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By *cankeep OP Man
over a year ago
Norwich |
People saying forfill when they mean fulfill. Like "I want to forfill a fantasy". No! It's "I want to fulfil a fantasy"!
Not even a spelling mistake, they're using a non-existent word!
Any other small things that drive you irrationally nuts?!
Right, I'm now off outside to get myself a life... lol
(Unless anyone wants to argue over whether the Subject should have a possessive apostrophe or not... Private Eye did that one to death a few years ago!) |
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over a year ago
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"People saying forfill when they mean fulfill. Like "I want to forfill a fantasy". No! It's "I want to fulfil a fantasy"!
Not even a spelling mistake, they're using a non-existent word!
Any other small things that drive you irrationally nuts?!
Right, I'm now off outside to get myself a life... lol
(Unless anyone wants to argue over whether the Subject should have a possessive apostrophe or not... Private Eye did that one to death a few years ago!)"
Shoodnut their ave bin an fill step arfter tha lol ? |
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By *ackspopCouple
over a year ago
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I very much like reading the stories and fantasies section and sometimes the quality of the syntax and grammar is eye wateringly bad. Pretty much any sort of input device whether computer, tablet or phone has inbuilt spell checking. Why does it seem to be an optional extra for so many posts? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"It annoys the hell out of me! Although saying that, I once misspelled 'stolen' as 'stollen' and the amount of abuse I got... Jeez  "
a case of having your cake and wanting to eat it |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"People saying forfill when they mean fulfill. Like "I want to forfill a fantasy". No! It's "I want to fulfil a fantasy"!
Not even a spelling mistake, they're using a non-existent word!
Any other small things that drive you irrationally nuts?!
Right, I'm now off outside to get myself a life... lol
(Unless anyone wants to argue over whether the Subject should have a possessive apostrophe or not... Private Eye did that one to death a few years ago!)"
You did manage to spell "fulfil" imcorrectly once within that post, you know. It only has one "l," not two... |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"People saying forfill when they mean fulfill. Like "I want to forfill a fantasy". No! It's "I want to fulfil a fantasy"!
Not even a spelling mistake, they're using a non-existent word!
Any other small things that drive you irrationally nuts?!
Right, I'm now off outside to get myself a life... lol
(Unless anyone wants to argue over whether the Subject should have a possessive apostrophe or not... Private Eye did that one to death a few years ago!)
You did manage to spell "fulfil" imcorrectly once within that post, you know. It only has one "l," not two..."
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By *ordgirlWoman
over a year ago
Stockport |
"People saying forfill when they mean fulfill. Like "I want to forfill a fantasy". No! It's "I want to fulfil a fantasy"!
Not even a spelling mistake, they're using a non-existent word!
Any other small things that drive you irrationally nuts?!
Right, I'm now off outside to get myself a life... lol
(Unless anyone wants to argue over whether the Subject should have a possessive apostrophe or not... Private Eye did that one to death a few years ago!)"
Don't get me started! People who don't know the difference between you're and your ... they're/there/their, should of instead of should HAVE, drives me nuts. I should get out more too ...  |
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By *cankeep OP Man
over a year ago
Norwich |
"People saying forfill when they mean fulfill. Like "I want to forfill a fantasy". No! It's "I want to fulfil a fantasy"!
Not even a spelling mistake, they're using a non-existent word!
Any other small things that drive you irrationally nuts?!
Right, I'm now off outside to get myself a life... lol
(Unless anyone wants to argue over whether the Subject should have a possessive apostrophe or not... Private Eye did that one to death a few years ago!)
You did manage to spell "fulfil" imcorrectly once within that post, you know. It only has one "l," not two...
* At the end"
Well caught 
Annoyingly, I *know* it's got only one 'l' at the end and I still typed two of them. Gah!
Hoist by my own petard...  |
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By *cankeep OP Man
over a year ago
Norwich |
"People saying forfill when they mean fulfill. Like "I want to forfill a fantasy". No! It's "I want to fulfil a fantasy"!
