a456 said:
I Have very sensitive ears But I guess I should have said: When they "call out" in writing as people are wont to do on Macrumors.
Example: "We want our 8 Cores in a Conroes today!"
Response: "Here! Here!"
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Spelling Errors! Its LOSE not LOOSE
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I Have very sensitive ears But I guess I should have said: When they "call out" in writing as people are wont to do on Macrumors.
Example: "We want our 8 Cores in a Conroes today!"
Response: "Here! Here!"
gauchogolfer said:Not to pile on to you here Music_Producer, but you do realize that you misused 'Its' in the thread title, right? Just a bit of irony for you there
Yes, I realized that once Elrond pointed out the difference between 'its' and 'it's'
That is incorrect use of grammar though.. *not* a spelling mistake.. hehe! Lol@ memron for Merom.. I've actually even seen someone type 'Mormon'
For all you know, mac worshipping might really become a ritual!arkitect said:
But I guess I should have said: When they "call out" in writing as people are wont to do on Macrumors.
Example: "We want our 8 Cores in a Conroes today!"
Response: "Here! Here!"
That just means they want them 'here' already.. in their local Apple stores
And what is 'as people are wont to do on macrumors' ?
Music_Producer said:That just means they want them 'here' already.. in their local Apple stores
And what is 'as people are wont to do on macrumors' ?
Tut! You Philistine! That is "posh" speak that is
I'll just go away before I dig any deeper
arkitect said:
But I guess I should have said: When they "call out" in writing… as people are wont to do on Macrumors.
Example: "We want our 8 Cores in a Conroes today!"
Response: "Here! Here!"…
Doesnt it come from showing agreement 'over here' not agreement as in 'hear me agree?'
Something I've noticed of late is people using "common" where they mean "come on."
I've seen "I mean, common!" instead of "I mean, come on!" so many times recently and it's really starting to irritate me. They're two different sets of words, you may as well say "I mean elephant bollocks" if you're going to use "common" in place of "come on."
It's just stupid.
And as for all these "I don't care as long as it gets the message across" people, I consider using proper grammar and spelling a mark of courtesy and respect for your fellow person. Even an attempt is good. But for those who constantly type in ridiculous abbreviations, don't structure a sentence or type as though they're having a conversation on MSN or AIM, in my opinion you are showing me disrespect and as such I'm not going to pay much attention to what you have to say.
It really takes little effort to craft a post that is coherent and well thought-out. Fast typing is no excuse for not thinking. Put some effort in.
I've seen "I mean, common!" instead of "I mean, come on!" so many times recently and it's really starting to irritate me. They're two different sets of words, you may as well say "I mean elephant bollocks" if you're going to use "common" in place of "come on."
It's just stupid.
And as for all these "I don't care as long as it gets the message across" people, I consider using proper grammar and spelling a mark of courtesy and respect for your fellow person. Even an attempt is good. But for those who constantly type in ridiculous abbreviations, don't structure a sentence or type as though they're having a conversation on MSN or AIM, in my opinion you are showing me disrespect and as such I'm not going to pay much attention to what you have to say.
It really takes little effort to craft a post that is coherent and well thought-out. Fast typing is no excuse for not thinking. Put some effort in.
Nermal said:
Seriously, our third official language is... wait for it... sign language
I know some of the people who campaigned for that. It's not just 'sign language' - it's New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL), which is native to NZ and evolved through several hundred years of the deaf community there.
Calling it 'sign language' is like saying 'we reconise spoken language as a national language'. Yes, but which spoken language?
NZSL is historically related to British Sign Language (BSL) cos of immigration, but it's gone off on its own track and is now a NZ language in its own right.
Are you claiming that NZ should ignore a language that is used by a community across NZ and nowhere else, the only language used fluently by many members of that group, with a rich history of poetry and performance in that language?
Most scandinavian countries reconise their respective native sign languages, the UK has just (sort of) reconised its own BSL as a national language (tho still not with the same status as Welsh, despite being used by far more people than Welsh)
Anyway, returning you to your bickering over spelling - see my next post below.
stuartluff said:
Actually it originated from Parliament House of Commons/Lords.
"Hear him! Hear him!" as an encouragement to a speaker making a speech. At least that was what I was taught way back in the Dark Ages.
It definitely is not "Here! Here!"
arkitect said:Actually it originated from Parliament House of Commons/Lords.
"Hear him! Hear him!" as an encouragement to a speaker making a speech. At least that was what I was taught way back in the Dark Ages.
It definitely is not "Here! Here!"
Fair enough. I was born just after the Dark Ages.
Words the internet can't spell
IIRC some sort of kerkuffle over the word 'Medieval'.
