Why The Hell Don't You People Know How To Spell?

[TheBigGfella]

Originally posted by J&#39;Pol+14 November 2003 - 22:07--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (J&#39;Pol @ 14 November 2003 - 22:07)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>

Originally posted by TheBigGfella@14 November 2003 - 22:47

Originally posted by J&#39;Pol@14 November 2003 - 21:44
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@14 November 2003 - 21:59
Who gives a fuck so long as you can understand what the poster is saying. Let them put it how they want so long as it&#39;s understandable.

Sorry ?

Why, what have you done?

Still not with you, can you type slower please ? [/b][/quote]
Will do old chap. I&#39;ve "done" Mavis Beacon though, so to speak.

[Gemby!]

now i would just like to point out that on the internet people are not meant to spell stuff rite&#33;

why write a whole word when you can shorten it ?

its the internet anyway so who cares &#33;&#33;&#33;

and i likes spellin and writin stuf rong

i speak shite anyway &#33;

[Spider_dude]

right.

[J'Pol]

Originally posted by TheBigGfella+14 November 2003 - 23:28--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (TheBigGfella @ 14 November 2003 - 23:28)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>

Originally posted by J&#39;Pol@14 November 2003 - 22:07

Originally posted by TheBigGfella@14 November 2003 - 22:47

Originally posted by J&#39;Pol@14 November 2003 - 21:44
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@14 November 2003 - 21:59
Who gives a fuck so long as you can understand what the poster is saying. Let them put it how they want so long as it&#39;s understandable.

Sorry ?

Why, what have you done?

Still not with you, can you type slower please ?

Will do old chap. I&#39;ve "done" Mavis Beacon though, so to speak. [/b][/quote]
Lucky old Mavis.

(BigBoab is busy, so I am having to fill in for her).

[Peerzy]

ok now someone try and summrise this topic without useing the words:

&#39;flame, war, vamp, dumb, fuck&#39; its impossable me thinks

[Spindulik]

Originally posted by Rocktron@14 November 2003 - 16:38
I djust hav 1 ting to say about dis..

Som people are from another contry and are trying to do their best.
And some mes up at that... just keep this in mind..

The world seems "english" to you.. but the world is bigger.
Speaking english seems a normal thing to the American/Australian and the rest of the english speaking parts of this world but...

Give us a slack...

I&#39;ll give you that.
All non-English speaking members should have a logo next to their avatar.

"English impaired"


The internet derived from the English speaking countries. Wouldn&#39;t it be great if "JaproSoft" was a product of Japan.


For the ebonic crowd, there should be "AfroSoft".

For the french, "TooGoodForYouSoft".

[J'Pol]

Originally posted by peerzyboy@15 November 2003 - 00:03
ok now someone try and summrise this topic without useing the words:

&#39;flame, war, vamp, dumb, fuck&#39; its impossable me thinks

Gratuitous

[Darth Sushi]

6 pages and counting

[TheBigGfella]

Originally posted by J&#39;Pol+14 November 2003 - 22:56--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (J&#39;Pol @ 14 November 2003 - 22:56)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>

Originally posted by TheBigGfella@14 November 2003 - 23:28

Originally posted by J&#39;Pol@14 November 2003 - 22:07

Originally posted by TheBigGfella@14 November 2003 - 22:47

Originally posted by J&#39;Pol@14 November 2003 - 21:44
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@14 November 2003 - 21:59
Who gives a fuck so long as you can understand what the poster is saying. Let them put it how they want so long as it&#39;s understandable.

Sorry ?

Why, what have you done?

Still not with you, can you type slower please ?

Will do old chap. I&#39;ve "done" Mavis Beacon though, so to speak.

Lucky old Mavis.

(BigBoab is busy, so I am having to fill in for her). [/b][/quote]
LOL It cost me £20&#33;

[3RA1N1AC]

Originally posted by J&#39;Pol@14 November 2003 - 13:43
Oh and placing "and" immediately after a comma is considered particularly poor form. Even in these slack days.

by whose standards? grammar fascists like strunk & white? it may not be elegant, and it may not be economical, but it&#39;s hardly incorrect.

it&#39;s one thing to point out that people are misspelling common words & using grammar that destroys the intentions of their words, but some people on the other hand are much too slavishly respectful of what their elementary school teachers declared to be the absolute truth. "never begin a sentence with &#39;but.&#39; never put a comma immediately before &#39;and.&#39; an essay always consists of five to seven paragraphs consisting of a one-paragraph introduction, a one-paragraph conclusion, and a lot of blah blah blah in the middle. if it isn&#39;t in webster&#39;s dictionary, then it isn&#39;t a word." sure, drilling such rules into students&#39; brains will cut them off from going near certain mistakes, but it also cuts them off from a lot of things that are perfectly acceptable as well.

when trying to make a point like this, i&#39;m fond of deferring to "classic" authors. so here&#39;s the first paragraph of charles dickens&#39; great expectations for your enjoyment:

My father&#39;s family name being Pirrip, and my christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip.&nbsp; So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.

dickens continues using the much maligned "comma and" throughout the rest of the book.