Spelling

[vbtechie]

Am I the only person that notices a decided lack of precision in the use of the English language on these forums?

It would appear that one of the "outcomes" of OBE is that Generation-Xers are poor to abysmal at spelling.

:rolleyes:

[Scooby_Doo]

And this changes our lives how if people spell badly? As long as they tryin. Other wise why care, go smoke a joint and get over it.

[CodeMaster]

No, you're the only one that @n@l about it ;)

[Scooby_Doo]

No, you're the only one that @n@l about it ;)


LOL:D

[Hobagoas]

Well, yes, I do notice it. I love correct spelling. Everybody can make the odd mistake, but when it comes to the basics i.e. difference between their and there or past and passed...I tend to notice. It doesn't matter on these forums, but it looks rather unprofessional etc. when in letters...so it does irk me a tad...not too much though :rolleyes:

[Xenophon]

Well, yes, I do notice it. I love correct spelling. Everybody can make the odd mistake, but when it comes to the basics i.e. difference between their and there or past and passed...I tend to notice. It doesn't matter on these forums, but it looks rather unprofessional etc. when in letters...so it does irk me a tad...not too much though :rolleyes:

u r now an active members - congrats:eek:

[noswal]

Would that be by a metric or imperial tad?

[seburn]

I is also very unhappier bout peeple whos not spelin correck ;)

[Scooby_Doo]

I is also very unhappier bout peeple whos not spelin correck ;)



:D lol :D

[Hobagoas]

u r now an active members - congrats:eek:

ahh...so it would seem :p phanx

[Chris]

I like to spell every word correctly although I do understand the people who don't want to/can't.

Grammar is what ticks me off most although Killadoob is an exception :D

[doobiwan]

Would that be by a metric or imperial tad?

LOL!

Appeals to my sense of humour I guess

[web]

no spell check. sorry.

[Claymore]

Am I the only person that notices a decided lack of precision in the use of the English language on these forums?

It would appear that one of the "outcomes" of OBE is that Generation-Xers are poor to abysmal at spelling.

:rolleyes:

I don't mind the odd typographical error - after all, almost everyone makes those. When I see a post with poor spelling and grammar though, I'm inclined to treat the writer as an uneducated idiot, and their post as having less value.

[lemaC]

I don't mind the odd typographical error - after all, almost everyone makes those. When I see a post with poor spelling and grammar though, I'm inclined to treat the writer as an uneducated idiot, and their post as having less value.

Why dont we do this thing in afrikaans and see how your spelling will be

[Hobagoas]

hookom? what sou dann anners weeis?

[Xenophon]

bad spelling allowed in TK without some1 thinking u r uneducated:eek:

[ajak]

Eye Halve A Spelling Chequer
It Came With My Pea Sea
It Plainly Marques Four My Revue
Miss Steaks Eye Kin Knot Sea.
Eye Strike A Key And Type A Word
And Weight Four It Two Say
Weather Eye Am Wrong Oar Write
It Shows Me Strait A Weigh.
As Soon As A Mist Ache Is Maid
It Nose Bee Fore Two Long
And Eye Can Put The Error Rite
Its Rare Lea Ever Wrong.
Eye Have Run This Poem Threw It
I Am Shore Your Pleased Two No
Its Letter Perfect Awl The Weigh
My Chequer Tolled Me Sew.

They're know miss steaks in this newsletter cause we used special soft wear witch checks yore spelling. It is mower or lass a weigh too verify. How ever is can knot correct arrows inn punctuation ore usage:an it will not fined words witch are miss used butt spelled rite. Four example; a paragraph could have mini flaws but wood bee past by the spell checker. And it wont catch the sentence fragment which you. Their fore, the massage is that proofreading is knot eliminated, it is still berry muck reek wired.

[Claymore]

Why dont we do this thing in afrikaans and see how your spelling will be

Pretty damn good. My grammar might not be the best though. :)

[Xenophon]

i can like to speak in Afrikaans:rolleyes:

Translation :
ek kan daarvan hou om in Afrikaans te praat.:p

[andres101]

It irritates me as well (not like I don't make mistakes); It would be nice if there was a spellchecker though…

[ajak]

And I bet you a pound to a boll of ****, most peeps on the forum are Afrikaans speaking

[jabulani]

No, you're the only one that @n@l about it ;)

You are quite wrong. Jabulani is also @n@l and hates bad speling.