Not even a spelling mistake, they're using a non-existent word!
Any other small things that drive you irrationally nuts?!
Right, I'm now off outside to get myself a life... lol
(Unless anyone wants to argue over whether the Subject should have a possessive apostrophe or not... Private Eye did that one to death a few years ago!)
Don't get me started! People who don't know the difference between you're and your ... they're/there/their, should of instead of should HAVE, drives me nuts. I should get out more too ... "
'should of' - indeed that's another that annoying me more than it should, cos I know what they mean!
Another is "How's you?" I reply "I is fine thanks, how is you?" Never get anything back...  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"People saying forfill when they mean fulfill. Like "I want to forfill a fantasy". No! It's "I want to fulfil a fantasy"!
Not even a spelling mistake, they're using a non-existent word!
Any other small things that drive you irrationally nuts?!
Right, I'm now off outside to get myself a life... lol
(Unless anyone wants to argue over whether the Subject should have a possessive apostrophe or not... Private Eye did that one to death a few years ago!)
You did manage to spell "fulfil" imcorrectly once within that post, you know. It only has one "l," not two...
* At the end
Well caught
Annoyingly, I *know* it's got only one 'l' at the end and I still typed two of them. Gah!
Hoist by my own petard... "
Ha ha that's the thing though - thinking about a wrongly spelt word while trying to write it correctly - is befuddling!
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"If you're going to start a thread called Pedants Corner you should at least spell the thread title correctly!
It's Pedants' Corner....
you're welcome "
I don't want to be pedantic, but he addressed that  |
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By *cankeep OP Man
over a year ago
Norwich |
"If you're going to start a thread called Pedants Corner you should at least spell the thread title correctly!
It's Pedants' Corner....
you're welcome "
I refer the gentleman to Private Eye a few years ago where an argument raged for weeks over the apostrophe in the word Pedant's / Pedants' / Pedants corner... lol Never did come to a conclusion from what I recall! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"If you're going to start a thread called Pedants Corner you should at least spell the thread title correctly!
It's Pedants' Corner....
you're welcome
I refer the gentleman to Private Eye a few years ago where an argument raged for weeks over the apostrophe in the word Pedant's / Pedants' / Pedants corner... lol Never did come to a conclusion from what I recall!"
I can see how one could make a case for either Pedant's or Pedants' - but struggling to see how Pedants makes sense... happy to be corrected though (grammatically, that is, not in a sub-dom way!)
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By *cankeep OP Man
over a year ago
Norwich |
"If you're going to start a thread called Pedants Corner you should at least spell the thread title correctly!
It's Pedants' Corner....
you're welcome
I refer the gentleman to Private Eye a few years ago where an argument raged for weeks over the apostrophe in the word Pedant's / Pedants' / Pedants corner... lol Never did come to a conclusion from what I recall!
I can see how one could make a case for either Pedant's or Pedants' - but struggling to see how Pedants makes sense... happy to be corrected though (grammatically, that is, not in a sub-dom way!)
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Pedants meaning plural of pedant. This is a place (corner) where one would find more than one pedant... as if!
I'm just waiting for someone to misread the title and to make a Yewtree-stylee reference and then there'll be trouble (people with pitchforks outside my front door...)... that'd then stop me from going out to get a life  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The latest one, caught one of my cousins doing it on facebook the other day is using 'your' instead of 'you'll'
Example 'It's ok, your be fine'
Arrrrgggghhh
Learn FUCKING english!!!!
Are instead of Our.
He's instead of his and vice versa.
I suppose the reason it bothers me is that we're taught these things in primary school.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"'Pacific' or 'pacifically' instead of 'specific/ally' - guaranteed way to make me go full Hulk mode
I 'brought' something instead of 'bought' ditto "
I don't mind much, but Pacific/specific gets me. I think it's literally the only one. No, you don't have a Pacific problem unless you're in the bloody ocean and something is killing you, or alternatively you're drowning. Even then, it must be in the Pacific Ocean.
