I know I'm a grammar nazi but seriously!

[CrazyKell]

WTF is wrong with businesses and their lack of proof-reading! :wtf:

It's not *that* hard. Hell most spell check should catch some of the mistakes I see. :doh:

It seriously makes me not want to do business with places that can't even get their publications right!

[shmike]

Four reel.

I all ways use spell cheque.

[Ninjakel]

You have always been the spell nazi of the forums :lmao:

But I know you, and its your nature,plus you are a teacher. We don't hold it against you :)

[Trip]

wat r yu talkin' bout?

[CrazyKell]

You have always been the spell nazi of the forums :lmao:

But I know you, and its your nature,plus you are a teacher. We don't hold it against you :)

If you only knew how little I actually comment on it though. I mean....a lot of it makes me cringe but I also know that not everyone has the same penchant for spelling. It doesn't come as easily to some people that's for sure....so on a personal level I try very hard not to let it bother me. I really do. :cf:

But on a professional level.....puhleeze! :rant:

[xx CURVE xx]

sounds like someone needs seks :p

[CrazyKell]

:suprisebuttsects: Surprise Butt Sekts? :lmao:

You offering? :runaway:

[Rider]

Huked on Fonix. :dthumb:

[xx CURVE xx]

:suprisebuttsects: Surprise Butt Sekts? :lmao:

You offering? :runaway:

Sure if you don't mind me misspelling my OHS UHS :lol:

[Corey]

Ewe guys are screwed. Eye no how two spell good and your never going too beet that. Aye went two school four a long time and eye no its bean the difference between weather oar knot eye no how two spell good.

[Alicia]

That shit drives me crazy. I always see businesses with misplaced apostrophes and it makes me wanna scream. I post very 'informally' in the forums, but BUSINESSES?! Come on...

[azoomm]

That shit drives me crazy. I always see businesses with misplaced apostrophes and it makes me wanna scream. I post very 'informally' in the forums, but BUSINESSES?! Come on...

Exactly. We're with you Kel!!

Hell, my daughter's text speak makes me twitch.

[Particle Man]

Exactly. We're with you Kel!!

Hell, my daughter's text speak makes me twitch.

I attended a seminar on the new generation gap where college admissions offices were indicating they get tons of applications in text speak.

I almost threw up. ugh

[CrazyKell]

That shit drives me crazy. I always see businesses with misplaced apostrophes and it makes me wanna scream. I post very 'informally' in the forums, but BUSINESSES?! Come on...

Me too. The worst is finding errors at a teaching conference/course. :nono:

Exactly. We're with you Kel!!

Hell, my daughter's text speak makes me twitch.

I don't want to say this is the reason why we didn't work out but....last boyfriend used text speak a little too much for me. :lmao:

I know....I'm :screwy:!

[azoomm]

I attended a seminar on the new generation gap where college admissions offices were indicating they get tons of applications in text speak.

I almost threw up. ugh

WHAT??!?!!? :panic:

[Particle Man]

WHAT??!?!!? :panic:

that's what I said too

[Trip]

Name:
david432

Sex:
y

Address:
david432@gmail.com

[racedoll]

I'm with you guys on the spelling and grammar. My husband is worse than me. In informal places I let it slide a little, but at work I try hard to be accurate. One girl used to send emails with, "please post in your area's". It would drive me and another girl nuts, but we never had the heart to correct her. She is gone now. Oh well.

My biggest pet peeve is when you use the wrong form - like there instead of their or they're, and it's or its.

[Adeptus_Minor]

After years of trying to battle against poor spelling and grammar on teh Interwebz, I believe the only thing that's changed is perhaps that my own spelling and grammar have become eroded. :idk:

Still, I totally agree about businesses. I find that I almost immediately lose a little confidence in a business that has one or more glaring typos, spelling mistakes, or poor wording on their web page.
If it's just in a product description which is one of hundreds of items that have to kept track of, I'm a bit more forgiving. But please, if you can't accurately word and format the basic information about your company, hire someone who can.

[Corey]

I attended a seminar on the new generation gap where college admissions offices were indicating they get tons of applications in text speak.

I almost threw up. ugh

That's really not the problem. The problem is that they're accepting these applications and modifying classes to accept that brand of stupidity as the acceptable lexicon.

Yes, I know it's New Zealand. (http://media.www.cardinalpointsonline.com/media/storage/paper1064/news/2006/12/01/Life/textSpeak.Accepted.In.New.Zealand.Exams-2516460.shtml) It'll be here soon, if it's not here already.

[BICH]

noe espeky engly !!!!

[2up]

I don't want to say this is the reason why we didn't work out but....last boyfriend used text speak a little too much for me. :lmao:

I know....I'm :screwy:!

I don't know if you remember this, but, years ago I had posted a thread on CF about how a guy I had gone on a couple of dates with didn't use proper English and how it made me crazy enough to question going further with him. This guy used to type "coo" instead of "cool" in IM's to me. I wanted to slap him.

He got offended when I explained to him that being well-spoken is important to me. So, we had sex one last time and we were done. :lol:

[Papa_Complex]

I'm more bothered by improper language used in advertising, than by the average person. Advertisers are supposed to be masters of the language and every time that I hear something like, "Save up to 50%, AND MORE!" I cringe.

[CrazyKell]

I don't know if you remember this, but, years ago I had posted a thread on CF about how a guy I had gone on a couple of dates with didn't use proper English and how it made me crazy enough to question going further with him. This guy used to type "coo" instead of "cool" in IM's to me. I wanted to slap him.

