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    Quote Originally Posted by Hitcher
    Or spelt. We may agree to disagree...
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    Yeah,I just can't be botherd to read someone's speil if it has no capitals or punctuation...the odd fopar and spelling mistake is OK,but I'm not going to read it 3 or 4 times to figure out what they are trying to say.

    My pet hate is break and brake,and I was soooo embarrassed the other day to read my post on another forum where I got it wrong...and there was no edit function,so everybody in the whole world could see what an idiot I was!
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    Quote Originally Posted by MSTRS
    Two ems in grammatical.....with this bastard language, a spelling mistake may change the meaning of a ward (sic).
    Oh, that I know. The shame, the shame. Of course it had to happen in this thread, in that post. Duly edited. English is a bastard language in the true sense of the word. I blame the school system - the hammering of spelling was absent when I was at high school but 10 years ago...farking double letters!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hitcher
    People just don't care anymore. Tragic.
    I quite agree. I'm not much for poetry, but if something's worth doing, it's bloody well worth doing properly.
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    One fine day in the middle of the night
    Two dead men got up to fight
    Back to back they faced each other
    Unsheathed their swords and shot each other.
    To every man upon this earth
    Death cometh sooner or late
    And how can a man die better
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    Quote Originally Posted by Colapop
    ... People just want to be heard not understood.
    Another quote of the year for 2006
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    English has its idiosyncrasies but I dispute that it's "difficult" or hard to learn. We all seem to have managed quite well on that score, mother's knee and all that.

    At least it doesn't have masculine and feminine nouns and all that shit that German involves.
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    Quote 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
    that is exactly how i was proving the point and (good spotting)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Phurrball
    English is a bastard language in the true sense of the word.
    I prefer "mongrel" to "bastard", which is of course, what gives it's peculiar vigour. I whole-heartedly agree with your comments regarding the teaching of English though, I hadn't heard of the past imperfect tense until I started learning French!
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    Very true Master Hitcher. But isn't that coming from someone brought up learning mainly English? My household was dual-speaking so I don't really know what my first langauge but I know Afrikaans (Baby Dutch to some) is a fairly easy langauge to get the hang of.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Grahameeboy
    Why do you like it too?
    Seconding phurrball´s post... via another post....
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hitcher
    Or spelt. We may agree to disagree...
    I did wonder about that. I'm not feeling all that pedantic today - so I didn't check. Clearly I should have. Strong verbs are evil in any language. Apparently spelled/spelt and a few other verbs have irregular and standard forms coexisting - curious...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sniper
    Afrikaans (Baby Dutch to some) is a fairly easy langauge to get the hang of.
    Even though it sounds like the speaker is always trying to cough something up?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Motu
    Yeah,I just can't be botherd to read someone's speil if it has no capitals or punctuation...the odd fopar and spelling mistake is OK,but I'm not going to read it 3 or 4 times to figure out what they are trying to say.

    My pet hate is break and brake,and I was soooo embarrassed the other day to read my post on another forum where I got it wrong...and there was no edit function,so everybody in the whole world could see what an idiot I was!
    I add lose and loose to that hate list, and note that you have (perhaps) made a faux pas?
    Queiro voya todo Europa con mi moto.... pero no tengo suficiente tiempo o dinero.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jim2
    Another quote of the year for 2006
    Doesn´t "quote of the year" imply that there is only one of them??
    Queiro voya todo Europa con mi moto.... pero no tengo suficiente tiempo o dinero.....

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