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Apple's iChat and China: The Perfect Marriage

<if you are obsessed with grammer over content, don't read blogs. Go read some journals by Harvard professors.>

Hey, User 163362 -- grammar (and spelling for that matter, where you obviously face some challenges of your own!) really have only one purpose: to facilitate communication. Incorrect grammar and spelling make it tough to read and comprehend any sort of writing. It makes no difference whether the text is published in a scholarly journal or posted on a blog.

In both cases cited here -- the incorrect use of apostrophes for plurals and your misspelling -- it's pretty simple to figure out what the authors intended. But even these mistakes do distract from the content, diverting the reader's attention when noticing the gap in the grammatical logic of the passage, often causing him to go back to re-read the passage and double-check whether some aspect of the message was missed in the first reading, and generally interrupting the flow of thought that the author was trying to convey. Good writing paints a vivid mental picture; lousy writing interferes with that flow.

While these are hardly the most egregious examples of spelling and grammar errors, I support Grammar Nazi in trying to elevate the level of writing (and thereby communication) here and everywhere else words are put to virtual paper. Too many people in our blogging/text-messagin... society don't have a clue how to get their ideas across effectively.