Things that annoy me, part n:

[lederhosen]

In a spin-off discussion from the Recent Unpleasantness, Raymond E. Feist took somebody to task from quoting from a private SFWA group without the posters' permission:

Irrespective of how many members may have access into a private area, it is still a private area. One of the tenants of SFF.net is that private member areas exist so that those members can discuss, off-the-record, matters of their own, personal and collective, concern. Violating that trust by posting anything from within that site, irrespective of motivation, is a violation of your users agreement, and an insult to the collective membership, no matter if they agree or disagree with your position, and is likely to get you tossed off the board.

Feist's position seems reasonable enough to me, except for one important detail: a 'tenant' is somebody who rents real estate. An important principle/ideal/etc is a tenet. I see this one far too often, but coming from a well-known author... gah!

Comments

[corruptedjasper.livejournal.com]

This is why there are copyeditors and proofreaders.

[drzero.livejournal.com]

...being made redundant hiter and yon because they are considered a luxury.

[drzero.livejournal.com]

*pardon previous comment's typo*

If you look on ABC's Lingua Franca podcast site, they recently had Clive James discussing the decline of good grammar. He spoke on very similar lines to you :)