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@ wilfred owen: its actually pronounced a* star =D. Putting an asterix next to a letter is one way of showing that the letter should be pronounced as you would when reading it in the alphabet. "a star" sounds like the "a" in "ant". a* star sounds like the a in "way". I learned this when i asked why the 90s girl band B* witched had a star in their name: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B*Witched

Can anyone tell me why I am posting in this thread? Do I not have something better to do?

Ok phonetically speaking then A* is "Ae star" :)

WE are sad people who do have something better to do but prefer to use this forum as a displacement activity to avoid the mundane chores of life and it allows us some form of escapism from the harsh cold world out there. :)

General Arun most CVs in the UK are done by email nowadays.

Really? In the Netherlands your changes are much higher if you do it as a letter. (at least that`s what I hear and see everywhere)

Skunk some companies still request handwritten ones.

I know that the majority of America has a crappy educational system, but I just did not see it here where I live. I don't really live in a rich neighborhood, and the schools I went to weren't particularly nice or outstanding. I would say the majority of the school I went to knew evolution was fact. (Our Biology teachers taught it) The majority of our school could read and write at a high school level. It had mostly to do with the student body just being interested in being at school. The teachers were decent, and the classes weren't that boring. Above all, the students were interested in learning.

So even though the standard is low for the average skunk, why do you want to be average? Before the moments of your death, do you want to look back and say, "Oh well, I lived an average life."? I don't.

Good thing i am working at well above averge isnt it.

a* star

A star star?

I'm not really that obsessed with grammar, especially on the internet. As long as i can understand it (and not butchered), Im ok for a few mistakes. For example, I dont always put apostrophes (the sign ') or put capitals, but you can't say I'm not good in English. It is the internet after all.

Granted, I will readily admit that I was being picky on some issues.

Now, I will present "What SGV should have typed":

I will readily admit that, as well as correcting blindingly obvious mistakes, I made a number of stylistic changes, which were not necessarily an improvement, and in some sentences, I retained some clauses which made entirely no sense.

The redundant third sentence especially seems, redundantly, to be a redundant product of the Department of Redundancy Department, a department I find to be completely redundant.

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American spelling is substandard and seems to have a fear of the letter 'u' e.g. colour, flavour plus there are other deficiencies.

Why do the Americans shorten the word Statistics to Stats but do not shorten Mathematics to Maths (Instead they shorten to Math)? Is this logical? NO!!!!

:P

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^ What is this? I don't even...

Anyway, no matter how you look at it, good spelling and grammar is important for someone to have because our words are supposed to facilitate communication by making our ideas clear to the people you want to communicate to, whether by mail, article, forum, or talking face-to-face. It's okay if you forget to do things once in a while, even more so on the Internet, but saying that grammar and spelling are not important will lead to confusion about what you are trying to say and people can misinterpret what you are trying to say. Not only that, but unless you actually meet the person face-to-face, your words are the only glimpse of your personality that can be seen by others. So if you send in a job application full of mistakes without actuality meeting your employers, they will think that 1)you are not very good at communication which can be problematic, 2)your intelligence is below average, and 3)if you don't care to bother to fix your mistakes on paper, it is likely that you won't care to fix mistakes during your job either.

Currently what your butchered sentences on the forums are saying to me, skunk, is that you while you are generally friendly, you are stubborn, childish, and have lower standards than a twelve-year old. If this is how you want to be perceived, then continue typing up botched forum posts. Others will most likely not take you seriously until you raise the standard grammar and spelling of your posts so that it is clear to us what you are saying.

Regards,
swords

Speaking as a real world proffesional I can tell you that spelling means nothing in the real proffesional world. MS WORD does the job for you. Im going through thousnds of pages of documents each month (and writeing houndreds) and if 1% of them is handwritten that's it. If you know how to use MS WORD (or equivalent) you're good to go.

Best regards

Yes Artham, because MSWord can differentiate between their, there and they're just as it can between yore, your and you're.

It can't (at least not most of the times), but what you are reffering to isn't a spelling mistake. It's a grammar mistake. I agree that you have to know grammar. Also I think I need to add a disclaimer - Im describeing the situation as it is for me in everyday life, so Im reffering to polish language rather then english. I don't write much in english (outside of internet), so I admit there might be diffrences and I assume the possibility that english MS Word can't handle some specific situations.

To me, a spelling mistake is one where you misspell a word, regardless of whether it creates another word or not. After all, it was not poor grammar that caused the mistake but poor spelling.