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11/19/02
Posted on 11/19/2002 7:39:06 AM PST by EggsAckley
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Hate to sound like the "language Nazi" but it drives me CRAZY when I'm reading a post and these words are misused. It completely stops the comprehension of the content, and it's like stumbling over a rock. I blame it on spellcheck.
To: EggsAckley
Your loosing it. :-)
To: Miss Marple
hehehe
write awn.
To: Miss Marple
This is a vey series problem. ;)
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posted on
11/19/2002 7:42:37 AM PST
by
TheBigB
To: EggsAckley
Their's no there they're.
To: EggsAckley
Either you have lost you're mind, or your computer is off it's rocker.
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posted on
11/19/2002 7:44:23 AM PST
by
js1138
To: EggsAckley
How's about them whut use "alot" as one word?
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posted on
11/19/2002 7:44:40 AM PST
by
ofMagog
To: EggsAckley
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posted on
11/19/2002 7:44:42 AM PST
by
mikeb704
To: EggsAckley
It drives me crazy to. Its always a shame when people don't want to use grammer check who's features include it's spell check to.
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posted on
11/19/2002 7:45:27 AM PST
by
eleni121
To: EggsAckley
Loose, lose, loss, loser
To: EggsAckley
You gonna whip 'em about lay vs. lie too? How about imply vs. infer or who's vs. whose or its and it's?
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posted on
11/19/2002 7:51:25 AM PST
by
edsheppa
To: eleni121
The Spelling Chequer:
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 writ
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 rare lea ever wrong.
Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.
To: EggsAckley
I await the day that some evil person creates a virus that replaces the dictionary of everyone's spell checker with a dictionary that has every word spelled slightly wrong.
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posted on
11/19/2002 7:55:05 AM PST
by
Grig
To: EggsAckley
This is a silly post. As someone once said,
"There is no there .. there." ,
But I ask "Could it be they're there",
Others think that "you are holding out for They're their"
But they wont tell you what their their is all about.
To: EggsAckley
Eye cant taller ate thee miss takes witch ewe men shunned. Its uh con spear icy!
I hate the their/there/they're, it's/its, your/you're, lose/loose thing myself. It probably comes from being the son of a published novelist.
To: MotleyGirl70
What a laugh!
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posted on
11/19/2002 7:57:24 AM PST
by
eleni121
To: EggsAckley
Byte me!
To: EggsAckley
I love spell check high-lighting but wish that the autocheck could be killed. To know that a word has been mis-spelled by a typo or ignorance is a blessing but the user should be forced to use a dictionary for the educational value of the experience.
Of course, this does nothing for this problem. I first encountered it years ago when I got a solicitation letter offering to come to my work 'cite'. As an old f**t, I'm sure that it is not unusual to view the trends with alarm, but since I've felt this way for 30+ years, I wonder if I'm calling for the tide to receed. While it has not been the "King's English" for centuries, must we be so careless with what we have got?!
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posted on
11/19/2002 7:57:52 AM PST
by
SES1066
To: EggsAckley
Spelling
The European Union commissioners have announced that agreement has been reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European communications, rather than German, which was the other possibility.
As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five-year phased plan for what will be known as EuroEnglish (Euro for short).
In the first year, 's' will be used instead of the soft 'c'. Sertainly, sivil servants will resieve this news with joy. Also, the hard 'c' will be replaced with 'k.' Not only will this klear up konfusion, but typewriters kan have one less letter.
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome 'ph' will be replaced by 'f'. This will make words like 'fotograf' 20 per sent shorter. In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of silent 'e's in the languag is disgrasful, and they would go. By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing 'th' by 'z' and 'W' by 'V'. During ze fifz year, ze unesesary 'o' kan be dropd from vords kontaining 'ou', and similar changes vud of kors; be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters. After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil b no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech ozer.
Ze drem vil finali kum tru.
Credit to:McRae Clan Home Page
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posted on
11/19/2002 7:58:56 AM PST
by
lsee
To: EggsAckley
it drives me CRAZY when I'm reading a post and these words are misusedI admit to wincing a little bit when I see such illiteracy or carelessness but, maybe you need some time off. ;-)
"Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
courage to change the things I can,
and wisdom to know the difference."
Oh, and the latest peeve I have is with people using "can not" instead of "cannot." (Idiots! ;-D)
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