;)

[lemaC]

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

[Claymore]

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

Seriously, it actually has to do not with the first and last letters, but with the up and downstrokes in the word, and their approximate positions. That's why it can be hard to read text written completely in capitals.

[UtterNutter]

Spell checker?

Spelling checker! This isn't D&D or Harry Potter.

"I need someone to check my spell please..."
"Dog gone it, I left out some eye of newt..."

[UtterNutter]

The spelling, grammar and punctuation around here is generally quite chavtastic. :D

[st3ve]

I'm also picky about spelling, but lately I'm spelling it Jail instead of Gaol. Still saying 'an hotel' though

[rasputyn]

I know that i'm probably one of the worst offenders ito *** looking posts, but quite honestly I couldnt really be arsed to sit down and type a whole post which conforms perfectly to the rules of written english. If other people understand you and what youre getting at, why spend 5 minutes typing a post just so that some chap wont be forced to think that youre uneducated and bring no value?

[craigsa]

I theenk i speeel verie goed and my skoool techa teld me i was the bestsest in the room.

[UtterNutter]

I dunno... typing out a post that is spelt correctly, and makes proper use of grammar doesn't actually take me longer than a post that would be full of spelling mistakes and incorrect use of grammar.... okay apart from the extra apostophes here and there. So that takes what, maybe an extra 0.023 seconds to type? Maybe it's just me. You either know how to spell something or you don't. You either know how to use grammar or you don't. It's not like you have to sit for five minutes preparing a sentence in your head. WTF?

[rasputyn]

i find that capitalising I's and putting in apostrophies takes longer, and is uncomfortable to do, twisting fingers and all...i just dont like being called uneducated :( 'coz my mommy told me is is kleva

From now on I will conform to the rules which I was taught, promise!

[st3ve]

Although in forums I certainly don't care how others type, it certainly doesn't make me think they're less educated, so long as they get across what they want to say, no problem.

If it's a published document or a C.V. then it bothers me

[thisgeek]

Am I the only person that notices a decided lack of precision in the use of the English language on these forums?

It would appear that one of the "outcomes" of OBE is that Generation-Xers are poor to abysmal at spelling.

:rolleyes:

Well, considering that I think that most forumites are passed their 20s, and the first group who were educated with OBE are only in Matric this year, I think your statement regarding OBE is incorrect.

I do, however, agree with you regarding spelling -- although I note that it is not just these forums in particular, but on the Internet as a whole.

[rasputyn]

If it's a published document or a C.V. then it bothers me

I agree, that would show a lack of education perhaps, but even more, a lack of respect for the reader!

[Scooby_Doo]

i only turned 20 this year... me so young, me love u long time.

[rasputyn]

i only turned 20 this year... me so young, me love u long time.

Therefore, theoretically, you are passed 20...;)

I've got this theory, might be a little bit fundamentaly flawed though, it goes like this:

In general, people only start counting at 1, so in effect you loose one year of life due to the counting process - which has been in use for millennia (that's the flaw). EG: If you were born in 1985 you would count 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91 etc. all the way to 2005 which gives you 20. This method makes you loose out on one year, 1985 (regardless of month).

Now, if you include the year you were born in the counting process, you would count 1985, 86, 87, 88, 89 etc. which would mean that you are actually currently experiencing your 21st year of life.

Thats my theory, and I'm sticking to it!:D

[Padded Mouse]

I find that computers and "spell checks" have made me very lazy, and that I do not proof read my work as well as I should. Because let's face it the spell checks do leave a lot to be desired.

In fact when I write stories or poems, I have a good friend in the UK who checks my writing for me.

Compound this with the fact that my hand / eye coordination is shot to hell and I am basically "keyboard dyslexic" then we have a recipe for disaster.

Seriously though, well spoken / well written English (and Afrikaans ) is an absolute pleasure to listen to and read. I am always attracted to someone who has an extensive vocabulary too.;)

[rasputyn]

Oi Padded Mouse, almost 200 posts!

[Padded Mouse]

Oi Padded Mouse, almost 200 posts!


jeepers don't point things like that out to me so late at night, I won't be able to sleep because of the excitement!

