GENERAL SPELLING ANNOUNCEMENT- Page 3

[CJR]

re: re: re: general spelling announcement#50

Posted: 11/9/03 at 8:01pm

OMG ARGHHHHHHHH!!!! I haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaate conversate!!!!!

damn the person who ever said that to begin with.

I also can't stand it when someone ends their sentance in a preposition -- ie: where you be at? -- there is something so wrong with that WHOLE sentance. Doesn't anyone remember their Schoolhouse Rock!?

*breathe*

I'm okay, really I am... lol

"You're every gay man's wet dream!" ~ MA

If in Heaven you don't excel, you can always party down in hell...

[DofB5]

general spelling announcement#51

Posted: 11/9/03 at 8:10pm

Interjection! Shows excitement or emotion. Separated from a sentance by an exclamion point or by a comma when the feelings not that strong. So when your happy or sad or excited or mad, an interjection starts the sentence right.

That’s the only School House Rock I really remember.

D

[StinKer Roadmann]

re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: GENERAL SPELLING ANNOUN#52

Posted: 11/9/03 at 8:13pm

It irritates me when people make up words!! Conversate is a perfect example!!! GRR!! You have a CONVERSATION or you CONVERSE...and on that topic, "spelt" isn't a word. It should be "spelled". K that's all lol

"I'm sorry, you must've mistaken me for somebody else. My name is Anastasia Beaverhausen."

[Unknown User]

re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: GENERAL SPELLING ANNOUN#53

Posted: 11/9/03 at 8:20pm

While you're at it...

To ask someone... is not the same as...to axe someone.


Cheers! Updated On: 11/9/03 at 08:20 PM

[CJR]

GENERAL SPELLING ANNOUN#54

Posted: 11/9/03 at 8:24pm

I also have to add, on a personal note, that I can't stand it when my mother says "cousint" and not "cousin". Drives me up a freaking wall.

Woo DofB5 for remembering Schoolhouse Rock. I LOOOOOOVE Schoolhouse Rock!

"You're every gay man's wet dream!" ~ MA

If in Heaven you don't excel, you can always party down in hell...

[Sally]

re: re: re: re: general spelling announcement#55

Posted: 11/10/03 at 1:45am

"I also can't stand it when someone ends their sentance in a preposition -- ie: where you be at? -- there is something so wrong with that WHOLE sentance."

I don know where you be at, but this &8#% about never endin no sentences wid a proposition be nonsense up wid which I will not put.

[CJR]

re: re: re: re: re: general spelling announcement#56

Posted: 11/10/03 at 2:20am

HAHHAHA ROTFLMAO!

"You're every gay man's wet dream!" ~ MA

If in Heaven you don't excel, you can always party down in hell...

[lc1965]

re: GENERAL SPELLING ANNOUNCEMENT#57

Posted: 11/10/03 at 10:08am

Ohmystars, I LOVE this thread. But, it's bad grammar that drives me batty every bit as much as spelling. Please note that "unique" means "one of a kind". Nothing can be "very unique", but it can be "very unusual". (Saaaaay, do periods go inside or outside the quotation marks?) And, don't use "literally" when it's not, please, as in, for example, "literally eating her words" -- because you can't literally eat your words unless you ingest the paper on which said words are written. There! I feel so much better now. Thanks.

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[Unknown User]

re: re: GENERAL SPELLING ANNOUNCEMENT#58

Posted: 11/10/03 at 10:11am

Maybe somehow, somewhere.. Rob can figure out if there is a way to spellcheck. That would be nice. I am the worlds wurst speler and I would hate to be citiseized for my bad grammer.

[Sally]

periods and commas, more than you wanted to know#59

Posted: 11/10/03 at 1:49pm

Put commas and periods within closing quotation marks, except when a parenthetical reference follows the quotation.

He said, "I may forget your name, but I never remember a face."

History is stained with blood spilled in the name of "civilization."

Mullen, criticizing the apparent inaction, writes, "Donahue's policy was to do nothing"
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From another source:
In the United States, periods and commas go inside quotation marks regardless of logic.

In the United Kingdom, Canada, and islands under the influence of British education, punctuation around quotation marks is more apt to follow logic. In American style, then, you would write: My favorite poem is Robert Frost's "Design." But in England you would write: My favorite poem is Robert Frost's "Design".

There are more complications, but aren't there always.

[dededarlin]

re: periods and commas, more than you wanted to know#60

Posted: 11/11/03 at 12:59am

Ya'll....does it really matter that much? ok, so people don't use correct English or spelling...i guess i just don't see what the big deal is. who really cares? it is quite amusing though! just a thought.

[alterego]

re: re: periods and commas, more than you wanted to know#61

Posted: 11/11/03 at 8:32am

Then there is the issue of capital letters, dededarlin.

