Today's English lesson
26 March 2006, 10:01 PM
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Originally Posted by scoobyangel
what does it matter.... this is the internet, THIS is a chat forum... i spell badly, i use terrible grammer, on here, i wouldn't do the same in a letter, at work, or at any other time that i have to write a letter or such like!
get a grip on reality and stop spending your lives whinging about stupid little things which really DO NOT affect your life whatsoever, you will continue to breathe, eat, sleep etc when someone uses bad english on scoobynet because it is not life threatening!
get a grip on reality and stop spending your lives whinging about stupid little things which really DO NOT affect your life whatsoever, you will continue to breathe, eat, sleep etc when someone uses bad english on scoobynet because it is not life threatening!
26 March 2006, 10:04 PM
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I had to bite my tongue on MSN yesterday when a young lady 
said "My mom learned me how to cook"
Now that really gets my goat (normally )
However!
This is a bulletin board where you comunicate by writing, if you can't write properly then you should learn to...
I find www.dictionary.com very useful for the longer words or anything I'm not sure about, it doesn't take many seconds to copy and paste your word into the search box and it'll come up with suggestions if you've got it wrong.
What I do find difficult sometimes is structuring a post in a way to make it flow, they always come out as a load of snippets of information just stuck together.
Andy
said "My mom learned me how to cook"Now that really gets my goat (normally
)However!
This is a bulletin board where you comunicate by writing, if you can't write properly then you should learn to...
I find www.dictionary.com very useful for the longer words or anything I'm not sure about, it doesn't take many seconds to copy and paste your word into the search box and it'll come up with suggestions if you've got it wrong.
What I do find difficult sometimes is structuring a post in a way to make it flow, they always come out as a load of snippets of information just stuck together.
Andy
26 March 2006, 10:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Bubba po
Translation, anyone?
I got this gorgeous Westlife hoodie off Shelley but she's a slag anyway but oh my god! she actually paid real money for it cos she got it off the internet and it's dead hard 2 nick things off here and I know cos I tried it. My auntie Su got me some more gold chains from Argos off the internet which was great cos she's normally in pantomimes like for the whole year! and forgets all about it but she got me 3 of them which was good cos I've only got 2 already and you know you got 2 have at least 5 on at once or you're so uncool!
Don't be givin scoobyangels mates da evals
26 March 2006, 10:08 PM
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Originally Posted by lightning101
Watchit bubba po or I is gettin me crew - Destiny, Jerome, Tony, Rochelle, Darren and Kevin. Rochelle's cousin Jade took this photo with the disposable camera that Destiny stole from Boots by stuffing it in my blingin new Burberry handbag when I was stuffing lipsticks down my tights but I wasn't even there so no I don't know nothin about it. Shut up! And anyway Rochelle isn't not even talking to Rochelle since she gave Tony the last bit of her stuffed crust under the table in Pizza Hut and anyway their food's rubbish and I wasn't even there anyway. When we're not at school which is all the time actually cos it's rubbish! we go 2 the shopping centre in town and look @ fings then nick them and Meredith reckoned she nicked a whole rack of scrunchies out of Accesorize but don't listen to her cos she's got webbed toes. My favourite place to go is the bookshop cos they have these big red sofas right but if you don't buy nothing and just look at the sex books and make loads of noise they throw you out which is rubbish cos I've already had 2 babies and need to learn how not 2 get pregnant like by standing up or something or bathing in fizzy drink right after like Meredith did but that didn't work and she's had twins and called them Chelsea and Peckham.
I got this gorgeous Westlife hoodie off Shelley but she's a slag anyway but oh my god! she actually paid real money for it cos she got it off the internet and it's dead hard 2 nick things off here and I know cos I tried it. My auntie Su got me some more gold chains from Argos off the internet which was great cos she's normally in pantomimes like for the whole year! and forgets all about it but she got me 3 of them which was good cos I've only got 2 already and you know you got 2 have at least 5 on at once or you're so uncool!
