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		<title>Pet Peeves in Writing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2007 20:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, I&#8217;m a web programmer/coder, but I also have a keen eye for punctuation, grammar and spelling. I don&#8217;t expect the general public to have Harvard-like writing skills, but come on, there&#8217;s got to be some kind of level of &#8230; <a href="http://weboverhauls.com/dennislembree/blog/2007/08/22/pet-peeves-in-writing/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes, I&#8217;m a web programmer/coder, but I also have a keen eye for punctuation, grammar and spelling. I don&#8217;t expect the general public to have Harvard-like writing skills, but come on, there&#8217;s got to be some kind of level of acceptance! These are the things that get me the most. (By the way, my degree is actually in communications, and I&#8217;ve done some professional tech writing also, so I can say these things&#8230;)</p>
<p>In case you&#8217;re not sure, the points below include mistakes on purpose; I&#8217;m feeling  twisted.</p>
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<li>Why don&#8217;t people put question marks at the end of sentences. I hate that!</li>
<li>People say and type the hyphen instead of a dash-very naive. Didn&#8217;t anyone  take typing in High School? If you are unable to create the proper dash symbol (â€”), then just use two hyphens. Remember, a hyphen is used either to join words together, or to indicate a word             division at the end of a line.</li>
<li>Commonly <s>mispelled</s> <a href="http://www.yourdictionary.com/library/misspelled.html">misspelled words</a>:
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<li><strong>calendar</strong> â€” programmers especially need to learn this!</li>
<li><strong>their/they&#8217;re/there</strong> â€” Possessive is &#8220;their&#8221;, and the contraction of &#8220;they are&#8221; is &#8220;they&#8217;re.&#8221;  Everywhere else, it is &#8220;there.&#8221;</li>
<li><strong>its/it&#8217;s</strong> â€” The apostrophe marks a contraction of &#8220;it is.&#8221; Something that belongs to it is &#8220;its.&#8221;</li>
<li><strong>separate</strong> â€” Note that the Es surround the As.</li>
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<li><a href="http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/pamphlets/proofing_grammar.shtml#apostrophes">Apostrophes</a>. Its bad when I remember that in the 80&#8242;s, all of my fellow student&#8217;s paper&#8217;s were wrong.
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<li>Indicating letters missing. The apostrophe replaces the text. So, &#8220;cannot&#8221; is &#8220;can&#8217;t&#8221;, therefore &#8220;remember the 70&#8242;s&#8221; should be &#8220;remember the &#8217;70s&#8221;.</li>
<li>Indicating possession:
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<li>This is the boyâ€™s glove. [One boy owns this glove.]</li>
<li>This is the boysâ€™ glove. [More than one boy owns this glove.]</li>
<li>These are the boysâ€™ gloves. [More than one boy owns more than one glove.]</li>
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<li>AND OF COURSE, WRITING IN ALL CAPS IN REALLY OBNOXIOUS.</li>
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