[orion59]

re: re: re: periods and commas, more than you wanted to know#62

Posted: 11/11/03 at 9:41am

I was just thinking that all yous who complain about spelling and grammer is just to anal retentive. If a person's is able to conversate clear and yous know what their saying, why does it matter if a few words are mispelled? Soma us are logging in at work and need to type realy fast and make typos and that looks like bad spelling but it really ain't because it's just that you want to make acomment but need to get back to your work so youre making mistakes but it don't mean you don't how to spell right.

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[DofB5]

re: re: re: re: periods and commas, more than you wanted to know#63

Posted: 11/11/03 at 10:34am

I'm not getting into this one again. I've already made my thoughts known on the importance of communication vs spelling/grammar. And not while your at work.

D

[sparky310]

re: GENERAL SPELLING ANNOUNCEMENT#64

Posted: 11/11/03 at 10:50am

i dont think anyone asked for you to play school marm and correct peoples spelling..so climb down off the cross someone else needs the wood

[King Stevos]

re: re: GENERAL SPELLING ANNOUNCEMENT#65

Posted: 11/11/03 at 11:58am

The only thing that gets on my nerves is when people use Elipses and decide to go on forever....................................................................................................................................................................................... <------ just an over amplified example... It's three dots people! sigh... People think that the longer the elipses the longer the thought is conveyed. Not True.

STEVOS

"IF I TRY THERE MAY BE A CHANCE / WE COULD LOVE WITH OUR EYES CLOSED/ WITH OUR EYES CLOSED WE COULD CHANGE THE WORLD!"- Stephen Dwight

[orion59]

re: re: re: GENERAL SPELLING ANNOUNCEMENT#66

Posted: 11/11/03 at 12:33pm

http://www.danperezgallery.com

Updated On: 11/11/03 at 12:33 PM

[TxTwoStep]

re: re: re: re: GENERAL SPELLING ANNOUNCEMENT#67

Posted: 11/11/03 at 3:24pm

i'm guilty of the WWW-spawned one-word abbreviations and lack of capital letters...i do realize it's just a couple of more letters, but somehow it appears informal (thanx) and also when U multi-task at work (in chat rooms) it helps a bit. i do tend to get a little more formal in actual postings, however.

Will: They don't give out awards for helping people be gay... unless you count the Tonys. "I guarantee that we'll have tough times. I guarantee that at some point one or both of us will want to get out. But I also guarantee that if I don't ask you to be mine, I'll regret it for the rest of my life..."

[TheaterBaby]

re: re: re: re: re: GENERAL SPELLING ANNOUNCEMENT#68

Posted: 11/11/03 at 4:15pm

OMG, the preposition thing gets me too!
Everytime I hear, "Where you at?" I feel like my IQ has dropped about 20 points.

Remember people:
If you can still ask a question from the question that was asked, then the original question probably ended in a preposition.

"It's the little things; the details, that distinguish the Barbra Streisands from the Rosalyn Kinds."~Gilmore Girls~

[TxTwoStep]

re: re: re: re: re: re: GENERAL SPELLING ANNOUNCEMENT#69

Posted: 11/11/03 at 4:27pm

watch out for regionalisms...in New Orleans, "where y'at?" is an expression much like "get outta town" for NYC.

As for the words which are spell-alike/sound-alike (i know the latter is homonym, not sure of the former) you can add for me the verb "advise" and the noun "advice." i see the former used in place of the latter a lot, even in the NY Times.

And they say all the music programs in public school have been being cut for more concentration on English reading and writing!

Will: They don't give out awards for helping people be gay... unless you count the Tonys. "I guarantee that we'll have tough times. I guarantee that at some point one or both of us will want to get out. But I also guarantee that if I don't ask you to be mine, I'll regret it for the rest of my life..."

[Sally]

re: re: re: re: re: re: GENERAL SPELLING ANNOUNCEMENT#70

Posted: 11/11/03 at 8:43pm

"Remember people:
If you can still ask a question from the question that was asked, then the original question probably ended in a preposition. "

Say what?

[RobbO]

re: re: re: re: re: re: re: GENERAL SPELLING ANNOUNCEMENT#71

Posted: 11/12/03 at 11:50am

for the last time, it is spelled JUDGMENT, not judgement!!

XING
PED

[SonofMammaMiaSam]

re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: GENERAL SPELLING ANNOUNCEMENT#72

Posted: 11/12/03 at 11:56am

Eye donut kneed two spel write cuz iz purty

[TxTwoStep]

re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: GENERAL SPELLING ANNOUNCEMENT#73

Posted: 11/12/03 at 5:56pm

another way to correct someone gently is to restate the subject in your post and use or spell the term correctly, hoping they will catch on. It can be a lot friendlier than "calling them out"....

Will: They don't give out awards for helping people be gay... unless you count the Tonys. "I guarantee that we'll have tough times. I guarantee that at some point one or both of us will want to get out. But I also guarantee that if I don't ask you to be mine, I'll regret it for the rest of my life..."

[mamamia sammy]

re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: GENERAL SPELLING ANNOUNCEMENT#74

Posted: 11/12/03 at 5:58pm

Thanks for the tip Miss Manners. I'll keep it in mind.

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