I shall say this more than once

but I wish I wouldn't have to.


THERE IS NO A IN DEFINITELY


is that clear?

 

thankyou for that

 

you're welcome sunshine. Now help spread the word to all those poor bastards who can't spell it!

 

I definately will

 

Can't blame a bloke for TRYING to preserve the English language!

Tuh.

 

Yeah, and it's weird, not wierd!!!!

 

Oh gods those two annoy me every time. There are some corkers around the forums!

 

The one I hate most is misuse of it's and its ... possessive "its" has no apostrophe! As for "it's", it's only used as an abbreviation for "it is".

I'm glad we've had a sudden outbreak of grammatical pedantry. I'll be criticising syntax later!

 

Definitely

Weird
this is what my spell checker said

 

very funny. my older sister knows the creators of that cartoon.

 

Well, can nobody me criticise my syntax for of use...

 

huh?

random letters

 

"Hey Showmet, are you criticising syntax?"
"Nah, it's just the way my trousers hang."

 

Yeah. Goo goo and gaa gaa aren't as intellectually stimulating as discussing Plato. lol

 

Whoa. Your sister knows the guys who make Homestar Runner?

 

The worst thing I think is people who speak in text talk!!!! ARGH!!!! I'm a member of this one forum and this guy always does it!!! Grrrrrr!

 

yeah. they are her friends. she talks to them every once and awhile.

 

My other pet hates (grammatical rather than spelling) include:

"Like I said" - it's "as I said"!,

"to be like" instead of "to say" - I tend to take the piss out of this at times by making it transitive too, for example "The other day I was being like to a mate about how much damage America has done to the English Language..."

also: Real, Good, etc. are ADVERBS!

while: Fast, Quick, etc. are ADJECTIVES!

And since I promised:

THERE IS NO A IN DEFINITELY!

 

need some quotes in that sentence to make sense matey

definitely... perhaps the adverb for reversing a finite aspect to infinite?
why not? words are made up all the time. Otherwise we'd all be talking like shakespeare or worse. i'm not into stagnation or word snobbery. hack the bastard language apart, see if i care!

p.s.
you could be IN it if it were a country.....

In defintely they had developed a new system of maths that removes the ambiguity of language. Unfortunately, a volcano exploded and wiped the place out.

~

 

'Hacking the language apart' is one of the reasons why so many of the current generation are unable to communicate effectively.

I also find it distasteful that those of us who actually care about spelling are labelled as 'snobs'. Frankly, I think you're the snob for looking down your nose at people who think spelling is important and dismissing them with a glib insult. How about having the integrity to debate your beliefs? This might come as a surprise to you, but some people care about grammar and spelling not out of snobbery (although that's an insult that I don't hear a lot as a working-class Scouser, I have to admit.....), but rather out of a conviction that these things are important aids to our understanding of each other and our communication.

I also find it a bit sad that you refer to 'talking like Shakespeare' as something negative. While there's admittedly a good deal of real snobbery surrounding classic authors, Shakespeare is surely one of the greatest poets in recorded history? Does using big words and archaic spelling automatically qualify someone for ridicule? I'd sooner be talking like Shakespeare than talking in text-speak.

Language does indeed evolve, and this is no bad thing. Spellings change, the meaning of words shifts, other words are contracted...... but in order for a language to evolve, it's usually a good idea if its practitioners understand it in the first instance.