So dull and boring is my life at the moment that this would be a highlight:D

[st3ve]

Therefore, theoretically, you are passed 20...;)

I've got this theory, might be a little bit fundamentaly flawed though, it goes like this:

In general, people only start counting at 1, so in effect you loose one year of life due to the counting process - which has been in use for millennia (that's the flaw). EG: If you were born in 1985 you would count 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91 etc. all the way to 2005 which gives you 20. This method makes you loose out on one year, 1985 (regardless of month).

Now, if you include the year you were born in the counting process, you would count 1985, 86, 87, 88, 89 etc. which would mean that you are actually currently experiencing your 21st year of life.

Thats my theory, and I'm sticking to it!:D

Then there's all that time in the womb, but I don't want to feel that I'm giving ammo to the anti abortion lobby here so I'll leave it at that

[Kropotkin]

Therefore, theoretically, you are passed 20...;)

I've got this theory, might be a little bit fundamentaly flawed though, it goes like this:

In general, people only start counting at 1, so in effect you loose one year of life due to the counting process - which has been in use for millennia (that's the flaw). EG: If you were born in 1985 you would count 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91 etc. all the way to 2005 which gives you 20. This method makes you loose out on one year, 1985 (regardless of month).

Now, if you include the year you were born in the counting process, you would count 1985, 86, 87, 88, 89 etc. which would mean that you are actually currently experiencing your 21st year of life.

Thats my theory, and I'm sticking to it!:DSure you're in your 21st year of life, but:

you are aged 20 last birthday
you are aged 21 next birthday
and in general you are aged 20.5 nearest birthday (assuming a uniform distribution of births across the year).

So it depends totally on what your definition of age is, most people use age last birthday. :D

[vodacom3g]

I use a little plugin, ieSpell (http://www.iespell.com) that works quite well for IE, not sure if something similar is available for Firefox.

I tend to travel a lot, and prefer to do most of my work server-side, i.e. in browser format, so a browser spell checker is essential.

[MaryJane]

I find that computers and "spell checks" have made me very lazy, and that I do not proof read my work as well as I should. Because let's face it the spell checks do leave a lot to be desired.

When I started working, I usually proof read my work once. Now I do it twice, once for once for tone and flow and once for spelling and grammar. If you force yourself to do this it will come naturally.

[AcidRaZor]

tone? in text? wtf? you people are mad!!!

[ShaunSA]

tone? in text? wtf? you people are mad!!!

tone = manner of expression in speaking or writing :)

[ajak]

0:40 pm Storm Catcher (16 VL)
Jack Holloway, a high-ranking pilot has suddenly become an enemy of the state. He is accused of treason for the theft of a pro-typical aircraft. By escaping convict, he manages to recover the aircraft and uncover a conspiracy involving the U.S. military - all the while trying to keep his family out of harm. Starring Dolph Lundgren and Mystro Clark.

[stoke]

As an escaping convict, Jack Holloway has to learn to spell allover again. The grueling contest - held over 90 days in a secret military installation is invaded by the spelling police. Jack Holloway has to uncover the spelling police and protect the honour of his French family while driving a 2 ton forklift into an avalanche of lesbians :p.

[ajak]

As an escaping convict, Jack Holloway has to learn to spell allover again. The grueling contest - held over 90 days in a secret military installation is invaded by the spelling police. Jack Holloway has to uncover the spelling police and protect the honour of his French family while driving a 2 ton forklift into an avalanche of lesbians :p.

jou grapgat:D :D

[stoke]

enige tjd :p.

[Drusky]

tone? in text? wtf? you people are mad!!!
And here we have an excellent example of tone. Rhetorical questions in this case indcate contempt. The small caps and the "mad" and "wtf" indicate disrespect. So the tone would be in my unprofessional opinion contemptuous and disrespectfull.

[ajak]

And here we have an excellent example of tone. Rhetorical questions in this case indcate contempt. The small caps and the "mad" and "wtf" indicate disrespect. So the tone would be in my unprofessional opinion contemptuous and disrespectfull.

drusky,with all due respect,jy`s a knopg@t:D :D

[Drusky]

drusky,with all due respect,jy`s a knopg@t:D :D
And the tone here would be, despite the literal indications, disrespectful. Possibly humourous too but I'm pessimistic.

[AirWolf]

Bad spelling should be an infraction bearing reportable offence:p

Bad spelling really gets up my nose:(.

