Spelling 'loser' with two 'o's!

[bigmick22]

(chris9005 @ Feb. 29 2008,20:47) And you 'meet' people who you really, really like.

Love it, absolutely love it.

you mean the LBs or the BMs?

[kathylc]

I used to get straight "A" for spelling when I was in school, but to me I just do not care anymore expecially when it comes to knocking out a post on the internet. If I fat finger a word or an entire sentence, or misspell a word or two or three, oh well....I just am not that much of a person that has to make sure things are perfect. One time I was, but anymore its merely just bang it out and hit enter!!

[thaibound]

individual posts, spelling, just give me the meaning, i'm fine.
but thread titles with "maneger" and "underhelmed"?
seems like lots of whining but little correcting.
then again.
i'm no good with punctu.
ation.
and a major poetry award was once won by a poem entitled:
"lighght".

in fact, that was the whole poem.

[Grinder]

Stoges.... I spotted a spooling mistak of yours but didn't point it out as a) it's rather pedantic and b) we are all human.

However, since it bugs you so much I shall bring these things to the attention of the Spelling Poilice immediately.

And the one that REALLY bugs me... "I should of.." NO!!

[Naang Faa]

Was that when he first "cane" to Thailand
x

[Grinder]

Please put that tongue away Naang or do something useful with it... ding, and quite possibly, dong.

[stogie bear]

Well, we all make misteaks!

[Grinder]

True, true...

[ohnoriceagain]

Oh, I'm with you on this topic, SB. The most recent one that's caught my attention is "rediculous". Another is "advice" versus "advise". I mean, it's understandable because "vice" and "vise" are both pronounced the same but still irks me. "Affect" versus "effect", another one. I recently won a $5 bet off of one of my dumb friends that claimed he was good at spelling; he asked me to spell "license", so I did. Nope, I was wrong, it's spelled "lisense" until I pulled out my drivers license. So, right after we're watching the TV and to get his 5 bucks back he challenges me with "asphyxiation". Another time, I used "you've proved" in a column I had written (I've written for a few magazines) and I was told that "proved" is not a word. So I asked what should it be? "It should be "proven"". Well, "proved" and "proven" are interchangeable, so I proved him wrong with the might of a pocket dictionary.

My theory is that if you don't read a lot, you're going to be a poor speller. Prior to the Internet and email, most people didn't have to spell, you communicated verbally through the phone, as the art of the letter has been a lost art for some time now. I still write my Mom letters 3-4 times a year as opposed to giving her a call. And I'm not talking email - I'm talking pen and paper and an envelope and put a stamp on it.

And just last Xmas, a coworker handed out cards where he wrote "and have a grate New Year". Yep, he was a college graduate.

Also, folks rely on spellcheck; well spellcheck will catch "graet" but won't catch "grate" when it should be "great". Typos happen and are excusable but writing "looser" over and over again is not.

[Tomcat]

There are more people speaking English in India than in the rest of the native English speaking world according to the Daily Telegraph.

English as we know it is on the way out with at least 7 competing versions from India, Singapore , Chinglish and so on...


God save the Queen , fucking foreigners

[allstar88]

i hate all this text talk

[Otho]

Couldn't agree more with the original sentiment posted by Stogie Bear. English is an incredibly rich language and the barbarians, led by Bill gates and his stupid fucking inaccurate spellchecker nonsense, want to render it threadbare. String 'em up, I say.

The one thing that sends me totally livid (and in my job I have to spend a lot of time correcting it) is the Random and Unnecessary Use of Capital Letters. It's especially prevalent in business documents and advertisements. People capitalise everything. It's - let me see, what's the right word, oh yes I've got it - it's bollocks.

Just about every major English speaking newspaper has a style guide, which all its journalists and contributors have to adhere to. (You'll find them on the paper's website usually, and they're very interesting if you're interested in the written word). Without exception, they tell you that capital letters are only used at the start of a sentence, or for proper places, titles and names. And that's it. No exceptions.

Even when you use titles, you only use capitals the first time. For example, you would write "Prime Minister Gordon Brown," the first time you wrote it in an article, but if you use the title later, you would just write "prime minister".

So if "prime minister" doesn't even rate capital letters, "Customer Care Centre" or "Deputy Manager" certainly don't. The Stupid Twats.

[Tomcat]

Michael Erard a language buff has a 4 page report in this weeks New Scientist ., English;Why the language we know is vanishing fast,,  . Wont get to read it for a week but many Economic mags are saying the same thing over...

The days of the queens English are dead and buried

[stogie bear]

but to me I just do not care anymore expecially when it comes to knocking out a post on the internet. If I fat finger a word or an entire sentence, or misspell a word or two or three, oh well....

Basically this tells me that you don't give a hoot whether or not you are understood or how you come across.

So what's the point of posting at all if you don't give a fuck if people understand it?

[Otho]

(Tomcat @ Mar. 30 2008,23:03) Michael Erard a language buff has a 4 page report in this weeks New Scientist ., English;Why the language we know is vanishing fast,,  . Wont get to read it for a week but many Economic mags are saying the same thing over...

The days of the queens English are dead and buried

Thanks for the tip about the article. I'll make a point of searching for it and look forward to reading it.

But I have a feeling I won't buy the argument. Thanks to the internet, people are probably reading more than ever before. Book sales are going up like never before - just look at Harry Potter.

Most internet sites and book authors still use the Queen's English. And why wouldn't they?

Yes, texting and email are developing an English version of their own, but I think it will evolve in parallel with, not instead of, the coventional version.