I hate ignorance
One day or the other I should really devote myself to a project that could change my life.
I’d like to write a small plugin for the browser that analyses the content of web pages and corrects the grammar and orthography errors.
The reason is I do not want to read bad written articles.
I can’t stand sentences with typos all over the place and with errors that, if written by a child attending the 5th grade, would be the ones marked in red. I think it’s humiliating, for the authors in first place, to publish such type of content and be convinced that someone could be pleased when reading that sloppy and careless work.
I mainly speak about italian, and more specifically about omitted apostrophes (un amica), orthography errors (e’ instead of è), plural and singular mistakes, and the ones I can’t stand at all: sentences that span from four to five lines without proper punctuation. I’m sure I forgot about a thousand more that I always read but can’t remember right now.
I cannot justify authors for being so “lazy”, since they’re spreading the worst plague I know: ignorance.
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Sometimes it’s not just about ignorance. E.g., often the reason why so many kids are using ” -e’, -a’, -o’, etc. ” instead of ” -é,-è, -à, -ò, etc. ” is because they got used to that on games or devices where proper ” -é, -è, -à, -à, etc. ” were not available (like MMORPG or old/dumb mobile phones), and they work around such limitation in this way.
ok, sometimes the “kids are lazy” to search for the right keystrokes combo. I mean that sometimes people seem to care just about publishing another article clicking the POST button, rather than expressing something meaningful with correct terms and proper language command. I spotted this behaviour in many press releases, auto-promotional blog posts, pseudo-technology blogs, you name it: moreover, with poor form often comes poor content.