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Spelling Mistakes.

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  • #182
    Penny Tration
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,687 ✭✭✭✭Penny Tration


    Caoimhgh1n wrote: »
    I am contradicting myself a bit here, but when I was typing I left out the extra "m". Sometimes it is an honest mistake, but when people mix their and there up, they should know better, they are completely different words.

    They obviously don't know any better, or they'd use the correct form.

    I don't really see the point in judging them for it. Some people took in more in school and some people have been better educated. Just leave them to it.


  • #183
    Caoimhgh1n
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,499 ✭✭✭✭Caoimhgh1n


    Penny Tration wrote: »
    They obviously don't know any better, or they'd use the correct form.

    I don't really see the point in judging them for it. Some people took in more in school and some people have been better educated. Just leave them to it.

    Well, there's nothing stopping them from getting educated now, or spending 10 minutes learning the difference between there, their and they're.


  • #184
    liz lemoncello
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 247 ✭✭liz lemoncello


    dirtyden wrote: »
    In the context of the sentence it is usually very obvious what a person means, even if they mix up there and their. I can't understand why people find it irritating.
    ...

    It can actually be quite jarring. For the record, I make tons of mistakes as I am the world's worst typist.


  • #185
    Tarzana2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,553 ✭✭✭Tarzana2


    dirtyden wrote: »
    I presume you mean a comma?

    Or were you going to put the person who corrected your other grammar mistake in a coma?

    Ha, brilliant. :pac:


  • #186
    zcorpian88
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,515 ✭✭✭zcorpian88


    People that are in college and spell it "Collage"

    Often see it spelled wrong on Facebook status updates. When I see it, I get a nails on a chalkboard sound in my head!


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  • #187
    EchoIndia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,394 ✭✭✭EchoIndia


    zcorpian88 wrote: »
    People that are in college and spell it "Collage"

    There was recently (and may still be) a Dublin City Council sign on Amiens St. in Dublin, warning of Luas works on "Collage Green".


  • #188
    martingriff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,438 ✭✭✭✭martingriff


    Some of what people are pointing out here are grammar mistakes and not actually spelling mistakes. There Their are the correct spelling for the words there just not grammatically correct. So this thread should not be spelling mistakes but grammar mistakes. I am not sure if the spell check on a phone, boards, facebook or whatever picks that up.

    For me it not irritating if I know what the other person is conveying than I will respond with an answer and not do a full post on there grammar


  • #189
    Fleawuss
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,681 ✭✭✭Fleawuss


    The devil worshipper who couldn't spell: sold his soul to Santa.







    Ya ya, I know... Coat .... Door. Etc


  • #190
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,180 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    One weird one that I'm seeing these days is the shortening of "advertisement" to "add". Where did that extra "d" come from? It's not in "advertisement" ... :o

    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



  • #191
    Neverforgotten
    Closed Accounts Posts: 38 ✭Neverforgotten


    Text speak in general drives me beserk.

    Also,
    Collage instead of college.
    Also, when people pronounce specifically as "Pacifiically".


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  • #192
    Roger Hassenforder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,555 ✭✭✭Roger Hassenforder


    Neverforgotten wrote: »
    Text speak in general drives me beserk.

    Poor spillinz dont really drive me berserk at al


  • #193
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    I don't know how but some people gets "worse" and "worst" mixed up for some reason.


  • #194
    Youngblood.III
    Site Banned Posts: 777 ✭✭✭Youngblood.III


    The Internet is full of sad lonely people....this thread is proof.


  • #195
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Welcome to the internet Youngblood, hope you like our lonely sadness.


  • #196
    trashcan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,428 ✭✭✭trashcan


    liz lemoncello wrote: »
    That looks like the name of a cheap perfume.




    One collar, two sleeves. :)

    Thank you. I'll never get that one wrong again :)

    Bugs the sheight out of me when Americans say "math". I have no idea whether it's grammatically incorrect or not, I just hate it. It's maths ok ? Always will be.

    Also, would of, could of, etc makes me lose my reason. There's a big difference between a typo, or even downright bad spelling, and this sort of nonsense.


  • #197
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,219 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Alot, alittle, 'definitely' misspelled 'defiantly'. Being/bean/been, whose/who's, and their/there/they're used incorrectly.

    The most prevalent is alot. I see it a lot. It makes me want to hurt someone.


  • #198
    Wilberto
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 8,583 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wilberto


    Candie wrote: »
    Alot, alittle, 'definitely' misspelled 'defiantly'. Being/bean/been, whose/who's, and their/there/they're used incorrectly.

    The most prevalent is alot. I see it a lot. It makes me want to hurt someone.

