Rant on Writing

Sloppiness in writing is just another way to say "I want each and every reader to fix the mistakes that I'm too lazy to notice or correct."  Either that or it's the author's way to say "I want the world to know how ignorant I am and I want to make a permanent record of that fact."

The three most common mistakes in writing -- including captioning -- and how to fix them:

"Woman" is a single individual (singular); "women" is more than one (plural).

"Dominate" is an action (verb) where something is being done, such as "she liked to dominate her subs."  "Dominant" is either a description (adjective) such as "she has dominant tendencies" or a title / address (noun) such as "she is a dominant."

An apostrophe is NEVER used to make something plural (meaning more than one).  "She has three sub's" is wrong, Wrong, WRONG!!!  "She has three subs."  An apostrophe shows ownership.  "Her sub's attitude is nice."  (Attitude is something that belongs to the sub.)

If those three very simple rules were followed (even if the few exceptions were missed), the quality of writing on The Internet would go up dramatically.  It really isn't hard.  Three rules.  Just three.  Of course, one must care about readers and have some self respect to care about such things.

END RANT (for now)


Note:  Cross-posted on Tumblr.