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GENERAL MOTORCYCLE FORUMS => GENERAL MOTORCYCLE => Topic started by: fritobandito on March 23, 2006, 01:19:18 PM
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Ok, so I'm a little picky. If you're from another country, and your English is broken a bit, I apologize. If you were born in the U.S. and that's how you write, I still suggest you take an English Grammer class. If that's the case, I hope you don't talk that way. Just kidding. I'm just being a real butt aren't I. Sorry. Again, welcome and nice bike. What kind of tinted shield is that. I like it.
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Just throwing that out there are ya? :roll:
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grammar, no? :stickpoke: :monkeymoon:
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I ar ejumicated and tawk jus fyne ! been skool lerned to sixth graid.
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We none Americans (Aussies, Kiwis and the particularly the Poms) could argue that you yanks haven't spoken English for a century or more....
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How about a spelling class with the GRAMMAR lesson.
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How about a spelling class with the GRAMMAR lesson.
+1 You kind of painted a target on yourself. I'm happy for the info everyone contributes. I couldn't care less how well they write. Besides, I know college professors who can't phrase a complete sentence.
I'd hate to see anyone discouraged because their writing skills are weak.
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I try not to pick on anyone for their English skills.
Except Jay :wink: - and he takes the ribbing well. :stickpoke:
It would be nice, and a lot easier to read posts, if people who use English (in whatever dialect) as their primary language to least made an effort to type their thoughts clearly... and use some kind of punctuation to separate thoughts/sentences/subjects.
One thing I don't like - statements like, 'ne1 ben 2 sumplace b4?'
Are these people so pressed for time they can't type 'Anyone been to Someplace before?' :?:
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'ne1 ben 2 sumplace b4?'
Ugh! That one made my head hurt! :shock: :lol:
I don't think I'll ever get over the "your != you're" business...but I agree with WEINERDOGBONE, post it if you've got it.
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I don't think I'll ever get over the "your != you're" business...
Or "their = there = they're"
Or "to = too = two"
:duh:
I mean, I got D's in English... and I can figure it out! :beers:
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I have no problem with how people write, provding they use real words - spelt wrongly or rightly doesn't really matter, I don't thing we're being tested on this......or are we....
What gets up my nose is the abbreviated shyte (I know, shyte isn't a real word) that people, my teenage son and his mates inparticular, use on text messages or windows messenger.
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Except Jay :wink: - and he takes the ribbing well. :stickpoke:
Now I gotta (have to) axe (ask)... which one??? :lol:
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I un-installed my spelling check after win95!!!!
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Sometimes, and I know its wrong, but I drink ahh.....liquor, and post messages,......sorry for the blurd speech!
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We none Americans (Aussies, Kiwis and the particularly the Poms) could argue that you yanks haven't spoken English for a century or more....
At least we don't add a 'u' to everything like harbour. Then again, maybe that is the British. I don't know, whatever, who cares as I am a arrogant American who can barely understand people from the southern U.S as well. :monkeymoon:
Although I have eaten at 'Outback Steak House' and their men's room says 'Blokes'...
Watch out for them dingo's, they'll eat your baybee. :stickpoke:
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Having chosen English as the preferred language in the EEC, the European Parliament has commissioned a feasibility study in ways of improving efficiency in communications between Government departments.
European officials have often pointed out that English spelling is unnecessarily difficult; for example: cough, plough, rough, through and thorough. What is clearly needed is a phased programme ofchanges to iron out these anomalies. The programme would, of course, be administered by a committee staff at top level by participating nations.
In the first year, for example, the committee would suggest using 's' instead of the soft 'c'. Sertainly, sivil servants in all sities would resieve this news with joy. Then the hard 'c' could be replaced by 'k' sinse both letters are pronounsed alike. Not only would this
klear up konfusion in the minds of klerikal workers, but typewriters kould be made with one less letter.
There would be growing enthusiasm when in the sekond year, it was announsed that the troublesome 'ph' would henseforth be written 'f'. This would make words like 'fotograf' twenty persent shorter in print.
In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reash the stage where more komplikated shanges are possible. Governments would enkourage the removal of double leters whish have always been a deterent to akurate speling. We would al agre that the horible mes of silent 'e's in the languag is disgrasful. Therefor we kould drop them and kontinu to read and writ as though nothing had hapend.
