WAMT....what annoyed me today!

Sounds like my tinnitus anyway... :P
 
Why over the past year or so has the word lose been replaced by loose.
This also goes for loosing, is it some form of spellcheck anomaly?
 
tijuana taxi said:
Why over the past year or so has the word lose been replaced by loose.
This also goes for loosing, is it some form of spellcheck anomaly?
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Some people need to go back to school IMO, the Interweb's made people soft and most people couldn't spell their way out of a damp Tesco carrier bag.
 
tijuana taxi said:
Why over the past year or so has the word lose been replaced by loose.
This also goes for loosing, is it some form of spellcheck anomaly?
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I hadnt noticed it particularly over the past year but think it’s just ignorance and the fact that if you can’t spell the double-o sounds more likely for lose :(.
 
sphexx said:
I hadnt noticed it particularly over the past year but think it’s just ignorance and the fact that if you can’t spell the double-o sounds more likely for lose :(.
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I think your right their ...

:coat:
 
Cobra said:
I think your right their ...

:coat:
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The annoying thing for me is that I quite like the autocorrect, being now an even worse typist than I used to be, but sometimes it changes my their to there or they’re (or vice versa) and I don’t notice it until someone quotes my post or I come on it by chance later :(. So I‘ve got used to ignoring that sort of thing done by others, assuming it may have happened to them.

Whereas disinterested for uninterested or peek or peak for pique* are likely to be real ignorance and not the autocorrect :(.


*These three are all particularly common on camera forums for obvious reasons, though not particularly here. I think it’s non-native speakers mainly.
 
sphexx said:
I think it’s non-native speakers mainly.
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And young people that post on FB!
The spelling is pretty much atrocious.
And of course many use txtspk. Which in all honesty leaves me cold.
If you get my meaning M8? :D
 
Worst of all is how it effects the effected.

Pretty sure poor old affect has been consigned to the recycle bin.

MrRichAllen1976 said:
Some people need to go back to school IMO, the Interweb's made people soft and most people couldn't spell their way out of a damp Tesco carrier bag.
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Especially with their increased use of acronyms.
 
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Bobsyeruncle said:
Poor punctuation, is just, as annoying too,
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I'm sure many younger folk have no idea why commas are used in a sentence, other than separating items in a list. I often use them when I write to convey the manner in which I would say the sentence verbally. I remember reading an email from a younger member of my team (to a customer) with hardly any punctuation at all, and he couldn't understand why I was not happy.
 
Cobra said:
I think your right their ...

:coat:
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:banghead:

Your equals you're and it's there not their.

WAMT? I got up 10 minutes ago, went in the Kitchen to make breakfast and there's no milk because I used the last of the milk last night on a coffee.

I can't go to the shop as I am set in the bedroom butt naked till Dad comes.

I wouldn't mind but I had to change the support worker's time today till this afternoon to visit the Theatre because it's not a show Dad would want to see.
 
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Jelster said:
I'm sure many younger folk have no idea why commas are used in a sentence, other than separating items in a list. I often use them when I write to convey the manner in which I would say the sentence verbally. I remember reading an email from a younger member of my team (to a customer) with hardly any punctuation at all, and he couldn't understand why I was not happy.
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"My hobbies and pastimes include shooting my family and my pets."
 
MrRichAllen1976 said:
:banghead:

Your equals you're and it's there not their.

WAMT? I got up 10 minutes ago, went in the Kitchen to make breakfast and there's no milk because I used the last of the milk last night on a coffee.

I can't go to the shop as I am set in the bedroom butt naked till Dad comes.

I wouldn't mind but I had to change the support worker's time today till this afternoon to visit the Theatre because it's not a show Dad would want to see.
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TMI :eek:
 
Bobsyeruncle said:
Poor punctuation, is just, as annoying too,
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Period. ?
:D


MrRichAllen1976 said:
:banghead:

Your equals you're and it's there not their.

WAMT? I got up 10 minutes ago, went in the Kitchen to make breakfast and there's no milk because I used the last of the milk last night on a coffee.

I can't go to the shop as I am set in the bedroom butt naked till Dad comes.

I wouldn't mind but I had to change the support worker's time today till this afternoon to visit the Theatre because it's not a show Dad would want to see.
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Bobsyeruncle said:
Wooossshhhh! :p
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Wooooosh indeed :D
 
MrRichAllen1976 said:
Your equals you're and it's there not their.
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If, as you are so fond of saying that "Your = You're" then according to algebraeic logic and your statement, the two terms could be used interchangably.

Your and you're are not equal to each other. Many people choose the wrong one. Whilst you're right, repeated calling people out on it and within a statement which is not correct is starting to wind people up, so I'd suggest keeping it to yourself in future.
 
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Mild annoyance today.

