Spelling 'loser' with two 'o's!

[alan1chef]

Speaking of the mother tongue.... What do we do about "honour" and "honor"?

[stogie bear]

I have no answer to that. I'm half Yank!

[andre459]

(alan1chef @ Feb. 28 2008,10:29) Speaking of the mother tongue....  What do we do about "honour" and "honor"?

The Seppos don't like U's.

Colour/color, labour/labor, behaviour/behavior etc.

[alan1chef]

I have family in Australia.

[Looker]

(alan1chef @ Feb. 28 2008,09:29) Speaking of the mother tongue....  What do we do about "honour" and "honor"?

And how about 'color' and 'colour'.
Same like travelling and traveling ..differences between American English and British English. Plenty of other examples though.
And then they said we mix up!!!!

[surferboy]

A looser girl is not a loser.

[kahuna]

(daveduke007 @ Feb. 28 2008,08:11) Kill the Bastard's  

You don't know how to use punctuation, and you want to kill someone for adding an "O"  where it doesn't belong...

What about the folks who don't know the difference between there, their and they're or its and it's...What are you going to do to them?

Monkey is correct...the English language is fucked...G. B. Shaw (as I recall) once wrote that in English one can spell fish "GHOTI."  "GH" as in enough.  "O" as in women.  "TI" as in ambition.  

You can pick up any newspaper, magazine or book and likely find many spelling and grammatical mistakes...Perfection is just round the corner for us all...

So I voted who gives a rat's ass...

[stogie bear]

What about the folks who don't know the difference between there, their and they're or its and it's...

...or 'your' and 'you're' (Grrrr!)

This is my whole point. I don't have a gripe against people who are crap at spelling or people who are struggling to learn English. Most of the world falls into this category.

I don't care that the English language is in a state of flux... I'm happy that we are moving on from Ye Olde Sprakendy Lingedy...

It's the fact that the few remaining people who DO know better and who SHOULD be making an effort have all but given up trying...

And (yes I did it again!) these people are teachers and others in authority who can't distinguish between what is 'Lazy English', 'Slang English' or just poor education...

Anyway - I'm not gnashing my teeth on this every day that I am online. Just passing an observation, is all...

(I meant "that's all!", NOT 'is all!')

[mirimark]

Are you guys talking about me again ?
You could at least talk about me behind my back and not broadcast it over the net.

Go buy a Vowel !

[Dieter]

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[Torurot]

Is there an echo in the image engine? I've got infinite patience for non English speakers. There's always Babel Fish for the really hard of hearing. I tell you it's the fking telephone what's done in spelling. All that txting. "English" in it's many guises has always been and always will be dynamic. In 100 years we may not regognise it, just as the majority of native "English" speakers can no longer read or understand olde English, which now qualifies as a foreign language.

[sev7en]

I got a text the other day from a ladyboy:" i call you forwod?"

Or a partyflyer sign said "have pock"

Took me awhile to understand. I love when they write the word as it sounds.

There´s another thread about thai´s textmessages, i know..

I like Becks song Looser though

[thaibound]

if i weren't soooooooo conscientious about my spelling i'd be up to about 5000 posts by now and the princess would be sorely pissed to find me so beyond Her reach.

"conscious" vs "conscience".
that's my personal pet peeve.
not the innocuous misspelling but the flat out use of the wrong damn word altogether.
and as for syntax, i prefer james joyce to see spot run. give me the moo cow any day.

[stogie bear]

In 100 years we may not regognise it...

In 100 years anyone who has managed to avoid being stoned to death won't be speaking English.

[Socrates999]

Those who spell it "looser" are a bunch of fucking moorons.