Some people are dyslexic and can have a pretty frustrating time dealing with pedants.

Sure, but there’s a difference between dyslexic and bone idle.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/british-english-dictionary/

I have bogey spelling words that often take me a couple of goes to get right (I muddle vowels in words like “relevant” and “separate”), but someone using entirely the wrong word is jarring; it pulls me out of the conversation. Imagine watching Downton Abbey and spotting someone wearing a digital watch.

my fat fingers often miss the caps button or the full stop button
It will generally do caps for you at the obvious places (e.g. start of sentences).

Full stops: just press space twice.

But apostrophes can be a pain.

I didn’t know that about the double tap on space. Oh yeah, it works!

For some reason my iPad often doesn’t put a capital at the start of a sentence. It seems to pick and choose as it likes?

It’s people who drink ‘expresso’ that need to be removed from the gene pool

It’s people who drink ‘expresso’ that need to be removed from the gene pool

I blame Scalextric.

Imagine watching Downton Abbey

shudders

and spotting someone wearing a digital watch.

well they are a pretty neat idea

For some reason my iPad often doesn’t put a capital at the start of a sentence. It seems to pick and choose as it likes?

Check Settings->General->Keyboard->Auto-Capitalisation

(and if you haven’t already then this is also where you go to add the Emoji “smiley” keyboard)

There’s a woman here at work with a verbal tick, (tic?? hmm, not sure.) “what it is is….” which was mildly annoying, and good to drop into converstion as a mild piss take.
Problem is, many here have done it so often they’ve developed the same habit! 😀

Pendants such as you lot defiantly need you’re heads looking at!

Check Settings->General->Keyboard->Auto-Capitalisation

(and if you haven’t already then this is also where you go to add the Emoji “smiley” keyboard)

I’ve basically been using my iPad as a doorstop and frisbee.

Pendants such as you lot defiantly need you’re heads looking at!

…..must

……..resist…..

DONK,

There’s a woman here at work with a verbal tick, (tic?? hmm, not sure.) “what it is is….” which was mildly annoying, and good to drop into converstion as a mild piss take.
Problem is, many here have done it so often they’ve developed the same habit!

Are you sure it is a tic?

Many South Walians say that…it’s apparently a direct english translation of what was grammatically correct 19th C Welsh. It’s managed to insert itself into South Wales valleys dialect over the last 150 years even amongst non-welsh speaking South Walians. See also “Get out from under by there”, and “I’ll do it now, in a minute”

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Talk-Tidy-The-Speaking-Wenglish/dp/0954665902

Plenty to think about in this………….

Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.

Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.

Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew

Too bee or knot two b: that is the quest I am on:
Weather ties noble err inn their mined two stuff err
The stings hand harrows off oat raging four tune
Oar two bake alms a gains eh c off double
Hand buy proposing n de theme? Too dye: toes leap;
Gnome or; hand buy eh steep toes ay wee wend
Theatre hart hake band the vows and nature all shots
Hat thresh hiss hair two, his acorn summation
Devour lea toby whist. To die, twos leap

langylad – Member

People who don’t drop their aitches on the letter aitch. Grammatical irony?

This discussion almost started a fight at work, I may have fanned the flames at the early stages :whistle:

OT

Alot, aks, should/could/would of, to name but a few….

Chillax is used daily in our office. It doesn’t have the desired effect affect result as I have to supress the desire to have at them with the stapler >:(

well they are a pretty neat idea

Yes they are, Mr Prosser.

Alot

In my head, “alright” is one word. It should be one word. Why isn’t it?

CaptainFlash

I’m primitive, please explain.

Plenty to think about in this………….

tldr, kthxbye

Not a typographical error but my latest piss boiler is the use of “er” pronounced a bit like a posh person saying “air”.

So for example

“There he is” becomes “er ee iz”

And almost entire sentences can be said using just “er”.

“There he is, over there” becomes “er ee iz, er er”

Piss boiling stuff

mrmonk, it’s a Douglas Adams reference.

I shall now add another urine overheating issue – Invite.

Now, you can either invite me, or you can send me an invitation. You cannot send me an invite.

KILL! KILL! KILL!

In my head, “alright” is one word. It should be one word. Why isn’t it?

It is, isn’t it?

OED says:

Although all right can also be spelled alright, you should use all right in formal writing.

There is no logical reason for insisting that all right should be written as two words rather than as alright, when other single-word forms such as altogether have long been accepted. Nevertheless, alright is still regarded as being unacceptable in formal writing.

More flames for pish broiling fire:

borrow

as in,

“I borrowed him my trainers for a bit.”

.

Lend, as in can I lend your trainers for a bit. Equally irritating >:(

I think this why they invented Facebook, so people can show just how bad their spelling and grammar are.

Should speak proper like what we do, innit

“I borrowed him my trainers for a bit.”

Lend, as in can I lend your trainers for a bit.

😯

Given the option, I think I’d rather be lending someone’s trainers than borrowing them. Do people actually borrow shoes?

Misuse of the word borrow does not only occur in conjunction with the word trainers.

Off of – from?

Swapped out – this used to be the preserve of Yanks but it has spread now why use one word when you can use 2 and make yourself look really stupid?

People who end on a preposition, that really does my head in.

Loose fit, what a tune!

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQCrgu8Am2U&sns=em[/video]

I once had a person explain her new purchase by saying “I seed it so I buyed it.”

I even cleaned it up.

Oh, they’re at it again on that loosing weight/fasting ride thread..

Stop it!

So that’s TWICE in 4 months then !

You say that like it’s not a problem!

I can’t be sure that it’s definitely not happening at other times, in fact I bet it’s happened at least twice since I last posted..

Whatever you do, RRR, don’t forum search loose.

…and that’s just in the last 11hrs.

It’s probably best just not to forum search at all.

It’s probably best just not to forum search at all.

Why? What does one have to loose?

I’ve always found it a pretty lose kind of search anyway. Unless you really no what your doing with it, you can loose yourself in the list of results when you could of used google instead.

You have bought a good argument to the table. The table, incidentally, was brought from Ikea.

And I assume you bought it home with the rental roove-rack they supply. There couriers are a bit crap – always loosing stuff.

I guess it’s not there fault but a few seem to have a lose grasp of the English language.

It pains me