(May 27, 2018 at 10:40 am)Jörmungandr Wrote: Meh. I haven't found grammar and spelling to be correlated with lack of intelligence or lack of skill, so I really don't care. Plus, I've noted that participation in electronic media changes our language use in ways that language purists would diagnose as wrong -- it's not wrong, just different.
It does matter. When you are in that high position of power, it does matter.
I already said my grammar and spelling suck too. BUT I also don't have a staff to check my work.
If I were to submit my poetry to a publishing company I and had the money to pay someone to correct my errors, I would certainly do that. I wouldn't change my style, no, but spelling errors yes.
He is a diplomat. And on the world stage these things matter. Can you imagine if Stephen Hawking put out his book "A Brief History Of Time" and it had billions of grammatical and spelling errors?