Don't be givin scoobyangels mates da evals
I got this gorgeous Westlife hoodie off Shelley but she's a slag anyway but oh my god! she actually paid real money for it cos she got it off the internet and it's dead hard 2 nick things off here and I know cos I tried it. My auntie Su got me some more gold chains from Argos off the internet which was great cos she's normally in pantomimes like for the whole year! and forgets all about it but she got me 3 of them which was good cos I've only got 2 already and you know you got 2 have at least 5 on at once or you're so uncool!
Don't be givin scoobyangels mates da evals
gerroff me burrburry yu's else me ma will av to twot ya wiv er chavmeana burrs bag!
(and even i have no idea what i typed then!!)
26 March 2006, 10:10 PM
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Originally Posted by lightning101
I'm nobody, so I must be perfect 
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Miss Type - sounds like a kinky dominatrix
.Miss Type - sounds like a kinky dominatrix
26 March 2006, 10:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Fuzz
Don't you chavs ever shut up?
Andy
Andy
let your fingers do the talking (you've got to sing it like the old yellow pages? advert)
Am I showing my age again??
26 March 2006, 10:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Crosstalk
WTF is up with grammar and spelling these days, especially on this board?
The correct terms are "would have...", "should have...", "must have" or "could have...", not "would of...", "should of...", "must of" and "could of...".
Judging by the posts on here most of the people writing on this board don't know this.
Seems we're losing basic language skills, is it down to the "text message" generation?
Ok, English lesson/rant over, flame suit on, feel free to discuss amongst yourselves.
The correct terms are "would have...", "should have...", "must have" or "could have...", not "would of...", "should of...", "must of" and "could of...".
Judging by the posts on here most of the people writing on this board don't know this.
Seems we're losing basic language skills, is it down to the "text message" generation?
Ok, English lesson/rant over, flame suit on, feel free to discuss amongst yourselves.
why do people get so humpy over grammer??
they read it, which proves its legible and readable, then take great delight in ripping it to shreds?? wtf??
as ive said before..
what does it matter if its freds fre'ds freds,s or freds'. it belongs to him, and if you cant work that out from the post then you seriously need help, correcting grammer wont get you any closer to the answer.
given that the english language has more grammer loopholes, than a swiss cheese, i,d say unless it so badly written that everyone gives it the wtf, then leave the poster alone and repond to his question.
Mart
26 March 2006, 10:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Bubba po
Mart, why do you use a comma in place of an apostrophe? Would you put engine oil in your water-bottle?
men often deposit fluids in the incorrect vessels... and enjoy it!!!
stop whinging!!!
26 March 2006, 10:25 PM
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Originally Posted by scoobyangel
men often deposit fluids in the incorrect vessels... and enjoy it!!!
stop whinging!!!
stop whinging!!!
26 March 2006, 10:29 PM
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Because Mart 360....and all those others who snipe at this thread and it's content, it DOES matter.
Grammar is important. Here, in everyday speech and in general communication. It is the mortar which holds our language together.
The odd spelling error on such as Scoobynet is acceptable because we are usually typing quick replies and don't always have time to read back and correct. But basic grammatical errors are frowned upon. They lead to an erosion in our culture and our communicating skills. Before we know it, we'll be back to uggs and grunts like the stone age men.
All IMHO.
BTW "Getting bored of" really bloody annoys me. Should be "Getting bored with".
Sermon over, Nite.
Yve
Grammar is important. Here, in everyday speech and in general communication. It is the mortar which holds our language together.
The odd spelling error on such as Scoobynet is acceptable because we are usually typing quick replies and don't always have time to read back and correct. But basic grammatical errors are frowned upon. They lead to an erosion in our culture and our communicating skills. Before we know it, we'll be back to uggs and grunts like the stone age men.
All IMHO.
BTW "Getting bored of" really bloody annoys me. Should be "Getting bored with".
Sermon over, Nite.
