Losing =/= Loosing, and other spelling errors

Oh_Noes · 10-10-2011 03:44PM

The grammer nazi's always have to write there opinion when your just trying to say you're peace.

Chuck Stone · 10-10-2011 03:46PM

Oh_Noes wrote: »

The grammer nazi's always have to write there opinion when your just trying to say you're peace.

Eye no egzackly what ewe meen.

cleanslate · 10-10-2011 03:47PM

Oh_Noes wrote: »

have to write

too write.... lol!

Duke Leonal Felmet · 10-10-2011 03:52PM

Punctuation is, another one. I will never, understand people who use........ loads of full.........stops in their, sentences.

Bizarre,

The King of Moo · 10-10-2011 03:58PM

I hate the vast majority of grammar and spelling mistakes bar a very small number of what I consider to be forgivable mistakes.

Unless someone has a condition like dyslexia, I'm not very forgiving of basic errors.

However, I'd never point them out to someone, unless they were trying to be smug by correcting someone else's grammar or spelling, they were using textspeak that was too much effort to parse, or their erratic/missing punctuation was making things difficult to read.

With regards to the "have/of" mistake, what really grinds my gears is when people include "of" when there shouldn't even be a "have" in the first place!

For example: "If he had of run faster he would of got the ball."

Should be, of course: "If he had run faster, he would've got the ball."

It seems to be happening a lot lately, usually after the word "had."

I really don't get where people are getting this from, and it's especially annoying as there's two levels of mistake:

First: adding a "have" where it doesn't make sense.

Second: then not even being able to make that mistake properly and compounding it by writing/saying "of" instead of "have!"

:mad:

Grammar FTW.

hangon · 10-10-2011 05:36PM

BASHIR wrote: »

The OP asked what common spelling mistakes grinds your gears

They did? damn i thought they said ears

http://cdn-www.cracked.com/articleimages/ob/adolf_funny_rabbit_ears_The_funny_side_to_Hitler-s550x426-22859-580.jpg

Mindkiller · 10-10-2011 05:41PM

The King of Moo wrote: »

I hate the vast majority of grammar and spelling mistakes bar a very small number of what I consider to be forgivable mistakes.

Unless someone has a condition like dyslexia, I'm not very forgiving of basic errors.

However, I'd never point them out to someone, unless they were trying to be smug by correcting someone else's grammar or spelling, they were using textspeak that was too much effort to parse, or their erratic/missing punctuation was making things difficult to read.

With regards to the "have/of" mistake, what really grinds my gears is when people include "of" when there shouldn't even be a "have" in the first place!

For example: "If he had of run faster he would of got the ball."

Should be, of course: "If he had run faster, he would've got the ball."

It seems to be happening a lot lately, usually after the word "had."

I really don't get where people are getting this from, and it's especially annoying as there's two levels of mistake:

First: adding a "have" where it doesn't make sense.

Second: then not even being able to make that mistake properly and compounding it by writing/saying "of" instead of "have!"

:mad:

Grammar FTW.

I guess people enunciate 'should've' like it sounds like 'should of'. I don't get why people are so dumb as to type it like that though.

Another one which perplexes me is 'bought' and 'brought'. It's like they don't know that 'brought' is past tense of bring or something

Realtine · 10-10-2011 05:51PM

Duke Leonal Felmet wrote: »

Punctuation is, another one. I will never, understand people who use........ loads of full.........stops in their, sentences.

Bizarre,

I do this....
and it drives ME bananas.
(I'm trying to stop),

it's hard.......!!

Micky Dolenz · 10-10-2011 05:54PM

Grammar Nazism really bugs me.

people wouldn't dream of doing it in a conversation so why do it on the internet?

10-10-2011 05:57PM

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

Grammar Nazism really bugs me.

people wouldn't dream of doing it in a conversation so why do it on the internet?

Because in person it's mostly just bad pronunciation.
I will point it out if I hear someone use something like 'irregardless' or 'revert to me', though.

Micky Dolenz · 10-10-2011 05:58PM

bluewolf wrote: »

Because in person it's mostly just bad pronunciation.
I will point it out if I hear someone use something like 'irregardless' or 'revert to me', though.

Bet you are popular :P

hangon · 10-10-2011 06:02PM

Mindkiller wrote: »

I guess people enunciate 'should've' like it sounds like 'should of'. I don't get why people are so dumb as to type it like that though

two reasons have been given already,some did not get much education or might have a form of dyslexia,mind you they are often more interesting and wise than those who are hung up on grammer.
ffs it is not the people who have all the words that have all the answers.
some people need to catch a grip on that ,having high marks in English does not make them superior beings,just like the real Nazi's believed they were.

wake up and smell the coffee last i read boards is for everybody above the age of 13,there is nothing in the t&C's that forces a poster to read another posters posts that i can find,but feel free to get irritated by people who bug you.
it is YOUR choice!

