For those of you who can't spell or do grammar...

im probably one of those GRAMMAR people....

i couldnt give a crap if my grammar is wrong its just a forum not a scientific paper. . . most of the time when im browsing on here something else will be my main priority and i quiclly switch windows , post as quick as possible and switch back to whatever i was doing..

btw when the zombie horde invades i doubt you will be complaining about our grammar.

did one of you grammar nazi's post this note
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Khaaan! said:
It is.

Update your Firefox and install the UK dictionary unless you like using Americanized spelling!
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I have British English dictionary installed on 3.6.10 which I installed a while ago, I guess that's it, but you do have to install it, the english version anyway.
 
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Ok OP if you werent having a dig at someone then you wouldnt have said at the start of your post that you werent having a dig! lol I take it I am one of the person or persons you are talking about. I have 2 A Levels and 6 GCSE so Im not thick... Im from Sunderland and have a bit of a mackem accent and sometimes i do write in the way I speak... Also If im writing emails, letters then do use the right Grammer! This is a forum to air views and i assume maybe to chat to people and have a laugh so im sorry but who actually cares about grammer on here lol :)
 
Andrea75 said:
Ok OP if you werent having a dig at someone then you wouldnt have said at the start of your post that you werent having a dig! lol I take it I am one of the person or persons you are talking about. I have 2 A Levels and 6 GCSE so Im not thick... Im from Sunderland and have a bit of a mackem accent and sometimes i do write in the way I speak... Also If im writing emails, letters then do use the right Grammer! This is a forum to air views and i assume maybe to chat to people and have a laugh so im sorry but who actually cares about grammer on here lol :)
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vonhelmet his sig says it all!:p
 
vonhelmet said:
I think most people don't know and don't care.

It doesn't help that English is an incredibly stupid language, with no real structure or rules, particularly when it comes to spelling.
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More to the case that we use yankie doodle dandy words instead of "Queens English" words.

Still our language offends you, but our benefits dont :D
 
AJK said:
I'd agree that it's quite difficult to use perfect grammar (in that some grammatical rules are unpredictable, archaic or just plainly bizarre), and obviously if you don't know how to spell a complicated word, chances are good that you will spell it incorrectly.

It's certainly not difficult, however, to make a passable attempt at doing these things correctly.

And here's a question tagged on: where the hell does "should have", "would have" come from, with "of" replacing the correct "have"? IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE.
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Very true.

I think the 'of' replacement comes from abbreviated speech: 'Would've', could've. Phonetically, it sounds like 'would have' and 'could have'.

It reminds me off the septic's mis-saying: 'I could care less' instead of 'I couldn't care less'...
 
eatcustard said:
More to the case that we use yankie doodle dandy words instead of "Queens English" words.
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Not really. Even long term British words don't follow any rules for their spelling and our grammar is pretty much non-existent - more of my whining on here is technically around punctuation, which isn't the same thing.

We're teaching our daughter to read at the moment, and she's learning things through phonetics. It's absurd though, as English words are not pronounced phonetically. They say that in Dutch, the notion of learning to spell words is absurd, as all words are spelt as they are said and vice versa. I know the same is true of Finnish, and probably plenty of other languages too.

eatcustad said:
Still our language offends you, but our benefits dont :D
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Holy misquotation, Batman!
 
Andrea75 said:
Ok OP if you werent having a dig at someone then you wouldnt have said at the start of your post that you werent having a dig! lol I take it I am one of the person or persons you are talking about. I have 2 A Levels and 6 GCSE so Im not thick... Im from Sunderland and have a bit of a mackem accent and sometimes i do write in the way I speak... Also If im writing emails, letters then do use the right Grammer! This is a forum to air views and i assume maybe to chat to people and have a laugh so im sorry but who actually cares about grammer on here lol :)
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Apostrophes, capitalisation, spelling...

And yeah, I care.
 
Using 'There' when it should be 'Their' or 'They're'.
I find it really annoying when people can't use these correctly.
I know my grammar, punctuation and spelling might not be the best but I don't think there is any excuse for mixing these up really.


*leaves quickly to avoid barrage of abuse*:D
 
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It's not the spelling and grammar that gets me but the way postings are formatted. Even if one doesnt understand how paragraphs work, one should be able to see from other people's posts that separating blocks of text makes reading more comprehensible. And double negatives and split infinitives (sorry Star Trek fans) should be banned! (yes, I started the sentence with "And" deliberately)
 
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