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« Reply #25 on: October 20, 2007, 12:52:18 PM » |
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Keegan -£38,420,000
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« Reply #26 on: October 20, 2007, 01:08:05 PM » |
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Quickest way of telling whether I like someone or not.
This. And I'm not a massive grammar freak, as such, but if you were to reply with something like "THATS GR8 M8 THNKS" in a txt after I'd just f***** on for half an hour texting a 95% grammatically correct message (the odd dropped apostrophe/abbreviation is acceptable) then I'd literally hate you for the rest of your life. Haha me too. My mate constantly texts back to me with one word texts after I ask him a few questions in a text which I spend about 5 minutes creating. The ones that get me most are to/too or there/their.........drives me insane. |
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« Reply #27 on: October 20, 2007, 01:34:55 PM » |
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Using treat (tret) instead of treated drives me up the wall.  |
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« Reply #28 on: October 20, 2007, 01:35:53 PM » |
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Using treat (tret) instead of treated drives me up the wall. My mate seriously said the other day, 'It pisses me off when people sayed treated instead of trett. It's not even proper English.' He's a mackem, incidentally. |
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Happy Face - Animal Collective's Strawberry Jam
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« Reply #29 on: October 20, 2007, 02:47:18 PM » |
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I'm a good old fashioned SPG pedant. I find simple stuff like missed and misplaced apostrophes absolutely infuriating. I know I shouldn't really, but I do. Typos are acceptable, everything else is not.
I've got a friend in a job at the council and she basically makes sure that kids go to school and if they're not attending, she has to find out why. When she first started, she wrote a stock letter to send to parents informing them of their child being under the required attendance level or whatever. When she showed me it, I took one look and said that if I was sent that letter by someone employed by the education system, I would never send my child back to school. I'd have been embarrassed to write like she had when I was in primary school.
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"Marge, have you ever actually read this thing? Practically everything is a sin. Technically, we're not allowed to go to the bathroom."
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Howaythelads
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« Reply #30 on: October 20, 2007, 03:34:53 PM » |
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I'm a good old fashioned SPG pedant. I find simple stuff like missed and misplaced apostrophes absolutely infuriating. I know I shouldn't really, but I do. Typos are acceptable, everything else is not.
I've got a friend in a job at the council and she basically makes sure that kids go to school and if they're not attending, she has to find out why. When she first started, she wrote a stock letter to send to parents informing them of their child being under the required attendance level or whatever. When she showed me it, I took one look and said that if I was sent that letter by someone employed by the education system, I would never send my child back to school. I'd have been embarrassed to write like she had when I was in primary school.
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For those obsessed with "Net Spend"
Keegan -£38,420,000
Gullit -£7,650,000
Dalglish -£8,200,000
Robson -£30,240,000
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« Reply #31 on: October 20, 2007, 03:34:56 PM » |
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Yes. Yes it does.
Guilty yer honour.
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« Reply #32 on: October 20, 2007, 05:12:07 PM » |
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I'm a good old fashioned SPG pedant. I find simple stuff like missed and misplaced apostrophes absolutely infuriating. I know I shouldn't really, but I do. Typos are acceptable, everything else is not.
I've got a friend in a job at the council and she basically makes sure that kids go to school and if they're not attending, she has to find out why. When she first started, she wrote a stock letter to send to parents informing them of their child being under the required attendance level or whatever. When she showed me it, I took one look and said that if I was sent that letter by someone employed by the education system, I would never send my child back to school. I'd have been embarrassed to write like she had when I was in primary school.
No doubt you aren't shagging this friend. God no. |
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"Marge, have you ever actually read this thing? Practically everything is a sin. Technically, we're not allowed to go to the bathroom."
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« Reply #33 on: October 20, 2007, 05:49:23 PM » |
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I'd have been embarrassed This sentence reminded me -- people who use "of" instead of "have" need to suffer too. And "in to" and "into" and other similar varients where two words are joined together incorrectly also annoys me for some utterly irrational, ultra-pedantic reason. |
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"Don't be afraid. That's what it says - 'don't be afraid...' But you are afraid. You're afraid we're going to run out of air... That we'll die gasping. But we won't. That's not going to happen... We'll freeze to death first. "
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« Reply #34 on: October 20, 2007, 05:56:32 PM » |
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Also "its" and "it's".
In fact, pretty much any avoidable error annoys me to some extent.
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"Don't be afraid. That's what it says - 'don't be afraid...' But you are afraid. You're afraid we're going to run out of air... That we'll die gasping. But we won't. That's not going to happen... We'll freeze to death first. "
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« Reply #35 on: October 20, 2007, 06:00:27 PM » |
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Quickest way of telling whether I like someone or not.