    Any time I see definitely spelled "defiantly", I always picture the person standing up and punching the air during the sentence. It never ceases to amuse me! :pac:


  • #199
    Niemoj
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,104 ✭✭✭Niemoj


    Candie wrote: »
    Alot, alittle, 'definitely' misspelled 'defiantly'. Being/bean/been, whose/who's, and their/there/they're used incorrectly.

    The most prevalent is alot. I see it a lot. It makes me want to hurt someone.

    When misspelt is spelt "spelled" :pac:


  • #200
    Gongoozler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,263 ✭✭✭Gongoozler


    Speciality


  • #201
    Niemoj
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,104 ✭✭✭Niemoj


    trashcan wrote: »
    Thank you. I'll never get that one wrong again :)

    Bugs the sheight out of me when Americans say "math". I have no idea whether it's grammatically incorrect or not, I just hate it. It's maths ok ? Always will be.

    Also, would of, could of, etc makes me lose my reason. There's a big difference between a typo, or even downright bad spelling, and this sort of nonsense.

    Irish people tend not to pronounce the 'th' regardless of where it is in a word so if it was "math" it'd sound like "mah" in an Irish accent and say that to yourself; It just sounds silly so we added a 's' because it sounds better.

    Behold: Maths was born.


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  • #202
    Niemoj
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,104 ✭✭✭Niemoj


    Mostly among older people but when they say 'irregardless' instead of 'regardless'.

    Grrrr.

    Or 'would/could of' instead of 'would/could have'.


  • #203
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,219 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Niemoj wrote: »
    When misspelt is spelt "spelled" :pac:

    Either is fine:
    mis·spell (mĭs-spĕl′)
    tr.v. mis·spelled or mis·spelt (-spĕlt′), mis·spell·ing, mis·spells
    To spell incorrectly.

    http://www.thefreedictionary.com/misspelt


  • #204
    Niemoj
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,104 ✭✭✭Niemoj


    Candie wrote: »
    Either is fine:



    http://www.thefreedictionary.com/misspelt

    English is from England and there it is spelt as spelt.

    Anything else is just an incorrect misspelling from a country trying to be unique.

    *cough* 'Murica *cough*


  • #205
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,219 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Niemoj wrote: »
    English is from England and there it is spelt as spelt.

    Anything else is just an incorrect misspelling from a country trying to be unique.

    *cough* 'Murica *cough*

    I don't have a problem with American English. Or America or Americans for that matter.


  • #206
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,180 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Penny Tration wrote: »
    They obviously don't know any better, or they'd use the correct form.

    I don't really see the point in judging them for it. Some people took in more in school and some people have been better educated. Just leave them to it.
    Do you mean to say that people lose the ability to learn as soon as they leave school, and that's OK? Damn, I wish I'd known that. I could have had a much easier life. :p

    Not knowing things is normal. I don't even know how much stuff I don't know, but I know it's a lot. When I see basic mistakes such as confusing their/there/they're, it's not the writer's current lack of knowledge that bugs me. It's the idea of people who are either not reading good writing, or reading but not understanding and absorbing what they're reading - and that's true whether you're in school now, or left it forty years ago. TV and movies are great, but they're no substitute for reading. In my humble opinion, that is. :pac:

    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



  • #207
    Dax Enough Tea
    Posts: 81,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Dax Enough Tea


    Candie wrote: »
    I don't have a problem with American English.

    I do, they made up a new conditional past tense


  • #208
    Niemoj
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,104 ✭✭✭Niemoj


    bluewolf wrote: »
    I do, they made up a new conditional past tense

    Literally I can't even deal right now!!!!! Are you kidding me? I mean come on, literally I literally never use literally right but I still literally use it all the time! Tehe!!!


  • #209
    Niemoj
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,104 ✭✭✭Niemoj


    Candie wrote: »
    I don't have a problem with American English. Or America or Americans for that matter.

    I don't have a problem with the continent, country of the United States or people either for that matter.

    What I do have a problem with is essentially dumbing down a language just to make yourself seem unique.

    Creating your own measurement system... Using a unit of temperature no one else in the world uses.... Creating an illogical way to write dates.

    I could go on.


  • #210
    Viva La Gloria
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 682 ✭✭✭Viva La Gloria


    "Were going to the cinema, do you want to come?"


    ...But what you're asking of me requires both a past and present activity simultaneously.


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  • #211
    Wilberto
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 8,583 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wilberto


    Niemoj wrote: »
    English is from England and there it is spelt as spelt.

    Anything else is just an incorrect misspelling from a country trying to be unique.

    *cough* 'Murica *cough*

    Does this mean that "spelled" is actually wrong, and that it's actually "spelt"?

    That's a genuine question by the way as no matter where I try to find the answer, it will always say that both are correct and acceptable.

    Personally, I've always preferred "spelt".


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