Jason Kraus wrote:
We are all using bad grammar, we should all be using old English and talk
like the characters in the Old King James version of the Bible! After all,
American English is just the bastardization of old English. Point being,
grammar and spelling is relative to the audience, hence why I'm not a
grammar Nazi (that and I am horrible at grammar, I would be like a Jewish
Nazi or something).
There's horrible grammar, and then there's just plain illiterate.
Lie vs. lay. Split infinitives. Subject-verb agreement. That's grammar.
"Lead" vs. "led" is illiteracy (it's actually reliance on spellchecking
rather than proofreading).
I don't flame off about grammar often anymore, but the "lead" when you
meant "led" drives me up a tree.
Why?
Because it breaks my reading speed and begins to corrupt my *correct*
wiring about the English language.
Both "lead" (pronounced leed) and "led" are verbs. This means that I
may have to reread the sentence once or twice to figure out whether the
grammar error is number, agreement, tense, or outright illiteracy in
order to decode the sentence. I even once hit an ambiguous sentence
because of this. Very irritating.
All this is simply because everybody is starting to propagate an error
because led vs. lead doesn't get caught by spell checkers.
If I hit a web page that makes this mistake nowadays, I close the page
unread.
-a
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