Spelling Mistakes...
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mezzoprezzo
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Oh Casper, you have let me down !
When I saw that you had posted in this thread I expected a screenshot of a few orphan ellipsis flying over a sea of misspellings and examples of bad grammar - all set to against the atmospheric background of a misty morning...
Chris
Love it!
Suggest you ignore my post then!
Cheers
Casper
Dinorius_Redundicus
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That's true over the long term for some words as you have said, but we are talking here about blatant and rather lazy spelling errors that actually obscure or change the meaning of sentences. This is especially bad on a web page meant to convey information about the file uploading process. It's not as if there is a popular movement to change "stopping" to "stoping". If we don't accept the rules of a language, any student who makes spelling and grammatical errors can just use the "plastic language" defence to pass their exams. I can't see that tactic working somehow.
I am a very good speller it's just thay now I'm getting close to 60 & every time i go to the optomartoist he says I need new tgalsses but that dosen't syop the keys moving to fifferent places on my ketboatd every time I go to tupe a word.
Seriously though I think the problem is in the school system.My grandson was taught to spell words the way they sounded when he first started school ( eg kat ) then as he progressed he was taught to spell correctly.
Or There just too lazy to care in allot of cases.
Schools need to get back to basics & teach the way they used to.Most teenagers these days can't add two numbers without a calculator.
Dave
Seriously though I think the problem is in the school system.My grandson was taught to spell words the way they sounded when he first started school ( eg kat ) then as he progressed he was taught to spell correctly.
Or There just too lazy to care in allot of cases.
Schools need to get back to basics & teach the way they used to.Most teenagers these days can't add two numbers without a calculator.
Dave
OK I will start an "ignore this post" thread specially to ignore your post, until then I will just ignore it.
Cheers
Ignore
I agree, Ed. I used to read my local newspaper mostly to look for the typographical errors!
At one time I was a typographer, and accuracy is something that was drilled into me even though there was a proof reading department.
The thing that gets my blood boiling is the he goes and she goes when talking about two people having a conversation. What happened to he said and she said?
John
Yes, my original joke was people worry about the grammar [using is or are] instead of the fact that the yolk is actually yellow not white as I wrote in the joke :hehe: :hehe:
I just engaged my nine year old daughter in a conversation about this very mistake today. I'm certain she did not appreciate it, but all my children have fine vocabularies, and I do not suffer these types of conversational gaffes lightly.
Dude, you are so, like, unhip! It's not "he goes, she goes" any more, it's "he's like, she's like"...................
Mick, like, Berg.:hehe:
ray_whiley
Active member
My hands are held high (which makes using the keyboard difficult) and I confess to this 'sin'.
I'm not sure why I do this but believe it's when I want to emphasise something, without using an exclamation mark ( of which there are too many today, especially when used in multiple) or to imply that more remains to be said, which I leave to the reader.
However, in my defence I must point out that use of the ellipsis to end a sentence is permitted in certain circumstances by the 'Oxford Style Manual' page 129.
I rest my case ...
Ray
Shouldn't this be 'Please stop people. You are giving me a headache'
Andy
Please Stop
People, you are giving me a headache
Jamie
Dinorius_Redundicus
kuid 68213
How many times do you hear disconnect used like this; "there seems to be a disconnect between your ego and your ability". Is it so hard to use the noun disconnection?
captainkman
You are reading this.
I am mad aboout spelling. But the only time that I forget about it is when I am using Cascaderailroad's Speel Chucker.
The English skills and knowledge displayed around my class at school are less than satisfactory.
I am appalled to see that students continue to disregard the value of spelling and grammar.
My prediction for the future is that books and newspapers will use the sort of 'chat speak' seen frequently today. Groups of words like 'IMHO' will be very common.
Well, that's enough from me, until next time!
The English skills and knowledge displayed around my class at school are less than satisfactory.
I am appalled to see that students continue to disregard the value of spelling and grammar.
My prediction for the future is that books and newspapers will use the sort of 'chat speak' seen frequently today. Groups of words like 'IMHO' will be very common.