By this tim it would be four years sins the skem began and peopl would be reseptive to steps sutsh as replasing 'th' by 'z'. Perhaps zen ze funktion of 'w' kould be taken on by 'v', vitsh is, after al, half a 'w'. Shortly after zis, ze unesesary 'o kould be dropd from vords kontaining 'ou'. Similar arguments vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters. Kontinuing zis proses yer after yer, ve vud eventuli hav a reli sensibl riten styl.
After tventi yers zer vud be no mor trubls, difikultis and evrivun vud find it ezi tu understand ech ozer.
Ze drems of the Guvermnt vud finali hav kum tru.
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Most Excellent ScooterTrash...... :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:
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I sink we wod al agre! xklnt!! :bigok:
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Geesh! Sorry I mentioned it. It's just a pet peeve of mine. But, it did cause some comic relief did it not? :wink:
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Geesh! Sorry I mentioned it. It's just a pet peeve of mine. But, it did cause some comic relief did it not? :wink:
I appreciated the post. I think it's better to vent in this kind of discussion than to go out of your way to make the owner of a lazily-typed thread feel like a doof.
:beers:
...and now it's Friday, which ain't a bad thing! :banana:
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At least we don't add a 'u' to everything like harbour. Then again, maybe that is the British.
I think it's us lazy 'Mericans that dropped the useless 'u' from harbour and colour. Not sure about the Down Under folks, but the Canadians still use the British spellings on those two words - as well as 'centre' instead of the US 'center.'
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We aussies still use the U in colour, harbour etc. But I have to admit that it is fading - I remember as a kid that you'd be marked wrong for spelling color but my kids seem to get away with either.
Mind you most people I know use the American Jail rather than the English Gaol.
Anyway who cares about this shyte.....whose going to win round 1 of the MOTOGP....
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The whole funky British thing of spelling with even more unnecessary letters than we do in American English already is well gone. English is such a hard language and mulitiple spellings don't help.
In schools here, kids would most likely get away with things like colour, tyre, grey, etc., but they'd have to remind their teachers first that those actually are correct spellings. Then they'd be asked to spell the American way in the future, I'm sure. When I was growing up and I saw, for example, COLOUR, I always thought that required different pronunciation, like col-LURE. I thought it changed the sound to a "U"ish sound. Hey, I didn't know. None of us did.
I was an adult before it clicked that pronunication was the same. :duh:
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"The History of English" is a great book for those who want to explore the language, how it changes with time, and how it affects people. It's quite fascinating how we shape the language and are shaped by it.
-Vadim
P.S. I wish losing my accent were as easy for me as learning the language itself. But hush... nobody can hear me on this board. :)
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Yeah, it's those Canadians with their ehs and aboots, not to mention the Aussies with the crikeys and G'days and mates that REALLY stand out!
:stickpoke: :bigok:
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Except Jay :wink: - and he takes the ribbing well. :stickpoke:
Now I gotta (have to) axe (ask)... which one??? :lol:
That would be me brother! I can tell you college is not helping much either. Writting essays , if it wasn't for microsoft word I would be hurting.
Cheers
Jay
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Except Jay :wink: - and he takes the ribbing well. :stickpoke:
Now I gotta (have to) axe (ask)... which one??? :lol:
That would be me brother! I can tell you college is not helping much either. Writting essays , if it wasn't for microsoft word I would be hurting.
Cheers
Jay
Holy shit, dude. Did you copy and paste that post from Word? Spelling... punctuation... Nice! :bigok: :thanks:
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"The History of English" is a great book for those who want to explore the language, how it changes with time, and how it affects people. It's quite fascinating how we shape the language and are shaped by it.
-Vadim
P.S. I wish losing my accent were as easy for me as learning the language itself. But hush... nobody can hear me on this board. :)
I'm not sure what accent you're trying to lose but please don't replace it with Brooklynese! :gagme:
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Except Jay :wink: - and he takes the ribbing well. :stickpoke:
Now I gotta (have to) axe (ask)... which one??? :lol:
That would be me brother! I can tell you college is not helping much either. Writting essays , if it wasn't for microsoft word I would be hurting.
Cheers
Jay
Holy shit, dude. Did you copy and paste that post from Word? Spelling... punctuation... Nice! :bigok: :thanks:
I think he must've done that on his own. I don't think Word would let him get away with "microsoft" or a space on both sides of a comma. But it is Jay's finest post yet!
:congrats: :stickpoke:
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I'm not sure what accent you're trying to lose but please don't replace it with Brooklynese! :gagme:
It's Russian. And I don't think a Brooklyn accent is up and coming any time soon.