elpful for reading a uge eap of words, or ow shall you do without them once the abit is forgotten ...
[Edited for typos ...]
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