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View sa_eagle's Profile sa_eagle Flag Just outside Cape Town 29 May 17 12.58pm Send a Private Message to sa_eagle Add sa_eagle as a friend

Originally posted by Stirlingsays

No, you fcuk off and improve your English. You should take criticism on English constructively.

That's funny!

 


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View Lofty3rgj's Profile Lofty3rgj 29 May 17 12.59pm Send a Private Message to Lofty3rgj Add Lofty3rgj as a friend

Originally posted by coulsdoneagle

This 100%

I do all of my hol-ing on my phone either on the crapper or on the tube when I get wifi at each stop. An example being this thread which I wrote on the last tube home half cut, and this comment which I'm writing whilst having a sh*t. Either way I stand by my original point, the grammar nazis need to get a life.

I think the the latter applies to you...


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You're asking me what it's all about, and I can't tell you because I don't know what's going on myself.

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View sa_eagle's Profile sa_eagle Flag Just outside Cape Town 29 May 17 1.02pm Send a Private Message to sa_eagle Add sa_eagle as a friend

It's also an issue of respect, especially with names.

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View YT's Profile YT Flag Oxford 29 May 17 1.06pm Send a Private Message to YT Add YT as a friend

Originally posted by Midlands Eagle

My phone seems to have auto incorrect on it where it keeps changing words that I typed correctly into other words that I didn't mean or want to type.

unfortunately I often don't notice until after I've pressed "send"

Thank Dog for auto-correct on phones.

 


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View Willo's Profile Willo Flag South coast - west of Brighton. 29 May 17 1.08pm Send a Private Message to Willo Add Willo as a friend

Originally posted by YT

Thank Dog for auto-correct on phones.


 

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View YT's Profile YT Flag Oxford 29 May 17 1.18pm Send a Private Message to YT Add YT as a friend

Originally posted by Mapletree

What I love about you Willo is the way you have adopted the 'new man' philosophy so successfully.

Hold on! Is ironic teasing still OK?

 


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View Willo's Profile Willo Flag South coast - west of Brighton. 29 May 17 1.21pm Send a Private Message to Willo Add Willo as a friend

Originally posted by YT

Hold on! Is ironic teasing still OK?

Not aware of all this modern technology.

 

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View Stirlingsays's Profile Stirlingsays Flag 29 May 17 2.35pm Send a Private Message to Stirlingsays Holmesdale Online Elite Member Add Stirlingsays as a friend

Originally posted by Rudi Hedman

Spelling is one thing people will get wrong for several reasons.

Using 'would of' and 'could of' and 'ares' when it should be 'our's' should be highlighted or how do people ever know? I blame a lot of tv for this spreading. Soaps, most ITV and muppets on reality tv. Possibly teachers or the teaching arena for not correcting the little darlings because they can't be wrong. Maybe some parents as well.

Or do we gradually demolish the English language and have people coming into the country having a better command of our language than we do, because that's how it'll be.

Yep, you do meet foreigners with better English skills than some natives. I suppose it's apart of human nature that, outside of valid conditions, some people are just too lazy to deal with the basics if they can get away with it. Nothing wrong with making mistakes of course, everyone does, it's more an attitude of mind.

It's like those who laugh about being bad at maths as though it's some badge of rejection of which to be proud.


Edited by Stirlingsays (29 May 2017 2.38pm)

 


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View Direwolf's Profile Direwolf Flag Lincoln 29 May 17 2.40pm Send a Private Message to Direwolf Add Direwolf as a friend

Only in a modern world could literate people be known as 'grammar Nazi's'. I imagine that schools are now full of whiney kids sitting in English Language classes who, when asked to spell something correctly, lead with the retort 'but you're such a grammar Nazi sir'.

 

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View Mapletree's Profile Mapletree Flag Croydon 29 May 17 2.45pm Send a Private Message to Mapletree Add Mapletree as a friend

Originally posted by sa_eagle

It's also an issue of respect, especially with names.

Too right

The way almost everyone on here spells Fraizer Campbell drives me to distraction. The guy has been a loyal servant, tries his hardest and joined the club in July 2014. Over the past three years people have given him so little respect that they haven't even learnt his name.

But I also suffer regularly from the wilful attempts made by spell checkers to derail all of my thoughts before they get to other people.

 

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View Mapletree's Profile Mapletree Flag Croydon 29 May 17 2.46pm Send a Private Message to Mapletree Add Mapletree as a friend

Originally posted by Direwolf

Only in a modern world could literate people be known as 'grammar Nazi's'. I imagine that schools are now full of whiney kids sitting in English Language classes who, when asked to spell something correctly, lead with the retort 'but you're such a grammar Nazi sir'.

True. Not sure about that apostrophe though.

 

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View Cucking Funt's Profile Cucking Funt Flag Clapham on the Back 29 May 17 2.46pm Send a Private Message to Cucking Funt Add Cucking Funt as a friend

Originally posted by Direwolf

Only in a modern world could literate people be known as 'grammar Nazi's'. I imagine that schools are now full of whiney kids sitting in English Language classes who, when asked to spell something correctly, lead with the retort 'but you're such a grammar Nazi sir'.

How true. How very true.

 


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