Is a written, or a verbal, faux pas worse?
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Written is worse, especially on a computer, where it stays in cyberspace forever to haunt you.  I was doing some research for work the other day, and found an article I had written six years ago, and how it read wasn't what I meant.\n\nPlus, it is difficult to express sarcasm or inflection with written words, and in theory, one could have time to organize one's thoughts and proofread before committing words to paper.
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Well, it depends on who your talking to, but you should always try to be direct so that no one will misinterpret what you're trying to say. Once i was very indirect when stating an opinion and my words got twisted into the exact opposite of what i was trying to say!
563273
I hope your spoken conversations are better than this...
1103949
wtf are you trying to say?
593466
If you speak as poorly as you write, then your only hope is not to say anything. Keep your mouth shut and they will not know how stupid and lazy you really are.
426485
Can you make your point in 3 sentences or less?
208050
there are a lot of differrences. Written alguage usually can have more complex sentence structures and less slang.
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OK, I'll 'fess up.  I do it sometimes.  It drives me crazy seeing people make the same grammatic or typographic errors all the time...but that's not to say I'm perfect.  I would hope someone would correct me if I erred (and on occasion, they have), but I see it as an attempt to help someone communicate better.\n\nI've seen what poor grammar, limited vocabulary, and spelling can result in...people not getting a job they really want or getting stuck in a dead end one, not being taken seriously when trying to communicate with other people or being misunderstood because they just don't have the language skills to get their meaning across.  This is of course not true in all cases, but if someone along the way had corrected them each time they were wrong instead of letting the error go, they'd probably be communicating a lot better by now.\n\nYes, probably some people do it to feel better about themselves and you can usually tell that that's their motive in the way they do it when they belittle a person while correcting them. But I'd bet that there are just as many people who correct others, and try to do it in a supportive, constructive way, because it's our responsibility as neighbors, brothers and sisters, as human beings to do what we can to help someone else, even in this small way.  What good is having knowledge if you don't at least try to pass it on?
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It depends. If I'm doing business with you, it's annoying. Anything else, as long as the punctuation is there and/or you get your point across, I don't much care.
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So is this a rhetorical question?
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Depends on the context, I would suppose. If you want to find out what the details are, just in general, it "could" be flushing.\n\nBut I think you probably mean fleshing out -expanding on- the details.
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Ha ha! I think so too! And to add to the ridiculousness of greetings, how sincere is "How are YOU????" Do some people REALLY care? If you actually told them all your troubles, they would want to run away from you and go get a drink!!\nShaking hands is funny! You're right....but it could be worse! What if the standard greeting was something else...like pinching their fanny!!!
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dissing.\nsatire.\n\nwhich one exactly depends on how they're doing it.
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Yes. it happens some times. Its as if the other person is speaking a foreign language. When you tell them sorry i blanked out, they take it bad. They prob think u think that they are boring.
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If I have to choose between the two, I would say the Preachy one is worse.\nPersonally, I rather deal with the patronizing one, because I know what I would be dealing with, than the sweet holier than thou preachy one.
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Typos are one thing..deliberately looking stupid is something entirely different.\n"iz dat cleer enuff 4 u?"
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Nope. I tell them that it's not spelled that way. No big deal. If it's not on a public/legal/medical document, ad, print or on it's way to a printer at the expense of me or client - I don't care. \n\nPeople who get annoyed every time someone in "casual" conversation misspell or use bad grammar are the most boring creatures to be around (you're not debasing anyone just being B-O-R-I-N-G), have no life, or too happy and need real problems.