Seems that back when Yahoo was the main search engine / free email host, it was auto-changing instances of the word 'Medieval' to 'Medireview' or something similiar.
Their reasoning seemed to be that as many viruses included the word 'eval' as a programming keyword, removing 'eval' from email attachments hosted by them would sort things out.
Caused no end of fuss with people who had 'eval' as part of their email addresses.
Some dumb students even started taking up the new spellings I think.
IIRC some sort of kerkuffle over the word 'Medieval'.
Seems that back when Yahoo was the main search engine / free email host, it was auto-changing instances of the word 'Medieval' to 'Medireview' or something similiar.
Their reasoning seemed to be that as many viruses included the word 'eval' as a programming keyword, removing 'eval' from email attachments hosted by them would sort things out.
Caused no end of fuss with people who had 'eval' as part of their email addresses.
Some dumb students even started taking up the new spellings I think.
bousozoku said:I considered that to be intentionally misspelt. Otherwise, I would have mentioned it.
I believe it was there to intentionally wind me up
Yes, that irritates the bloody hell out of me.Chundles said:
Thank you..finally there are some people in this world who think making an effort to spell right or have a proper conversation is a good thing. I'll make it a point to buy you a beer if I ever visit Australia
I've noticed though, that it's mostly Americans who are horrible at spelling (the really basic stuff), and, quite frankly.. they don't care if anyone corrects them.
i dont mind leaving out apostrophes in words (as you can tell by the second word in my post ). The thing which irritates me most is when people use MSN speak in the forums, like "How do u do dis?" GRR!!! TAKE THE TIME TO WRITE YOU INSTEAD OF U!
people writing iPods as I-PODS, and similar with I-MAC, I-BOOK is annoying as well.
ahh i feel much better now
EDIT: For a thread about something as basic as improper grammar (not grammer ), it is amazingly popular. Looks like almost half the threads on the ForumSpy are replies to this thread!
). The thing which irritates me most is when people use MSN speak in the forums, like "How do u do dis?" GRR!!! TAKE THE TIME TO WRITE YOU INSTEAD OF U!people writing iPods as I-PODS, and similar with I-MAC, I-BOOK is annoying as well.
ahh i feel much better now
EDIT: For a thread about something as basic as improper grammar (not grammer
), it is amazingly popular. Looks like almost half the threads on the ForumSpy are replies to this thread!Scarlet Fever said:EDIT: For a thread about something as basic as improper grammar (not grammer
I really feel like I've contributed, then. First time I can recall getting the first (not original) post in. Hooray for me!
The thing that annoys me the most is incorrect use of apostrophes. People use apostrophes in the most inappropriate places. I'm not just talking about confusing "it's" and "its", but when people use a plural, especially a plural that's the name of something (like iMac or iPod), for reasons I just cannot fathom, they think it's necessary to insert an apostrophe.
So you get stuff like this:
"When are the new iMac's coming out?"
"How loud are Mac Pro's?"
"I own six iPod's."
I must have missed the school lesson where people were taught that using apostrophes to denote plurals was correct. Oh wait, it's not correct. SO WHY DO YOU DO IT?
Correct use of the apostrophe is not a difficult thing to master.
In respect of spelling/grammar/punctuation mistakes in general, unless you have a good excuse (dyslexia or you are a non-native English speaker), such mistakes just make me think that you're not terribly intelligent and are careless. Your posts here are all people have to go on when forming an opinion of you. If your posts are full of elementary spelling mistakes, rampant apostrophe's [sic] and so on, it paints a very poor picture of you.
So you get stuff like this:
"When are the new iMac's coming out?"
"How loud are Mac Pro's?"
"I own six iPod's."
I must have missed the school lesson where people were taught that using apostrophes to denote plurals was correct. Oh wait, it's not correct. SO WHY DO YOU DO IT?
Correct use of the apostrophe is not a difficult thing to master.
In respect of spelling/grammar/punctuation mistakes in general, unless you have a good excuse (dyslexia or you are a non-native English speaker), such mistakes just make me think that you're not terribly intelligent and are careless. Your posts here are all people have to go on when forming an opinion of you. If your posts are full of elementary spelling mistakes, rampant apostrophe's [sic] and so on, it paints a very poor picture of you.
a456 said:
Yup. That one got an audible chuckle out me, too. Nice one.
Props to the starter here. The "loose" vs. "lose" issue is one that has been driving me nuts for years.
Some interesting sites:
ending a sentence with a preposition
apostrophes with plurals
-Squire
It is surprisingly difficult when you were taught it incorrectly in the first place, as I was. I'm always messing up on the it's vs. its thing.Glen Quagmire said:
But I have no such excuse for starting sentences with And all the time. That's 100% my fault.
