22-10-2003 19:42									#1
	A Question About Inabilities To Spell Support Apolyton, buy Galactic Civilizations: Deluxe Edition

RAH, this is a serious inquiry; so keep your thread locking paws off.

Rather than participate as a Spelling Nazi, let me ask a question.
What's the damned deal?
I'll be specific, and ask this of Americans; but you foreigners feel free to chime in.

Reading is supposed to improve one's ability to spell.
Well, I know from posting here, some of you bastards read a lot.
Why does that not transfer to the ability to write something understandable?
In fact, I think computer users may be, as a group, the most piss-poor spellers I've seen.
I don't understand.
Someone give me the story here.

As a side question, why on God's green earth would someone come here, and ask you illiterate jackasses to correct his girl friend's writing?

	22-10-2003 19:47									#2
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quote: As a side question, why on God's green earth would someone come here, and ask you illiterate jackasses to correct his girl friend's writing?

I don't get it either, although Paul Hanson did a pretty good job with it.

	22-10-2003 19:54									#3
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Sloww, would you like to explain the purpose of the second comma in your last sentence of the first post?

I am a grammar nazi, but on the net you just have to get used to things. Typing on a PC is a lot quicker than writing something out, but mistakes will be more common and we shouldn't expect perfect English all the time, especially not from those for whom English is a second language.

	22-10-2003 20:00									#4
	Re: A Question About Inabilities To Spell Support Apolyton, buy Galactic Civilizations

quote: Originally posted by SlowwHand As a side question, why on God's green earth would someone come here, and ask you illiterate jackasses to correct his girl friend's writing?

Girlfriend, not girl friend.

Now go away you silly person.

	22-10-2003 20:02									#5
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I don't think most people find proof-reading to be a necessity when posting in an online forum. They just jot off a response and hit [Submit Reply].

	22-10-2003 20:06									#6
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i cna spell, yuo ignerant cretin!

	22-10-2003 20:16									#7
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quote: Originally posted by Urban Ranger Girlfriend, not girl friend. Now go away you silly person.

A friend that's a girl.
The spelling is ambidextrous.

	22-10-2003 20:21									#8
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It can use both it's hands equally well?

	22-10-2003 20:27									#9
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I wondered who'd go for that.

Anyway, enough idle banter - I'm going to browse Sloww's other thread: Snogs for you: Cyril's Hatred.

	22-10-2003 20:27									#10
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quote: Originally posted by Paul Hanson It can use both it's hands equally well?

You beat me to it.

	22-10-2003 20:30									#11
	Re: A Question About Inabilities To Spell Support Apolyton, buy Galactic Civilizations

quote: Originally posted by SlowwHand As a side question, why on God's green earth would someone come here, and ask you illiterate jackasses to correct his girl friend's writing?

Because it's the only place I know that is choke-full of Anglo Saxons ?

	22-10-2003 20:30									#12
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Here are some Apolyton Posters now.
It appears to be Che and friends, staging a protest.

	22-10-2003 20:33									#13
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I think most spelling errors come from two things. 1)simple typing mistakes. 2)laziness. I am guilty of both.

I often take the time to edit my posts if there are serious spelling mistakes, and quite often I reach for my English dictionary in order to make sure that for instance 'distinguishing', a word which I have used quite often lately, is spelled correctly.

I don't mind people correcting spelling mistakes. It would be nice if people fluent in the English would also take their time to correct wrong usage and improper sentence structure. This I think would be far more constructive in the long run.

	22-10-2003 20:33									#14
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In fact Sloww, mor chi kin is Chinese for "healthily": that which nourishes the chi.

	22-10-2003 20:35									#15
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quote: Because it's the only place I know that is choke-full of Anglo Saxons ?

"Chock-full", Spiff...

	22-10-2003 20:35									#16
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Tripledoc, you ask WAY too much from these slobbos.
Sentence structure?
The bastards can't even SPELL sentence, or structure.

	22-10-2003 20:36									#17
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quote: Originally posted by SlowwHand As a side question, why on God's green earth would someone come here, and ask you illiterate jackasses to correct his girl friend's writing?

Well, I can only assume that this is a desparate attempt to dominate the poor girlfriend, that he did not achieve by standard procedures.

	22-10-2003 20:40									#18
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quote: Originally posted by SlowwHand RAH, this is a serious inquiry; so keep your thread locking paws off.

Example of bad sentence structure.

	22-10-2003 20:41									#19
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quote: Originally posted by DAVOUT Well, I can only assume that this is a desparate attempt to dominate the poor girlfriend, that he did not achieve by standard procedures.

	22-10-2003 20:42									#20
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Ho cares abaut how good peple spel, as long as its esi to onderstand?


I wouldn't mind if people correct me if I make some of the worse spelling mistakes though... or gramma for that matter

	22-10-2003 20:44									#21
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You see, Slowwhand needs to feel superior in something.

Sadly, he himself isn't all that good at it.

	22-10-2003 20:59									#22
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I wonder if its an age thing? I cant stop myself from going back (sometimes over and over) to edit out typos, spelling, and poorly written content.

	22-10-2003 21:26									#23
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quote: Originally posted by Urban Ranger Example of bad sentence structure.

Bzzzzzz. Wrong answer, bat-breath.
Two separate but combined thoughts.
A semi-colon is acceptable.

	22-10-2003 21:35									#24
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Well, this is going as expected.
And if it continues along the same path, I'll close it just for fun.

	22-10-2003 21:35									#25
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"Bat-breath".

	22-10-2003 21:38									#26
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quote: Originally posted by SlowwHand Bzzzzzz. Wrong answer, bat-breath. Two separate but combined thoughts. A semi-colon is acceptable.

Lovely, Slowwie hasn't figured out what he did wrong.

	22-10-2003 21:45									#27
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Why do you so often make your posts in three short lines like that, Slowwhand, is it some kind of texan haiku?

Last edited by General Ludd on 22-10-2003 at 22:02

	22-10-2003 21:50									#28
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Hell, I don't know, Osweld.
I'm a freak of nature, I guess.

BTW. Haiku is 17 syllables.
I believe in 5,7,5 format; though I may be wrong.

	22-10-2003 21:58									#29
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Writing haiku in English is bollocks anyway. The lack of any consistent syllable length in English totally destroys the rhythm a haiku is supposed to possess.

Last edited by Drake Tungsten on 22-10-2003 at 22:05

	22-10-2003 22:04									#30
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quote: Originally posted by SlowwHand Hell, I don't know, Osweld. I'm a freak of nature, I guess. BTW. Haiku is 17 syllables. I believe in 5,7,5 format; though I may be wrong.

Hence the "texan" haiku. I know you cowboys can have a hard time counting that high and sorting out your syllables.