What is it with peoples spelling.
20 June 2003, 01:48 PM
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It's mainly historic, I gather. Have a look at the English Usage FAQ (a handy site useful when berating people for their poor use of their native tongue 
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20 June 2003, 02:22 PM
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Bros, I think the post above shows that your grasp of the language is more than adequate. As for explaining it to anyone, just use the URL as I did - it's more than enough.
20 June 2003, 02:46 PM
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I think people who use calculators should be put in the same boat. Using a calculator for simple adding, subtracting, multiplication and division is just plane lazy.
The excuse "I'm no good at maths" is a load of crap you should have listened a little harder at school, then maybe people like this would have been able to grasp this simple (and it is very simple) life skill.
The excuse "I'm no good at maths" is a load of crap you should have listened a little harder at school, then maybe people like this would have been able to grasp this simple (and it is very simple) life skill.
20 June 2003, 02:51 PM
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bros, we'll agree to disagree then!! 
Your spelling and grammar is near as damn it perfect, because you read. It's blindingly obvious that you read loads mate!
I'll almost guarantee that all the bad English writers on here don't read very much. Somebody prove me wrong!
Your spelling and grammar is near as damn it perfect, because you read. It's blindingly obvious that you read loads mate!I'll almost guarantee that all the bad English writers on here don't read very much. Somebody prove me wrong!
20 June 2003, 03:00 PM
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Does depend what you read. After all, there's a lot of Scoobynetters who read an awful lot all day, but the content in the Muppets forum isn't exactly something that'll improve the intellect.
20 June 2003, 03:05 PM
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TelBoy:
I didn't used to read very much, but my written English was very good.
When I started to travel more for my job, from the age of about twenty, I started to read probably one or two books a week.
What I noticed is that my vocabularly got larger, as the books would generally use different words to everyday English and as they used them in context it became easier to slot them in to everyday use.
Steve.
I didn't used to read very much, but my written English was very good.
When I started to travel more for my job, from the age of about twenty, I started to read probably one or two books a week.
What I noticed is that my vocabularly got larger, as the books would generally use different words to everyday English and as they used them in context it became easier to slot them in to everyday use.
Steve.
20 June 2003, 03:36 PM
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"simple adding, subtracting, multiplication and division"
Bros,
I wouldn’t expect you to do all maths in your head, as an accountant you are crunching large amounts of numbers daily which would be imposable. You wouldn’t have to use a calculator to manage my finances as there isn’t much there to crunch.
You know the people I’m on about, idiots that work in shop’s who take ages working out you change with a calculator when you could have done it in quarter of the time in your head. Or people who insist on using a calculator to work out percentages when you’re buying something with say for example a 25% discount. This should be basic stuff you learn at primary school, I can’t see what’s difficult about it.
Tim.
Bros,
I wouldn’t expect you to do all maths in your head, as an accountant you are crunching large amounts of numbers daily which would be imposable. You wouldn’t have to use a calculator to manage my finances as there isn’t much there to crunch
.You know the people I’m on about, idiots that work in shop’s who take ages working out you change with a calculator when you could have done it in quarter of the time in your head. Or people who insist on using a calculator to work out percentages when you’re buying something with say for example a 25% discount. This should be basic stuff you learn at primary school, I can’t see what’s difficult about it.
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20 June 2003, 03:40 PM
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Tim:
You have a point. If the cost of something is say £1.62, I will sometimes give £2.12 (as I want 50p back) and I get so many strange looks and "you've given me too much". Sigh.
Steve.
You have a point. If the cost of something is say £1.62, I will sometimes give £2.12 (as I want 50p back) and I get so many strange looks and "you've given me too much". Sigh.
Steve.
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21 June 2003, 01:13 PM
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You're misunderstanding, Leslie. Nobody's 'coming all superior' (well, I'm certainly not). I don't see how suggesting that people should try and write clearly, succinctly, and with better literary skills than they currently exhibit is a bad thing. 
21 June 2003, 01:25 PM
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Hate the sh@t i have had over spelling.
Yes i am dyslexic.
I left school unable to read and had to work bl@@dy hard to get qualified. At both uni and FE college i got disscriminated against.I still get it at work however easier to deal with it now i am the boss
Short sighted people look no futher than the spelling.
Steve
Yes i am dyslexic.
I left school unable to read and had to work bl@@dy hard to get qualified. At both uni and FE college i got disscriminated against.I still get it at work however easier to deal with it now i am the boss
Short sighted people look no futher than the spelling.
Steve
21 June 2003, 01:29 PM
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Stephen, as you've just proved in your post, there's nothing wrong with your spelling.
True, people don't look further than spelling, but when all you've got is an internet post, and people write so badly that the reader has trouble deciphering what they write, then what choice do they have?
True, people don't look further than spelling, but when all you've got is an internet post, and people write so badly that the reader has trouble deciphering what they write, then what choice do they have?
21 June 2003, 04:58 PM
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I was referring to the original post which reads just like that. My point is that it is like saying to someone in general conversation and in company "I think you are an ugly person with bad breath" inferring of course that the man passing the comment is not. It is embarassing for the person who has been insulted and it is sheer bad manners.
Les
[Edited by Leslie - 21/06/2003 17:07:08]
I was referring to the original post which reads just like that. My point is that it is like saying to someone in general conversation and in company "I think you are an ugly person with bad breath" inferring of course that the man passing the comment is not. It is embarassing for the person who has been insulted and it is sheer bad manners.
Les
[Edited by Leslie - 21/06/2003 17:07:08]
21 June 2003, 05:53 PM
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Can I point something out here.
If I was having a chat with someone, and he kept interupting me whenever I said something wrong ie using the wrong word, misspronouncing, or using slang, I would not be happy.
In fact I would warn him to let me speak, then on the next interuption I would punch his lights out.....
Nobody is perfect, but surely a bit of discresion should be employed by everyone.
I do not use a spellchecker or dictionary so I make errors, often, but I dont need to be pulled up each time it happens.
If I was having a chat with someone, and he kept interupting me whenever I said something wrong ie using the wrong word, misspronouncing, or using slang, I would not be happy.
In fact I would warn him to let me speak, then on the next interuption I would punch his lights out.....
Nobody is perfect, but surely a bit of discresion should be employed by everyone.
I do not use a spellchecker or dictionary so I make errors, often, but I dont need to be pulled up each time it happens.