It is ETC not ECT

SexyGreyFox · 13 Jul 2007 at 22:10

I'm not usually one of the grammar police but over the last few weeks I've noticed more and more posters typing ECT instead of ETC when shortening Etcetera.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/search.php?searchid=2975116

Theres loads there just among GD threads.

C'mon, make an effort.

Zefan · 13 Jul 2007 at 22:11

I feel your pain.

Most people have no idea how to spell the word so just presume it's ett-ce-terra therefore use the painfully annoying ECT.

Greg · 13 Jul 2007 at 22:11

sah, YES sah!

Mr.Orb · 13 Jul 2007 at 22:12

Whats with all the complaining today?

Moan, moan, moan, moan, moan ect

BenST · 13 Jul 2007 at 22:13

Same with 'lose' and 'loose', people do it all the time and it'll never stop. [TW]Fox's 'becuase' (hopefully I got that right, or wrong depending on how you view it), even though I know he does it on purpose grates me every time I see it.

But life must go on :cool:

penski · 13 Jul 2007 at 22:14

dmpoole said:
I'm not usually one of the grammar police but over the last few weeks I've noticed more and more posters typing ECT instead of ETC when shortening Etcetera.

1: Lower case; etc, not ETC.

2: Two words; et cetera, not etcetera.

*n

SexyGreyFox · 13 Jul 2007 at 22:14

Mr.Orb said:
Whats with all the complaining today?

Moan, moan, moan, moan, moan ect

Thats your first warning

SexyGreyFox · 13 Jul 2007 at 22:15

penski said:
1: Lower case; etc, not ETC.

2: Two words; et cetera, not etcetera.

*n

Now I have to kill myself

Zefan · 13 Jul 2007 at 22:16

*Don's punctuation police uniform*

dmpoole said:
That's your first warning

SexyGreyFox · 13 Jul 2007 at 22:20

I'm getting trashed here - its the 4 bottles of Old Speckled Hen ect.

Jaap74 · 13 Jul 2007 at 22:21

far cough

CaptainAwesome · 13 Jul 2007 at 22:22

Mate I could care less about you're grammar policing.

BenST · 13 Jul 2007 at 22:23

CaptainAwesome said:
Mate I couldn't care less about your grammar policing.

Bored...

How exactly does an account 'break'?

Zefan · 13 Jul 2007 at 22:23

CaptainAwesome said:
Mate I could care less about you're grammar policing.

Do you know what you just said?

What that means is that you do care for it.

penski · 13 Jul 2007 at 22:23

dmpoole said:
I'm getting trashed here - its the 4 bottles of Old Speckled Hen ect.

You think that's bad? I got suspended for a week in high school because I flew off the handle at my history teacher, screaming that he wasn't fit to teach because he crossed out "et cetera" on my coursework and scrawled (in red pen) "IT IS 'ECKSETRA' OR 'ECT'. GET IT RIGHT NEXT TIME!"

*n

CaptainAwesome · 13 Jul 2007 at 22:25

How could you BOTH fall for it?

My old email address became defunct and I tried to change it to a new address, but spelt it incorrectly and couldn't get back in.

Greenlizard0 · 13 Jul 2007 at 22:27

My god I think this is the first friday night I've not been out. Love it. People are drunk here too.WOOOYAAHRRRHHHH!!

BenST · 13 Jul 2007 at 22:27

CaptainAwesome said:
How could you BOTH fall for it?

My old email address became defunct and I tried to change it to a new address, but spelt it incorrectly and couldn't get back in.

Lolz, didn't fall for much, I was bored

Bad luck with the whole e-mail address thing, couldn't you have e-mailed a moderator to try and get back your account?

Zefan · 13 Jul 2007 at 22:27

CaptainAwesome said:
I tried to change it to a new address, but spelled it incorrectly

divine` · 13 Jul 2007 at 22:31

Zefan said:
I feel your pain.

Most people have no idea how to spell the word so just presume it's ett-ce-terra therefore use the painfully annoying ECT.

I think it's more the fact people say 'ecsetera' than they think it's spelt like that