Write Right

I am a person who sometimes corrects punctuation on already-posted posters.

I am embarrassed if I find I've spelled something wrong.

I frequently disagree with Word's grammar check.

An apostrophe in the possessive "its" makes me mutter unkind things.

In other words, I love language, its purpose, its poetry, its nuance.

When somebody writes me a letter, I don't care about the spelling and the grammar. It's what you say, of course, that matters, much more than the way you say it. However, there will be times when anybody will need to write standard English in a more or less intelligent way: A job application, a school essay, a thesis, a love letter.

I like to write. I know that many people do not like to write. These are things I want to write about (or, as my high school English teacher would have said, about which I want to write.)