Why do people spell bought as brought?

[DB_SamX]

In a similar vain to teachers not allowing to teach properly and dumbing down education these days, I give you: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/11/rcs_science_examiners/

Baaaaaack in my day and school, grade boundaries were fixed at certain percentages, regardless of what year you took exams in.

 

[steve-h]

Because they're thick.

ahhaha

 

[Neoni]

Because they're thick.

 

[unwashed potato!]

oh and to everyone who is saying "Because they're thick.", how very ironic.

 

[Neoni]

oh and to everyone who is saying "Because they're thick.", how very ironic.

Boohoo.

 

[I get around]

Because everyone knows what you mean so...
IT DOESN'T MATTER

Why are people so hung up on something so insignificant and boring, it basically means the same thing, so who cares.

 

[Greebo]

Only great minds can read this
This is weird, but interesting!

fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too

Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.

i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!

Just goes to show really.

 

[unwashed potato!]

^ really only 55 out of 100 people can read that? shocking as a i'm a terrible reading and i can easily read it.

obviously the people that can't read it are lazy

Because everyone knows what you mean so...
IT DOESN'T MATTER

Why are people so hung up on something so insignificant and boring, it basically means the same thing, so who cares.

exactly. lets just hope the starving children in africa who have aids from being raped don't hear someone say bought when they mean brought otherwise they may end up killing themselfs.

 

[Tefal]

^ really only 55 out of 100 people can read that? shocking as a i'm a terrible reading and i can easily read it.

obviously the people that can't read it are lazy

iirc it's much higher than 55% it's almost everyone.

 

[QlimaxUK]

Because everyone knows what you mean so...
IT DOESN'T MATTER

Why are people so hung up on something so insignificant and boring, it basically means the same thing, so who cares.

true, and also those who moan at how people say the letter 'H' the old 'Aich' or 'Haich' arguement, GET A LIFE!

 

[RDM]

Only great minds can read this
This is weird, but interesting!

fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too

Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.

i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!

Just goes to show really.

I can read it, however it takes me much longer to do so than correctly spelt text. So yes, spelling is important.

 

[McManicMan]

i can read that just as easy as reading any other text

 

[Chimerical]

dumbing down education these days.

Yeah, of course it is.

 

[RDM]

i can read that just as easy as reading any other text

Were you taught to read phonetically? My wife and I read in completely different ways, I read sentences and she reads words and she was taught to read phonetically. It makes me a much faster reader than her, but she makes a much better proof reader.

 

[gurusan]

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1531984/ebay-auctions-skype

Ebay, which originally brought Skype from its developers Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis for $3.1 billion

but why.

 

[MonkeyNews]

Just an error by the writer/speaker, similar to how people erroneously use the different spellings of there/their, whether/weather or the wrong use or misplacement of an apostrophe.

English is a difficult language, people are bound to make mistakes here and their (sic).

 

[Jokester]

Another one is the usage of 'a lot', where did that come from?

That's just language evolution in action, wouldn't be surprised to see that be added to the dictionary in the near future.

 

[Ranger07]

To be fair to Ocuk forums the grammar on here is pretty good. Try reading through some car forums, the language used is pretty poor and unreadable a lot of the time. I've seen myself going to reply to something and thinking why bother even talking to such knuckle draggers

I dont claim to have perfect grammar and spelling but I do my best as I'm a bit dyslectic at times or type too fast and make mistakes.


edit-spelling lol

 

[semi-pro waster]

That's just language evolution in action, wouldn't be surprised to see that be added to the dictionary in the near future.

I do find it slightly unfortunate though, while I'm aware that language evolution is what keeps a language vibrant (and why English remains the lingua franca) which is a point I've argued before there are some changes that just can't help grating on me.

English isn't the easiest of languages in terms of grammar and homophonic words many of the mistakes made are relatively simple.

 

[uv]

it basically means the same thing, so who cares.

Bought is the past tense and past participle of buy. Brought is the past tense and past participle of bring. They mean completely different things.