Pete Posted May 27, 2006 Share Posted May 27, 2006 In the end, I hit myself on the head with a spanner a couple of times and, as my thinking bacame muddied and shallow, it all started to make sense. Careful - you might damage the spanner! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixelfill Posted May 27, 2006 Share Posted May 27, 2006 This is my current favorite...take a deep breath guys........ .... That is marvellous Ewen. Only two punctuation marks in that extremely well written prose. One fullstop (period for Americans) followed by a sentence beginning with 'But'. The second full stop followed by 'and' - note the lack of a capital letter. Two of the first rules of English grammar, broken. Personally I also found it easy to read the first 8-line sentence without my face turning purple, or then again maybe I didn't. Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Prawn Posted May 27, 2006 Share Posted May 27, 2006 Well I suppose you only have three letters to spell your first name, perhaps your parents wanted to keep it simple for you. Yeah Peat, thts right that is:p Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamesmark Posted May 27, 2006 Share Posted May 27, 2006 See, there, in a nutshell, is the problem with ungrammatical monkey-talk. I honestly had real problems getting at the meaning of the second sentence, because it is so poorly constructed. In the end, I hit myself on the head with a spanner a couple of times and, as my thinking bacame muddied and shallow, it all started to make sense. O well if it gives the older generation something to talk about and be even more sad then what there lives already are by pointing out pointless grammar and spelling, well so be it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJ Posted May 27, 2006 Share Posted May 27, 2006 O well if it gives the older generation something to talk about and be even more sad then what there lives already are by pointing out pointless grammar and spelling, well so be it. After reading that latest missive, I think you should quit now before you get really slated Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ewen Posted May 27, 2006 Share Posted May 27, 2006 I'm not too proud of this, but Kyle had a problem with the original thread title.....'Pedants will be outraged'. Larger and more established words are disappearing fast from todays curriculum, granted, but for him to assume 'pedant' was the harbinger of a dodgy under-age related post was a little depressing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamesmark Posted May 27, 2006 Share Posted May 27, 2006 After reading that latest missive, I think you should quit now before you get really slated CJ am not that stupid lol its all deliberate, its just some folks take the bait I just do not see the point of "dot the I's and cross the T's" on a forum, I think its quite pathetic pointing it out. It does not make you a better person for pointing it out. The fact that this thread has really only been replied by some (and i say some lightly) of the usual people that point out spelling mistakes etc, is pointing out that people are really not that bothered about it. Just an observation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJ Posted May 27, 2006 Share Posted May 27, 2006 CJ am not that stupid lol its all deliberate, its just some folks take the bait I just do not see the point of "dot the I's and cross the T's" on a forum, I think its quite pathetic pointing it out. It does not make you a better person for pointing it out. The fact that this thread has really only been replied by some (and i say some lightly) of the usual people that point out spelling mistakes etc, is pointing out that people are really not that bothered about it. Just an observation. There should have been a full stop after forum and not a comma. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamesmark Posted May 27, 2006 Share Posted May 27, 2006 There should have been a full stop after forum and not a comma. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Posted May 27, 2006 Share Posted May 27, 2006 If you mainly communicate in text-speak, and/or tend to use "u" to signify "you", read no further. This won't interest you. For fogeys and pedants only, then: I had an e-mail from Norwich Union today. The subject line was (drum roll, please): "We need are heads examining" I wouldn't mind if it was some tupenny-ha'penny small business, but a huge company like Norwich Union? Jeez. It's the end, I tell you. I work at NU....I'm not surprised... