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December 10, 2013, 09:23:41 PM |
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Looks like most people on this forum consider acceptable writing moar instead of more, center instead of centre...
I'm curious: what happens if you do this in your school works in your country?
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December 10, 2013, 09:26:49 PM |
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Looks like most people on this forum consider acceptable writing moar instead of more, center instead of centre...
I'm curious: what happens if you do this in your school works?
Merriam-Webster Dictionary: center - 17 entries found for center moar - word not found
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December 11, 2013, 12:08:07 PM |
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Looks like most people on this forum consider acceptable writing moar instead of more, center instead of centre...
I'm curious: what happens if you do this in your school works in your country?
I was under the impression that centre and center were two different ways to spell the same word (UK and US spelling respectively). Did I miss something?
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December 11, 2013, 01:41:52 PM |
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Looks like most people on this forum consider acceptable writing moar instead of more, center instead of centre...
I'm curious: what happens if you do this in your school works in your country?
I was under the impression that centre and center were two different ways to spell the same word (UK and US spelling respectively). Did I miss something? Yes, he leapt to an uninformed conclusion, likely no offence was meant. I would be reasonably chuffed if you blokes would end this quarrelling. Today you learnt that each country has their own flavour of English where words are spelt differently. This is an artefact of separate evolution of language in disparate regions, after constant dialogue is broken. There is no way to harmonise this schism in practise, even in the Internet age. Simply realise that you should allow people to spell things their favourite way, as long as it is considered correct somewhere. There is no defence of some unskilful Internet ignoramuses, however. (UK people may not get the humour above; reading this is like being slapped in the brain with a fish to Americanos, due to the many non-American spellings.)
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December 11, 2013, 02:09:54 PM |
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It's even more painful to see people misuse lose and loose when English is not your native language.
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December 11, 2013, 02:15:31 PM |
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This tread is full of loosers.
Hey! I had mine tightened last week, FYI.
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December 11, 2013, 02:19:34 PM |
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I'm kind of surprised how outnumbered we seem to be by the UK English crowd. It was bad enough that I had to learn to convert feet to meters in my head... now I have to learn to convert meters to metres. All non native english speakers study UK English at school. That's why there are more UK English speakers than US English ones.
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December 11, 2013, 02:50:54 PM |
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This tread is full of loosers.
Your write . Yes, proper grammar is important, but it's not that big of a deal. But sometimes improper grammar could get you put on the Sex Offenders' Register: "Let's eat out children" Vs Let's eat out, children .
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December 11, 2013, 02:54:31 PM |
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I admit I make this mistake all the time. It is very simple to understand, and it goes back to the way the words are pronounced. The difference in pronunciation is only the ending, the 's' sound vs the 'z' sound. Both words start with the 'loo' sound, so it makes sens to try to spell it 'looze', obviously that looks wrong so you change the z to an s, and you end up with 'loose' instead of 'lose', which looks like it should be pronounced like 'those' or 'hose', just don't pronounce it like 'dose' because that has the wrong vowel AND the wrong consonant.
The underlying problem is the loose correlation between spelling and pronunciation which causes words to lose their logical spelling.
Now will somebody explain why pint does not rhyme with tint, lint, mint, squint and hint, or have the same vowel sound as pin, in, spin, tin, win, bin or sin?
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December 11, 2013, 03:23:06 PM |
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This tread is full of loosers.
Your write . Yes, proper grammar is important, but it's not that big of a deal. But sometimes improper grammar could get you put on the Sex Offenders' Register: "Let's eat out children" Vs Let's eat out, children . Panda eats shoots and leaves vs Panda eats, shoots and leaves
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December 11, 2013, 04:37:14 PM |
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i am trying to spamwhore myself for this month, so i haven't been the best with punctuation or grammar another thing that gets me is your and you're. if you are unsure, just use "ur." maybe it's not correct, but it's a lot better than "your." btw, i had someone tell me "your redicules." also, there, they're, and theirThe best one is when somebody says 'your retarded' haha. It's like they've punched themselves in the face. I've also seen a few people complain about somebody else’s grammar and spelt it grammer. Idiots. This tread is full of loosers.
Your write . Yes, proper grammar is important, but it's not that big of a deal. But sometimes improper grammar could get you put on the Sex Offenders' Register: "Let's eat out children" Vs Let's eat out, children . Panda eats shoots and leaves vs Panda eats, shoots and leaves Cum on grandma.
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December 11, 2013, 09:25:21 PM |
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Very informative thanks
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December 11, 2013, 10:09:51 PM |
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I give out cane strokes for:
loose instead of lose Grocers' apostrophes, e.g. Tomato's Any modifier on 'unique'
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December 11, 2013, 10:22:03 PM |
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like, is their a foul muun oar somethin'?
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December 12, 2013, 12:28:19 PM |
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I find hardly anyone can ever correctly spell 'definitly'... wait... definately... definetely... defiantly... fuck!
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December 12, 2013, 07:57:49 PM |
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I find hardly anyone can ever correctly spell 'definitly'... wait... definately... definetely... defiantly... fuck! its spalled defanatalay u durm na larn tu spail u radnak
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December 12, 2013, 07:59:40 PM |
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I find hardly anyone can ever correctly spell 'definitly'... wait... definately... definetely... defiantly... fuck! its spalled defanatalay u durm na larn tu spail u radnak Deffo .
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December 12, 2013, 08:02:57 PM |
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I find hardly anyone can ever correctly spell 'definitly'... wait... definately... definetely... defiantly... fuck! Easy to remember - "finite"
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December 13, 2013, 07:22:53 AM |
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Es fácil de entender lo que dice. Todo lo que tienes que hacer es utilizar un programa de traducción en línea creo que es súper fácil de hacer.
Well, to be fair, google translate (for example) does do a good job at it. Still, I'm not sure it adds much to the thread to bring Spanish into a discussion about how many people either don't know how to spell, or are using different rules. Many people on this forum are not native English speakers. They may not use the language perfectly but at least they try. There are also many children here that don't attempt to use perfect written communication. They are at a disadvantage because they were schooled in the USA.
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December 13, 2013, 07:50:20 AM |
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Many people on this forum are not native English speakers. They may not use the language perfectly but at least they try. There are also many children here that don't attempt to use perfect written communication. They are at a disadvantage because they were schooled in the USA.
You're right, and I sort of agree with your original point, that is, provided you can get your point across, some spelling/grammatical errors shouldn't be much of an issue. But I don't think anyone here is trying to stop them from using the forum or some such... you learn as you go, as you use the language. So I was just pointing out that using Spanish, even though you can use a translation service to understand it, it does little to help them learn English, and is probably not that great at communicating with most of the users of this forum.
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