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"'Pacific' or 'pacifically' instead of 'specific/ally' - guaranteed way to make me go full Hulk mode
I 'brought' something instead of 'bought' ditto
I don't mind much, but Pacific/specific gets me. I think it's literally the only one. No, you don't have a Pacific problem unless you're in the bloody ocean and something is killing you, or alternatively you're drowning. Even then, it must be in the Pacific Ocean.
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I laughed way too much at this! |
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By *vsnikkiTV/TS
over a year ago
Limavady |
"People saying forfill when they mean fulfill. Like "I want to forfill a fantasy". No! It's "I want to fulfil a fantasy"!
Not even a spelling mistake, they're using a non-existent word!
Any other small things that drive you irrationally nuts?!
Right, I'm now off outside to get myself a life... lol
(Unless anyone wants to argue over whether the Subject should have a possessive apostrophe or not... Private Eye did that one to death a few years ago!)"
It's really frustrating when people split infinitives. Eg to boldly go (instead of to go boldly)
Or even
I'm now off (as above) rather than I'm off now.
No, I don't care but if you're going to slag off others, make sure your own grammar is correct! |
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By *cankeep OP Man
over a year ago
Norwich |
"People saying forfill when they mean fulfill. Like "I want to forfill a fantasy". No! It's "I want to fulfil a fantasy"!
Not even a spelling mistake, they're using a non-existent word!
Any other small things that drive you irrationally nuts?!
Right, I'm now off outside to get myself a life... lol
(Unless anyone wants to argue over whether the Subject should have a possessive apostrophe or not... Private Eye did that one to death a few years ago!)
It's really frustrating when people split infinitives. Eg to boldly go (instead of to go boldly)
Or even
I'm now off (as above) rather than I'm off now.
No, I don't care but if you're going to slag off others, make sure your own grammar is correct!"
I stand corrected  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"People saying forfill when they mean fulfill. Like "I want to forfill a fantasy". No! It's "I want to fulfil a fantasy"!
Not even a spelling mistake, they're using a non-existent word!
Any other small things that drive you irrationally nuts?!
Right, I'm now off outside to get myself a life... lol
(Unless anyone wants to argue over whether the Subject should have a possessive apostrophe or not... Private Eye did that one to death a few years ago!)
It's really frustrating when people split infinitives. Eg to boldly go (instead of to go boldly)
Or even
I'm now off (as above) rather than I'm off now.
No, I don't care but if you're going to slag off others, make sure your own grammar is correct!"
You know that a whole book has been written showing that it is quite acceptable to split infinitives? Star Trek fans are vindicated at last. |
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By *vsnikkiTV/TS
over a year ago
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You know that a whole book has been written showing that it is quite acceptable to split infinitives? Star Trek fans are vindicated at last."
As Winston Churchill said about Britain and the USA.
"Two nations, separated by a common language." |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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You know that a whole book has been written showing that it is quite acceptable to split infinitives? Star Trek fans are vindicated at last.
As Winston Churchill said about Britain and the USA.
"Two nations, separated by a common language.""
There is a whole Wiki article on split infinitives. The conclusion is that most modern authorities do not object to them. |
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By *vsnikkiTV/TS
over a year ago
Limavady |
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You know that a whole book has been written showing that it is quite acceptable to split infinitives? Star Trek fans are vindicated at last.
As Winston Churchill said about Britain and the USA.
"Two nations, separated by a common language."
There is a whole Wiki article on split infinitives. The conclusion is that most modern authorities do not object to them."
It's not likely that anyone would describe me as either modern or as an authority! |
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By *cankeep OP Man
over a year ago
Norwich |
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You know that a whole book has been written showing that it is quite acceptable to split infinitives? Star Trek fans are vindicated at last.
As Winston Churchill said about Britain and the USA.
"Two nations, separated by a common language."
There is a whole Wiki article on split infinitives. The conclusion is that most modern authorities do not object to them.
