Spelling debacles - Why can't people use correct grammar/spell properly??
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Re: Spelling debacles - Why can't people spell the English language properly??No, you don't. Reread your post, you're not shortening it is you are using 'its' in its possessive form, so no apostrophe.(Original post by Snagprophet)
What the hell you put an apostrophe there. HIJACKER! -
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Re: Spelling debacles - Why can't people use correct grammar/spell properly??I think the main problem is that people don't read enough anymore. If you read a lot during childhood, the appearance of certain words and the way that grammatical structures work becomes second nature when you're older.
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Re: Spelling debacles - Why can't people use correct grammar/spell properly??It is to show emphasis and convey the intensity of my outrage at Her Majesty's language being violated. This is allowed; especially as I have been well-educated in the fundamentals of the English language.(Original post by jimcatinnes)
Is the use of two question marks meant to be ironic then?
On a slightly related note I know someone who calls rosary beads rosemary beads....
P.S. If you think this post to be pretentious and/or grandiose and to be emanating fumes of excessive grandiloquence; take note that most of my posts are in this fashion. I merely have fun exercising my brain by making sure my posts are of impeccable standard and at the height of English. As a result, unlike many TSR users, my time here on the forum is fruitful as my skills of language and linguistic conveying is better improved.Last edited by Sovr'gnChancellor£; 14-04-2012 at 15:30. -
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Re: Spelling debacles - Why can't people use correct grammar/spell properly??Because spelling is, strictly speaking, arbitrary. Much of it cannot be derived by principle, so must be rote-learned. Some people just don't grasp it early enough in life, or maybe don't have the cognitive make-up to get it at all. Education and parenting is to blame for the former.
There is no excuse for grammatical errors. There is a principled distinction between 'your' and 'you're'. I don't understand how anyone who cares about getting it right can continually fail to do so. -
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Re: Spelling debacles - Why can't people use correct grammar/spell properly??are of impeccable what?!!?(Original post by Sovr'gnChancellor£)
It is to show emphasis and convey the intensity of my outrage at Her Majesty's language being violated. This is allowed; especially as I have been well-educated in the fundamentals of the English language.
P.S. If you think this post to be pretentious and/or grandiose and to be emanating fumes of excessive grandiloquence; take note that most of my posts are in this fashion. I merely have fun exercising my brain by making sure my posts are of impeccable and the height of English. As a result, unlike many TSR users, my time here on the forum is fruitful as my skills of language and linguistic conveying is better improved.
bad show old chap. -
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Re: Spelling debacles - Why can't people use correct grammar/spell properly??You do realise OP, that EVERY single post you make on here is now going to be intensely analysed for any single grammar/spelling error? I give it until tomorrow when you'll be unmasked as a hypocrite.
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Re: Spelling debacles - Why can't people use correct grammar/spell properly??Yep, this.(Original post by MeganMc)
I think the main problem is that people don't read enough anymore. If you read a lot during childhood, the appearance of certain words and the way that grammatical structures work becomes second nature when you're older.
Children nowadays read from the internet, which abounds with spelling and grammar mistakes, rather than reading correct, proofread English. -
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Re: Spelling debacles - Why can't people use correct grammar/spell properly??He's going to kill himself now.(Original post by TurboCretin)
There should be no hyphen there. "Well-educated" is a compound adjective. What you're using there is a combination of an adverb and a verb, which should not be connected by a hyphen.
Also, the semicolon in that sentence should have been a colon.
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Re: Spelling debacles - Why can't people use correct grammar/spell properly??There should be no hyphen there. "Well-educated" is a compound adjective. What you're using there is a combination of an adverb and a verb, which should not be connected by a hyphen.(Original post by Sovr'gnChancellor£)
It is to show emphasis and convey the intensity of my outrage at Her Majesty's language being violated. This is allowed; especially as I have been well-educated in the fundamentals of the English language.
P.S. If you think this post to be pretentious and/or grandiose and to be emanating fumes of excessive grandiloquence; take note that most of my posts are in this fashion. I merely have fun exercising my brain by making sure my posts are of impeccable and the height of English. As a result, unlike many TSR users, my time here on the forum is fruitful as my skills of language and linguistic conveying is better improved.
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Re: Spelling debacles - Why can't people use correct grammar/spell properly??You're all complete pricks, if someone says your the one or you're the one...unless you're stuck so far up your own arse, you will know what they meant.
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Re: Spelling debacles - Why can't people use correct grammar/spell properly??I took out the semicolon part because, on reflection, I'm unsure whether a colon would be accepable or a comma would be the only option.(Original post by Piko_Piko)
He's going to kill himself now.
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Re: Spelling debacles - Why can't people use correct grammar/spell properly??just to add to the errors already picked 'linguistic conveyance' would make more sense.(Original post by Sovr'gnChancellor£)
It is to show emphasis and convey the intensity of my outrage at Her Majesty's language being violated. This is allowed; especially as I have been well-educated in the fundamentals of the English language.
P.S. If you think this post to be pretentious and/or grandiose and to be emanating fumes of excessive grandiloquence; take note that most of my posts are in this fashion. I merely have fun exercising my brain by making sure my posts are of impeccable and the height of English. As a result, unlike many TSR users, my time here on the forum is fruitful as my skills of language and linguistic conveying is better improved. -
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Re: Spelling debacles - Why can't people use correct grammar/spell properly??Bad grammar annoys me, but what annoys me are the people who insist on correcting it, as if they don't have a better comeback.
Example:
person1: your so annoying
person2: you're*
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