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Contraction: gonna
1. (informal) going to
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Posted on 04/11/2012 12:22:30 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
For no reason in particular, I thought it would be helpful (or irritating, depending upon your point of view) to post a list of words that are commonly misspelled or improperly used on FreeRepublic.
Feel free to add any of your own.
I realize that this will open me up to greater scrutiny of the orthographic composition of my own future posts, but alas; so be it.
Aid = help vs. Aide=assistant (as in “an aide to Congressman Frank”)
Anointed (NOT “annointed”)
Border (as in the line between U.S. and Mexico) (NOT “boarder” as in the guy who gets a bedroom in your house and dinner for a fee)
Gauge (NOT “gage”)
Huge (NOT “hugh”—yes, I know it’s a running joke, but FReepers still misspell it accidentally.)
Loose = opposite of tight. Most of the time, FReepers mean to type “lose.”
Martial Law (NOT “Marshall Law”)
Tenet (as in “principle”) (NOT “tenant”)
Existence (NOT “existence”)
Existent (NOT “existant”) Remember: “The ‘a’ in existent is nonexistent.”
Poll (as in “survey”) (NOT “pole” as in a stripper's primary accessory)
Principal vs. Principle: Principal = 1) First, or highest in rank; 2) Head guy (or gal) in a school; 3) Main portion of money in finance, e.g. principal of a loan.
Principle = Moral rule
Your vs. You’re:
Your = possessive. "Your mother doesn’t approve of your spelling skills."
You’re = Contraction of “you are” "You’re not likely to pass English."
Hope she gives a pass for Deetroit Publik Skool grads, we can’t spill for shet.
I thought that was to make sure my hexes were appropriately worded. :-)
Seriously, spell check is for ciceys.
Dang ! So I’m not the only one who does that ?
Dayng! Yer raht!
I was taught by Miss Elithorpe that either potatoe or potato was correct. (Dan Quayle) She was a stickler for correct grammar.
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Contraction: gonna
1. (informal) going to
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Your gonna loose this fight, you maroon.
By the way, what are the chances of the existence of a thread like this on any of the enemy sites ?
When posting supposed "facts" on FR, the poster is expected to give supporting evidence of how those facts were derived.
When you decided to undertake the role of identifying "frequent" misspellings on FR, using a scale of 1-100% of the time, what value did you set as your official measurement for "frequently"?
[Using your data, posters who misspell words at a certain frequency could be given the ZOT, after you flag them to the site owner/moderators of course.]
Are each the words you listed in your post misspelled with equal frequency on FR, or did you discover a "misspelling curve" that can be used to dedicate corrective resources most efficiently?
[If your study has identified such a curve, just think of the ease of ZOTTING posters who you can identify as misspelling certain words at or beyond a specified point on the curve.]
You left it open for others to identify words that they felt were misspelled, so what percentage (1-100% range) of the misspelled words on FR do you estimate your list represents?
[Analysis may show that you need to repeat your study with a broader range of misspelled words. Perhaps you could ask for a Government grant since they give out money for other important studies, like will Cow Farts destroy the environment, etc.]
What number of individual FR posters (1-100%) did you include in your study sample, and what is the correlation between those FR posters you sampled and their percentage of misspellings?
[If your study has directly linked certain FR posters with the majority of misspellings, then you can flag them for a short trip to ZOTVille.]
You listed four words that you believe are purposefully misspelled, and then alluded that they could be a subset of a quantity you called "a few". Exactly how large did you estimate that the "a few" quantity represented in your study?
[The depth of your data and analysis may allow some heavy purging of FR and get rid of as many of those knuckle-dragging freaks who can't spell as possible.]
How heavily did you factor in (1-100%) the possibility that some FR posters purposefully use misspellings as a form of slang and/or joking?
[If we have some FR posters who don't understand the value and seriousness of your concerns, then they probably should be ZOTTED into crispy critters.]
Please provide the full internal data from your study so that the FR audience can evaluate your work, and thus the importance of your vanity post.
[Your efforts to clean up the forum and take out the trashy, misspelling miscreants should not go unrecognized. Surely everyone on FR agrees that only people who spell correctly have anything valuable to share on FR, right?]
As for FR's spell check option, well...
If you can't appreciate the pure beauty of the violin after hearing this, something's wrong with your ears.
Or you can get raw with these strings.
How about this gamechanger from America's Got Talent (which they SHOULD have won).
And finally, this, dedicated to the one and only rdb2, whose eyes are growing dim.
Either way, the violin is sweet yet LETHAL.
Do it!
Other women that have seen it shed tears of jealousy.
No, I think that's what they'll call people who breathe too much when Obamao starts taxing air.
Both are wrong. See, when one has no clothing upon the body, that one is neither 'nekkid' nor 'naked'.
No, that one is buckee nakkid!
I'll now return to sipping this wonderful port...
It's really Kool Aid!
If you can't appreciate the pure beauty of the violin after hearing this, something's wrong with your ears.
Or you can get raw with these strings.
How about this gamechanger from America's Got Talent (which they SHOULD have won).
And finally, this, dedicated to the one and only rdb2, whose eyes are growing dim.
Either way, the violin is sweet yet LETHAL.
Do it!
My major peeves:
Pseudo-intellectuals who say “begs the question” when they mean “raises the question.”
Pseudo-intellectuals who say “apropos” when they mean “appropriate.”
ANYONE who says “snuck”. The past tense of the word “sneak” is “sneaked.”
In my neck of the woods, lots of folks say “sposably” instead of “supposedly.” I’ve even seen it spelled that way in correspondence.
There are also some fine folks here who say “It needs washed” or “He needs fed” instead of “It needs to be washed” or “He needs to be fed.”
And of course, there is always “alot” - that cursed little mistake from hell that has crept into everyday life.
GAAAHHHHH!!!
There. I feel better now. You are free to stroll about the grounds until you feel at home.
So how do you feel about already. ... Sad to have a life so boring that you have to get huffy about spelling mistakes on the Internet. Just how huge and series do you want to get wid diss?
There are some lines that should never be crossed ;-)
I have noticed that many posters use ‘Marshall law’ to talk about civil order enforced by military force. The term should be ‘Martial law’.
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