It's not likely that anyone would describe me as either modern or as an authority!"
lol - funny  |
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"People saying forfill when they mean fulfill. Like "I want to forfill a fantasy". No! It's "I want to fulfil a fantasy"!
Not even a spelling mistake, they're using a non-existent word!
Any other small things that drive you irrationally nuts?!
Right, I'm now off outside to get myself a life... lol
(Unless anyone wants to argue over whether the Subject should have a possessive apostrophe or not... Private Eye did that one to death a few years ago!)"
not read the whole thread and somebody may have said it but some people have dyslexia, others may not be as eloquent in the written word..
just a thought.. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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nobody's mentioned people who don't know the difference between 'less' and 'fewer' yet...
(eg: "There are less people in this orgy than the one I went to last week" no no NO!!!!) |
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By *cankeep OP Man
over a year ago
Norwich |
"People saying forfill when they mean fulfill. Like "I want to forfill a fantasy". No! It's "I want to fulfil a fantasy"!
Not even a spelling mistake, they're using a non-existent word!
Any other small things that drive you irrationally nuts?!
Right, I'm now off outside to get myself a life... lol
(Unless anyone wants to argue over whether the Subject should have a possessive apostrophe or not... Private Eye did that one to death a few years ago!)
not read the whole thread and somebody may have said it but some people have dyslexia, others may not be as eloquent in the written word..
just a thought.."
Read the whole thread - this is tongue in cheek. |
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By *vsnikkiTV/TS
over a year ago
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"People saying forfill when they mean fulfill. Like "I want to forfill a fantasy". No! It's "I want to fulfil a fantasy"!
Not even a spelling mistake, they're using a non-existent word!
Any other small things that drive you irrationally nuts?!
Right, I'm now off outside to get myself a life... lol
(Unless anyone wants to argue over whether the Subject should have a possessive apostrophe or not... Private Eye did that one to death a few years ago!)
not read the whole thread and somebody may have said it but some people have dyslexia, others may not be as eloquent in the written word..
just a thought.."
In fairness to the OP, they did describe thessences as being driven "irrationally" nuts.
It is perfectly possible to dislike something while appreciating the good reason for it.
As an example, I hate the Jeremy Kyle show but I can appreciate...... bugger, bad example |
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"People saying forfill when they mean fulfill. Like "I want to forfill a fantasy". No! It's "I want to fulfil a fantasy"!
Not even a spelling mistake, they're using a non-existent word!
Any other small things that drive you irrationally nuts?!
Right, I'm now off outside to get myself a life... lol
(Unless anyone wants to argue over whether the Subject should have a possessive apostrophe or not... Private Eye did that one to death a few years ago!)
not read the whole thread and somebody may have said it but some people have dyslexia, others may not be as eloquent in the written word..
just a thought..
Read the whole thread - this is tongue in cheek. "
surely you meen tung in chick.. |
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"I very much like reading the stories and fantasies section and sometimes the quality of the syntax and grammar is eye wateringly bad. Pretty much any sort of input device whether computer, tablet or phone has inbuilt spell checking. Why does it seem to be an optional extra for so many posts?"
I am not the best, neither am I a pedant, but even my auto-corrected spelling horrifies me at times.
Maybe if those of us who know we are not Grade A's, should delete some of the wrongly placed words from our spell check dictionaries, so that an automated input doesn't happen. If that's even possible - I know my pc browser spell check can be modified, but unsure upon my mobile's dictionary.
Anyone, don't want to be a pendant, so not hanging around any further. |
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By *cankeep OP Man
over a year ago
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"...don't want to be a pendant, so not hanging around any further."
I actually laughed out loud at that (LOL!)... I've been waiting for someone to use the word pendant, but you executed that with style, m'dear |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Auto-correct features on mobile devices can be a bit of a nightmare. I was once responding to a message from a chap and wanted to write 'sorry, you're not my type' But, to my horror, it came out as 'do you really think I'm that desperate?' |
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