He got offended when I explained to him that being well-spoken is important to me. So, we had sex one last time and we were done. :lol:

This sounds exactly like something I'd do! :dthumb: :iagree:

[Adeptus_Minor]

This sounds exactly like something I'd do! :dthumb: :iagree:

Do I get a bonus to sex for using proper spelling and attempting reasonable sentence structure from the start?

[xx CURVE xx]

whose to say whats right or wrong... :p

[Librarian]

I don't know if you remember this, but, years ago I had posted a thread on CF about how a guy I had gone on a couple of dates with didn't use proper English and how it made me crazy enough to question going further with him. This guy used to type "coo" instead of "cool" in IM's to me. I wanted to slap him.

He got offended when I explained to him that being well-spoken is important to me. So, we had sex one last time and we were done. :lol:

I thought it was spelled "kewl". That's the way my homies do it.

[CrazyKell]

whose to say whats right or wrong... :p

I am! :whatwhat: :lala:

[xx CURVE xx]

I am! :whatwhat: :lala:

words should be spelled as they sound :p

[Corey]

words should be spelled as they sound :p

What would you do with to/too/two, there/their/they're, ate/eight, and so on and so forth?

[xx CURVE xx]

What would you do with to/too/two, there/their/they're, ate/eight, and so on and so forth?

in a sentence it should explain it self no? :p

or we could keep those i guess lol

[Librarian]

What would you do with to/too/two, there/their/they're, ate/eight, and so on and so forth?

The 2 of us 8 lunch at 2, then at 8 we 8 dinner.

It's all context.

[xx CURVE xx]

The 2 of us 8 lunch at 2, then at 8 we 8 dinner.

It's all context.

And all understood :D

[Corey]

in a sentence it should explain it self no? :p

or we could keep those i guess lol

The 2 of us 8 lunch at 2, then at 8 we 8 dinner.

It's all context.

Then how would you go about spelling words how they sound when there are a multitude of words that sound similar but have vastly different spellings and meanings? If you go with phonetic spelling, then you're making a decision that there's only one spelling for words that sound the same.

[xx CURVE xx]

Then how would you go about spelling words how they sound when there are a multitude of words that sound similar but have vastly different spellings and meanings? If you go with phonetic spelling, then you're making a decision that there's only one spelling for words that sound the same.

It's all context.

[Corey]

It's all context.

I here that ate ate for for.

[xx CURVE xx]

I here that ate ate for for.

you're a smurfing retard

[Corey]

you're a smurfing retard

Perhaps.

[the chi]

After years of trying to battle against poor spelling and grammar on teh Interwebz, I believe the only thing that's changed is perhaps that my own spelling and grammar have become eroded. :idk:

Still, I totally agree about businesses. I find that I almost immediately lose a little confidence in a business that has one or more glaring typos, spelling mistakes, or poor wording on their web page.
If it's just in a product description which is one of hundreds of items that have to kept track of, I'm a bit more forgiving. But please, if you can't accurately word and format the basic information about your company, hire someone who can.

I'm with you. I've always been good with spelling, grammer and such, but after spending so much time on the netz with you guys and falling prey to the text phenom, I am much more lax.

However any publications and work items are ALWAYS in proper form!! It's so embarrassing to see what some of my fellow co-workers send out to my tenants without my prior approval. It makes us all look like fools in the porfessional world. And these people are college educated yet write like 6th graders!

My favorite is when I am hiring a new contractor and it looks like their 5 year old wrote the proposal. Thats confidence inspiring!

[Corey]

I've always been good with spelling, grammer....!

:whistle:

[the chi]

:whistle:

Yes? Do u have a point?


:lol:

[Corey]

Yes? Do u have a point?


:lol:

Only when I sharpen my pencils.

[2up]

I thought it was spelled "kewl". That's the way my homies do it.

:lol:

I think "kewl" is more of an internet mem and "coo" is more of a gangsta wannabe thang!! ;)

[merle]

I've always been good with spelling, grammer and such

Psst... it's grammar. :whistle:

I started a thread on another forum I'm on about one of my pet peeves... It's 'lose weight', not 'loose'. Apparently I struck a nerve. The thread is now 22 pages long! :rofl:

[Phenix_Rider]

You should see some of the shit I get. My company is global, so every day I see poorly worded and badly translated quotes from a half dozen languages. Several of our regional sales managers are of Germanic background, and many of my projects are shipping to countries halfway around the world. So I might have an original quote written by the German owner's son, based on emails from a Swiss regional manager to a Thai representative in Korea. Or a intermediary's purchase order based on a quote from a Polish representative's emails with the Chinese parent company of a Turkish test facility. :panic:

I could make a killing proofing these papers. Even worse, the sales folder I work from often has several copies of the same quote with minute details revised, and some of the grammar/language errors corrected, and none of the corrections make it into the next revision!! And as a bonus, most of the engineering details I require are left unfinished, or completely omitted, or float in some bizarre aether or limbo.

:suprisebuttsects: Surprise Butt Sekts? :lmao:
You offering? :runaway:
I am! :whatwhat:

And yes, I stole your quote :rockwoot:

[racedoll]

Where I work we have alot of different cultures working for us. Most of them speak and write better English than the Americans born and raised here. It's pathetic!

[Adeptus_Minor]

Where I work we have alot of different cultures working for us. Most of them speak and write better English than the Americans born and raised here. It's pathetic!

Could you please send some of them to us?
My industry apparently hires a lot of engineers and developers who cannot speak understandable English even under extreme duress.

[Mikey]

It seriously makes me not want to do business with places that can't even get their publications right!

I refuse to do business with an organization that has glaring spelling or grammar errors in its publications, advertisements, or website. If they can't get their own shit right, I definitely can't trust them with my money.