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Swamper
Webmonstah



Registered: Jan 2000
Location: Toronto, Canada
Satan (eek!) Lack of English skills from people whose first language is English is becoming scary

I don't get it...

Over the past 3 or 4 years I've noticed a HUGE increase in the number of people confusing:

1) Loser / Looser
2) Your / You're
3) Then / Than
4) There / Their / They're
5) CDs / CD's

Ok..the bottom 3 are a bit trickier for some, but the first two are no excuse... I have know people who came to Canada with no formal english training that comment to me about how some people mess up the first two and how it puzzles them how people don't know the difference.

Mind you my english has suffered somewhat from being online for so many years - excess use of chat room / forums can do that to you if you're not careful.

Here's a nice one to screw ya up:

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Old Post May-02-2002 21:17  Canada
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Nautica
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Registered: May 2001
Location: UK

I've noticed this too! I run a rather large car orientated forum and the bad ones are:

crome (chrome)
breaks (brakes)
incurance (insurance)
bonet, bonett etc (bonnet)
relice (release)

I think the worst I've seen has to be:

"evry1 sed i was weird cos mines always crashin!f'uks up all the time.
if it sez no1s online or sez u have no1 on ur contacts list then set up anova account, sign in2 it then sign bak in2 ur ova 1 (thats y i got 2 hotmail addresses)& they'll all come bak agen!
if it dont let u sign in, u either gotta leave it 4 a bit cos its totally f'uked or download it agen...but the nu 1 crashes more than the old so i got the old 1 bak!
Have fun"


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Old Post May-02-2002 21:26  United Kingdom
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Blik
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Registered: Jan 2001
Location: Rosmalen, Holland

you guys should be ashamed

even I speak better English then (or than) you guys!!!!


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apri_peel
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Registered: Jul 2001
Location: vancouver

oh geezus <--- see this one all the time
but really, come on now ppl
we're all educated here. we all got some sort of schooling if you're here in the first place
i used to do that shit all the time when i got hooked to chat rooms, then i realized if i'm ever gonna survive thru university i better start typing write
and i think those ppl should be ashamed of themselves. it doesnt take that much longer to spell out the whole word. i bet if we tested how much faster is it really to type no1 and no one the difference would be so minimal that no normal human being would notice

a piece of advice: if any of you who type that they are in a chatroom wnat to survive in the real world, i suggest you start typing the way you're supposed to. you may be young to realize that right now, or you may not care or whatever your reasons are, you will have to learn how to spell properly and if you don't then its your loss, and yours only

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G K Murray
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Registered: Dec 2001
Location: A smog free place near Middlesbrough

people are lazy when it comes to typing, so they use slang!! That's just the way it is.

That's slighty off the point and i know what you mean.

Swamper! for Number 2 you should've put it as UR instead of YOUR, thats how most lazy typers such as myself put it.

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G K Murray
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Registered: Dec 2001
Location: A smog free place near Middlesbrough

quote:
Originally posted by apri_peel
oh geezus <--- see this one all the time
but really, come on now ppl
we're all educated here. we all got some sort of schooling if you're here in the first place
i used to do that shit all the time when i got hooked to chat rooms, then i realized if i'm ever gonna survive thru university i better start typing write
and i think those ppl should be ashamed of themselves. it doesnt take that much longer to spell out the whole word. i bet if we tested how much faster is it really to type no1 and no one the difference would be so minimal that no normal human being would notice

a piece of advice: if any of you who type that they are in a chatroom wnat to survive in the real world, i suggest you start typing the way you're supposed to. you may be young to realize that right now, or you may not care or whatever your reasons are, you will have to learn how to spell properly and if you don't then its your loss, and yours only



Are you taking the piss??????????

If you aren't, lokk carefully how u've typed it!!!!!

Old Post May-02-2002 21:40  England
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Tranex02
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Registered: May 2001
Location: United States

I agree...
i must say, for some reason i started mis-spelling some words , maybe that's because the lack of time to waste on double checking a word...but still, certain words like YOUR & YOU'RE should be rather straight-forward....
I think it gets contagious sometimes...


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brunette
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Registered: Feb 2002
Location: Europe

I agree! It's shocking.


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Tranex02
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Registered: May 2001
Location: United States

quote:
Originally posted by G K Murray
Swamper! for Number 2 you should've put it as UR instead of YOUR, thats how most lazy typers such as myself put it.


he's not refering specifally to slang words, but more of mispelled words or 'wrong usage' of certain words...


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apri_peel
Supreme tranceaddict



Registered: Jul 2001
Location: vancouver

quote:
Originally posted by G K Murray



Are you taking the piss??????????

If you aren't, lokk carefully how u've typed it!!!!!


hhahahahahaha see what i mean??
some people just do it because they are not paying attention anymore, they're used to typing like that and to them it seems normal now
when i wrote my first paper, i wrote 'thru' everywhere instead of 'through' and i lost tons of points for that. that was my biggest and only lesson to make me start spelling properly

good for you for spotting those G K

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Haak
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Registered: Jun 2001
Location: Oslo, Norway

Noticed this too (alot of people get to and too wrong ). English isn't my first language, but I notice this all the time from people here with US, Canadian and English flags.


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G K Murray
Likes old skool trance



Registered: Dec 2001
Location: A smog free place near Middlesbrough

quote:
Originally posted by apri_peel


hhahahahahaha see what i mean??
some people just do it because they are not paying attention anymore, they're used to typing like that and to them it seems normal now
when i wrote my first paper, i wrote 'thru' everywhere instead of 'through' and i lost tons of points for that. that was my biggest and only lesson to make me start spelling properly

good for you for spotting those G K


No probs. it was only early on you started doing it, at the end you must of realised!!

Old Post May-02-2002 21:57  England
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