Well, that's enough from me, until next time!
NSWGR_46Class
Just call my Captain Rude
Sorry but being an Australian Company Fourm you need to spell it realise not realize thats not cricket sir
LOL:hehe:
ray_whiley
Active member
We should accept all spelling versions which are correct in their own country: colour/color, etc. and realise/realize that these differences exist for good reasons.
I would suggest that 'color' is the logical spelling, whilst 'colour' reflects the derivation of the word - and so on.
Ray
I would suggest that 'color' is the logical spelling, whilst 'colour' reflects the derivation of the word - and so on.
Ray
I have no issue whatsoever with English derivatives. Take US and UK English for instance. The same language but different.
What annoys me is the sheer laziness of a growing number of people these days when it comes to the written word. A former colleague spent a good while telling me 'thru' was an accepted spelling of 'through' in UK English because it was used at MacDonald's and it was quicker than writing 'through'. I had to walk away at this point before I started to use percussive reasoning with him.
Another example is people actually speaking in text speak. I was horrified to hear a young woman say "LOL" in reponse to her friend.
The sad thing is that text speak is becoming more acceptable in the written word and school pupils aren't chastised for using it. The reasoning behind this is that English is evolving. I'd argue that point and say that English is degrading but who am I to question?
Believe it or not, The Economist is widely seen as setting the acceptable styles and changes to grammar here.
What annoys me is the sheer laziness of a growing number of people these days when it comes to the written word. A former colleague spent a good while telling me 'thru' was an accepted spelling of 'through' in UK English because it was used at MacDonald's and it was quicker than writing 'through'. I had to walk away at this point before I started to use percussive reasoning with him.
Another example is people actually speaking in text speak. I was horrified to hear a young woman say "LOL" in reponse to her friend.
The sad thing is that text speak is becoming more acceptable in the written word and school pupils aren't chastised for using it. The reasoning behind this is that English is evolving. I'd argue that point and say that English is degrading but who am I to question?
Believe it or not, The Economist is widely seen as setting the acceptable styles and changes to grammar here.
If you have the time, read this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_spelling_differences
It is known that our brain can translate the differences into our common language without difficulty.
Regards,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_spelling_differences
It is known that our brain can translate the differences into our common language without difficulty.
Regards,
'Color' IS the correct version, we (British/English) jumped ship to the french-sounding version *after* America split off (well, it'd be more accurate to say after the people that split off America left Britain, as I think this happened around 1770 iirc), in an attempt to look fancy and posh.
Likewise, -ize and -ise are both valid English, one is the oxford spelling system, the other the Cambridge spelling system. the -ize forms have been demonised as a form of anti-Americanist snobbery, even though they are perfectly valid English words, and the accepted normal spelling for publications until the mid 20th century (when Oxford overtook Cambridge in terms of top-dog dictionary).
Regarding text-speech usage in the future, it's inevitable, I'm afraid, the evolution of language often favours higher information density, and text-speech has evolved because of an actual need for information density and compression. To anyone looking forward to living into the 2030s and beyond, I recommend getting used to it now rather than letting hate for inevitable change consume you later.
Someone here in this thread used a word I absolutely hate. "FREAKING" (or "FREAKIN" as the case may be.) My apologies are extended to peghorse, but I can't stand that word.
That word is as bad as "SUCKS."
Everyone knows what "FREAKING" is used in place of, and if you knew where the origin of "SUCKS" came from you probably would use it either. (Has something to do with the private part of a male donkey.)
Call me old school (please) but those words should be expelled from the planet. At least when used as people use them these days.
The old-timer side of
Dave Snow
That word is as bad as "SUCKS."
Everyone knows what "FREAKING" is used in place of, and if you knew where the origin of "SUCKS" came from you probably would use it either. (Has something to do with the private part of a male donkey.)
Call me old school (please) but those words should be expelled from the planet. At least when used as people use them these days.
The old-timer side of
Dave Snow