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05-07-2010, 04:42 PM
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RE: spelling and grammar check
lol
Sorry in advanced people. I am one of those people who forgets the apostrophie. I dont (don't) mean to do it, its just i type quite quickly at times.
As for going on about dates... Why is it when you ask somebody 'How old is your child?' and they respond '21 months old'... what you want me to do maths? Just say 1... or nearly 2. Is it that hard? WHY!?!?!?!
Sorry in advanced people. I am one of those people who forgets the apostrophie. I dont (don't) mean to do it, its just i type quite quickly at times.
As for going on about dates... Why is it when you ask somebody 'How old is your child?' and they respond '21 months old'... what you want me to do maths? Just say 1... or nearly 2. Is it that hard? WHY!?!?!?!
05-08-2010, 06:20 PM
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This post reminds me of a farming joke my uncle told me...
The son - returning home from college says to his father: "Hi Dad."
The father says: "Hi Son; welcome home - what did you learn in college?"
The son says: "Oh, you know, pie-R-squared and all that stuff."
The father says: " Com'on Son, pie are not square - pie are round - cornbread are square!"
The son - returning home from college says to his father: "Hi Dad."
The father says: "Hi Son; welcome home - what did you learn in college?"
The son says: "Oh, you know, pie-R-squared and all that stuff."
The father says: " Com'on Son, pie are not square - pie are round - cornbread are square!"
05-09-2010, 12:35 AM
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Outside of the typing world, the incorrect use of the word "Don't" annoys the daylights out of me.
Example "This don't work". What this person means is "This does not work" meaning it isn't functional, however, what you are saying, translated from broken English is "See this? Do not operate it". Wheras "This doesn't work" means "See this? It can not be operated". The literal meanings go from a command not to use it, to informing you it does not function, in hindsight most of you know that, but still, annoys me to no end. I doesn't really know why :/
Example "This don't work". What this person means is "This does not work" meaning it isn't functional, however, what you are saying, translated from broken English is "See this? Do not operate it". Wheras "This doesn't work" means "See this? It can not be operated". The literal meanings go from a command not to use it, to informing you it does not function, in hindsight most of you know that, but still, annoys me to no end. I doesn't really know why :/
05-09-2010, 07:23 AM
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ORIGINAL: Stripes
Does anyone know where the permission to drop the ''H'' sound from the beginning of a word comes from? I was raised to believe that herb was pronounced ''erb'' and that vehicle was pronounced ''veicle.'' There seems to exist no rule in the English language for it. It appears to me to be a holdover from a bad lower class English accent.
Does anyone know where the permission to drop the ''H'' sound from the beginning of a word comes from? I was raised to believe that herb was pronounced ''erb'' and that vehicle was pronounced ''veicle.'' There seems to exist no rule in the English language for it. It appears to me to be a holdover from a bad lower class English accent.
05-09-2010, 08:41 AM
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ORIGINAL: dreadnaut
A big peeve of mine is the phrase '' first year anniversary'', or ''one year anniversary''. It should be ''first anniversary''. The word anniversary is from Latin for ''turning a year''. Using the word year in the same sentence as the word anniversary is a redundancy. A phrase like ''two month anniversary'' is just plain nonsense.
A big peeve of mine is the phrase '' first year anniversary'', or ''one year anniversary''. It should be ''first anniversary''. The word anniversary is from Latin for ''turning a year''. Using the word year in the same sentence as the word anniversary is a redundancy. A phrase like ''two month anniversary'' is just plain nonsense.
Here’s another one. How about the term, "First annual"? I’ll call it acceptable to use the term when talking in retrospect. Such as: “The first annual Bob’s Fly-in was held in 1993.”
The statement I find peculiar is: “Join us for the first annual Bob’s Fly-in.” How can an event be annual if it was never held before? Shouldn’t they be saying “Join us for Bob’s Fly-in, which we hope will become an annual event?”
