Thread: I should of known

Originally Posted by A Duke

If the spell checker does not under line it it is OK.

Eye Halve a Spelling Chequer

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 quay 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 really ever wrong.

Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect in it's weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.

Cheers

Doug

Originally Posted by Grumpy John

I was accused of being a gramma nazi on facebook the other day.

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wear the badge with pride

My favorite hate is when I receive an email and it starts with "Hey mate". Don't people know how to address others using the written word?

Chris, you're lucky they use a salutation at all

A lot of emails and (especially) PMs I receive have no salutation, no capitals, no punctuation and no name at the end.

Won't even talk about texts

Originally Posted by doug3030

Eye Halve a Spelling Chequer

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 quay 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 really ever wrong.

Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect in it's weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.

Brilliant Doug, I didn't know we had such an erudite writer among us.

Originally Posted by DaveTTC

GPS. Literal translation. This system is so flawed.

Take and average cross road with a roundabout. Essentially two roads we will call one East St upon which you are travelling and the other North St

GPS "at the roundabout take the second exit onto East St"

It is telling me to effectively do a U turn. The first exit on to East St would take me straight.

Dave TTC
Turning Wood Into Art

oh the perils of the silent comma and it's friends, the silent colon and silent semi-colon

Originally Posted by chrisb691

It's 97% fat free. It's sodding got 3% fat.

Hi Chris

the sad part is that with food, you really only have two flavour carriers -- sugar or fat.

Weight watchers, et al, have very effectively sold the line that fat is BAD, so 97% fat free -- a big "good" number -- is always going to be "better" for us than a small "bad" number like "contains 3% fat"

the really sad part, is that fat is replaced by sugar, so "97% fat free" really means around 30% sugar, the calories in which are not very good for us.

Originally Posted by Chris Parks

My favorite hate is when I receive an email and it starts with "Hey mate". Don't people know how to address others using the written word?

Is this a formal work place type of email you are referring to Chris?

TT

Originally Posted by ian

Brilliant Doug, I didn't know we had such an erudite writer among us.

I didn't write it Ian. I just remembered having seen it and googled it for appropriate use here.

It was on the internet but listed as an anonymous source, otherwise I would have credited the author.

Cheers

Doug

still it's a very clever bit of writing

Here are some others that make me roll my eyes:

peddled - pedalled
principle - principal (both school and bank account)
gourmet - gourmand (yes, really!)

The new fashion in America is to get breathe and breath mixed up. I consistently come across that. "He could not breath". "She stopped running and caught her breathe".
As well, they don't know where to put an apostrophe and when to leave it out: "He owned five car's (as plural)".

When I see that kind of thing in a supposedly edited short story, published on the 'net, it just makes both author and editor look like right real wallies (wallettes?wandas?).
Reading Typonese is one thing, and it doesn't bother me hugely, but not knowing to use the right word?!?
(and English isn't even my first language)

GJ, a thought just occurred to me (yes, yes, I know). Perhaps the "should have/should of" thing comes from an aural mix-up of the abbreviated form "should've". It sounds very much like "should of".

I do hope you can rest better now

Brett

You need to be careful - thinking can be dangerous.

Originally Posted by Twisted Tenon

Is this a formal work place type of email you are referring to Chris?

TT

TT, no it applies to any email I receive, surely the writer of the email can take the time to either use the recipient's name or use "hallo" or something else besides "hey mate". The courtesies of this world are slowly being eroded but I am a cranky old fart so perhaps it is just me. Do they still teach GRAMMAR at school within the English subject curriculum? Another pet peeve is Microsoft's dictionary trying to correct the use of "s" in words and insisting it should be "z" when posting on line. I could really get on my soap box so I had best leave it there as I have been told many times what does it matter if a person can't spell or construct sentences so they may be read. I do notice that as I get older my skills in constructing sentences and using the correct punctuation are rapidly going down hill so perhaps I should not be too critical of others.