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...Thanks for bringing this up Todd. I hope it's not a 'touchy' subject. ...Another one that stumps alot of people here is how and when to use 'there, they're and their'. ...High school english class was hard not to sleep through....
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Enlgish was ok, it was algebra that kicked my tail. I try not to mispell words on signs, but I still, almost 15 years later, email my first college professor with as many mispelled and incorrect puntuation usages that I can possibly get out. He turned out to be a great friend.
They're....... they are There........ poistion, as in over there. Their........ possesion or ownership, it is theirs.
God Bless each one of us!!
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YOU YOURE=YOUNZE OR YA ALL covers it all. to= works for all there= THAR.........close enough see how easy that is???????
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I sea(and commit) spelling and grammar errors all over teh place hear.
Most of the time I figure it's just being informal and typing quick. It never bothers me here.
Now on signs it's another story. I haven't committed a spelling error on a sign(that made it out the door) for a loooong time. Since 1991. Well except for one I did in Spanish, but does that really count since it's not my native tongue?
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Hey Dusty, ya better warch yurself. Down her we encurage that sorta talk...LOL!!! Now I gotta go WARSH my hands and check the OL' in my car!
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quote:Originally posted by Kelsey Dum: Hey Dusty, ya better warch yurself. Down her we encurage that sorta talk...LOL!!! Now I gotta go WARSH my hands and check the OL' in my car!
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I don't mind seeing het or teh, when we can all figure out it's supposed to be "the" typed in a hurry, but the incorrect your for you're & there for they're or their does annoy me- after a while you find yourself wondering if you're wrong there, when you see enough of them! This board isn't too bad in that area, bit some others are full of the wrong versions!
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WTF, I was gunna post summing about how definite was the rite spelling versus definate but it all semes two hard. Inglish is a growing langwedge after all and no dowt the innernet will homodgenize it all down to the lowest common dominator. Speeling is fur pussies anywaze.
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Then there's the one about the border at the rooming house that crossed the boarder into the nest country.(moral: never cross a snowsboarder at the border.
this all made sense a few minutes ago??
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Hey Joe, looked it up in several different dictionaries, and they are divided in their opinions. Some say it is a usage problem to use it as "in a moment" and others say it is correct.
So I guess I'll quit frettin' about it.
(Although I do think it's like "ain't".... used incorrectly so long that it's wrong usage was finally accepted)
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Actually, on line there are several ways that it is utilized. The most obvious solution is with the apostrophe, but the cultural interpretation is where the rub is. Is it a woman's thing or does it belong to multiple women? The solution I used was to turn it around. Men's club or Man's club. Well it is multiple men of course. Or else it wouldn't be a club. It would be a phone booth. The client insisted on woman's club. To the point of chiseling off letters and re-routing a splice. Nice! (The job was purchased and was proofed by a third party.) As the balance of the sign laid unmovable in the accounts payable zone, I took it upon myself to invest 1.5 more hours and fix it. Better than letting the money lose value. Or is it loose value? We got paid and there it stands, in my opinion a club of one. Then again what do I know? I'm just the slug with the paint on his pants.
-------------------- Larry Williams 184 Camelia St. Gulf Breeze, FL 32561 Posts: 21 | From: Gulf Breeze Fl | Registered: Mar 2005
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I agree with you Larry. Let that be a lesson, from now on steer clear of a woman with a club.
BTW, just noticed you are from Gulf Breeze. Howdy, neighbor. I live right across the FL-AL line, but work in the Pensacola area almost every day... and my wife and I pass through GB on the way to P'cola Beach a coupla times a weekend...
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