Plenty of good points are being made in this thread of which I agree with. However I think we’re preaching to the choir. The people that really need to pay attention won’t even bother clicking on this thread.
05-10-2010, 08:08 AM
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ORIGINAL: perreback
Article on H-dropping: http://everything2.com/title/h-dropping
ORIGINAL: Stripes
Does anyone know where the permission to drop the ''H'' sound from the beginning of a word comes from? I was raised to believe that herb was pronounced ''erb'' and that vehicle was pronounced ''veicle.'' There seems to exist no rule in the English language for it. It appears to me to be a holdover from a bad lower class English accent.
Does anyone know where the permission to drop the ''H'' sound from the beginning of a word comes from? I was raised to believe that herb was pronounced ''erb'' and that vehicle was pronounced ''veicle.'' There seems to exist no rule in the English language for it. It appears to me to be a holdover from a bad lower class English accent.
Thank you for that. it's quite a nice write-up.
05-10-2010, 01:50 PM
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Well, I'm not in any choir but i did read the thread.
I worry about my spelling and grammar on every thread. But I never paid attention in english and could not tell you the difference between a preposition and a adverb. The one thing I do is make sure it sounds good in my head and reread the post two or three times to make sure it is as close to correct as i can get it. I had to check spelling on three words in this post.
The posts that get me are the ones where you can tell they don't care how it looks or sounds.
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I worry about my spelling and grammar on every thread. But I never paid attention in english and could not tell you the difference between a preposition and a adverb. The one thing I do is make sure it sounds good in my head and reread the post two or three times to make sure it is as close to correct as i can get it. I had to check spelling on three words in this post.
The posts that get me are the ones where you can tell they don't care how it looks or sounds.
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05-10-2010, 01:56 PM
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ORIGINAL: BillyGoat
Here’s another one. How about the term, ''First annual''? I’ll call it acceptable to use the term when talking in retrospect. Such as: “The first annual Bob’s Fly-in was held in 1993.”
The statement I find peculiar is: “Join us for the first annual Bob’s Fly-in.” How can an event be annual if it was never held before? Shouldn’t they be saying “Join us for Bob’s Fly-in, which we hope will become an annual event?”
Here’s another one. How about the term, ''First annual''? I’ll call it acceptable to use the term when talking in retrospect. Such as: “The first annual Bob’s Fly-in was held in 1993.”
The statement I find peculiar is: “Join us for the first annual Bob’s Fly-in.” How can an event be annual if it was never held before? Shouldn’t they be saying “Join us for Bob’s Fly-in, which we hope will become an annual event?”
05-10-2010, 10:15 PM
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ORIGINAL: CottcoRC
Bump
ORIGINAL: CottcoRC
If yuo can raed tihs, we dno't need slepl cechk.
ORIGINAL: tacx
O.K., I can't take it anymore. We need spell checker. Grammar checker would be great, but I know that is asking to much. Even a coma or a period would be nice. I read these posts and I am amazed that someone can type a whole paragraph without a comma, period, capital letter, or any of the other punctuation mark! Some of these questions could be answered easily if there were not ten different ways to interpret them.
Sorry, I couldn't help myself.
O.K., I can't take it anymore. We need spell checker. Grammar checker would be great, but I know that is asking to much. Even a coma or a period would be nice. I read these posts and I am amazed that someone can type a whole paragraph without a comma, period, capital letter, or any of the other punctuation mark! Some of these questions could be answered easily if there were not ten different ways to interpret them.
Sorry, I couldn't help myself.
Oh by the way, as long as we're on the spell subject and all.....
O.K., I can't take it anymore. We need spell checker. Grammar checker would be great, but I know that is asking to (too)much. Even a coma or a period would be nice. I read these posts and I am amazed that someone can type a whole paragraph without a comma, period, capital letter, or any of the other punctuation mark! (marks) Some of these questions could be answered easily if there were not ten different ways to interpret them.
05-10-2010, 10:23 PM
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ORIGINAL: CottcoRC
Bumping.
