Quote Originally Posted by ProblemSolver View Post
If it wasn't done intentionally. It isn't that unusual for the internet, as you
know. And some people like to bother grammar 'whores'.
But that is the question and point, isn't it. <question mark intentionally not used] In my experience of English language errors in spelling and grammar, these errors are nearly always a result of unintended mistakes, either through ignorance of the correct form or by typographical errors left in place through laziness in proofreading and correction. I comment on such errors rarely, partly because some of the people who make these mistakes are friends whose virtues much outweigh such weaknesses. Such errors are so common that pointing out the mistakes would absorb more time than I have to give relative to the value of doing it. Sometimes I will note such errors when they're made by people who seem to lack the ability to self-criticise, in another word, egoists.

I do like precision and accuracy in the use of language because that avoids misunderstandings, conveys clearly what it actually meant, avoids damaging mistakes, whether in pharmaceutical usage or diplomacy, or in any of many areas of human interaction with other humans or dangerous devices. Accuracy of language use is too often considered entirely unimportant just because in some unimportant situations, it makes little difference, but in many cases, accuracy is highly important, sometimes to the point of life-or-death. In this case in this thread, in that post, it didn't make a damned bit of difference except to make a little gadfly bite in someone's ego. We can all profit occasionally from those little bites to our own sense of ourselves. I've certainly benefitted from some of those, gotten a blessed touch of humility.