Bought and Brought!!

[supershifty]

I posted something similar to what is below in another thread:

I try to use the correct grammar wherever I can. I try to use the correct spelling also. Conveying what one wants to say in words is easy when speaking - it's far harder with writing and relating things in text. I usually "get" what folk are talking about in the forums - even if I have to re-read their posts a few times. I was expelled from school in year 10, but am damn lucky enough to have a reasonable grasp on grammar. Get over the grammar faults, not everyone has the same gifts. I appreciate the talents shown in this forum of the non-grammatical types. I just mean to say that there is horses for courses, I sure wish I had the talents that so many show and share on this forum.

Cheers!

[Cheese3]

This thread made me LOL
cnt u c m8

It's like today; I overheard a guy on the phone at work today. He was on the line to the yellow pages complaining about the font being too small . . .

Made me chuckle, if that's his biggest concern in his life.

[Cheese3]

Originally Posted by pottery beige

yep.. i is was in steelcaps workin when i is was still shoulda been in skoolbooks...

Here Here



(I know its ment to be "hear hear" but i'll point it out for people who can't understand sarcasm on the computer)

[tweeked]

Brakes, use them to stop.
Breaks, what happens if you don't.

[AU Mont]

most common on this and other automotive forums........... how do i fix my breaks



edit, above post agreed lol

[Moo Man]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfVLTKktt3A

[madmelon]

How about when people say "aks" instead of "ask"...I find that infuriating because it really isn't a difficult word to pronounce. Indeed, it's harder to say it the wrong way...

[Resurrection]

Originally Posted by supershifty

I try to use the correct grammar wherever I can. I try to use the correct spelling also.

Prepositions do not belong at the end of sentences.

I also try to use the correct spelling.

[Olbucko]

This forum has a spell checker that can be downloaded, does anybody know how to make it work?

[GTP owner]

Grammar - the difference between helping your uncle Jack, off a horse, and helping your uncle jack off a horse!

I really hate one word paragraphs. No punctuation, no full stops, no capitals. It is like they just rant like a mad man without taking breath.

Coming from the medical side of things, it always makes me smile when someone mentions they had their prostrate checked. Uhem, OK, sure. Was that lying down?

[Motorbreath310]

People who think words end in 'ink' instead of 'ing'

e.g somethink, nothink, anythink.

Then there's mun-dee (monday) and Ruddafid (Rutherford)

[Revolver]

Originally Posted by Moo Man

Just reading a few threads on AFF and thought this might help a few people:Conundrum

oversee - verb: Supervise (a person or work), esp. in an official capacity
For example: "I oversee all new trainees at the factory."

overlook - verb: Ignore or disregard (something, esp. a fault or offence)
For example: "I try to overlook some of the errors made by the trainees."

Sorry Conundrum, couldn't help myself.

In all seriousness, I can't stand bad spelling and grammar when it is out of sheer laziness but I do try to remember that some (or most) of the people on here that make genuine spelling or grammatical errors usually know a hell of a lot more about cars than I do. I think I would much rather be able to strip down and rebuild an engine or replace my own diff bushes than know the difference between bought and brought.

Yeah everyone is a comedian!

On a serious note, I did say I make mistakes.

Punctuation & gramma is such a touchy subject. Some people think its a big thing, some don't, others just DGAF. But always a very touchy subject.

[prydey]

Originally Posted by Motorbreath310

Then there's mun-dee (monday)

hey you've gone too far now!! thats just good ol' aussie country speak that is, along with tomatas, barra etc

[something wrong]

Are we going to have a Grammar and spelling sticky with all of the common AFF misspell and misused words?

Bought - past tense of the verb to buy: "I bought a newspaper at the newsagents. "
Brought - past tense of the verb to bring: "She brought her homework to the lesson."

Brake: use them to stop, slow down or hold in place
Break: to smash, split, divide into parts violently, reduce to pieces or fragments,

Loose - not tight.
Lose - not win.
Loser - One that fails to win
Looser - free from anything that binds or restrain

Choose - is a verb, or action word, meaning to select or pick
Chose - Chose is the past tense of choose, "I chose last year's Christmas cards."

Comma - a mark of punctuation used, like a pause inside a sentence when speaking.

They're, they're is a contraction of the words they and are “I'm glad that they're so nice to new Forum members here.”
Their Use their to indicate possession “My friends have lost their tickets.”
There Use there when referring to a place "over there by the building"

To: In a direction toward so as to reach “went to the city” or “stood face to face”
Too: In addition “He's coming along too” or “She worries too much”
Two: a number “ He bought Two beers”

I have learnt a new piece of information today.

[Cam]

Originally Posted by XR6T0Y

This is a given, however, how hard is it to know which "they're, their or there" to use?

See below..

Originally Posted by pottery beige

yep.. i is was in steelcaps workin when i is was still shoulda been in skoolbooks...

[Rodp]

Originally Posted by Ducati888

And the use of "aswell", when "as well" is correct. Aswell. Is that something that happens in your underpants?

Along the same lines of alot. There's no such word as alot - it's a lot. It's often one of those words that gets written in all caps in bold.

