Kestrel, don't take this personally, but the common place error you mentioned is used by people (and I am not accusing you personally) on this board as a judgment of intelligence.
My daughter will not post here. She has an extensive knowledge of all of Trek up to and including Voyager. She could add a lot to any of the conversations, but she says "It seems to me that you have to have the perfect post, will all i's dotted and all t's crossed before anyone will listen to what you are saying."
It's kind of an open secret that I mod another Trek Forum, we have an unwritten rule, and yes some of the younger members don't get it but it works. "You do not give negative feedback in an open forum." Now mainly this is in connection to fan fiction, but it has kind of been extended to the forum discussions too. Corrections are given in private via a PM.
I didn't lie when I said that I copy and paste every post into word. I do it because I am very aware that I don't hear the sounds in words correctly and I cannot spell phonetically. I kid about it a lot but it is so frustrating to confuse spell check, to know something is spelled wrong but don't have the first idea of how to spell it right, to keep plugging in combinations of letters (and my problems are mostly with vowels) until you hit the right combination and spell check can recognize the word.
I actually tried to laugh it off until I saw your post in another thread that took me to task about using the illustration of Avery Brooks not wanting to have Sisko die leaving another Black child to be raised by a single mom. That's the point I decided that you were far more interested in "correcting" me personally rather than what was said in the first place.
So I'm sorry if I took your comments the wrong way, but you have to understand that on this board I wear a red shirt only mine has a big target painted on the back too. I've been accused of being a troll, and a part of a sock puppet conspiracy by a couple of Janeway fans to fool people into thinking that people actually like her.
I am here because every once in a while someone actually asks me where is this board that respects Janeway fans. Where are those people that will not come to Trek BBS because their opinions are discounted, where they are continually told just how lousy their favorite character was. And I can tell them where to look.
On June 16th there was a Live Journal post to the effect that Voyager fans feel very unwanted here. So I'm sorry if I tarred you with the same brush as everyone else, but most of the time from my angle you all look alike.
Brit
Maybe it's true love.
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) but some people prefer to post in that manner (that'll be me, more often than not, though not exclusively). Nothing right or wrong about either method, so long as communication is ocurring. I appreciate when people expand my vocabulary or correct using the wrong words, so I (clearly mistakenly) applied the same standard in this case. 
But that's off-topic. 
