omg nige, full circle, the tard-er becomes the tard-ee

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"

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.

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)

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