Self-realization. I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, who said, "I drank what?"

I think at some point in the past we've covered the concept that the average person out there in the world could sooner find their ass with a map than type something resembling a grammatically correct sentence. Beyond the written word, there is the written number - and trust us when we say that a map, a compass, a GPS unit and a big, flashing neon sign isn't likely to help some people when it comes to correctly writing numbers. You'd think it wouldn't be that hard, but then again, we were able to find our own asses without a map at a very young age. "Prodigy" was a word that was regularly thrown about when referring to us...among a few others that we're pretty sure we weren't supposed to hear and therefor won't repeat.

For those of you, we mean us...er...them! Yea, for all those other guys that aren't exactly real geniuses and are capable of realizing this and willing to admit as much and could use something of a refresher course, enjoy...and learn something for god's sake.


10 Rules for Writing Numbers and Numerals. [dailywritingtips.com]