Copper1 From Canada, joined Jun 2000, 438 posts, RR: 1 Posted (12 years 10 months 1 week 6 days 23 hours ago) and read 611 times:
This thread is not directed at anyone who's first language is not english.
Will those of you from Canada, the United States and other english speaking countries please learn how to spell ( or type ). I can't believe how bad the overall quality of some of the posts are. I expect , when I read the user profile, to see that the originator of the thread is about eight years old but I am constantly stunned to see they are at least in their mid to late teens or older.
Right below the box where you type your thread it says and I quote " PLEASE CHECK YOUR SPELLING "
Try using a dictionary if you still are taught how to do so. I don't think spell check is available in this forum.
Sorry if I have hurt anyone's feelings but better you learn now than when you are typing a resume for some job you want.
Southflite From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 2, posted (12 years 10 months 1 week 6 days 21 hours ago) and read 465 times:
The spelling mistake that I see most often is the possesive form of "it" -> it's its
(ie. it's means "it is", whereas the possesive form of it has no apostrophe).
Oh, and check my message header for the close runner-up in the misspelling stakes : it's "a lot", not "alot".
Enough to make ol' Noah Webster spin in his grave ....
Brissie_lions From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 3, posted (12 years 10 months 1 week 6 days 21 hours ago) and read 472 times:
Copper1....don't take offence at this....but an American telling us how to spell?
The word is colour not color
The word is authorisation not authorization
And what is the story about -ism's? Americans seem to take any word in the English language, and make a new word by adding -ism to the end of it.
Oh, also, I checked over your original post. I found the following mistakes.
You write:
"This thread is not directed at anyone who's first language is not english."
I write:
"This thread is not directed at anyone whose first language is not English."
You write:
"Will those of you from Canada, the United States and other english speaking countries please learn how to spell ( or type ). I can't believe how bad the overall quality of some of the posts are. I expect , when I read the user profile, to see that the originator of the thread is about eight years old but I am constantly stunned to see they are at least in their mid to late teens or older."
I write:
"Will those of you from Canada, the United States and other English countries please learn how to spell (or type)?. I can't believe how bad the overall quality of some of the posts are. I expect, when I read the user profile, to see that the originator of the thread is about eight years old, but I am constantly stunned to see they are at least in their mid to late teens, or older."
You write:
"Sorry if I have hurt anyone's feelings but better you learn now than when you are typing a resume for some job you want."
I write:
"Sorry if I have hurt anyone's feelings, but better you learn now, than when you are typing a resume for some job you want."
You will notice that English is a pronoun, and as such, should be spelt with a capital "E". Also a few commas here and there make a world of difference in the grammar. Sorry, but for this exam you get a B-
TWFirst From Vatican City, joined Apr 2000, 6346 posts, RR: 53 Reply 4, posted (12 years 10 months 1 week 6 days 21 hours ago) and read 461 times:
Copper1, CstarU, Southflite: you guys rock my world.
I've been totally amazed at some of the spelling and grammatical bombs on this site. Most are perpetrated by teens though.
How can one be taken seriously when one doesn't understand when to use "their", "there", or "they're" (typos notwithstanding); or when one uses the possessive form of "it" (that's one of my pet peeves as well Southflite. By the way, you misspelled "possessive." )
I agree with the observation regarding the U.S. school system. It is failing in this area.
TWFirst From Vatican City, joined Apr 2000, 6346 posts, RR: 53 Reply 6, posted (12 years 10 months 1 week 6 days 21 hours ago) and read 456 times:
Hey Scotty, "English" is also an adjective.
Also, I think you're being hateful and intolerant of accepted "Americanized" spellings.
Seriously though, linguistics and language are fascinating. The language has evolved differently here in America, just as it has in Australia. Thus, color lost its "u" here, "s" became "z" in many words, and we lost those annoying British dialects and pronunciations.
Southflite From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 7, posted (12 years 10 months 1 week 6 days 20 hours ago) and read 453 times:
TWFirst wrote:
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How can one be taken seriously when one doesn't understand when to use "their", "there", or "they're" (typos notwithstanding); or when one uses the possessive form of "it" (that's one of my pet peeves as well Southflite. By the way, you misspelled "possessive.")
Yes, I spotted that one AFTER I had already pressed the "Post" button ... serves me right for ripping off other people about their spelling
Unfortunately, unlike Gary, I don't have access to the database for these posts - otherwise I would have cheated and edited it on the server
Regards
Andrew Davies (Southflite)
Corrections Editor - Airliners.net
TWFirst From Vatican City, joined Apr 2000, 6346 posts, RR: 53 Reply 9, posted (12 years 10 months 1 week 6 days 20 hours ago) and read 449 times:
You are formally forgiven Andrew. As I stated, "typos notwithstanding."
I am not pretentious enough to claim never to make a mistake. There have been numerous times I've noticed errors after hitting the "Post" button. I call the phenomenon "Post Button Remorse."