Oh by the way, as long as we're on the spell subject and all.....
O.K., I can't take it anymore. We need spell checker. Grammar checker would be great, but I know that is asking to (too)much. Even a coma or a period would be nice. I read these posts and I am amazed that someone can type a whole paragraph without a comma, period, capital letter, or any of the other punctuation mark! (marks) Some of these questions could be answered easily if there were not ten different ways to interpret them.
ORIGINAL: CottcoRC
Bump
ORIGINAL: CottcoRC
If yuo can raed tihs, we dno't need slepl cechk.
ORIGINAL: tacx
O.K., I can't take it anymore. We need spell checker. Grammar checker would be great, but I know that is asking to much. Even a coma or a period would be nice. I read these posts and I am amazed that someone can type a whole paragraph without a comma, period, capital letter, or any of the other punctuation mark! Some of these questions could be answered easily if there were not ten different ways to interpret them.
Sorry, I couldn't help myself.
O.K., I can't take it anymore. We need spell checker. Grammar checker would be great, but I know that is asking to much. Even a coma or a period would be nice. I read these posts and I am amazed that someone can type a whole paragraph without a comma, period, capital letter, or any of the other punctuation mark! Some of these questions could be answered easily if there were not ten different ways to interpret them.
Sorry, I couldn't help myself.
Oh by the way, as long as we're on the spell subject and all.....
O.K., I can't take it anymore. We need spell checker. Grammar checker would be great, but I know that is asking to (too)much. Even a coma or a period would be nice. I read these posts and I am amazed that someone can type a whole paragraph without a comma, period, capital letter, or any of the other punctuation mark! (marks) Some of these questions could be answered easily if there were not ten different ways to interpret them.
05-10-2010, 10:30 PM
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ORIGINAL: Bax
If you plan to make an event an annual one, then there's nothing wrong with calling it the ''First Annual [Event]''. Next year will be the ''Second Annual [Event]'', and so on.
ORIGINAL: BillyGoat
Here’s another one. How about the term, ''First annual''? I’ll call it acceptable to use the term when talking in retrospect. Such as: “The first annual Bob’s Fly-in was held in 1993.”
The statement I find peculiar is: “Join us for the first annual Bob’s Fly-in.” How can an event be annual if it was never held before? Shouldn’t they be saying “Join us for Bob’s Fly-in, which we hope will become an annual event?”
Here’s another one. How about the term, ''First annual''? I’ll call it acceptable to use the term when talking in retrospect. Such as: “The first annual Bob’s Fly-in was held in 1993.”
The statement I find peculiar is: “Join us for the first annual Bob’s Fly-in.” How can an event be annual if it was never held before? Shouldn’t they be saying “Join us for Bob’s Fly-in, which we hope will become an annual event?”
The proper word to use is "Inaugural",, that means "marking a beginning : first in a projected series"
05-11-2010, 12:25 AM
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ORIGINAL: CottcoRC
Bumped.
ORIGINAL: CottcoRC
Bumping.
Oh by the way, as long as we're on the spell subject and all.....
O.K., I can't take it anymore. We need spell checker. Grammar checker would be great, but I know that is asking to (too) much. Even a coma or a period would be nice. I read these posts and I am amazed that someone can type a whole paragraph without a comma, period, capital letter, or any of the other punctuation mark! (marks) Some of these questions could be answered easily if there were not ten different ways to interpret them.
ORIGINAL: CottcoRC
Bump
ORIGINAL: CottcoRC
If yuo can raed tihs, we dno't need slepl cechk.
ORIGINAL: tacx
O.K., I can't take it anymore. We need spell checker. Grammar checker would be great, but I know that is asking to much. Even a coma or a period would be nice. I read these posts and I am amazed that someone can type a whole paragraph without a comma, period, capital letter, or any of the other punctuation mark! Some of these questions could be answered easily if there were not ten different ways to interpret them.
Sorry, I couldn't help myself.
