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Can everybody just please stop doing it.
If you 'lose' something, it's been dropped or thieved.
If you 'loose' something, you set it free.....
I'm not a grammar nazi, but we have to sort this out......
Your right
[i]I'm not a grammar nazi, but[/i]
*narrows eyes*
What does loosing mean?
Something you might have lost. Or not.
Rediculous.
Q: How can you tell if your a grammar-nazi?
I blame autocorrect on phones.
Swype, in particular seems particularly bad at deliberately putting in the wrong words. Sometimes I just can't be bothered to correct it yet again.
I do wonder if the Russians have been somehow poisoning the autocorrect self-learning databases.
If you 'lose' something, it's been dropped or thieved
Thieved! You mean stolen.
In other news, even though some people are moar betterer at grammar and stuff, the world still turns.....
we have to sort this out
Defiantly
I'm confused. I'm loosing the plot to live.
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I know, I know......good bit of punnage!
Mr three fish, that's the subject of my next post!
Honest.... I blame Jeremy Kyle. And McDonald's. And grey joggers with mild piss stains.
But stop.
Discusting.
Thieved! You mean stolen.
I think you mean robbed.
The one that really grates on me is people typing messages in their 'local dialect'. There's a couple of Facebook mountain biking groups that I follow where everyone on it seems to be characters straight out of 'The Broon's or Oor Wullie', judging by the messages they type.
"Ach, hoots mon! Thae Minion tyres get fair mucket in the dreich weather"
That's not how I was taught to read or write in school, and I'm from Bonnybridge. Write it out properly, and if you can't spell it, google it!
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Thieved! You mean stolen.
Thieved is a perfectly good past tense version of thieve.
Sorry, I like discussing bike related topics such as peddles and breaks.
Your [s]right[/s] write
FTFY
Why people can't right like they was teached at scool..terribul.
Beagleboy - Member
That's not how I was taught to read or write in school, and I'm from Bonnybridge. Write it out properly, and if you can't spell it, google it!
Shall we go down the Pidgin English road again? 😛
Sometimes I actually congratulate people on facebook when they spell chest of draws correctly.
And when people say on route, it's en route, it's French you moron, but some of these people are good friends so I keep it to myself most of the time.
Write it out properly,
Write it correctly 🙄
That's not how I was taught to read or write in school, and I'm from Bonnybridge. Write it out properly, and if you can't spell it, google it!
Help ma' boab, you sound like a richt scunner.
chest of draws
I could kill you to death for this.
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The one that really grates on me is people typing messages in their 'local dialect'.
Hud yir wheesht ya fud.
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We’ll well, if it isn’t Mr Autocorrect.
As an aside do you ever feel like at work you're the only one there with a modicum of intelligence. I try to engage my work collegaues about current affairs and get one word answers and then turn back to their screens. I have to come on here for intelligent debate it's that bad.
One fine day in the middle of the night
Two dead men got up to fight
Back to back they faced each other
Drew their swords and shot each other
Loose the arrow.
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Probably going to Lose the arrow.
Loose the arrow.
Let the grey geese fly. Wholly together?
OP is right. Folk should speak proper an that.
Beagleboy,
Ah couldnae gie a muckle jobbie so lang as the words are richtly spelt
And what's with using "and" rather than "an" in front of a noun that starts with a vowel? - "I ate and apple"
Hud yir wheesht ya fud.
Tsk.
It's "haud yer wheesht" surely?
I can never understand why the word phonetics isn't spelt fonetics.
The one that makes me laugh is when folk say 'pacific' when they mean 'specific'
this is all to much for me. What about over there, yes it is theres and there never going to learn...
"Mills loosing" common around Bradford in the 50s/60s. Means shift workers pouring out of the mills.
Thieved is a perfectly good past tense version of thieve.
Maybe, but it sounds shit.
You mean it sounds archaic. 😉
That'll do... 🙂
That'll do.
adding -n to the end of words to make them past tense is just about as archaic as -ed.
People should of got this right by now. Its definitely there fault. Its as bad as people whom set out to deliberately split infinitives
What is it, pacifically, that annoys you??
Loosing instead of losing has to be the number one crime these days.
It's got so bad that when people actually write losing, I find myself having to read it back as if the right might be wrong. Aaaaaggggghhhhh!
While we're there, can we stop adding 'y' onto the ends of words where there is no need?
Such as, 'I like the decor, it looks all vintagey' kind of looks 'antiquey'....
Please stop.
While we're there, can we stop adding 'y' onto the ends of words where there is no need?
Bit complainey there.
Plurals aren't formed by adding "'s" to the singular, i.e. the plural of family is [b]families[/b] not [s]family's[/s].
Also see 'brought' instead of 'bought. Stop it you ****ing idiots.
Can somebody cleverer than me write a virus that shuts a user's device down after three grammar/spelling mistakes? Free strike's and your out... ah, balls.
Thieved is a perfectly good past tense version of thieve.
I think you mean Teefed.
oldnpastit - MemberI blame autocorrect on phones.
I blame morons.
A one week ban for the culprits would soon reverse the trend, as well as finally giving the mods a sense of purpose. 🙂
I could care less.
I give you the village where I grew up - and the WI
Spelt Loose, pronounced /lu?z/
It’s not just spelling. Someone on here (and I wouldn’t dream of being rude enough to be any more specific than that) has the loosest grasp (see what I did there) of punctuation that I’ve ever seen. “Idea’s” is my favourite. Makes my brain do a little recoil and double take every time. Life would be dull without it.
I’m not immune either. It’s interesting how the brain works. I sometimes type a “their” when I mean “they’re” and it’s not until I read it back that I can see that it’s clearly wrong and have to correct it.
There seems to be quite a spate of people starting to use "aloud" on my Facebook, when they clearly mean "allowed". Some of the people using it I can understand why, but others are actually quite educated and in real life appear normal...yet still ask "selling some bikes if its aloud on here" f'ristance ...
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There are people alive - real adults who presumably can feed and dress themselves - who think the item of furniture that you keep your socks in is a "chester draws".
Once, when abroad,a menu had 'sheper spy' as a dish....
Brilliant...!!
DrP
I blame Facebook for allowing the morons a voice.
Threads like this make me laugh, alot.
Off of, could of, should of.
Ferk, Ferk, ferkity ferk. Please, please stop it.
That sign makes no sense...what are the loose women going to institute?
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Said losers in background.
There seems to be quite a spate of people starting to use "aloud" on my Facebook, when they clearly mean "allowed".
They're the same ones who refer to their female child as their "dorta."
*twitch*
Surely that's "dor'a" innit?
In the faecal position.
The one that gets me is people who say 'tele', when they mean 'telly'.
BUT
I mentioned this to a mate the other night and he said "what're you talking about? 'tele' is correct cos it's short for 'television'. And by god he's right. Still looks wrong to me though.
I spend my days examining people's [b]prostrates[/b].
And the number of people with a 3 hour history of [b]chronic[/b] pain is incredible... of course, chronic refers to an extended time, rather than level of severity...
DrP
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Local to me (well, not that local TBH) is a crappy looking " CAF'E ".
WTAF!
DrP
In a similar vein to the OP, "led" seems to be written with an extra "a" more often than not.
"She lead me up the garden path" for example.
Hey ho, for all that it annoys me when I see it, I guess it's just part of the natural mutation of language. Won't be long before led, lose, thieved and the rest will be regarded as archaic alternative spellings. And schedule will be pronounced with a hard "ch" (my personal bugbear) in Correct English
Mumble, mumble, cocoa, slippers.....