[bwana]

Bad spelling should an infraction bearing reportable offence:p

Bad spelling really gets up my nose:(.Should be an . . . ? :confused:

Dredging up threads from 2005 on the other hand . . . .;)

[AirWolf]

Should be an . . . ? :confused:

Dredging up threads from 2005 on the other hand . . . .;)

Oopsy:o

[LancelotSA]

I think you will find two distinct sides to this discussion... those who cannot spell, or are just too lazy to bother, and therefore say that worrying about it is an@l, and then the other side who take pride in what they write and therefore are bothered by poor grammar and spelling!

I, for one, like to think of myself as the latter. I may make the odd mistake but it really bugs me when some people just don't bother making an effort. Also people who use "cu" instead of see you, "l8r" instead of later... that is just pure laziness, especially when you have a qwerty keyboard at your disposal.

[AirWolf]

I think you will find two distinct sides to this discussion... those who cannot spell, or are just too lazy to bother, and therefore say that worrying about it is an@l, and then the other side who take pride in what they write and therefore are bothered by poor grammar and spelling!

I, for one, like to think of myself as the latter. I may make the odd mistake but it really bugs me when some people just don't bother making an effort. Also people who use "cu" instead of see you, "l8r" instead of later... that is just pure laziness, especially when you have a qwerty keyboard at your disposal.

Same here. The mxit/sms/mobile phone junkies tend to use abbreviated language.

[hj2k_x]

Same here. The mxit/sms/mobile phone junkies tend to use abbreviated language.

Which, if you ask me, takes longer to read and to type!

[LancelotSA]

Which, if you ask me, takes longer to read and to type!

If you can read it!! My cousin sent me a message and I had to get her to translate! ha ha

And as for taking longer to type, why type l8r with a number of individual key presses when predictive text can probably get it quicker!

[Mephisto_Helix]

Oh no, the grammar Nazis are trying to get infractions imposed for spelling ... run for your lives :p . Chill pills will be dispensed for all affected Nazis :p

[LancelotSA]

Infractions for anyone who says take a chill pill too I reckon, soooooo 70's! And the racist calling of names ie Nazis!

[Mephisto_Helix]

? K

[JBFRobisher]

Here is a nice photo of us with our Oxford English Dictionaries:

http://mybroadband.co.za/photos/showphoto.php?photo=3214

[AirWolf]

Here is a nice photo of us with our Oxford English Dictionaries:

http://mybroadband.co.za/photos/showphoto.php?photo=3214

:D

[Mephisto_Helix]

Lol ....

[chiskop]

Here is a nice photo of us with our Oxford English Dictionaries:

http://mybroadband.co.za/photos/showphoto.php?photo=3214

Could you identify the people in the picture, please? :D

Jokes aside though, I have my 2008 (Scrabble) Club and Tournament World List with me at the moment - brought it in to resolve an argument at work. Fantastic book, all 250 000 allowable scrabble words, no definitions or any of that other extraneous stuffs.

Fact of the day: opgevok is a perfectly acceptable scrabble word.

[ToxicBunny]

According to which list baldilocks?

SOWPODS or TWL?

[Moederloos]

I know that i'm probably one of the worst offenders ito *** looking posts, but quite honestly I couldnt really be arsed to sit down and type a whole post which conforms perfectly to the rules of written english. If other people understand you and what youre getting at, why spend 5 minutes typing a post just so that some chap wont be forced to think that youre uneducated and bring no value?

If you need to spend a measurable amount of time thinking about the spelling, in that case


I dunno... typing out a post that is spelt correctly, and makes proper use of grammar doesn't actually take me longer than a post that would be full of spelling mistakes and incorrect use of grammar.... okay apart from the extra apostophes here and there. So that takes what, maybe an extra 0.023 seconds to type? Maybe it's just me. You either know how to spell something or you don't. You either know how to use grammar or you don't. It's not like you have to sit for five minutes preparing a sentence in your head. WTF?

said it best.

[chiskop]

According to which list baldilocks?

SOWPODS or TWL?

Ooh, someone who knows the lingo. :)

Except that only Americans call it SOWPODS. Real people call the proper English Scrabble lists CSW: Collins Scrabble Words, though it is the same as SOWPODS.

[ToxicBunny]

Ahhh.... yes I do know the lingo, somewhat :)

Good... as long as its according to the real list, the American list is flawed... :p