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Re: Friday Fun: What Pet Peeve makes you puke?

Subject: Re: Friday Fun: What Pet Peeve makes you puke?
From: Beth Agnew <beth -dot- agnew -at- senecac -dot- on -dot- ca>
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 17:52:12 -0400

I have a theory. (I've _always_ got a theory!) Our multimedia culture full of sound bytes encourages our brains to focus on the sound of things rather than their symbolic representation in text, hence "their" for "they're". Also, we just don't think about it when hurriedly typing, and don't take the time to check. See my archived post on the sleeper effect as well. Next up, the proliferation of text message spelling: Wat u tk bout at?

Ron Hearn wrote:

A curiosity more than a peeve I have is the "homonym phenomenon" found
in emails and IMs (but hopefully not our docs). That's when people use
"your" for "you're", "there" for "their" etc. Just wondering why people
do that? Is it that people are in a hurry that they don't think about
what they're (got that one) typing or is it a lack of spelling and/or
typing skills? Any thoughts?
--
Beth Agnew
Presenting "Podcasting & Vidcasting: The Future of TechComm"
at the STC Conference, Las Vegas, NV, 2 p.m. May 10, 2006

Professor, Technical Communication
Seneca College of Applied Arts & Technology
Toronto, ON 416.491.5050 x3133
http://www.tinyurl.com/83u5u

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