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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Manners maketh man, the basic tenants of grammar allow for the true meaning to be conveyed; misunderstandings and even serious acrimony has fallen out off of a misplaced comma.
That's proper England that is. |
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"Just received a message full of words which still had all of their vowels intact, and were accompanied by lots of beautifully placed punctuation. Oooh, Ihad to sit down quickly.  "
Same thing happened to me last week. I was in shock for days. Met the writer at the weekend, still in shock, and the irony: English is not his first or second language! |
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"Just received a message full of words which still had all of their vowels intact, and were accompanied by lots of beautifully placed punctuation. Oooh, Ihad to sit down quickly.
Same thing happened to me last week. I was in shock for days. Met the writer at the weekend, still in shock, and the irony: English is not his first or second language! "
I can't imagine you shocked  |
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"Manners maketh man, the basic tenants of grammar allow for the true meaning to be conveyed; misunderstandings and even serious acrimony has fallen out off of a misplaced comma.
That's proper England that is."
"Tenants of grammar"..sounds very amusing....do you mean "tenets of grammar"  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Just received a message full of words which still had all of their vowels intact, and were accompanied by lots of beautifully placed punctuation. Oooh, Ihad to sit down quickly. "
I can do better than that my spelling is alway right as its the way I spell it  |
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"I like to use apostrophe's correctly.
...and that is a good example of misuse of an apostrophe.
I thought it was a good example of irony. "
There were no "irony" icons which led me to believe it was a serious post |
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By *plankyMan
over a year ago
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"I like to use apostrophe's correctly.
...and that is a good example of misuse of an apostrophe.
I thought it was a good example of irony.
There were no "irony" icons which led me to believe it was a serious post "
Did you want me to spell it out for you?
        
I do sarcasm when the irony is lost on people.
Which one's the sarcasm icon?
I'm not an expert on icony.  |
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By *plankyMan
over a year ago
Beeston |
"I like to use apostrophe's correctly.
...and that is a good example of misuse of an apostrophe.
I thought it was a good example of irony.
There were no "irony" icons which led me to believe it was a serious post "
Did you want me to spell it out for you?
I do sarcasm when the irony is lost on people.
Which one's the sarcasm icon?
I'm not an expert on icony. |
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"I like to use apostrophe's correctly.
...and that is a good example of misuse of an apostrophe.
I thought it was a good example of irony.
There were no "irony" icons which led me to believe it was a serious post
Did you want me to spell it out for you?
I do sarcasm when the irony is lost on people.
Which one's the sarcasm icon?
I'm not an expert on icony. "
So good you had to say it twice....  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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This is one of the things I have totally changed my mind on. It used to bother me. It still grinds, I can't help that it's the way I am.
But it really doesn't matter to me anymore. Lovely fantastic brilliant people can't spell and/ or punctuate. I still like them. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"This is one of the things I have totally changed my mind on. It used to bother me. It still grinds, I can't help that it's the way I am.
But it really doesn't matter to me anymore. Lovely fantastic brilliant people can't spell and/ or punctuate. I still like them. "
So glad we won you over now theres one more thing now you can relax and enjoy the spelling mistakes sometime they do make for fun reading |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I do paragraphing as well.
jesus, how long are your messages? lol"
...i do tend to ramble on. I can't stop myself, i have too much time on my hands lol. I can chat for the whole of England lol
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"Manners maketh man, the basic tenants of grammar allow for the true meaning to be conveyed; misunderstandings and even serious acrimony has fallen out off of a misplaced comma.
That's proper England that is."
Incorrect. Too many commas and not enough full stops |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Manners maketh man, the basic tenants of grammar allow for the true meaning to be conveyed; misunderstandings and even serious acrimony has fallen out off of a misplaced comma.
That's proper England that is.
Incorrect. Too many commas and not enough full stops"
Really? So who decides on the rules?
Although tenants/tenet is a bit of an issue. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"If we were all ment to be perfect why did we get prodictive txting
to help us spell predictive right maybe? "
What does it really work as mine sure dont or is it dependant on your location |
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"Manners maketh man, the basic tenants of grammar allow for the true meaning to be conveyed; misunderstandings and even serious acrimony has fallen out off of a misplaced comma.
That's proper England that is.
Incorrect. Too many commas and not enough full stops
Really? So who decides on the rules?
Although tenants/tenet is a bit of an issue."
Manners maketh the man. The basic tenet of grammar allows for the true meaning to be conveyed. Misunderstandings, and even serious acrimony, have fallen out of a misplaced comma. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Manners maketh man, the basic tenants of grammar allow for the true meaning to be conveyed; misunderstandings and even serious acrimony has fallen out off of a misplaced comma.
That's proper England that is.
Incorrect. Too many commas and not enough full stops
Really? So who decides on the rules?
Although tenants/tenet is a bit of an issue.
Manners maketh the man. The basic tenet of grammar allows for the true meaning to be conveyed. Misunderstandings, and even serious acrimony, have fallen out of a misplaced comma."
You can rearrange it however you like, it's still largely bollocks and doesn't answer my question - who decides on the rules? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"*groan
Where's 2innotts? I can feel a game of Hangman coming on. "
How about you do that and I'll go and talk about the use of the tilde in the 'kiss, fuck and run' posts you like so much?
Alternatively you could try resisting the threads you don't like. |
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By *Ryan-Man
over a year ago
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"*groan
Where's 2innotts? I can feel a game of Hangman coming on.
How about you do that and I'll go and talk about the use of the tilde in the 'kiss, fuck and run' posts you like so much?
Alternatively you could try resisting the threads you don't like."
That's very kind of you. Try not to get them running too quickly though. |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound |
"but alas , spelling is still lacking 
I normally go " weak" at the knees
Oops, I really shouldn't post messages late at night. "
I have just seen it. I had a message like that too. I went all unnecessary and replied. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I had a message with 124 words in it yet not a single capital or punctuation mark and 17 misspelt words. Had to copy and paste it into Word so it could be cut up, corrected in order to be understood. |
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By *nnyMan
over a year ago
Glasgow |
"I like to use apostrophe's correctly.
...and that is a good example of misuse of an apostrophe.
I thought it was a good example of irony. "
I thought you were practising to be a greengrocer. |
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By *nnyMan
over a year ago
Glasgow |
"I had a message with 124 words in it yet not a single capital or punctuation mark and 17 misspelt words. Had to copy and paste it into Word so it could be cut up, corrected in order to be understood. "
I doubt I could be arsed. Delete. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I had a message with 124 words in it yet not a single capital or punctuation mark and 17 misspelt words. Had to copy and paste it into Word so it could be cut up, corrected in order to be understood. "
And...? Did the result make you champ at the bit? |
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By *B9 QueenWoman
over a year ago
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"I had a message with 124 words in it yet not a single capital or punctuation mark and 17 misspelt words. Had to copy and paste it into Word so it could be cut up, corrected in order to be understood. "
I wouldn't have bothered. |
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By *londeCazWoman
over a year ago
Arse End of the Universe, Cumbria |
Like others, I wince at bad spelling, grammar and punctuation (I'm still in therapy over a misplaced apostrophe I once put in a "Would you give my boyfriend's sister ANEL" back in 2011 (October 21st, I think)). However, if the messagee has taken the time to read my profile and send a joke along with their message then I reply and ignore the typos. I don't usually bother commenting on errors in forum threads on spelling (unless someone's being arsey). I do struggle with txt spk that also isn't punctuated - seldom bother deciphering as generally those sort of messages don't include a joke so get deleted straight off. |
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