[grandpa_spec_F6]

'straya Mate, Geddit In Ya!

[nuthin' fancy]

Originally Posted by madmelon

How about when people say "aks" instead of "ask"...I find that infuriating because it really isn't a difficult word to pronounce. Indeed, it's harder to say it the wrong way...

I worked wth a girl who nused to fink fings and aks questions.

[JAJH]

The "Word Assassins" are just as annoying, if not amusing. A friend recently took a balloon ride and once landed she remarked, "It's nice to get my feet back on "Terracotta" (rather than Terra Firma) and she also commented she has an infected "sarcophagus" (instead of esophagus)

[flappist]

Personal abuse in this thread is something up with which I will not put.

Dong ma?

[falconator]

Bought and brought,WTF! I didnt go to skool that day.

[302 XC]

We wonder why we as a country are one of the dumbest in the world ???

Mayb voz who guna frow stones from der glass houzez sh hood help doze who bit slowa n les 4chewnate

Im know where near perfect in my life and its only till i am that i will ctiticise those less fortunate
Wether thats intelligent or ability

Soap box time over ......

[XR6T0Y]

Originally Posted by Motorbreath310

People who think words end in 'ink' instead of 'ing'

e.g somethink, nothink, anythink.

Then there's mun-dee (monday) and Ruddafid (Rutherford)

Where are you from ? my post about the 'D' in the Suburb was relating to Rutherford.,. P. s .. im on my phone so bad spelling

[Franco Cozzo]

A lot of the older guys at work are year 9 dropouts, but they're probably the best in the workshop in their trades without a doubt, one is a migrant who can't read or write English but he does by far THE BEST metal work, you tell him to do something and he comes up with designs and solutions.

The writing part can be left up to management, these boys on the floor get it done properly.

They have trouble spelling and writing but they know their work inside out.

[Bushbasher]

There's a bogan dragon up the street from me who'll tell you that "it's ridiclius how many times I had to aks for the ambliance".
I find myself wanting to sound-it-out for her every time she opens her mouth am-BU-lance, ri-dic-U-lous. I expect it from my 5 yr old but this woman is 36!.

[grandpa_spec_F6]

I have a friend who says "Arcks" instead of "Ask", never finished school - Can strip a bike to pieces and rebuilt blindfolded.

I have a friend who starts every sentence with "Yeah Nah" - Can strip an engine to pieces and build a monster stroker out of it.

Encountered a guy in the UNI lobby that I thought was homeless and on drugs, could barely string a sentence together - PhD student studying theoretical physics (no joke).

I used to give a damn about stuff like the OP, I even understand where they are coming from, but I realised life's too short to get your nickers in a twist over such things.

[AndyXR6T]

Lol finally!!! I thought I was the only one who picked up on this. Every time I hear someone say "brought" or see it in a thread my brain starts to hurt!

[NickyN]

Originally Posted by AndyXR6T

Lol finally!!! I thought I was the only one who picked up on this. Every time I hear someone say "brought" or see it in a thread my brain starts to hurt!

How about:
accept and except
compliment and complement
bare and bear

A woman recently told me, "I branged it with me." (she meant brought, but instead she tried to change "bring" to the past tense which you can't just change the i to an a, then she added the "ed". not all spelling rules apply, some words have exceptions) I just smiled and continued on.

Originally Posted by Conundrum

Look we all have irks on this & most other forum sites, about the atrocious spelling & gramma that is tryped (yes TRYPED) from the keyboard. One member on here seriously gets me every time he posts due to not using a caps lock or shift button at the start of a sentence. Or a user who never uses the full stop, which makes the post SOOOO hard to read. Most gramma & spelling I mistakes I can oversee but, in the main most posts are pretty legible. I make some mistakes myself, but some people just dont understand that firing out a post with none, you just can't read. But it’s hardly posting about.

If you don't remember posting that, either you had alot to drink, or change your password NOW!

Not to mention, this is the wrong section to post this in anyway.....

But this is the proper section, it's the Bar for all non-automotive related chat.

Originally Posted by XR6T0Y

This is a given, however, how hard is it to know which "they're, their or there" to use?

My guess is because they're homophones. If it sounds the same some people think it doesn't matter which word you use.

[Motorbreath310]

Originally Posted by XR6T0Y

Where are you from ? my post about the 'D' in the Suburb was relating to Rutherford.,. P. s .. im on my phone so bad spelling

I work with alot of guys who fly from Ruddafid. I don't actually have a problem with how they say it, or using 'dee' instead of 'day' it's just something I've noticed. 'Sumfink' instead of 'something' annoys me.

Shouldn't talk though. I use 'innit' fairly often.

[smally289]

Love the word youse. I put a comment on Facebook "youse are sheep" and was waiting for someone to reply "no we're not".

The apostrophe is also misused regularly, even by signwriters.

At work we had a new sign put up at the main entrance "..... Austalia's Forth Uranium Mine". At least they got the apostrophe in the right spot.

Don't get me started on the misuse of 'demerit'. Lost count of how many times I have heard people say "Yeah, I lost 3 demerit points when I got caught speeding". Even journalists get this wrong on TV and print media.