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Post by Afgncaap5 on Dec 30, 2009 14:08:37 GMT -5
Someone on Twitter posted this, and honestly I kinda wish that it was required reading in some of the 1337er parts of the Internet. I confess to, in moments of weakness, making the its/it's error. I honestly think that the folks 'round these parts are pretty good at most of this. For which I'm insanely thankful.
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Post by crowschmo on Dec 30, 2009 18:48:20 GMT -5
Theirs alot of mistakes that people make, weather they realize it or not. Its really wierd. You definately loose you're ability to spell in this day and age, righting to much on teh internet. The affects are noticable.
Look over they're!
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Post by Bix Dugan on Dec 30, 2009 19:05:19 GMT -5
I was just spelling "it's" in another thread. Now, if I click on the above link, I'm sure it will tell me I made a mistake. Here we go...
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Post by Emperor Cupcake on Dec 31, 2009 0:00:27 GMT -5
That was awesome. I want the poster!
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Post by Bix Dugan on Dec 31, 2009 0:26:58 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure I did "it" wrong.
But I knew all the rest. I know that SirHamHat used "loosing" today in the Contest, when he meant "losing". I always keep lose/loose straight by remembering that "loose" rhymes with "noose".
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Post by Emperor Cupcake on Dec 31, 2009 1:42:00 GMT -5
I can't see how anyone could possibly mix up loose and lose. I just can't. They're two completely different words. I might have mentioned it before, but a couple of other VERY common misspellings that really fry my bacon are grizzly/grisly (grizzly is a bear, grisly is gory and disgusting) and flare/flair (a flare is a flash of light or a thing to signal with, flair is when you have a talent for something, or when you're fabulous).
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Post by Emperor Cupcake on Dec 31, 2009 1:45:09 GMT -5
Oh, and I can't stand when people say/spell "expresso!" It's ESPRESSO!!! E-S!!!!
Sorry, I'm a spelling nazi.
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Post by Mighty Jack on Dec 31, 2009 2:00:12 GMT -5
I'm a free and easy hippy artist type... spell any damn way you want! In truth the "Its/It's" thing is my curse. AND I DO IT EVERY DAMN TIME! On every review, on every post here, I tell myself, "pay attention to the its" - and still I screw it up. My edits are mostly due to having the 'its'
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Post by Satchmo on Dec 31, 2009 2:50:24 GMT -5
Sorry, I'm a spelling nazi. As am I- spelling and grammar!
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Post by callipygias on Dec 31, 2009 2:54:47 GMT -5
The louder you claim that the more your own inevitable errors will stand out.
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Post by Mighty Jack on Dec 31, 2009 3:08:00 GMT -5
The louder you claim that the more your own inevitable errors will stand out. So true, ask Mr. Atari. He made an error once and it was like blood in the water.
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Post by mummifiedstalin on Dec 31, 2009 9:20:33 GMT -5
Eye halve a spelling chequer. It came with my pea sea. It plane lee marks four my revue Miss steaks aye can knot sea.
Eye ran this poem threw it, Your sure reel glad two no. Its vary polished in it's weigh. My checker tolled me sew.
A checker is a bless sing, It freeze yew lodes of thyme. It helps me right awl stiles two reed, And aides me when I rime.
Each frays come posed up on my screen eye trussed too bee a joule. The checker pours o'er every word To cheque sum spelling rule.
Bee fore a veiling checker's Hour spelling mite decline, And if we're lacks oar have a laps, We wood bee maid too wine.
Butt now bee cause my spelling Is checked with such grate flair, Their are no fault's with in my cite, Of nun eye am a ware.
Now spelling does knot phase me, It does knot bring a tier. My pay purrs awl due glad den With wrapped word's fare as hear.
To rite with care is quite a feet Of witch won should be proud, And wee mussed dew the best wee can, Sew flaw's are knot aloud.
Sow ewe can sea why aye dew prays, Such soft wear four pea seas, And why eye brake in two averse Buy righting too pleas.
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Post by Mr. Atari on Dec 31, 2009 10:24:15 GMT -5
The "its/their/your" issues don't usually boil my blood. I think most people know what it should be; they just make the mistake in typing too quickly. At least, that's my excuse.
The others, however, really honk my hooter. There's just no excuse for lose and loose, or putting an "a" in definitely, or adding an "e" to Santa Claus.
Still, nothing burns my biscuits quite like bad punctuation; especially the misuse of apostrophes. Whenever someone uses an apostrophe to denote plural, a baby kitten dies.
And whatever happened to the semicolon? I love that little guy.
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Post by spackle on Dec 31, 2009 10:27:20 GMT -5
One that gets me is advice/advise. There seems to be a trend toward spelling it advise whether it's a noun or verb. Or should I say, weather its a noun or voib. Expresso peeves me to. Thow I wunder if its just away four thows uv us wit immacolate speeling too just feel supperior.
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Post by inlovewithcrow on Dec 31, 2009 10:37:15 GMT -5
I can spell, but I have only an hour a week on here, usually, if that, and I type fast and don't proofread, so I apologize for the typos.
What drives me nuts are usage errors: "There are less cars on the highway this morning." ARGGGGGHHH. FEWER. If you count them, it's fewer and number. If it's a undifferentiated mass, it's less and amount. Think, boled potatoes versus mashed potatoes. You have a number of boiled potatoes but an amount of mashed.
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