I hate to be a spelling/grammar nazi, but I see this all over the board and everywhere on the Internet. It's not definately or any other variation.

This has been a public service announcement. Feel free to flame me. :)

very hard word to spell , why u make a thread about it?

in the words of richard pryor as told by eddie murphy " have a coke and a smile and shut the F up" ;)

Oh, and Zoom, it's cel, not cell j/k

Zig heil, herr grammar.

dammit! you mean i typed something like "throw a CEL" and spelled it "cell". now i'm going to have to go thru all of my posts! bastard! :) i'll get you!

huh? i dont see zoom talking about a cel

You're a good man, zoom. And one hell of a mod! :cool:

Going along with Scimmia's post. "ridiculous" is spelled as such. "rediculous" is not acceptable and every time I see you spell it this way, I can't help but wonder what kind of accent you have. a silly one, no doubt.

Originally posted by SCiMMiA
You're a good man, zoom. And one hell of a mod! :cool:

thanks! but now you've gone and confused mental pimp. you're stuck with getting him straightened out.

yea :(

what dis I taut id waz prolly spellt differn't like.

mental, since zoom bit on my post, I was left no option but to search his previous posts and make light of the first spelling error I found. Turns out it was over in "Discussion", something about governed 8 top speed. Now, had it been another lowly "user" like myself, I probably would have just looked for curiosity's sake and not said a thing. Zoom, however, is a mod, and is thus subject to a higher level of scrutiny :p than the rest of us lowly posters.

Sorry, I'm on the road, sitting in a motel, bored. :)

Don't forget "grammer" and mixing up "accept" and "except," which also appear on here a lot. Used to drive me crazy, but I've learned to ignore all sorts of grammatical insults.

That's good, Elara. All we have to do now is work on your math. :D

If people would just follow the simple rules, as Strong Bad (http://blog.peteweb.com/stuff/grammar.mp3) suggests.

For those without MP3 capabilities, I'll spell it all out:

1. If you want it to be possessive, it's just "I-T-S." But, if it's supposed to be a contraction then it's "I-T-apostrophe-S," scalawag.

2. What ever happened to CAPITALIZATION? It used to be so Coooooool!

3. Girl, don't forget to spell check, or I'll come to your house and throw a brick through your dad's windshield - windshield.

4. Y-O-U-R/Y-O-U-apostrophe-R-E, they're as different as night and day, don't you think that night and day are different? What's wrong with you?

5. And I don't care how they spell things on the internet, but when you email me, you spell the whole word out, and I don't care that your cell phone has a camera in it...

Rock on...

Yeah, I noticed a problem when shifting threw 2nd and 3rd, I through a CEL...:p

I have become kind of stuck on 'definately', and I think I'll just go with that....

On the other hand, "I could care less!" (my particular favorite!)
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U is not a freaking word!!!

Phew... glad I got that off my chest.

Go IKE!

What is the correct way of spelling wreeeew?
I've seen it written with 3 e's, 4 e's, 5 e's, 2 w's, 3 w's in every imaginable combination.


And WFT does it mean?

Man, I love this thread - I don't feel alone anymore.

Eschew obfuscation.

You know what else I hate... It's when someone makes an extremely long post (not mentioning names) and the person responding choosing to quote the whole thing before their two sentence response. Like it was necessary. I definately get irritated when that happens.

Originally posted by 93rdcurrent
You know what else I hate... It's when someone makes an extremely long post (not mentioning names) and the person responding choosing to quote the whole thing before their two sentence response. Like it was necessary. I definately get irritated when that happens.

ditto

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by itslef but the wrod as a wlohe.

Ceehiro, hpotot

Cheerio hotpot.

Originally posted by SCiMMiA
That's good, Elara. All we have to do now is work on your math. :D

Hmm..don't get it. Where did I screw up on my math?

This one is really bugging me lately...

RECKLESS driving is what makes you have a WRECK!

WRECKLESS driving is hopefully the outcome of not driving RECKLESSLY!

Any questions? ;)

Another one that drives me to distraction, though it's nowhere near as common, is the use of the verbal form as an adjective, eg "the dominate male in the group."

This has defanately been an informative and helpful thread

Originally posted by SCiMMiA
Zig heil, herr grammar.

I believe it is "Sieg heil".

I'm glad to see a Nazi can't spell such a simple German word. All those years of everyone telling us Americans how dumb we are compared to those Yourapeeins.:D

OOOOOOO now i get it, thank you for clearing it up :)

Originally posted by hotpot
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by itslef but the wrod as a wlohe.

Ceehiro, hpotot

I never knew this but you sure proved the point effectively.

After reading the article about letter order in words not making a lot of difference to information content, I wrote a program to scramble the middle letters of words and sent off emails with a 25 word scrambled paragraph to 10 co-workers and asked them to send me what I had sent to them only unscrambled. All ten replied with the correct text within a few minutes. It took about 40 lines of code, a very large dictionary file, and about 30 minutes of churning to get my computer to get 80% of the words right. What fun!

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You guys really need to loose the attitude...

Have you noticed how most of the 'control freak' type of threads start with the old favourite -

"I hate to be a spelling/grammar nazi, but......"

Then go on to be exactly that.
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Speaking of grammar correction:

I believe this was on a sitcom a while back, but I don't remember which one. Anyway, person 1 said something like, "where are you going to?". Person 2 corrected him/her by saying, "never end a sentence with a preposition". Person 1's classic response was, "OK, where are you going to, asshole!"

Free beer on me to anyone that can name that sitcom. Two beers if they remember the exact line.

only this forum could turn this into 3 plus pages

I will definately keep that in mind.

My spelling peeve is people turning Lightning into "Lightening". How does that happen? They're not even the same number of syllables!

I never saw this before the internet; now it's everywhere. Even one of my e-mails from Mazda was concerning the "Lightening Yellow" RX-8. Does this mean it weighs less than the others?

Originally posted by Nubo
My spelling peeve is people turning Lightning into "Lightening". How does that happen? They're not even the same number of syllables!

I never saw this before the internet; now it's everywhere. Even one of my e-mails from Mazda was concerning the "Lightening Yellow" RX-8. Does this mean it weighs less than the others?

I think you can blame hooked on phonics for that one :)

Lightening yellow means that in due course the yellow will fade and turn into a mayonnaise colour.