Thursday was National Grammar Day, and since I'm picky about grammar and punctuation (I'm an editor - it's my job), I feel obligated to apologize, once again, for Typepad. They have this seemingly-great system now that allows me to reply to a comment directly from the e-mail message that informs me of the comment. Easy and great, right? Respond to more comments in less time! Except that it also takes all the apostrophes out of my response comment, making me sound ungrammatical and possibly really illiterate. Thanks, Typepad! I don't know if this is a Mac thing, a Gmail thing, or just another Typepad thing that they've released without working out the glitches, but I apologize on their behalf, and offer you some of the missing apostrophes:
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Not at all, Helen! Your comments and thoughts are always welcome; dont worry about commas.
Posted by: Lainie | May 13, 2010 at 11:42 AM
Yee gads! Sorry for any errors in comments on slow cloth. I tend to put commas and semi-colons when my thoughts change or I take a breath. I always hope no one is a teacher or editor, I lost on this one. Hope my punctuation never got in the way of the points I was making.
Posted by: helen | May 13, 2010 at 11:37 AM
Mmmm. I didn't know that and now will take that into consideration when I am "judging" people by their punctuation!!!
Posted by: Diane | March 30, 2010 at 03:12 PM
Hi Dee - I share your pet peeve - it is incredibly annoying. I am not sure why the Typepad software eliminates the apostrophes, though I suspect it is because I use a Mac.
Posted by: Lainie | March 19, 2010 at 08:27 PM
I have a pet peeve about the misuse of apostrophes -- esp. with the word "it's" -- It's amazing how often even professional print gets it wrong... this 'streamlining' is not a step in the right direction!
Posted by: Dee Mallon | March 18, 2010 at 04:07 PM
I'm very picky about grammar too! That seems like a cool feature - hopefully they'll work out the kinks!
Posted by: Lori | March 07, 2010 at 01:42 PM