Me confused, and my head hurts reading that. If he's saddened by radios not talking to him he has bigger problems than not being able to write a clear paragraph. At least me thinks that's what he said. I am talking like Cookie Monster today. Gimme cookies.
I am a great speller, and i loved english. But i can make typing mistakes terribly sometimes...so just ignore them=D
I agree very much with the spelling and grammar case, and I am not a professional writer nor did I major in English, being sixteen years old and all that jazz. I think if I can manage it everyone should make the effort! But this is just me being obsessive compulsive, really. And I can't remember who said they are pedantic about apostrophes, but oh my god, incorrect apostrophe usage should actually be a crime. x x x
An apostrophe in the wrong place makes my husband apoplectic. He notices that problem everywhere, even on signs along the highway. I'm more forgiving. Oops. Just noticed how old this thread is. *takes off shoes and creeps quietly away*
My favorite misused english is the sign on a (fruit and veg) Market Stall: Collie's 50p Not only is there a pointless apostrophe but the mind boggles ... a cauliflower for vegetarian Koreans perhaps ...?
Yeah re-opening old topics is fine so long as they're not the sort to go out of date (eg the occasionaly bozo who answer's a tech question in a thread that's been dead for 3 years ) For some reason my own personal bte noires include the not-incorrect use of the verb to fall in relation to getting pregnant. I remember my mum saying that she didn't like the work pregnant when I was little ... "expecting" or "expectant" was the preferred word. I suspect that this prudishness persists and that the implication of lack of voluntary control (falling down) somehow ameliorates the disgust that people still feel in regard to the word. As far as I am concerned one gets or becomes pregnant. There's no accident about it when the event is a part of a normal process of marital relations and family planning decisions ... and when it's not the helplessness implicit in the word fall is totally inappropriate, instead the getting/becoming verb just needs a qualifying adverb such as recklessly or stupidly .... Rant over ... <*Mirelly shambles off muttering like a mad old woman*>
I can see the mistake in some peoples apostophe usage but I usually don't point it out because I know what they mean. I'm trying really hard to spell things correctly while i post this, for the fact that I wont look like a moron and have someone point out all my errors. =p
hehehe...just because you said that: wont is won't. Honestly that doesn't bother me at all but it was just funny! hehehe I think the main thing we're after here are the people who write in txt speak. If you make a few grammatical mistakes or spelling mistakes then it's forgiven! I know I'm not perfect and I won't claim to be.
To be honest I don't mind if people make the expected errors like forgetting an apostrophe or accidently misspelling a word. Almost everyone does that throughout writing as they learn how to properly spell words that they've perhaps never seen in print before. I for one have heard a lot of words and different places, but I've never seen them written down on paper to actually know how they're supposed to be spelled - so that part is a learning curve. However I do have problems with those online that try to abbreviate everything, for example: "hi how r u? i saw these 2 ppl talkin 1 day 2 evry1 & i was like lol omg" That kind of spelling and grammar annoys me when people actually try to ask questions or carry on conversations. It's pretty much butchering the language, and isn't needed unless the person is texting someone on a cellphone. The only exception to my annoyance with that is when the person only talks like that in a post or two to poke fun of how unnesessary it is to shorten words to "type faster" or to show how the average newbie posts.
my ex-girlfriend uses these abbriviations all the time and one of them really makes me mad like, why can't you just spell the whole word out? She uses 10 instead of then. I mean what the heck? It's a four letter word, it doesn't take all that much of your time. I'm still typing really slowly on this forum for the reason past given.
Well the good thing is that you keep doing the full text, eventually you learn how to speed up your typing to a point where typing 10 is the same as typing then Plus also take into consideration that you burn more calories too