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixelfill Posted May 27, 2006 Share Posted May 27, 2006 ... I just do not see the point of "dot the I's and cross the T's" on a forum, I think its quite pathetic pointing it out. It does not make you a better person for pointing it out. ... You're right James, it doesn't make CJ a better person for pointing it out, but it might make the person with the poor grammar appreciate the errors, and therefore not make them in future. How many times have we seen "funny" posts with photos of road markings ... http://www.pixelfill.co.uk/images/SHCOOL.jpg http://www.pixelfill.co.uk/images/SOTP.jpg These mistakes are costly and can easily be prevented. I personally don't find them funny anymore I find them depressing. As a nation we are becoming more and more lazy with regard to our language. Do you not find it a little embarrassing that our neighbours, who use English as a second language, are better at our grammar than we are as natives? I know I do. btw I know that this thread was relating to grammar, and the above pictures are spelling mistakes Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scoboblio Posted May 27, 2006 Share Posted May 27, 2006 Do you not find it a little embarrassing that our neighbours, who use English as a second language, are better at our grammar than we are as natives? There are a few foreigners at work and they all speak and write perfect English. It's depressing that they have to give grammar lessons to the natives! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJ Posted May 27, 2006 Share Posted May 27, 2006 Picking up on the points raised by Mike, imagine the reaction of a prospective employer to the same grammatical errors being written in a CV. Given the choice of a well written CV or one displaying the kind of content sometimes seen on the forum, I know which I would choose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian C Posted May 27, 2006 Share Posted May 27, 2006 Hey, JamesMark, what if my technical posts were full of mistakes and errors and looked like a retard had written them? Is that acceptable? Your rules, as long as it's kinda sorta almost correct and I nearly put the effort in it doesn't matter, right? I find if people can't be arsed to type their questions in correctly, I certainly can't be arsed to help them, and the worst offenders of txt spk get booted into Supra Chat without me even bothering to try and decipher the actual question. -Ian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian C Posted May 27, 2006 Share Posted May 27, 2006 hey jamsmark wat if my tech posts where ful ov shite an where wrong an stuf n loked lik a divvy had sed them like wtf is tht k coz its youre rules n as long as u cn read it kay wtf dus it m8ter lol if u cnt be rsed to tipe it in rite wtf shud i care lol any reel bad tiping get moved 2 supa chat wivout me trying 2 read it proper rofl!!1!!1 Now I wonder which one of my two replies was easier to read and was taken more seriously, hmmm? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJ Posted May 27, 2006 Share Posted May 27, 2006 I remember a member posting a very long sentence with no punctuation whatsoever. I jokingly posted up that he should have joined in with my group buy on full stops. 5 minutes later he PM'd me to ask if they were a form of brakes. That is true - I kid you not! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Headroom Posted May 27, 2006 Share Posted May 27, 2006 I remember a member posting a very long sentence with no punctuation whatsoever. I jokingly posted up that he should have joined in with my group buy on full stops. 5 minutes later he PM'd me to ask if they were a form of brakes. That is true - I kid you not! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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SuperSupra Posted May 27, 2006 Share Posted May 27, 2006 I remember a member posting a very long sentence with no punctuation whatsoever. I jokingly posted up that he should have joined in with my group buy on full stops. 5 minutes later he PM'd me to ask if they were a form of brakes. That is true - I kid you not! What a tool. Name and shame! Name and shame!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewis Posted May 27, 2006 Share Posted May 27, 2006 What a tool. Name and shame! Name and shame!!!! He can't do that, the person in question is now a well known trader here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSupra Posted May 27, 2006 Share Posted May 27, 2006 He can't do that, the person in question is now a well known trader here Oh dear Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Prawn Posted May 27, 2006 Share Posted May 27, 2006 group buy on full stops. Got any left? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJ Posted May 27, 2006 Share Posted May 27, 2006 He can't do that, the person in question is now a well known trader here I think people may take that as being the truth. It isn't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSupra Posted May 27, 2006 Share Posted May 27, 2006 Oh, and I've just decided my new most hated use of bad English is "....you should OF come out last night" or "...I could OF helped you out" AAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!! Am I really irritable or is this just plain stupid?!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJ Posted May 27, 2006 Share Posted May 27, 2006 Got any left? No sorry. All I currently have are these: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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