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So, the whole advice about practicing – practicing speeking properly, spelling correctly, being courteous and not cursing – is not all hot air. I’ve had this problem twice today and it is a direct result of not practicing the RIGHT way.

My mother always told me “if you practice that in private, you are going to go in public and embarass yourself”.  Yesterday’s class here at work even said it in another form: “do it only if you don’t care about getting caught”.

I’ve never really paid full attention to such sentiment simply because I never really had any huge bad habits that would embarass me in public … until now.

This whole game-speak habit, I suspect, is very close to getting me into trouble.  You see, in-game, you shorten certain words to save typing time when you need to get a point across and you also don’t make too much of a big deal over other people’s misspellings.

Well, here it came to bite me in the ass today when 2 times, I typed “tonite” in an email and got ready  to click the send button. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not that someone is going to be likely to call me up on it. But just thinking about how I sit and watch people making those mistakes and say to myself  “Geez. Did they even go to school?” is the same way I imagine people are evaluating me – especially since I am so new in so many ways.

And it hit me … what you practice in private is almost always going to be demonstrated in public… something to think about.

I went back each time and changed my spelling to tonight. No one is going to grammar-police me – no siree!

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