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General Site Info => General Discussion => Topic started by: Blazin on May 07, 2008, 06:53:30 am
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http://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/car/670382944.html
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that guy is a horrible speller.
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Chris should offer his spell check to this guy when he advertises huh?
thanks
pat
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yep, an he dont rite so wel neather!
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unfortunately he spelled things the way he probably talks in person. That's how alot of our youth talks nowadays lol
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I was amazed at the fact that science grade now a days does not reflect grammar. My exes daughter was real bad at spelling, and didn't care to improve it. I would see one of her science papers and it would have a 90, or 95% with horrible spelling.
When I asked the teacher she said " This is not English class! I am not grading the grammar! " Hello???????????????
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lol You should see some of the words my students try to spell! I do make spelling count though. Would you want an automotive techncian working on your car write on your repair order
"Replaced cadillac converter and replaced axel seel. Recomendf new thremostat" Professionalism!
You should see some of the applicants I get, their resumes go right in the trash can.
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I am not the worlds best speller, but I try, & I re read my stuff to see if things don't look right before I go to spell check. The real stupid part is Craigslist has spell check! My exes daughter would type something on the computer, when she was done she would go to spell check, click on change, change, change, change, click, click, click, click, as fast as her finger could hit the mouse. Or Click on change all. Then it was done, it got printed, end of story.
This is starting to turn into a topic, so I am moving it to general
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Use Firefox when you miss spell a word it puts a red line under it and if you right click on that word it gives you the correct spelling left click on it and it changes it :)
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I'm a sophmore in high school, and I can't believe some of the things I see, I'm not trying to brag saying that I'm better than everyone else, but bad grammar really bothers me. I always check my papers/essays over at least once.
Vile is right, it's ridiculous how people spell these days. Especially when filling out a resume or application.
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You know, the science class may not be English class, but, if you are in high school and you spell/use grammar no better than a 4th grader, something needs to be done.
We need to prepare students for college. We are doing no favors by letting it slide. When I was in college, if I didn't spell a word correctly, or use grammar incorrectly, it would be a sure turnoff on the professor's part. I had some professors embarass students in class (and rightly so) by turning the exam/paper back to the student and demand they write it correctly prior to him reading it.
The way kids text message others with all the shortcuts and stuff, it is a wonder they can write at all.
Students represent their high school when entering college. If that student has poor English/Spelling/Grammar, the college will not look to that school for any more recruits in the future.
The same goes for the graduates representing a college. If a corporation hires a grad and that grad has difficulty writing reports, then guess what? That corporation will be looking elsewhere to fill their vacancies.
We are doing no favors by letting those mistakes slide. The student will think thier grammar is just fine because no one corrected it.
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I agree with the poor spelling in school, but I don't know how many of you have kids with cell phones but man my 15 year old was texting some of his friends and whew, I needed a translator it was crazy but the sad part was he understood what they were saying. I think thats a sign I'am getting old.
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Hookd on foniks werkd fer mee :P
It amazes, concerns and saddens me where it would seem most of today's youth is headed with their grammar (and by association, their intelligence). But with the online world, they don't care and have no need to care since everybody they are communicating with are just as bad!
What really......really chaps my hide is when I have a day off and watch one of them cheezy court TV shows. There's whomever and whomever talking as bad as they can spell in front of a proper-speaking, non-regional accent, respectful judge. Spelling and grammar is one thing, but when you TALK like that.....that just ticks me off.
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does yoo lot speek lyke wot I does? ;D
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Tomarrow I am gonna wurk on my truck. While I'm their I'm gonna check my coolent. I hope my breaks are OK since it has knew calibers. Perhaps I shood roll take the tires. Always make shure you put on the eggcorn nuts the rite way.
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don't forget to use your to's correctly.
to, too, two have different places in sentences.
For example. "I like chevy trucks, but I like gmc trucks to." That is an unfinished sentence. "I like chevy trucks, but I like gmc truck too." is correct. That is the worst mistake I see people do. I can probably find that on this forum alone thousands of times.
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yeah you'll see it ALOT :P
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The one that sends me over the edge is Tranmition or Transmition How in the do you get that from Transmission. I have seen it on at least two dozen different Craigslist ads!
Like this simpleton. Its not a typo as he spelled it the same both times!
http://boston.craigslist.org/nwb/car/679563933.html
How do you get TURION out of TORINO twice?
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At least he's consistant, might have been worse spelled wrong 2 different ways. lol
I get your point, though. I mean, it's spelled on the car correctly more than once.
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I tuned my engine real good (hmm, well) after I dropped the motor in perfect (adverb--perfectLY).
