Having to spend most of my time talking to Nigel on msn, and no matter how much I correct him, he still says havnt instead of havent
so how do you guys spell it? Because it seriously does my head in!
Weve been over this. Its a habitual but poor lazy typing habit.
The same way I always end up typing Regards ans Reagrds and half the time never spot to correct it.
How long will it be before someone posts that thing about being able to read sentences with jumbled letters so long as the first and last letters are correct?
Surely you are both wrong and should not be using contractions at all. I think they are called contractions anyway, and so it should be "Have not" rather than the lazy "havent" :P
I will admit to being into the battletech/mechwars stuff a little too much when I was younger and tried my hardest to follow the "clanners" way of speaking by not using contractions ><
sometimes saying have not just doesnt sound right... plus, I just really can not be arsed (:
Cannot is also a word :P
I am often accused of mumbling. I am a bit self conscious of my boring voice so tend to talk quietly. I do find though that when I remember to, not using contractions helps me pronounce my words better and people less often ask me to repeat myself :D
I speak rather quickly though, so saying things like cant havent etc just make it easier (:
Data cannot use contractions because he is an android.
I dont quite understand that, but there you go.
I didnt realise queens English was a requirement of msn chat -)
I think I might write a note for the milkman tomorrow, now wheres my calligraphy set... :lol:
Im down south now, they all harp on about Queens English. I have to keep pointing out that there are no redundant Rs preceeeding As in everything they pronouce.
Quote from: Clockd 0NeIm down south now, they all harp on about Queens English. I have to keep pointing out that there are no redundant Rs preceeeding As in everything they pronouce.
Im down south and my colleagues cant understand me, how nice is that.
if you search for havnt on google. The 2nd result is for the Virginity Project, which Im just not going to click on. :heehaw:
I say havnt, didnt honestly realise it had an "e" in it so will try and start using it.
I personally hate people that abreviate words like "thanks" to "tks" at the end of an email.
Quote from: mr_rollif you search for havnt on google. The 2nd result is for the Virginity Project, which Im just not going to click on. :heehaw:
I say havnt, didnt honestly realise it had an "e" in it so will try and start using it.
I personally hate people that abreviate words like "thanks" to "tks" at the end of an email.
"ta" would be better :)
tk means teamkilling to me
We dont all insist on using recieved pronounciation, its just the way Southerners talk.
So heres a question, do we add the r or do the northerners take it away? (: (why do I feel like Ill be out numbered on this?)
And its only because selling mistakes really annoy me, just like text speak. It makes me want to sratch their eyes out. And Im not kidding
What, like recieved :lol
None of the above is as annoying as the increasing misuse of the apostrophe everywhere, people put it in like seasoning.
omg nige, full circle, the tard-er becomes the tard-ee
:p
Misuse of apostrophes and the simple [lack of] understanding of when there, their and theyre is apppropriate is far more annoying than what are obvious typing errors.
Loose and lose grates me the most though I have to say.
Nigel, sod off is it a mistake or laziness YOU SPELL IT WRONG EVERY TIME!!
Okay, so I always used to spell sandwich wrong, but I realised my mistake. You on the other hand, no matter how much I tell you that youre wrong, you still spell it wrong!!!
Maybe Ive given up on caring. Caring about the number of dots used in ellipses, or the overuse of exclamation marks. Caring about the grim spectacle of text speak taking over, washing our language effortlessly away and leaving deposits of poor spelling, grammar and punctuation. Caring about the cat I nearly ran over earlier today. Caring for this life. Caring for humanity and this world. Caring about the threat of terrorism and potential nuclear holocausts. Caring about the ozone layer or my carbon footprint. Caring about famine, violence and disease in the third world. Caring about pandemics and the higher order of possible extinction level events potentially threatening our planet.
Or maybe its just a missing e and you should stop stressing about it so much?
Quote from: zpyderHow long will it be before someone posts that thing about being able to read sentences with jumbled letters so long as the first and last letters are correct?
Surely you are both wrong and should not be using contractions at all. I think they are called contractions anyway, and so it should be "Have not" rather than the lazy "havent" :P
I will admit to being into the battletech/mechwars stuff a little too much when I was younger and tried my hardest to follow the "clanners" way of speaking by not using contractions ><
Contractions are part of language, try having a conversation without them. When writing the result is often stilted and poor with the words written out in full as that isnt the way its used in real life.
Havent is correct. However, despite being serious I wouldnt try and correct people using an online chat system, you get far too many typos anyway to bother.
Quote from: Clockd 0NeMaybe Ive given up on caring. Caring about the number of dots used in ellipses, or the overuse of exclamation marks. Caring about the grim spectacle of text speak taking over, washing our language effortlessly away and leaving deposits of poor spelling, grammar and punctuation. Caring about the cat I nearly ran over earlier today. Caring for this life. Caring for humanity and this world. Caring about the threat of terrorism and potential nuclear holocausts. Caring about the ozone layer or my carbon footprint. Caring about famine, violence and disease in the third world. Caring about pandemics and the higher order of possible extinction level events potentially threatening our planet.
Or maybe its just a missing e and you should stop stressing about it so much?
I think hes looesing it. ;) :heehaw: :lol:
Thought Id say, that last topic reply was a joke.
Im reserving the right to be a hypocrite here since we all do the odd thing incorrectly, but a funny one that has really started to get on my tits for no reason other than Im intolerably stroppy is the correct use of "I" and "me".
