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Why is it, after all the money this government spends on educating the populous there are still gaping great holes in our written communication?

Why do people write 'definately' when it should be, and is most definitely, 'definitely'?

When did a 'lens' become a 'lens'?

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Blame technology - The influence of confused;) US English through film, IRC and other chat technologies, and text messaging are probably the biggest culprits.

Also lots of spelling errors in newspapers and mispronunciation on TV shows, never used to happen but these days I guess the standard of language is so low most people dont notice the errors, so they occur with increasing frequency.

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:D Another one which really gets me going is rediculous!

It's always going to jar at your nerve endings, but we probably all have problem words. Personally I'd rather people participate, and as long as they can convey their meaning, why lose sleep over a few spelling mistakes? :shrug:
 
I was in the lowest group for English durning my GCSEs (about 6 years ago now)... yet quite honestly I am so much better than the majority of people. So my understanding of how they can suck so much is beyond me...

I really think I annoyed someone at school for being in that group though. :/


They say that Text Messaging has actaully helped a bit, as before people were talking on the phone more often. I find this stupid though.
 
It's not so much the inability to spell correctly that bugs me - it's the fact some people won't accept and apply corrections after it's pointed out to them!

I don't lose sleep over it, I find it an amusing irritation (oops, made mistake typing that, but you don't know :lol: )..... sometimes it appears to me harder to produce the errors (consistently) than it is to do it properly!

What started it all of was my son sent an e-mail and wrote the word "lens". No problem too much, but he has as much pedantry in him as I do! I should know - I taught him all he knows! :woot:
 
If it was my son that said lens I would go mental. I refrain so much from correcting people, and recently I have started to notice almost EVERYTHING in what people say, yet I know I am not perfect, it's mainly the accent speaking. I can speak RP on the phone when I am concentrating, other than that it gets tedious because I wasn't taught that well.
 
Y'see - you can say 'lens' 'cos the last 'e' is silent and get away with it..... writing it though, that becomes a glaring error.

Apparently, in Yorkshire there's a new health worry. People have discovered a more rapid hit with the Ecstasy drug. One holds the tablet firmly between the inner cheek and just below a tooth of the lower mandlible. It's known by the Police as "E - by gum"!
 
chuckles said:
Apparently, in Yorkshire there's a new health worry. People have discovered a more rapid hit with the Ectasy drug. One holds the tablet firmly between the inner cheek and the just below the tooth of the lower mandlible. It's known by the Police as "E - by gum"!
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LOL :lol: You realize that all the yorkshire folk on this forum will soon be advancing on Cambridgeshire :thumbs:
 
Aye - 'appen! Wouldn't be the first time though, I bet! ;)
 
im terrible at spelling, sorry
 
And why is it that the 'younger generation', when posting about their new purchase, use the word brought instead of bought? "I've brought a new hard drive". I've even heard it in the spoken word as well.

Teachers moan about the lack of respect for their profession compared to thirty+ years ago. I wonder why?
 
Lens and lens are both correct. I only started using it without the final e after I started to join forums, still feels wrong to me :shrug:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/lens
 
lens does NOT appear in the Cambridge Dictionary - on account of it not being an English word.

It's American. Different language!!
 
Different planet if you ask me ;)

They stole our language and added additional letters :(

American English pfft.

As much as I love going to America I wish they'd just use our alphabet, dictionary and thesaurus. Would make life so much easier.
 
2blue4u said:
lens does NOT appear in the Cambridge Dictionary - on account of it not being an English word.
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Doesn't really prove anything. Au Pair, gratis and vol-au-vent appear in the dictionary, they're really English :lol: Language develops and evolves, words develop and evolve, go with it :thumbs:

'N wi 'at, at's me oot o' 'ere. :p
 
What gets me is when people are talking and say Pacific instead of SPECIFIC!!!

That gets to me for some strange reason and I feel I have to correct them.
 
HEY HEY! In most cases we do not add letters but get rid of superfluous (how's that for a big word) letters! I mean come on colour??? Why the heck do you need the "u". Or cheque how pretentious is that I think check is good enough for anyone!
 
Blimey you have started someTHINK now Chuckles :bang: - now that gets me more than any other, I could go on but we would be here for an eternity.
 
I can spell antidisestablishmentarianism and floccinaucinihilipilificatious if that helps. And yes, I am a grammar Nazi
 
What gets me is the news reader on radio 1 in a morning will say "it's almost exactly 8:35".

HOW THE H*LL CAN IT BE.......It's one or the other.......

