GENERAL SPELLING ANNOUNCEMENT- Page 3

[CJR]

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

[DofB5]

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]

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

[Unknown User]

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]

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!

[Sally]

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]

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

HAHHAHA ROTFLMAO!

[lc1965]

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.

[Unknown User]

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]

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]

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]

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

Then there is the issue of capital letters, dededarlin.

[orion59]

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.

[DofB5]

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]

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]

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

[orion59]

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

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

[TxTwoStep]

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.

[TheaterBaby]

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.

[TxTwoStep]

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!

[Sally]

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]

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

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

[SonofMammaMiaSam]

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

Eye donut kneed two spel write cuz iz purty

[TxTwoStep]

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"....

[mamamia sammy]

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

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