Another proper England rant...

**MSTRS:Me** · 18th January 2006, 10:11

Originally Posted by Hitcher

That should be "hear, hear..."

Just because a word sounds the same doesn't mean it is:

Air/ear
Here/hair/hear
Passed/past

....and hare.....

**Colapop** · 18th January 2006, 10:12

I was going to write a big speil about people being lazy and the advent of computers (and forums) causing people to type what they want to say instead of saying it, but it's just too hard to type it all out. I've gone back and edited this passage probably half a dozen times already not including backspacing. How many people have actually learned to touch type? People just want to be heard not understood. Fat fingers!
And there's already been 5 posts since I typed this

**Keystone19** · 18th January 2006, 10:14

Flow, darling, it's all about flow. If your writing does not flow in a manner conducive to easy reading, people will not read it, hence you will not be heard.

**MisterD** · 18th January 2006, 10:16

Originally Posted by Hitcher

Just because a word sounds the same doesn't mean it is:

Air/ear

Sheesh, only in Noo Zealund

**Posh Tourer :P** · 18th January 2006, 10:18

Originally Posted by deathstar

Here here! jolly good English show, my good man!

that would be hear hear??? with punctuation too??

**DMNTD:Me** · 18th January 2006, 10:21

Originally Posted by Hitcher

...Air/ear

...and e hoa

**Phurrball** · 18th January 2006, 10:21

Originally Posted by Hitcher

That should be "hear, hear..."

Just because a word sounds the same doesn't mean it is:

Air/ear
Here/hair/hear
Passed/past

Ahhh yes - allegedly they do sound the same in New Zild. But let's not go down that path. Regional pseudo-homophones perhaps??

I must say, 'tis a breath of fresh air to read such a grammatically healthy thread, that is well punctuated and spelled.

**MisterD** · 18th January 2006, 10:25

Originally Posted by Phurrball

I must say, 'tis a breath of fresh air to read such a gramatically healthy thread, that is well punctuated and spelled.

Oui, absolument.

**MSTRS:Me** · 18th January 2006, 10:25

Two ems in grammatical.....with this bastard language, a spelling mistake may change the meaning of a ward (sic).

**Grahameeboy** · 18th January 2006, 10:28

pear, pair
you, ewe
bean, been
for, four
meat, meet
key, quay
no, know.........

**Posh Tourer :P** · 18th January 2006, 10:29

Originally Posted by MisterD

Oui, absolument.

Sì, y mi gustan tambien...

**Hitcher** · 18th January 2006, 10:34

Even though they may sound the same:

bow/bough
doe/dough
ruff/rough

People just don't care anymore. Tragic. Having a rich and diverse language built on strong and robust traditions that everybody in the third world yearns to speak is no mean feat. Yet there are the philistines what didn't do no good at skool who want to torch it all in favour of some grunted TXT language.

My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains
My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,
Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains
One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk:
'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot,
But being too happy in thine happiness,
That thou, light-wingèd Dryad of the trees,
In some melodious plot
Of beechen green, and shadows numberless,
Singest of summer in full-throated ease.