Yve
27 March 2006, 08:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Bubba po
Mart, why do you use a comma in place of an apostrophe? Would you put engine oil in your water-bottle?
why do you look like the strange bloke out of this island earth?? i dont thats for sure...
no i wouldnt put oil in my water boittle, but did you ever stop to think, or ask the question why???
there is a good reason, why my written grammar is poor, but as usual the moraly self righteous, scoobynet failed english brigade cant come up with anything decent to post on, so they troll, looking for grammar errors.
now that really is sad
Mart
27 March 2006, 09:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Apparition
Because Mart 360....and all those others who snipe at this thread and it's content, it DOES matter.
Grammar is important. Here, in everyday speech and in general communication. It is the mortar which holds our language together.
The odd spelling error on such as Scoobynet is acceptable because we are usually typing quick replies and don't always have time to read back and correct. But basic grammatical errors are frowned upon. They lead to an erosion in our culture and our communicating skills. Before we know it, we'll be back to uggs and grunts like the stone age men.
All IMHO.
BTW "Getting bored of" really bloody annoys me. Should be "Getting bored with".
Sermon over, Nite.
Yve
Grammar is important. Here, in everyday speech and in general communication. It is the mortar which holds our language together.
The odd spelling error on such as Scoobynet is acceptable because we are usually typing quick replies and don't always have time to read back and correct. But basic grammatical errors are frowned upon. They lead to an erosion in our culture and our communicating skills. Before we know it, we'll be back to uggs and grunts like the stone age men.
All IMHO.
BTW "Getting bored of" really bloody annoys me. Should be "Getting bored with".
Sermon over, Nite.
Yve
its a shame our webby dosent adopt itit amazes me the amount of people who get screaming abdabs over commas and the use of. Im not perfect, buy you understood enough to reply, so why make a fuss???
mart
27 March 2006, 09:07 PM
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Originally Posted by JamieMacdonald
The odd typo/mistake is ok, the problem is that a lot of the time the posts are just not very easy to read.
I know what you mean, and I don't like the fact that it annoys me , but when I read some of the awful posts on here I just think "uneducated chav" 
. But it has also crossed my mind that, if you were speaking to the person face to face maybe they would converse with you perfectly normally, and the problem is that they just never got to grips with written communication?
The usual excuse that "i jus cant b botherd" is a poor one, as I think that if you do know how to spell and punctuate correctly, it actually takes more effort to spell incorrectly, and the real reason is that they just don't know how to, and have no inclination to improve.
Text speak can be annoying but doesn't bother me as much as general bad spelling and grammar.
I'm no expert but I think there is a basic level which is acceptable.
Maybe it does bother me a great deal! God I sound like a sad old git and I'm only 26!
I know what you mean, and I don't like the fact that it annoys me
, but when I read some of the awful posts on here I just think "uneducated chav" . But it has also crossed my mind that, if you were speaking to the person face to face maybe they would converse with you perfectly normally, and the problem is that they just never got to grips with written communication?The usual excuse that "i jus cant b botherd" is a poor one, as I think that if you do know how to spell and punctuate correctly, it actually takes more effort to spell incorrectly, and the real reason is that they just don't know how to, and have no inclination to improve.
Text speak can be annoying but doesn't bother me as much as general bad spelling and grammar.
I'm no expert but I think there is a basic level which is acceptable.
Maybe it does bother me a great deal! God I sound like a sad old git and I'm only 26!
so i,m a chav am i jamie???
the only part you got right is the the part about not knowing how to. I cant undo what happened many years ago, but it hasnt stopped me getting to where i want.
It appears too many of you have hang ups about grammar. i may nor be the best at spelling and grammar, but at least the threads are reasonably fluent.
Mart
27 March 2006, 10:24 PM
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Originally Posted by mart360
so i,m a chav am i jamie???
the only part you got right is the the part about not knowing how to. I cant undo what happened many years ago, but it hasnt stopped me getting to where i want.
It appears too many of you have hang ups about grammar. i may nor be the best at spelling and grammar, but at least the threads are reasonably fluent.
Mart
the only part you got right is the the part about not knowing how to. I cant undo what happened many years ago, but it hasnt stopped me getting to where i want.
It appears too many of you have hang ups about grammar. i may nor be the best at spelling and grammar, but at least the threads are reasonably fluent.
Mart
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