Oh! and what about, there, their---more than a few times used incorrectly
The problem nowadays is that the Saturday cartoons no longer have those short clips in between them that teaches grammar....you know, you old guys like me, Conjuntion Junction, what's your function? (Schoolhouse Rock)
Conjunction Junction, what's your function?
Hooking up words and phrases and clauses.
Conjunction Junction, how's that function?
I got three favorite cars
That get most of my job done.
Conjunction Junction, what's their function?
I got "and", "but", and "or",
They'll get you pretty far.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkO87mkgcNo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkO87mkgcNo)
www.schoolhouserock.tv
Lolly, Lolly, Lolly get your adverbs here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWYmEICNgOQ&NR=1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWYmEICNgOQ&NR=1)
Grammar Rock Nouns:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc-ukN1Rvb8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc-ukN1Rvb8)
My favorite (favorate--love that) is The Preamble---TV actually taught things way back when....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_TXJRZ4CFc&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_TXJRZ4CFc&feature=related)
How a bill becomes a law:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEJL2Uuv-oQ&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEJL2Uuv-oQ&feature=related)
Am I showing my age? Anyone else remember these?
I'm getting old. I remember all of these from my Saturday mornings in front of the tube watching cartoons...way back when there were only three stations.
(http://www.delbridge.net/schoolhouse.jpg)
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I remember those very well too. What made my grammar better was the computer.
(1) I didn't have a quick way of checking before I started typing allot on one.
(2) I knew allot more people would be able to see what I wrote and didn't want them to think I was a moron, even thought I am far from one. Bad spelling makes the a smart person look like a numb scull.
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Oh! and what about, there, their---more than a few times used incorrectly
Another mis-used term is then and than. As in "the displacement in a 350 is greater than that of a 305" and not "the displacement in a 350 is greater then that of a 305". This one is even making its way into our newspapers because most spelling and grammar checkers aren't picking it up.
Channel 7 in Boston (which is a pretty big news station, with a really large budget) mis-spelled Barack Obama twice in a newscast one evening, calling him Barback Obama. At the time they had been advertising for a behind the scenes person to type up graphics and do spell checking for the newscasts. I guess they were still searching for a suitable candidate. I've also noticed those pretty news bunnies on camera are little more than a face. If something is mis-spelled on the teleprompter or grammatically incorrect they read it word for word anyway. It's both comical and sad.
I'm not the best speller, and my grammar could be better, but it appears my English language skills are miles ahead of most folks.
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does yoo lot speek lyke wot I does? ;D
Not quite, the language aint sittin on its arse in 'muvver country' innit? ;D
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Bad spelling makes the a smart person look like a numb scull.
Skull? ;D
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Skull?
I noticed that but didn't want to say anthing.
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My grammer doing very well - she's 95 and reminds us all every time we visit!
A favourite over here is text talk ie- b4 u2 gdgd etc
oh and wot evver
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I told you guys I wasn't the best speller. On the other hand spell check didn't pick it up!
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Hookd on foniks werkd fer mee :P
It amazes, concerns and saddens me where it would seem most of today's youth is headed with their grammar (and by association, their intelligence). But with the online world, they don't care and have no need to care since everybody they are communicating with are just as bad!
What really......really chaps my hide is when I have a day off and watch one of them cheezy court TV shows. There's whomever and whomever talking as bad as they can spell in front of a proper-speaking, non-regional accent, respectful judge. Spelling and grammar is one thing, but when you TALK like that.....that just ticks me off.
All right, wait just a minute. Now this discussion is goin towards "regional ax-cents"?!?! Some of us good ole boys can write proper, we just like to taulk lazy. Course I under-stand everythang being spoke tuh me in a southern-fried tongue. No never mind, readin and writin is important!
My wife actually spells out all words when she sends text messages on her cell phone. Whoa!
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I have to say my three year old boy talks much better than most teenagers today.
However, I started to talk like him. I heard him say something today and I turned around and asked him, in the same way he asks me the same question, "What you said?" I am sure I am not as cute saying it that way. ;D
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Yeah we up heaa in New Hampshaa like to leave oua Rs out!
" Took the caa out foa a cruise yestaday! "
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At least you admint that. My first college roommate was from Suffolk New York. My goodness, here I am 17 years old from the south with very little experience from anything outside of Va, and my roommate spoke like that. I asked him one day if he ever pronounced R's.
But he really pronounced "I" 's . As in Five. He would say F "eye" ve. Really emphasizing the I. Uncounsciously I would pick up a little of that and when I came home on some weekends, my parents would question my pronounciatios....he was rubbing off on me and I didn't realize it.
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I know a guy that says Tyoda insteda of Toyota, and he insists thats how its said.