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Originally Posted by queentess
What's the percentage of people who don't know the difference between "then" and "than"?  |
There is a reason I hired a proof reader when I was working on my dissertation. My grammar is poor and we won't talk about my spelling. I blame the 8 different learning disabilities which influence how I hear sounds (audio discrimination), see words and numbers (dyslexia and disnomia), and process visual information (dysgraphia). Toss in ADHD and I struggled in most of the more rigiourous elements of school (Math, Science, Grammar) but excelled in the more creative elements (Creative Writing and Reading). The social sciences were pretty easy for me but that is because I loved reading and my parents loved history so it was something we were taught from day 1.
I don't worry about these things on bulletin boards because, well, it is a bulletin board and I don't feel the need to stress over the difference between then and than. My dissertation and anything I published went through a much more structured review process and my thens and thans were correct.