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Dave W.
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
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 Posted - 07/02/2005 : 19:58:18 [Permalink]
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I personally like AOL SPEL CHEKR fr AIM 5.5
Bad spelling and grammar bothers me. It's really good here, but check out places like Rapture Ready. The general spelling and grammar use is on par with their general education and/or their intelligence. In places like that, even I, who is not a native English speaker, writes better than 90% of the Americans.
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GeeMack
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Posted - 07/03/2005 : 06:49:00 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Dr. Mabuse
I personally like AOL SPEL CHEKR fr AIM 5.5
Here's one for you, Doc...
Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rarely ever wrong.
Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect in it's weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.
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Dave W.
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 07/10/2005 : 02:15:57 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by GeeMack
quote:
Originally posted by Dr. Mabuse
I personally like AOL SPEL CHEKR fr AIM 5.5
Here's one for you, Doc...
Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rarely ever wrong.
Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect in it's weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.
Argh! My eyes, my eyes! I've gone blind.... and that is why the wise writer checks the chequer.... quote:
Bad spelling and grammar bothers me. It's really good here, but check out places like Rapture Ready. The general spelling and grammar use is on par with their general education and/or their intelligence. In places like that, even I, who is not a native English speaker, writes better than 90% of the Americans.
That's awful, but comical, in a tragic kind of way.
It's a pet peeve of mine as well, although I'm no longer the grammer nazi I used to be. If they can't write 'em, why should I try to read 'em?
I've always thought that if you have something to say, in order to get the point across as clearly as possible it is necessary to write in such a manner that you are easy to read. To me, sloppy writing is a sign of sloppy thought, and I have little patience with it.
But on a brighter side, they can be trained. I've taken note that many who come here writing like a Bush bicycle ride improve considerably as they go along.
People like Doc and Siberia impress hell out of me. They manage to write at least as well as I, in a language that they have taught themselves. Remarkable, and thus, which should I read: they or some hammer-head that shows no concern as to whether he is coherent or not?
Heh, even the late Latinijarl writes far better than many on other boards.
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Siberia
SFN Addict
Brazil
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Posted - 07/10/2005 : 08:04:37 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by filthy
People like Doc and Siberia impress hell out of me. They manage to write at least as well as I, in a language that they have taught themselves. Remarkable, and thus, which should I read: they or some hammer-head that shows no concern as to whether he is coherent or not?
Thanks, though you probably wouldn't like to see how I write in IMs and other places...  |
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
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Posted - 07/10/2005 : 09:25:51 [Permalink]
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| What's wrong with bad spelling? Sheesh, maybe I should not do chat!!! |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 07/10/2005 : 10:29:20 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Kil
What's wrong with bad spelling? Sheesh, maybe I should not do chat!!!
Most bad spelling in chat are typos. Also, the statements are relativly short -- no horrible, 500 word, run-on sentences and/or paragraphs.
I don't have all that much of a problem with misspelling (my own is downright creative, sometimes). It's all of the other violations of language that turn a piece of writing into gibberish-requiring-a-translator.
As I'se mentioned before, the only way we can get to know someone on these or any boards is through his/her writing. If you write like an idiot, you will be thought of as an idiot, est il pas aussi?
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"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
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Ricky
SFN Die Hard
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Tim
SFN Regular
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Posted - 07/10/2005 : 18:06:25 [Permalink]
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Posted by Filthy If you write like an idiot, you will be thought of as an idiot, est il pas aussi?
Hey f, you callin' ne a idiot?
Wellll, that's okay. My wife calls me worse...
There are some things online that really do irritate the pujeebies outta me.
Have you ever wondered why people use the ten thousand word paragraph, and then make it worse by the added use of all caps or the complete lack of capitalization? When they use no punctuation at all, I won't even read it.
But, my real pet peeve is all of these short cuts like using numbers instead of words, and crap like IMHO and BTW. All I've got to say about that is WTF!
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Boron10
Religion Moderator
USA
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Posted - 07/11/2005 : 15:04:44 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Tim:
All I've got to say about that is WTF!
That stands for "What's This For," right?
edited to add emphasis to Tim's quote |
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Ricky
SFN Die Hard
USA
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 07/11/2005 : 16:19:26 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Tim
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Posted by Filthy If you write like an idiot, you will be thought of as an idiot, est il pas aussi?
Hey f, you callin' ne a idiot?
Wellll, that's okay. My wife calls me worse...
There are some things online that really do irritate the pujeebies outta me.
Have you ever wondered why people use the ten thousand word paragraph, and then make it worse by the added use of all caps or the complete lack of capitalization? When they use no punctuation at all, I won't even read it.
But, my real pet peeve is all of these short cuts like using numbers instead of words, and crap like IMHO and BTW. All I've got to say about that is WTF!
I must be getting old. I'm starting to sound like Andy Rooney. I think Ill go home and see if my eyebrows need trimming.
Don't trim 'em; wax mini-handlebars into the centers of each. I saw that once. Diabolical looking and really cool.
Yeah, those are some of my big gripes as well. I haven't the faintest idea of what many of those acronyms mean and don't care enough to find out. Same for all caps and run-ons. If they must write in such a manner, I suspect that the post is has not enough substance to warrent the translation that my attention span is too short to provide without pain.
Hmph. I too, must be getting old and crotchety. I'd better get me another bottle of Serutan ('Natures' spelled backward, an elixer very popular amongst us codgers).
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"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
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