Deep breath.....all calm now....:)
Carl.
 
One word that REALLY grates on my nerves......INNIT. Makes me want to scream when I hear it! Where the hell did that come into English vocabulary?

I think it's a fact of life that there will always be people who can't spell or use words in the wrong context eg there/their/they're. That doesn't bother me in the slightest as long as I know what they mean (I like to think I can spell!)... but ending sentences with 'innit' - where is the sense in that?

And being a Yorkshire girl myself, don't even get me started on the whole pronunciation thing :boxer: :bat:
 
minimeeze said:
One word that REALLY grates on my nerves......INNIT. Makes me want to scream when I hear it! Where the hell did that come into English vocabulary?
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Quite agree! There was a mother in the queue to pick up her kid from nursery yesterday, and said to her other child 'You go ahead, innit'. I thought WTF, those poor kids have no chance! SPEAK ENGLISH FOR GOD'S SAKE!

And talking of which...

Darksaber said:
They stole our language and added additional letters :(

American English pfft.

As much as I love going to America I wish they'd just use our alphabet, dictionary and thesaurus. Would make life so much easier.
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Read Bill Bryson's book - I think it's called Mother Tongue - he goes on about how modern American English is actually a lot closer to the English language of 250 years ago than our own variant...
 
Well my spelling and grammar are often full of holes, not something I'm proud of but as long as people get the meaning of what I'm trying to convey I'm happy.

Anyone who feels offended by my ramblings, can take it up with my Ban hammer :suspect:
 
one big bug bear i have, is, people who talk about themselves as though it isn't them (iynwim) say radio presenters, take victoria darbyshire on 5 live in a morning, hello its 9 o' clock and this is victoria darbyshire, why not and I AM victoria darbyshire..
 
Seckertary, feberey, dubya dubya dubya dot.....


Those would be mine I'm afraid. Secretary, february, doubleyou. There, not so hard eh?! (And those are the favourites of BBC newsreaders! Oh, and "Pri Minister")

As for the spelling thing, I think we need to be careful picking on that too much. I can appreciate that it may annoy some people but short of making people take an English test before they are allowed to post on the boards, there is a danger of people feeling as though they are considered as not good enough to be part of TP. :shake:

Now text speak on forums, THAT should be clamped down on if you ask me!
 
Cooo, I was going to say time for some chill pill's, but then I remembered.

A quick search and I found what I was looking for Here :)

Thought I'd (sorry, I would) post it as a link, just in case it might offend those of a delicate nature ;)
 
I do find these two thingies a bit irritating...

People that put the word 'enjoy' at the end of something they've posted, and then the words 'end of' when they don't want a reply back...gets me goat that do!
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WetSparks said:
Cooo, I was going to say time for some chill pill's, but then I remembered.

A quick search and I found what I was looking for Here :)

Thought I'd (sorry, I would) post it as a link, just in case it might offend those of a delicate nature ;)
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says it all really! :lol: :lol: :lol:
 
WetSparks said:
Cooo, I was going to say time for some chill pill's, but then I remembered.

A quick search and I found what I was looking for Here :)

Thought I'd (sorry, I would) post it as a link, just in case it might offend those of a delicate nature ;)
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:thumbs: :thumbs:
 
evilowl said:
I can spell antidisestablishmentarianism
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When I was at primary school, we were given the task of finding out the meaning of that word, and learning how to spell it.

I was the only one who found out both, and learnt the ability to say it fluently.

I was 6 years old. Mind you, I did read the Jaws novel when I was 5, and also got moved up a year in primary school :lol:

Mind you it's fallen apart in recent years. I was offered a state funded place at a grammar school (they offered 1 place a year for the whole borough, my mum applied for me and i got it, but I didnt want to go :bang: )

Anyway, I never really did the Uni thing (only one year), opting to work in dead end jobs after that (for the most part)

However, I can honestly say my primary education was the best I could have had, I was taught proper English and grammar (although it doesn't show half the time on the forums). Just basic stuff that kids don't know nowadays.

I used to get 100% on spelling tests etc etc all the time, but the one word I have a problem with recently is definitely, for some reason I've always typed definately. Strange.

You think the spelling is bad? You want to try having an MSN conversation with my 16 yr old niece, or my 13 yr old nephews. I am sometimes truly disgusted.
It used to be a case of "txt speak", which meant they wrote like that because it's quicker / more characters to fit into a text (which got carried over to MSN), but now they're replacing words with phonetic spellings which often have the same or MORE letters.....

I blame MTV, it was the start of it all :D
 
Word ;)
 
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