Comments on: Use Proper Case And Spell Check In Professional Communications

By: Paul Higgins

Paul Higgins — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:25:35 +0000

whoops- should have proof read it- i meant PCMech, of course!

By: Paul Higgins

Paul Higgins — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:24:37 +0000

I count PCWorld blogs and emails as professional communications, yet I am amazed at the grammatical and spelling errors I encounter. Maybe a bit of proof reading yourselves might not go amiss.

By: : online poker

: online poker — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 20:55:00 +0000

I really hate that’s kind of mistake in spelling/grammatical……
I also agree with the blog.Thanks

By: ChaimBitton

ChaimBitton — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 13:54:42 +0000

Speaking of spell check, there is a good program Spell Check Anywhere (SpellCheckAnywhere.Net) it adds spell check to all programs.

By: David K.

David K. — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 12:45:09 +0000

Outlook even makes it easy. Just set it to automatically spell check when sending. That 5 seconds alone is well worth the investment.

By: Mark C

Mark C — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 13:16:34 +0000

I agree, this is an email reply from a large cellphone company I “was” dealing with.

“no iwill have to do a esn change activate both phone yyou can use the 5400 until t send you the black 8550 i neeed the return tracking # so that i can do yhe evchange Thanks xxxxx”

If she drives and text’s at the same time I’d stay off the road!!

By: SAP

SAP — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 12:32:45 +0000

I find it very distracting to read text with lots of spelling/grammatical errors.
Unfortunately there is a lot of it about.

Try also to consider the target audience – some jargon may be OK, but avoid obscure words.
Beware of idiomatic phrases – they can easily be misunderstood by people with different cultural backgrounds.

Have someone else read the draft if possible.

By: David M

David M — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 04:30:13 +0000

I tend to agree. I always see people who do not write correctly as being less educated. Why intentionally give yourself a disadvantage?