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Losing =/= Loosing, and other spelling errors

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  • #152
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 1,038 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    AeoNGriM wrote: »
    Have people never heard of a spellchecker? Seriously, there is one at the top right of the Reply to Thread box!! How stupid do you have to be to get this stuff incorrect time after time after time? Point it out and people sneer at you for being elitist - no, I'm not being elitist, you're just an uneducated, illiterate fcukwit who refuses to take the time to learn basic grammar, punctuation and run a spellchecker.


    It's WOULD HAVE, not would of.

    Rite listen up, I'm sure you've made some mistakes here on boards.


  • #153
    Big Nasty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,066 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    Shiner11 wrote: »
    What about the use of the words hanged and hung?

    Would you say, "The convicted man was hanged yesterday", or " The convicted man was hung yesterday"?

    What is the correct word here, eh?

    I remember way back when I was in school history books used 'hanged' all the time - I always thought 'hung' would have been better grammar.


  • #154
    languagenerd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,201 ✭✭✭languagenerd


    Shiner11 wrote: »
    What about the use of the words hanged and hung?

    Would you say, "The convicted man was hanged yesterday", or " The convicted man was hung yesterday"?

    What is the correct word here, eh?

    Hung is used for pictures, coats etc. "I hung up my coat", "The picture hung on the wall over the fireplace", "He hung on for dear life" etc.

    Hanged is used for the method of execution only. "He was hanged for treason".

    "Hung" is sometimes used for both though.

    I feel sorry for people learning English as a second language!


  • #155
    seagull
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,342 ✭✭✭seagull


    Scartbeg wrote: »
    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.

    Is this an advanced form of gaydar?


  • #156
    Scartbeg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 168 ✭✭Scartbeg


    seagull wrote: »
    Is this an advanced form of gaydar?

    Well spotted seagull - the job is yours!


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  • #157
    hondasam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,418 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    grammar nazi, Someone who believes it's their duty to attempt to correct any grammar and/or spelling mistakes they observe.
    gob****es who have nothing better to do with their time. It's the internet what difference does it make.
    If someone corrected me in a conversation I would tell them to go fcuk themselves.


  • #158
    Liam Byrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,163 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    Dravokivich wrote: »
    Liam Byrne wrote: »
    Oh, and here's one that I saw on Facebook earlier - a graphic with a caption of "I like went XXXXXXX" when what was meant was "I said XXXXXX".....

    ......where the HELL did that mangled bastardisation of language come from ?

    I would of said,

    "I went like..."

    No idea where it's from.

    PLEASE tell me that was a deliberate pisstake ?


  • #159
    Liam Byrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,163 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    languagenerd wrote: »
    Shiner11 wrote: »
    What about the use of the words hanged and hung?

    Would you say, "The convicted man was hanged yesterday", or " The convicted man was hung yesterday"?

    What is the correct word here, eh?

    Hung is used for pictures, coats etc. "I hung up my coat", "The picture hung on the wall over the fireplace", "He hung on for dear life" etc.

    Hanged is used for the method of execution only. "He was hanged for treason".

    "Hung" is sometimes used for both though.

    I feel sorry for people learning English as a second language!

    Don't get too hung up on the details anyway! :-D


  • #160
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,073 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Do posters deliberately put spelling errors in the titles of new threads in order to grab peoples' attention? It happens a lot. Like this one:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056417435

    or this one:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056414986

    If not I think it is careless not to proofread the title whatever about spelling and/or grammar errors in the body of the text.


  • #161
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,968 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    So that just does be the way I do be typing, chill OP


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  • #162
    guitarzero
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,425 ✭✭✭guitarzero


    Tommorow is Wedensday


  • #163
    The King of Moo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    A punctuation error I've noticed in posts a lot lately is when people express their confusion/lack of comprehension by putting a question mark at the end of a sentence, even if it's a statement.

    Like:

    "I don't understand?" or "That's really weird?"

    The statement itself already expresses your lack of understanding.

    I don't know why people decide to add the question mark? :pac:


  • #164
    sdanseo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,271 ✭✭✭sdanseo


    Anything spelt in the American way. Leaving out letters is just rebellious laziness.

    E.g. Donut/Doughnut, Color/Colour, Program/Programme etc.


  • #165
    yeppydeppy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,167 ✭✭✭yeppydeppy


    What is with people using ` instead of the proper apostrophe (')? I don't even know what ` is called or what it is for?
    Time for a web search.

    Edit: Seems this is what it is for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grave_accent. You press it followed by a vowel and it gives you: à. Which means that people who use it as an apostrophe have to press the key twice and then delete one of the accents - weird.


  • #166
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,163 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Shiner11 wrote: »
    What about the use of the words hanged and hung?

    Would you say, "The convicted man was hanged yesterday", or " The convicted man was hung yesterday"?

    What is the correct word here, eh?
    I would always use "hanged" in this case, because someone hanged him i.e. it was actively done to him. Using "hung" in that sentence is like saying "he done it" instead of "he did it".

    "Hung" is the past participle form of the verb "to hang" and is passive voice, referring to a state, not an action. Generally, no-one can get from the alive state to the hung state without being hanged in the process. :rolleyes:

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #167
    vektarman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,926 ✭✭✭vektarman


    noone instead of no one,
    alot instead of a lot,
    referendums instead of referenda.
    teh instead of the.
    aswell instead of as well.


  • #168
    confusticated
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,682 ✭✭✭confusticated


    yeppydeppy wrote: »
    What is with people using ` instead of the proper apostrophe (')? I don't even know what ` is called or what it is for?
    Time for a web search.

    Edit: Seems this is what it is for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grave_accent. You press it followed by a vowel and it gives you: à. Which means that people who use it as an apostrophe have to press the key twice and then delete one of the accents - weird.

    It only works on vowels though, which rarely follow an apostrophe, so for "e" it'll give you è, but for "t" you'd get `t, since the computer knows you're unlikely to put an accent on a t. Still wrong though, I agree.:)

    Related gripe - its/it's. The spellcheck won't pick up on it because both are correct but not in the same context. It annoys the life out of me and I've lost count of how many times I've seen it misused on this thread alone!


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