WHAT is a lot?????

[musicman53]

Can someone tell me WHY loads of people insist on using the word a lot when there is no word a lot???
Also why do people keep using the word "Then"when they are supposed to write "Than"?
What does "more then" mean?
What does "a lot"mean?
Just interestid..............I mean interested

 

[Zefan]

Some people are just stupid.

 

[Lysander]

Some people are just stupid.

End of thread.

 

[4p]

Because we can.

 

[Smeg4Brains]

As long as you can understand what it is they are trying to say, who cares?

This is a forum, not a spelling exam.

 

[chris_r]

some of us are mad!!! but then again, a lot of people would say they aint

sorry, had to

 

[Zefan]

As long as you can understand what it is they are trying to say, who cares?

I find it disturbing that people would write "then" in place of "than" without thinking there's anything wrong with it.

 

[Lysander]

I find it disturbing that people would write "then" in place of "than" without thinking there's anything wrong with it.

Would you of done different? I've never done nothing like that though.

 

[Azagoth]

As long as you can understand what it is they are trying to say, who cares?

This is a forum, not a spelling exam.

It costs nothing to exercise the proper use of English though.

 

[colinuk]

of course there is a word called a lot...

There is a lot of Zulu's over that there hill...

There are a lot of users that need help....

See, easy to use and easy to understand ....

<ColiN>

As English is a living lanuage, it changes with new meanings and words added and replaced.... how it works i think. Plus, some people, like myself, cant spell or use grammer to save their lifes

 

[Phyre]

Some people failed English a lot at school...

 

[musicman53]

As long as you can understand what it is they are trying to say, who cares?

This is a forum, not a spelling exam.

Fair comment but why should a lot be used if people don't learn that word at school(or has that changed since I left???)

 

[Zefan]

of course there is a word called a lot...

There is a lot of Zulu's over that there hill...

There are a lot of users that need help....

See, easy to use and easy to understand ....

<ColiN>

It isn't a word.

"A" is a word and "lot" is a word.

 

[Glaucus]

Some people are rubbish at English, but can be very good at other things.
Just because your good at English, does that mean your as good as someone else in a diffrent area?
Everyone has diffrent gifts.

 

[Azagoth]

There are a lot of Zulu's over that there hill...

Still, there is no such word as "a lot"! Allot maybe, but not "a lot"!

 

[loopstah]

of course there is a word called a lot...

There are a lot of Zulu's over that there hill...

There are a lot of users that need help....

See, easy to use and easy to understand ....

<ColiN>

Fixed, obviously it isn't that easy to use or you'd have used it correctly.

 

[Nymins]

of course there is a word called a lot...

lol Zefan is right. "a lot" is two seperate words. People kept getting done for that in my English class. Quite humorous.

 

[colinuk]

so it should be - there are a lot of zulu's and not a lot of Zulu's then.....

arrr - guess tis how we up north say a lot - as in one word, no gap between it, so we say a lot and not a lot...

 

[Grandmaster Fap!]

I find myself becoming more ambivalent to lousy spelling and punctuation but for some reason my blood boils when people say "no" instead of "know".....grrrr

 

[Zefan]

Some people are rubbish at English, but can be very good at other things.
Just because your good at English, does that mean your as good as someone else in a diffrent area?
Everyone has diffrent gifts.

I see what you're saying, but this isn't simple English skills, this is being oblivious to the meaning of something which I imagine can cause many problems outside of communication.