VirginLover From United States of America, joined Mar 2000, 958 posts, RR: 16 Reply 10, posted (12 years 10 months 1 week 6 days 20 hours ago) and read 442 times:
We all make mistakes... the only thing that really gets on my nerves is "too" and "to".
too- also "I flew Virgin Atlantic too"
to- going somewhere, etc "I'm going to the airport"
TWFirst From Vatican City, joined Apr 2000, 6346 posts, RR: 53 Reply 14, posted (12 years 10 months 1 week 6 days 19 hours ago) and read 432 times:
No mistakes B-707. You get an A+ 100% .
You're right. Speed sometimes prevents proofreading. However, your post communicates intelligence, so a typo or two wouldn't make me question your mental capacity. When a post is saturated with the most elementary mistakes though, I think it severely compromises the credibility of the contributor.
Southflite From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 17, posted (12 years 10 months 1 week 6 days 8 hours ago) and read 416 times:
I liked that site, Brissie. Here's a story I spotted on South Africa's Independent Online re. the same thing:
==================================== Strewth, it's Strine online, mate
July 18 2000 at 08:19AM
By Brian Williams
Sydney - With the approach of the Sydney Olympics setting off a rise in national fervour, Australians are once again up in arms about the threat to their own way of speaking the queen's English.
Sydney newspapers have been full of letters from readers moaning how people now say "chicken" instead of "chook", threaten to beat people up with a baseball bat instead of a cricket bat and who have no idea of what of a "rat's coffin" is.
"The angst about American English is a common and cherished annoyance in Australia," said an article in the Sydney Morning Herald.
A letter to the Herald was even more direct.
"Stuff the chicken, Long live the chook," wrote Bob Dalrymple.
For those about to head to Australia for the September 15 to October 1 Games, or the hundreds of millions of television viewers, the following is a brief guide to key Australian slang words and phrases.
A is for Aussie - the term Australians and foreigners use to describe the people down under
B is for back o'Bourke - meaning in the middle of nowhere banana bender - term for residents of tropical Queensland which once had a reputation for backwardness. Supposedly the only skill of Queenslanders was to put the bend in a banana. bunyip - Australia's version of Bigfoot bush - anywhere away from the city in Australia's vast countryside
C is for Captain Cook - popular rhyming slang connected with the English explorer who discovered Sydney. "Take a Captain Cook" means "take a look" chunder - vomit, or as it is also known in Australia, a technicolour yawn cooee - a bush signal that you are lost
D is for dinkum, fair dinkum, dinky di - they all mean the same - honest, genuine, truthful, the real thing don't come the raw prawn - don't try to fool me drongo - an unintelligent and worthless person
E is for earbash - to talk nonstop
F is for fair go - give someone a break, a fair hearing fair crack of the whip - fair go
G is for galah - a noisy parrot and used to describe someone who is noisy and makes no sense g'day - traditional Australian greeting
H is for hoon - a hooligan
I is for icy-pole - ice cream on a stick
J is for journo - journalist
K is for king hit - a punch delivered without warning
L is for lair - a show-off larrikin - a ruffian lamington - sponge cake covered in chocolate icing and coconut
M is for mate - the word you'll hear most in Australia. Can refer to men and women. Mexicans - term used by Queenslanders to describe other Australians who head north to take advantage in retirement of the state's all-year warm weather
N is for never-never - the remotest part of the countryside
O is for ocker - a boorish Australian one-eyed trouser snake - penis outback - remote part of the bush Oz - Term for Australia
P is for point percy at the porcelain - urinate Pom - English person push - gang of larrikins or ruffians
Q is for Queenslander - style of tropical home
R is for rat's coffin - a meat pie. Don't worry there is no rat meat in them
S is for Sheila - Australian for woman strine - Australian slang
T is for tucker - food two-pot screamer - someone unable to hold their drink two-up - Australian gambling game played with coins
U is for ute - a bakkie (South African slang for a small pick-up truck)
V is for vegemite - sandwich spread similar to Marmite
W is for walkabout - Aboriginal term meaning to wander
X is for XXXX - Four X, a popular Australian beer
Y is for yakka - work yobbo - uncouth and aggressive person
Z is for zack - a five-cent coin - Reuters
=======================================
Knew most of these from watching "Neighbours" and "Home & Away" (when I was younger, OK ). Also the differences in pronouciation : Aussies say a-pre-see-ate, whereas South Africans say a-pre-she-ate; also, it's pro-ject over there, but proj-ect here.
I've got several friends from Cape Town who are now living in Sydney, and they all love it there. Guess if I ever decide to join them, some of this will come in handy !!
UALfa@jfk From United States of America, joined May 2000, 311 posts, RR: 0 Reply 18, posted (12 years 10 months 1 week 5 days 14 hours ago) and read 392 times:
Yes! I was thinking that I was the only one annoyed at outrageously poor writing skills among our participants.
My pet peeve:
"Your" vs. "You're" as in
"If your going to the store..."
as opposed to, "If you're going to the store..."
Your = possession
You're = "you are," (a contraction).
The widespread misuse of these two words is astounding.
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