Poem -
A Pedant's plea!
Call me petty, call me trite
but you know what? try as I might…
I can’t skip past a word misspelled,
and vanquish views that I have held,
from times gone by,when, as a kid
a word spelled wrong, well God forbid?
So I grew up and learned to write..
Not right- but write - now get it right,
I knew the difference between
their and there and bean and been.
I came to trust nobody who
could not correctly spell too to…
So when I read a point of view
on something serious and true,
if authors get their grammar wrong
then their view’s really not worth a song!
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I tolatly undsaertnd what you meen.
Haha nyce won Gerard, xx
Hi Lodi, reading through some older pieces that I might have missed and came across this one- you have hit the nail right on the head! one of my gripes is that I often read a piece of poetry and there are huge spelling errors throughout- now I know not everyone has had an English degree education but with spellcheck etc etc there is no excuse to get spellings wrong..the other annoying thing is how few people understand when to use 'To' and 'Too' if you were to read their poems where the word has been used incorrectly it totally makes it nonsensical...' I love you to'...reads as I love you to ....to what? you love me to what ? pieces?... whereas 'I love you TOO says exactly that!!! grrr thanks for highlighting it - helpful poets would help other poets making these mistakes as it diminishes their work and they dont even realise it..it's not being rude to gently steer them onto a better course after all its all about learning isnt it? anyway sermon over -you hit my gripe point- I love your work and particularly because your grammar, spelling and punctuation are always spot on!!