No matter what application or tool you are using nowadays we are all provided with a little help when it comes to spelling the way we were,or should have been, taught at school. Good old Uncle Bill or Uncle Steve,depending on which family you belong to, will put a red line underneath it to warn that it doesn’t recognise the word. It will then go ahead and offer up some suggestions. As helpful as it is to have technology to support the way we communicate does it help, hinder or simply make us downright lazy?

I personally think that it is a great thing to have people communicating on a variety of platforms in a variety of ways (although sometimes I don’t understand the terminology – LOL); but I do wonder though whether overall standards are slipping or whether it really matters at all if it is widely accepted that we will get a helping hand when we make a ‘typing error’.  What technology doesn’t pick up on is the common mistake of ‘there’ instead of ‘their’ and other common homophones; surely this is either a lack of attention or a lack of education… I’ve thrown out more than one CV in my time for this type of error.

Year on year, schools are reporting an improvement in exam results but in the workplace the standards seem to be going backwards. Does this point towards a curriculum that no longer focuses on the “3-R’s” or is it just the case that exams are getting easier…

Maybe I am just a purist at heart; after all language changes over the years otherwise I would be writing this in Latin (Sola lingua bona est lingua mortua). Personally, I still write the full word when I am sending a text message, I cannot bring myself 2 shorten it (OMG).

As ever, I would love to hear from you and I encourage you to add some comments – Don’t worry about the spelling, I won’t judge you for it!

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