Grammar and typos

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All I can say is .

I have been transcribing now for 3 years and have never heard a thing about my grammar. I have gotten reports back the past couple of days this week stating:  There should be a comma here.. there should be a semicolon there.. you shouldn't have put a period, but a semicolon.. or when I put something as far as a comma where I was told to.. I would get it back stating that it was unnecessary, HUH?  Not only that, but I would have a passage from a grammar website pasted on the report that was sent back in e-mail. LOL.

I give credit where credit is due, but seriously...

Now instead of being paranoid about any kind of medical errors-- I am worried about if a comma is in the right place. Nice, huh?  Everything that I was corrected on was trivial. 

So, while I was sitting there feeling kicked in the gut waiting for my next grammar correction, I found myself looking through samples and reports transcribed by other people and found that the commas that I had on my reports were on other peoples transcriptions, too! 

No medical errors, miskakes, misplaced words, missing words, format issues, and I get grilled about a comma.

 I felt like I was back in highschool.  

Seriously, is this normal?? I am thinking about leaving this place. I have never felt so insulted.  A comma should be the last thing on their mind..especially when seeing the horrendous mistakes that were sent to clients by other transcriptionists in the database.

Just needed to vent.  Am I wrong to be so irritated about this?

So do you practice what you preach? I noticed in your heading you typed you not your.  Or did you type it that way on purpose? 

You know some come to this board upset or in a hurry.  I know I have.   There are times, I am sure, some come to this board dead tired from working all day or putting up with really bad dictators. 

Bottom line is that we are all human and humans are not perfect 24/7 365 days out of the year.  This is just a place we can let our hair down so to speak.  If you don't like it perhaps you can find a board out in cyber space somewhere where all is perfect.

Many MTs come to this site to relax and may not have the time or desire to proofread their messages.

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Having nothing meaningful to contribute, these immature holier-than-thou self-proclaimied experts need to vent their insecurities by finding fault with something as insignificant as spelling/grammar.  Reminds me a lot of a large percentage of QAs -- need to nitpick on something trivial, real or imagined.

I would just tell them to kiss my butt, unless they are also paying my salary - otherwise they should MTOB.

Having nothing meaningful to contribute, these immature holier-than-thou self-proclaimied experts need to vent their insecurities by finding fault with something as insignificant as spelling/grammar.  Reminds me a lot of a large percentage of QAs -- need to nitpick on something trivial, real or imagined.

I would just tell them to kiss my butt, unless they are also paying my salary - otherwise they should MTOB.

I do agree with some of what you typed - the small mindedness and all that, but you definitely do have 6 typographical  errors just in that little post and yes, it's just a bulletin board.....but if one is a master MT, well that reflects usually in everything that passes through their hands...including some internet posting on forums/boards.

just my nickel's worth....