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06-12-2012, 05:06 PM
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it's time for the Guillotine, again
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How to keep the grammatically challenged away from the Internet
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06-12-2012, 05:10 PM
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fumbling around in the dark
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One too many http://'s in that url, lint.
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06-12-2012, 05:28 PM
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That would weed out about 3/4 of the traffic.
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06-12-2012, 10:07 PM
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Secretly laughing at the cat
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If spelling and grammer could be held against someone, I'm a goner.
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06-12-2012, 10:15 PM
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There are a number of words to this day I CANNOT reliably spell correctly. And my old keyboard with letters rubbed out, not to mention my four tinger typing mean a ton of typos.
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06-13-2012, 12:10 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Feather
If spelling and grammer could be held against someone, I'm a goner.
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Yeah, what she said.
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06-13-2012, 04:21 AM
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The weird thing is when I was in middle school I had trouble passing English but I was reading at a college level.
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06-13-2012, 07:29 AM
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That's because what the teach in "English" has absolutely nothing to do with communicating.
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06-13-2012, 08:31 AM
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Quote:
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There are a number of words to this day I CANNOT reliably spell correctly. And my old keyboard with letters rubbed out, not to mention my four tinger typing mean a ton of typos.
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My main nemesis is....seperate. Separate?
No matter how many times I'm shown how to spell it, I want to spell it wrong every time.
There are very few words I can't spell. I don't know what it is about this one.
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06-13-2012, 08:46 AM
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e/a in the middle of words is tough, as is anything ending in able/ible... or ant/ent Dependant? Dependent? Defendant? Defendent?
English is a confuzzeling language.
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06-13-2012, 09:47 AM
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 So, who all is gonna be banned now? 
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06-13-2012, 10:22 AM
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what fb said - is it a/i or e/i? ARGH!
That & the French in me compels me to add 'e' to the end of words. Develope to me, looks more 'right' than develop.
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06-13-2012, 02:33 PM
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English is assembled from many sources and i think it has more words that require rote learning then German or French. Also more then dutch.
Things like gaol etc.
The test isn't that hard but i have always thought you could switch 'then' and 'than' at all times with english because the latter is just an older spelling but i guess that's not true.
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06-15-2012, 08:37 PM
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it's time for the Guillotine, again
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06-15-2012, 09:00 PM
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Someone didn't proof the sign. I would have had my fanny in a sling if I let something like that go out of the shop I was in.
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06-18-2012, 04:29 PM
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Try chinese where each word can mean up to 5 differant things depending on how you pronounce it.
Favorite example Yen Ging (sp) can mean eyes, eye glasses, or penis
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06-20-2012, 07:19 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by drummagick
My main nemesis is....seperate. Separate?
No matter how many times I'm shown how to spell it, I want to spell it wrong every time.
There are very few words I can't spell. I don't know what it is about this one.
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I always remember "There is A RAT in separate"
It's that i before e except after c and all the other random times that it's backwards crap that gets me...at least in German the ie/ei order is apparent from pronunciation.
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