"Joe Bloggs and me are going out".
No no no!
"Joe Bloggs and I are going out".
Better. Now I smile.
Another thing I have noticed with increasing frequency on the news and in media in general is peoples inability to pronounce "nuclear". No you f**king halfwits, it isnt NU-CU-LAR or NU-CU-LER, its NU-CLEAR. Read it before you say it. Stop stealing all of the Us and inserting them into random places. They feel abused and unloved, and its all YOUR FAULT.
One other thing that I have wondered about is when people started to develop random blindness looking at calendars and dropped the "R" from the middle of "February". Dissimilation be damned, its FEB-RU-ARY, not FEB-U-ARY.
Quote from: Chris HAnother thing I have noticed with increasing frequency on the news and in media in general is peoples inability to pronounce "nuclear". No you f**king halfwits, it isnt NU-CU-LAR or NU-CU-LER, its NU-CLEAR. Read it before you say it. Stop stealing all of the Us and inserting them into random places. They feel abused and unloved, and its all YOUR FAULT.
Tbh if you were a u and were inserted in a random place youd feel abused too.
As to the north/south divide, I was born in Stockton-On-Tees but my family moved down here when I was 18 months. So Im a northerner by blood but technically a Southerner. I still occasionally say things the proper way though (the northern way) and on the occasion its picked up on, or I overhear someone having a go at another northerner, I point out the phonetic alphabet as taught in primary school.
(dunno if this will work by text) but I just say "ah, burr, chu, not arrr, burrr, churr" usually shuts them up.
Having just watched the cat drinking from faucet video thread, its reminded me just how much I hate lolspeak. I think I hate lolspeakers more than chavs.
Quote from: zpyderHaving just watched the cat drinking from faucet video thread, its reminded me just how much I hate lolspeak. I think I hate lolspeakers more than chavs.
Some nice reading here to get your blood pressure up:
http://icanhascheezburger.com/2009/09/30/funny-pictures-daisy-the-destroyer/#comments
Dont get me started ><
And than you got me doing al sorts of grammatical, spelling
and other faults :)
Wow, Im afraid of what Ive created now.
Nigel should know I have nothing against Northerners, my dad and his whole family are from the North/Scotland/...France =\ But, things like graaaaass and baaaaaaath just annoy me, because Ive spent 16 years growing up somewhere where its pronounced how I say it. Even my friend whos originally from Norfolk pronounces things the way southerners do.
And Nigel, that cat is f**king suicidle, if its the one I think youre on about. I refuse to let my children grow up in a world where people cant pronounce the word bath properly!!
And dont worry Chris, I get annoyed when people cant say February correctly. Its a sad day when a 16 year old girl tries telling you theres only one r in that word. I feel the education system is failing us all ): (to be fair though, that girl is a dumb sh*t, and I dont believe she has dyslexia, she is just as thick as a plank. she doesnt even have good looks to fall back on)
QuoteAnd dont worry Chris, I get annoyed when people cant say February correctly. Its a sad day when a 16 year old girl tries telling you theres only one r in that word. I feel the education system is failing us all ): (to be fair though, that girl is a dumb sh*t, and I dont believe she has dyslexia, she is just as thick as a plank. she doesnt even have good looks to fall back on)
I like you. Have a cookie. :thumbup:
Quote from: BeanissocoollikeAnd Nigel, that cat is f**king suicidle, if its the one I think youre on about. I refuse to let my children grow up in a world where people cant pronounce the word bath properly!!
You mean ba
rth?
yay!!! *claps*
see Nigel, at least someone is nice to me when Im ill!
Quote from: Clockd 0NeQuote from: BeanissocoollikeAnd Nigel, that cat is f**king suicidle, if its the one I think youre on about. I refuse to let my children grow up in a world where people cant pronounce the word bath properly!!
You mean barth?
F*** off coont
Quote from: Chris HQuoteAnd dont worry Chris, I get annoyed when people cant say February correctly. Its a sad day when a 16 year old girl tries telling you theres only one r in that word. I feel the education system is failing us all ): (to be fair though, that girl is a dumb sh*t, and I dont believe she has dyslexia, she is just as thick as a plank. she doesnt even have good looks to fall back on)
I like you. Have a cookie. :thumbup:
troll feeder.
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And you get at him for saying the word wrong?
Quote from: Chris HAnother thing I have noticed with increasing frequency on the news and in media in general is peoples inability to pronounce "nuclear". No you f**king halfwits, it isnt NU-CU-LAR or NU-CU-LER, its NU-CLEAR. Read it before you say it. Stop stealing all of the Us and inserting them into random places. They feel abused and unloved, and its all YOUR FAULT.
I think pronunciation is in the eye of the beholder. Who is to say youre right and him wrong.
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And you get at him for saying the word wrong?
I had to say that because Nigel doesnt like me swearing on here. Plus, after my random outburst of the word in one of the college cafés, Ive been banned from saying it by my friends. (:
So coont it is :D
Yep but its stuck between two options, either hes a female sexual organ or hes a very well tanned person... Cnut is a better way of putting the first.
I shall bear that in mind (:
And he isnt just a female sexual organ. He has one too (:
That would make him a dick head. He has a penis not a vagina.
One of my teachers back at school knew the definition of every swear word or action we could come up with, along with the origins of many.