O.K., I can't take it anymore. We need spell checker. Grammar checker would be great, but I know that is asking to much. Even a coma or a period would be nice. I read these posts and I am amazed that someone can type a whole paragraph without a comma, period, capital letter, or any of the other punctuation mark! Some of these questions could be answered easily if there were not ten different ways to interpret them.
Sorry, I couldn't help myself.
Oh by the way, as long as we're on the spell subject and all.....
O.K., I can't take it anymore. We need spell checker. Grammar checker would be great, but I know that is asking to (too) much. Even a coma or a period would be nice. I read these posts and I am amazed that someone can type a whole paragraph without a comma, period, capital letter, or any of the other punctuation mark! (marks) Some of these questions could be answered easily if there were not ten different ways to interpret them.
05-11-2010, 12:07 PM
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Ths sure is getting boring !!!I really don't care about a "countable noun", I don't give a "rat's a_ _ about all that other stuff !!!! If a fellow posts on RCU & gets a couple of words spelled wrong - big deal !! If I keep reading this stuff all the "intellectuals" are writing & try to follow it, I'll NEVER get anything posted !!
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ORIGINAL: CottcoRC
Not necessarily.
A verb's classification, whether regular or abstract (citing sentence structure) is dependent upon the langauge in which it is contexted. Subsequently, a verb may become the subject of argument denoting several entities within it's own substructure, i.e.; Valency or the number of arguments that a verb takes versus Copula, a special kind of verb used to link other verbs, which may well be the case with respect to the verb I chose to use.
Ultimately, one may deduce, whether regular or abstract, ''bump'' is a verb.
Here ends the lesson.
ORIGINAL: perreback
So - I guess we've established that ''bump'' is a regular verb.
ORIGINAL: CottcoRC
Bumped.
ORIGINAL: CottcoRC
Bumping.
Oh by the way, as long as we're on the spell subject and all.....
O.K., I can't take it anymore. We need spell checker. Grammar checker would be great, but I know that is asking to (too) much. Even a coma or a period would be nice. I read these posts and I am amazed that someone can type a whole paragraph without a comma, period, capital letter, or any of the other punctuation mark! (marks) Some of these questions could be answered easily if there were not ten different ways to interpret them.
ORIGINAL: CottcoRC
Bump
ORIGINAL: CottcoRC
If yuo can raed tihs, we dno't need slepl cechk.
ORIGINAL: tacx
O.K., I can't take it anymore. We need spell checker. Grammar checker would be great, but I know that is asking to much. Even a coma or a period would be nice. I read these posts and I am amazed that someone can type a whole paragraph without a comma, period, capital letter, or any of the other punctuation mark! Some of these questions could be answered easily if there were not ten different ways to interpret them.
Sorry, I couldn't help myself.
O.K., I can't take it anymore. We need spell checker. Grammar checker would be great, but I know that is asking to much. Even a coma or a period would be nice. I read these posts and I am amazed that someone can type a whole paragraph without a comma, period, capital letter, or any of the other punctuation mark! Some of these questions could be answered easily if there were not ten different ways to interpret them.
Sorry, I couldn't help myself.
Oh by the way, as long as we're on the spell subject and all.....
O.K., I can't take it anymore. We need spell checker. Grammar checker would be great, but I know that is asking to (too) much. Even a coma or a period would be nice. I read these posts and I am amazed that someone can type a whole paragraph without a comma, period, capital letter, or any of the other punctuation mark! (marks) Some of these questions could be answered easily if there were not ten different ways to interpret them.
A verb's classification, whether regular or abstract (citing sentence structure) is dependent upon the langauge in which it is contexted. Subsequently, a verb may become the subject of argument denoting several entities within it's own substructure, i.e.; Valency or the number of arguments that a verb takes versus Copula, a special kind of verb used to link other verbs, which may well be the case with respect to the verb I chose to use.
Ultimately, one may deduce, whether regular or abstract, ''bump'' is a verb.
Here ends the lesson.
Langauge?