At 12:51 I received an SMS from the pharmacy, telling me that a repeat prescription I'd ordered a few days ago was ready for collection. That would have given me 9 minutes to get there before they closed at 13:00.

Good job I order the repeat when I start the 2nd (of 2) phial of eyedrops and a phial lasts me about 3 weeks. (The stuff makes printer ink seem a bargain - each phial holds 2.5ml so I pay £9.35 for a teaspoonful.)
 
I expect to collect my repeats within 5 days of re ordering so I just turn up at the pharmacy to collect.
 
The pharmacy send automated texts when it's ready. Small pharmacy so I try to pick my time to collect - I pass it on my way to/from g*lf so pop in when there's no visible queue outside.
 
I booked a Taxi to the Theatre show this afternoon, from which I've just got back, booked at 12.30 for a 14.30 Taxi with City Taxis, it never turned up so I had to get the support worker to book an Uber (I hate using them on a Saturday afternoon due to triple fares on match days) so you can imagine the mood I was in when I'd booked the original Taxi AGES in advance and it still didn't turn up, I hate using automated booking, I know there's a Pandemic on and nobody's working in the Office but come on.
 
Nod said:
Shackspeare's will makes interesting reading as far as spelling goes! https://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/xWill.html
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It does indeed. I think Dr Samuel Johnson's dictionary published in the mid C18th was the first serious attempt to propose standardised spelling, although there had been other dictionaries before this, and it was largely based on London usages.
 
MartynK said:
I think Dr Samuel Johnson's dictionary published in the mid C18th was the first serious attempt to propose standardised spelling,
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I've been told, by an literary minded aquaintance, that the problem with the standardisation of English lay in the attitude of the academics. All their efforts went into Latin and Greek, with some attention directed towards Hebrew. English was seen as a common vernacular, of use only for directing the lower orders in their work and some types of commerce. A standardised English (according to my aquaintance) only emerged as the Church lost cohesion during the seventeenth century.
 
Nod said:
The pharmacy send automated texts when it's ready. Small pharmacy so I try to pick my time to collect - I pass it on my way to/from g*lf so pop in when there's no visible queue outside.
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Mine offered to deliver, reckon when it’s that bad I’ll give up on the breathing lark.
 
mj4456 said:
Mine offered to deliver, reckon when it’s that bad I’ll give up on the breathing lark.
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Living in Wales we get free prescriptions and my area can get free delivery, Personally don't think its a great idea as I'm sure the money could be better spent elsewhere in the NHS. Had to go to A&E a few weeks ago, left 13 hours later, had a few tests during that time to be fair, but 13 hours mainly sitting on a chair in a waiting room feeling c~~p is not much fun. Moan over
 
nog said:
Living in Wales we get free prescriptions and my area can get free delivery, Personally don't think its a great idea as I'm sure the money could be better spent elsewhere in the NHS. Had to go to A&E a few weeks ago, left 13 hours later, had a few tests during that time to be fair, but 13 hours mainly sitting on a chair in a waiting room feeling c~~p is not much fun. Moan over
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Mum told me last week that next week I have an appointment at the Dentist for a filling.. I'm one of those few people who normally doesn't mind the er, Gob Doctor, but I'm dreading the filling bit.
 
Mrs Nod's Mum gets her 'scripts delivered by the pharmacy because she doesn't drive and at 92, she's scared poopless of covid so doesn't use the bus anymore. Mrs Nod deals with the ordering of the medication but can only get out to see her once a week so can't (reliably) pick up the meds. At least now, she's managed to get some extras - for a while, the pharmacy and doctor seemed to be blocking the orders for the extra tablets needed because a packet of tablets tends to be 28 days' worth but a month is usually more and she could only order once per month!
 
I used to be able to order 12 weeks worth of repeat medication but a few months back it was cut down to 8 weeks. I order online and collect in person.
 
WAMT?
Remembering that I had forgot, that using an angle grinder close to fine wire wool is a bad idea ...
 
WAMT? 3 weeks ago I spoke to a lady from Luv 2 Meet U and she sent the second copies of the application forms for the dating service, I filled them all in by hand, scanned them and sent them back to the lady by email, I got a reply this morning saying there's been some kind of "mix up" and I have to redo the forms! What the hell?! I spent ages doing all that the other week! And I'm not sending them back in the normal post, sod's law they'd get lost again.

She's just rung me on the mobile but it's after 17.00 so I'll ring her back first thing tomorrow (It'll be early as I have a Hospital appointment at 10.30)
 
WAMT? I tried to play a DVD on my Xbox, it didn't work! It's a base Xbox One with disc drive, I need to upgrade to a Series X but nobody can get them legit due to scalpers selling them for stupid prices on eBay (and what's worse is that there's folk that's daft enough to pay the prices! Smfh!)
 
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