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22-08-2012, 02:44 PM | #31 | ||
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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!
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22-08-2012, 02:44 PM | #32 | ||
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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. |
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22-08-2012, 02:48 PM | #33 | |||
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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) |
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22-08-2012, 02:52 PM | #34 | ||
N/A all the way
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Brakes, use them to stop.
Breaks, what happens if you don't.
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22-08-2012, 02:57 PM | #35 | ||
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most common on this and other automotive forums........... how do i fix my breaks
edit, above post agreed lol |
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22-08-2012, 03:00 PM | #36 | ||
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22-08-2012, 03:07 PM | #37 | ||
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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...
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22-08-2012, 04:20 PM | #38 | |||
I was correct - AGAIN
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22-08-2012, 04:24 PM | #39 | ||
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This forum has a spell checker that can be downloaded, does anybody know how to make it work?
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22-08-2012, 04:27 PM | #40 | ||
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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?
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22-08-2012, 04:46 PM | #41 | ||
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People who think words end in 'ink' instead of 'ing'
e.g somethink, nothink, anythink. Then there's mun-dee (monday) and Ruddafid (Rutherford) |
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22-08-2012, 05:11 PM | #42 | |||
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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.
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22-08-2012, 05:16 PM | #43 | |||
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22-08-2012, 05:30 PM | #44 | ||
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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. |
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22-08-2012, 05:33 PM | #45 | ||||
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22-08-2012, 05:54 PM | #46 | |||
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22-08-2012, 05:58 PM | #47 | ||
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'straya Mate, Geddit In Ya!
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22-08-2012, 06:00 PM | #48 | |||
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22-08-2012, 06:13 PM | #49 | ||
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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)
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22-08-2012, 06:31 PM | #50 | ||
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Personal abuse in this thread is something up with which I will not put.
Dong ma? |
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22-08-2012, 06:35 PM | #51 | ||
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Bought and brought,WTF! I didnt go to skool that day.
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22-08-2012, 06:44 PM | #52 | ||
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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 ...... |
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22-08-2012, 06:50 PM | #53 | |||
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22-08-2012, 06:59 PM | #54 | ||
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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. |
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22-08-2012, 08:24 PM | #55 | ||
When in doubt, GAS IT!!
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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!.
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22-08-2012, 08:44 PM | #56 | ||
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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. |
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22-08-2012, 08:59 PM | #57 | ||
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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!
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23-08-2012, 07:42 AM | #58 | |||||
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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. Quote:
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23-08-2012, 08:49 AM | #59 | |||
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Shouldn't talk though. I use 'innit' fairly often. |
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23-08-2012, 10:02 AM | #60 | ||
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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. |
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