Annoying MR community typos

[mad jew]

Or when people misspell arse.

Like: get that carrot out of your arse.

 

[frankblundt]

Or is that 'ass'?

if you're kicking a donkey, then absolutely. Or an American.

 

[Chundles]

Or is that 'ass'?

Ass is a donkey. Arse is your posterior.

 

[SamIchi]

People within the MR community who make topics like this annoy me

 

[commonpeople]

Pedants of the world unite!
By which I mean, please gather in an organized congregation in a fixed temporal spatial location forming a group of more than one person.

 

[commonpeople]

People within the MR community who make topics like this annoy me

Why? Try reading one of the 1000's of other threads instead. In fact, there's a whole internet out there. Failing that- you could possibly leave your computer and interact with the real world if you don't enjoy reading these posts.

 

[Peyton]

English major that you are, you ought to know, more so than most, that language is a means to an end, and a living, mutating one at that; in a process of constant adaptation to the changing communicative requirements of it's users.

You're right, but that I would care more if I was a LINGUISTICS major. English changes sure, but English people are more concerned with sticking to old traditional rules, Linguists care about all that changing mumbo. I know what cha mean, these are just some annoying things I've noticed. Nothing personal.

 

[Peyton]

People within the MR community who make topics like this annoy me

I'm sorry to annoy you. But seriously, you saw the title, you didn't have to read it, this is the correct section for such posts, so I don't know why you'd even bother commenting. anyway...

 

[SamIchi]

I'm sorry to annoy you. But seriously, you saw the title, you didn't have to read it, this is the correct section for such posts, so I don't know why you'd even bother commenting. anyway...

Maybe I should've put a after my comment.

 

[jrk07]

Sorry to say it, but these boards have some of the worst spelling typos I've seen. I usually just try and convince myself that they are all made by people who may not be native english speakers. Seriously though, check your spelling folks.

 

[edesignuk]

People within the MR community who make topics like this annoy me

Here here.

I mean really, get a grip.

Oh sorry, should there have been a comma there? Or here for that matter?

...no wait, I don't care.

 

[angelneo]

Maybe we should register macrumours.com as well

 

[ChrisBrightwell]

"The new iMac is too cool, I wish I had one."
Both of these two clauses could be 'two' different sentences...

I'm pretty sure this is a comma splice.

You get an A for effort, though.

 

[Chundles]

Maybe we should register macrumours.com as well

I reckon we should. I can't type it without the 'u.' It was so annoying at net cafés when I was travelling, limited time and I'd sit there waiting for it to go through then realise I'd left the 'u' in.

 

[Jaffa Cake]

Pedants of the world unite!

And dyslexics of the world untie!

 

[khammack]

Payed.

Hmmm...you almost had me there. But according to your link (and dictionary.app) "payed" is only the valid past tense of "pay" in the nautical sense:

VERB: A past tense and a past participle of pay1 (sense 10).

Sense 10 (following the link):

10. Inflected forms: Past tense and past participle paid or payed ( pd)
To let out (a line or cable) by slackening.

My original assertion holds: if you're writing "payed" into macrumors forums, you almost certainly meant to write "paid" (since we're usually talking about payment, not sailing).

-kev

 

[frankblundt]

My original assertion holds: if you're writing "payed" into macrumors forums, you almost certainly meant to write "paid" (since we're usually talking about payment, not sailing).

aaaaar. i did be bringin up the payin out of vast fathoms o cable in these here networking threads since afore e were borne. Any bub pass sucklin know that power cords and all manner of other wired paraphernalia mus be sufficiently payed out to avoid the dreaded "stumbling tug of death".

 

[After G]

Eh, as long as I understand the intent, I don't really care about a few misspellings and grammar mess ups.

Being a grammar nazi about the things you remember makes it funny when someone picks apart your writing for the things you don't. God knows I mess up an awful lot.

 

[wordmunger]

The amount of grammatical errors in this thread is simply astonishing -- both by those claiming to be offended by errors and those saying (more consistently, at least), "I don't care."

Give it up, people! You're never going to fix people's grammar in a forum thread. I taught English for two years, and couldn't get my students to fix it in the classroom. It's not going to happen in a forum.

 

[CoMpX]

iPod, iMac, Mac. OK, yea I just needed to see them typed normally before I cried. Thanks.

 

[pseudobrit]

I'm a friendly person, I understand we aren't writing research papers here, but being the English major and perfectionist I am

Commas separate two clauses, two separate thoughts that could stand on their own if they needed to such as...

"The new iMac is too cool, I wish I had one."
Both of these two clauses could be 'two' different sentences...

A real perfectionist could go on about how an English major should know the distinct difference between a clause and a "separate thought that could stand on [its] own".

Or they might comment about your misuse of ellipses.

But I'm not going to nitpick. Much.

 

[floriflee]

Don't even get me started on "it's" and "its"....

 

[ChrisBrightwell]

Eh, as long as I understand the intent, I don't really care about a few misspellings and grammar mess ups.

I tend to agree with this, but I take issue with consistent mistakes similar to what the OP is highlighting.

I also hate the fact that some people seem to have religious alignments against paragraph breaks.

 

[Josh]

Oh my goodness what the hell is going on here at MR. Whats next....the thread about people using the mouse with their left hand gezz it's a forum and you can't control everything.


Bless

Agreed.

Don't know if eSuperiority complexes are contagious or what, but seems to be a lot of telling other folks what to do going on.

Sure, some people misspell things, use grammar slightly off - but it's something WE ALL do from time to time. If someone doesn't spend 15 minutes proof reading their forum posts, so be it. I'm glad they have more important things to do.

After all, we are casually discussing, not submitting essays for review.

 

[NWAMacTech]

The one for me is ACD when refferring to Apple Displays.