10-10-2011 06:04PM

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

Bet you are popular :P

It doesn't happen too often

Irish Guitarist · 10-10-2011 06:05PM

'Weather' instead of 'whether'.

hangon · 10-10-2011 06:10PM

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

'Weather' instead of 'whether'.

bull instead of bull****.
we still know what the person means.

10-10-2011 06:12PM

hangon wrote: »

bull instead of bull****.
we still know what the person means.

It takes longer to process, and just because the author knew what they were saying doesn't mean the rest of us do. It's a genuine irritant.

hangon · 10-10-2011 06:22PM

bluewolf wrote: »

It takes longer to process, and just because the author knew what they were saying doesn't mean the rest of us do. It's a genuine irritant.

bluewolf i am sure it is however there is the option to ignore posters that irritate anyone here.
i cannot help thinking that people who get irritated by People who do not always dot their I's and cross their T's are going to be irritated all their live's though.

Should there be two version's of boards,one for the peasants and one for the highly educated?

10-10-2011 06:25PM

hangon wrote: »

... and one for the highly educated?

Do you really, genuinely think that basic spelling and grammar are a thing of higher education?
In any case it's just a discussion, no need to be putting anyone on ignore. If I can't understand a post I ask or move on.

hangon · 10-10-2011 06:38PM

bluewolf wrote: »

Do you really, genuinely think that basic spelling and grammar are a thing of higher education?

well lousy parents have left many without a good education even on a basic level right from their first day at school,parental supervision is a hugh part of education from day one,where parents fail the State should intervene but does not.
I would be very left wing about welfare payments being protected but i would tie Child allowance to the kids being sent to school fed washed and after a good nights sleep

If I can't understand a post I ask or move on.

that is a very wise way to deal with it IMHO.

bodhrandude · 10-10-2011 06:58PM

earlyevening wrote: »

I seen, I done. (I know about 20% of you don't realise what the problem is!)

I've also seen "debt" spelt as "dept" a few times recently.

They should not make words that sound similar then, that would solve some of the grammar problems.

Micky Dolenz · 10-10-2011 07:04PM

earlyevening wrote: »

I seen, I done. (I know about 20% of you don't realise what the problem is!)

I've also seen "debt" spelt as "dept" a few times recently.

46% of stats are made up.

See what I have done there?

Dionysus · 10-10-2011 07:06PM

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

Grammar Nazism really bugs me.

people wouldn't dream of doing it in a conversation so why do it on the internet?

And if somebody were suddenly breaking up with you after you had been walking out together for years, would you be inordinately aware of her bad grammar (and bad everything actually)?

You bet you would. And, at that moment, you'd probably get a kick out of saying something like "it's 'if I were you', actually, not 'if I was you'". All is fair in love and war.

Or else I'm just judging others by my own patently lower standards.

Micky Dolenz · 10-10-2011 07:10PM

Dionysus wrote: »

And if somebody were suddenly breaking up with you after you had been walking out together for years, would you be inordinately aware of her bad grammar (and bad everything actually)?

You bet you would. And, at that moment, you'd probably get a kick out of saying something like "it's 'if I were you', actually, not 'if I was you'". All is fair in love and war.

Or else I'm just judging others by my own patently lower standards.

Nah, In that instance, I'd say something like:

Your arse is big, in everything or I rode your sister.

hangon · 10-10-2011 07:12PM

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

46% of stats are made up.

96.5% of that 46% is not true.

Nolanger · 10-10-2011 07:16PM

Just desserts instead of just deserts
TV license instead of TV licence
Tow the line instead of toe the line :mad:

hangon · 10-10-2011 07:19PM

Nolanger wrote: »

Just desserts instead of just deserts
TV license instead of TV licence
Tow the line instead of toe the line :mad:

Your username would explain why you get frustrated so easily :pac:

Mindkiller · 10-10-2011 07:21PM

Nolanger wrote: »

Just desserts instead of just deserts
TV license instead of TV licence
Tow the line instead of toe the line :mad:

For all intensive purposes, its a doggy dog world out there and these mistakes are a diamond dozen; we shouldn't take them for granite

silverspoon · 10-10-2011 08:19PM

'Per say'. :mad: 'Chow' :mad::mad:

Scartbeg · 10-10-2011 09:40PM

I've seen several examples of newspaper articles using "women" (plural) instead of "woman" singular.
e.g. "A women was arrested in Dublin yesterday...".

You'd think that any poofreader worth their salt would pick up on a glaring error such as this, yet it seems to occur repeatedly.

AnamGlas · 10-10-2011 09:42PM

Grammar/grammer

:mad:

Losing =/= Loosing, and other spelling errors

Comments