P1SS BOILING! My auntie texts the gr8 m8 lingo. And she's forty friggin eight. She must get it from her thirteen yr old daughter! I'm a staunch follower of textage through the English text book! I will not stray from punctuation as if it were written in TV Quick! This is where it's heading......... My son will be going to school in the coming years, and I'll be damned, if i see him scribing "chlild text prose" in his "To Kill a Mocking Bird" Essay This. And I'm not a massive grammar freak, as such, but if you were to reply with something like "THATS GR8 M8 THNKS" in a txt after I'd just f***** on for half an hour texting a 95% grammatically correct message (the odd dropped apostrophe/abbreviation is acceptable) then I'd literally hate you for the rest of your life. Haha me too. My mate constantly texts back to me with one word texts after I ask him a few questions in a text which I spend about 5 minutes creating. The ones that get me most are to/too or there/their.........drives me insane. |
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« Reply #36 on: October 20, 2007, 10:16:54 PM » |
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It matters to me. Not so much on forums where people often type too quickly and make mistakes, but in any business context it's absolutely f****** shameful. In my old job, we had a system where a few of us would go over applicants' CVs and give them a rating from A to D. They usually get to me with an average of, say, C+ and I'd mark down about 75% of them for having elementary spelling mistakes and grammatical errors. Because I'm a big meanie.
that. it all depends on the situation,if it's a post on a footy forum i'll not even look at the screen when typing then press "post",however if it were a letter or CV type of thing all the grammar would have to be perfect. |
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« Reply #37 on: October 20, 2007, 10:24:47 PM » |
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One thing I can say for sure: this thread has a higher percentage of people going back over what they've just typed to check for mistakes, than possibly any other thread ever.
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« Reply #38 on: October 20, 2007, 10:29:03 PM » |
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One thing I can say for sure: this thread has a higher percentage of people going back over what they've just typed to check for mistakes, than possibly any other thread ever.
Aye, it took madras 4 hours to type that out and check it. |
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Those who have recommended worthy albums:
Happy Face - Animal Collective's Strawberry Jam
madras - UB40's Signing Off
indi - Braintax's Panorama
Sparks - Talk Talk's Spirit of Eden
Are you up to the task?
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« Reply #39 on: October 20, 2007, 10:30:59 PM » |
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Bollocks to be perfectly honest, I'm sure I'd be classified as a child of this day and age, yet somehow I manage to spell practically all words correctly. Or do eye?
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« Reply #40 on: October 21, 2007, 06:49:27 AM » |
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What I can't stand is when you see advertisements with text language being used, especially on billboards it gives the impression that this type of s*** is acceptable.
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« Reply #41 on: October 21, 2007, 10:48:06 AM » |
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One thing I can say for sure: this thread has a higher percentage of people going back over what they've just typed to check for mistakes, than possibly any other thread ever.
Aye, it took madras 4 hours to type that out and check it. and i still can't get the hang of this caspital letter at the start thing. |
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RIP Diego Swarfega. Snuffed out before his prime.We shall rmemeber.
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« Reply #42 on: October 21, 2007, 01:53:24 PM » |
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Of course its important but getting annoyed by it makes you a condescending prick.
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« Reply #43 on: October 21, 2007, 01:58:55 PM » |
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Of course its important but getting annoyed by it makes you a condescending prick.
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"Don't be afraid. That's what it says - 'don't be afraid...' But you are afraid. You're afraid we're going to run out of air... That we'll die gasping. But we won't. That's not going to happen... We'll freeze to death first. "
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« Reply #44 on: October 21, 2007, 01:59:53 PM » |
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If the cap fits....
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« Reply #45 on: October 21, 2007, 02:00:16 PM » |
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« Reply #46 on: October 21, 2007, 02:22:22 PM » |
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Not if you can convey your point or message in a way that it can at least be understood, no.
Now verbal communication....
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« Reply #47 on: October 22, 2007, 12:03:44 PM » |
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« Reply #48 on: October 26, 2007, 02:30:07 PM » |
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Was reading this about the McCann's on another website: https://www.grumpyoldsod.com/madeleine%20mccann.asp - but the bit that's most appropriate to this thread is here... "And in case you think that spelling isn't important compared to the gravity of the matter we're discussing, consider this. If you can't be bothered to learn to spell properly, or if you're too stupid to learn to spell properly, the actual spelling may not be too important but that of which it is symptomatic (thought it was time for a bit of pedantry while we're about it!) is very indicative. It suggests, to put it plainly and repetitively, that you are lazy and/or thick." I do have to say it resonates somewhat.  |
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« Reply #49 on: October 26, 2007, 03:01:14 PM » |
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Not sure if this is the right thread for this but what is it with this word offa, as in "Trevor McDonald, offa the news". It is becoming more and more noticeable, mainly on radio 1. And yes it serves me right listening to it but its always on in the office.
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