Not all of us are excellent with grammar and spelling. But it is a turn-off to get into a tease and have to re-read and figure out what was intended. Should we not all proof-read our stuff before it goes "visible," please? Another pointer: the use of direct address calls for a comma. It DOES help to do this properly.
It's easy to see when the tease-writer's first language is not English. I don't mind that. But for those of us for whom English IS our first language, we can do better than we're doing. Having to re-read and figure out stuff as I go along through the tease is a big distraction.
Some might say I'm being picky. Some might say they just don't care. Well then, my response would be that they are simply not trying to really communicate very well, and it reduces the thrill of the tease. The point of the teases is to be teased. If I must go back and re-read things because they're not clear, how can a man stay "on-task" and remain excited? I might as well read baseball statistics in the middle of the whole process, you know? I'm over-stating this by now. You all understand, surely.
For some authors the spelling/grammar mistakes add to the flair. Most notable example is avatarbr.
For those where these errors are not intended, I could not help but think about the peer-review idea that was suggested in another thread. Maybe we should consider implementing this feature?
I know what you mean. Intentional, little cutsie names or phrases which are spelled phonetically are not what I was talking about. That's a horse of a different color. Thanks for taking this request seriously, though.
---Doink.
