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I tend to disappear from the CR for long periods of time. There is a reason. I get frustrated trying to read the various posts.
This certainly doesn’t apply to everybody, but it does seem to apply to most.
People can’t spell. People have no sense of grammar. People don’t seem to be able to read the OP and reply to what was said.
In short, people here seem to have difficulty communicating.
Perhaps we should have a thread dedicated to grammar and spelling topics, if people were interested in improving their skills.
Good idea.
How about “a rule a day will help haifa-girl stay”?
Grammar Rule For Today:
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half – Do you spell and use proper grammer when texting?
I also don’t post often, but I check in a lot just to see what’s happening and read opinions. It also confuses me when the post doesn’t stay on topic it somehow always ends up in shidduchim….but I still enjoy the cr!!! I sort of miss feivels posts.
This isn’t texting; there’s no reason to use incorrect grammar.
Today’s grammar lesson is titled “There, Their, and They’re – learn the difference!”
awn behaff uv awel thi peepel inn thi cofee rume eye aplijeyes four awel thi terabul speling
eye dunt fink hyfa goil fergifs yoo
mamash – It definetly is
haifagirl -that also was bothering me, almost everyone here spells definitely -“DEFINATELY”. I’m suprised real-brisker left out the “A”. He comes pretty close to the right spelling.
1) One uses a “spelling” checker to check one’s spelling. One uses a “spell” checker to check one’s spells. Any witches in the CR?
Apparently, this website can’t spell its own name.
2) If we’re going to be so pedantic, let us avoid the word “typo” as well.
yes but the witches comment was pretty funny.
(to allay any ambiguity, i meant the comment about the witches, not the comment by the witch)
see how important an apostrophe can be!
Mr. 80,
Agreed.
I’m glad you clarified witch (sick)(sic) you were talking about.
haifagirl,
Perhaps we should have a thread dedicated to grammar and spelling topics, if people were interested in improving their skills.
Why should we have a thread dedicated to grammar now to satisfy past interest? 🙂
Seriously, I agree with you that it is painful to read some of these posts filled with misspellings and unclear language. Unfortunately, I do not think that a new thread on this message board will fix a problem that schools have been unable to fix. Also, legitimate attempts to impart grammar “mussar” should not be confused with the “grammar duck” in a debate, e.g.,
PosterA: I think X.
PosterB: I think u r mistkaen. It really is Y.
PosterA: You have poor grammar skills. Therefore, it follows that Y is incorrect and X is correct.
Why does this bother you so much
“see how important an apostrophe can be!”…
A man was waiting for a bus and noticed across the street was a grocery store. The name accross the store was John’s Groceries’ Fruits’ & Vegetables’
He must have been a relative of haifagirl cos he couldnt control himself. He marched across, picked out a selection of groceries and while paying for them pointed out the glaring poor grammar of the store name.
The storekeeper smiled and said have you any idea how much business I make from people waiting at that bus stop!
Why does this bother you so much
You left out the question mark (?).
“see how important an apostrophe can be!”
Commas as well; consider the difference between the folowing:
1) We hate to see you go.
2) We hate to see you, go.
or how you tech something with no punctuation:
sign:
Danger No Swimming Allowed
read as:
Danger? No! Swimming Allowed
That reminds me of the story with the Rov and the apikores* (an old friend from childhood). The apikores challenged the use of “trop”** in laining***. The Rov asked the apikores to borrow 100 ruble. The apikores obliged. The following week, when the apikores asked for his money, the Rov responded, “I owe you a hundred rubles?”. The apikores reminded the Rov of the previous week’s encounter, to which the Rov responded, again, “I owe you a hundred rubles?”. Now the apikores got really angry, until the Rov explained that he said “I owe you a hundred rubles.”, just with different trop!
*heretic
**cantillation
***Torah reading
Health – Just cause I compare it to texting, it does not mean I have to spell definetly wrong.
Halfagirl:
People can write, text, or blog… however they want.
EDITED
hears Y eye think it is bettor knot to yews a spelling checker.
They hurt my pried and boar me. Yew should reed your riding allowed before yew post it.
On another note, have you heard the joke about the man who bequeathed his offspring a cattle ranch, then named it Focus? Why Focus? Because it’s the place where the sons raise meat.
Halfagirl:
People can write, text, or blog… however they want.
It might not be the end of the world to misspell something, but to call Haifagirl “Halfagirl”? That’s a bit much.
Why Focus? Because it’s the place where the sons raise meat.
then he should have named it: “Focal Point”
then he should have named it: “Focal Point”
The minhag is: You buy the ranch, you get to name it.
like this ronsr
<em>text</em>ronsr:
Spell Checkers – a little Poem.
A Little Poem Regarding Computer Spell Checkers…
Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.
Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.
gratias ago tibi
That’s Latin for thank you.
Mr. 80:
like this ronsr < em >text</ em >
People can write, text, or blog… however they want.
BTW, how did you get the < em > not to italicize?
moderator magic
Klaatu barada nikto
thats Swahili for youre welcome
backticks, one before the whole phrase including the html code, and one after the phrase
backtick is the character on the same key as the tilde
this is the tilde: ~
this is a backtick `
Thank you. (That’s English for thank you.)
I had an Aunt Tilde.
Mod80,
Halfagirl:
People can write, text, or blog… however they want.
EDITED
Here is a subtle example of a hurtful username twist. So subtle there’s a chance it could have been accidental, but since the post already had to be edited for some reason…
wow mod! You may be a doctor, but you’re even smart enough to be a typer! I never knew what those little things were!!
And one loses patience, not looses it.
OOmis – I lost quite a few patience! Or was the patient’s restraints too loose?
dear Moderator:
would you please change the title to:
Wye mai presents hear is spore attic.
“typer
typist”
I know, I was trying to be funny (bad job, I guess)
“I never knew what those little things were!!
Look below. It’s underneath the box where you type a post.”
I was talking about the names for the symbols.
Yet another reason to add to why my presence here is sporadic – Every single point in the OP, and because things I post don’t usually come out the way I wanted them to and then I feel stupid or just sorry I spoke.
as you can tell from my posts although im a bubby i post in text lingo. i think it would really help if there was a spell check option. i dont know how or if we would be able to do that but when i use microsoft word i get the green and red lines under sentences when they are grammatically incorrreect. Mods please see if this is possible
as you can tell from my posts although im a bubby i post in text lingo. i think it would really help if there was a spell check option. i dont know how or if we would be able to do that but when i use microsoft word i get the green and red lines under sentences when they are grammatically incorrreect. Mods please see if this is possible
You could use a browser which has spell check, such as Firefox (I hear Google Chrome does also) or you could type your post in Word and copy it into the reply box.
Avram in MD:
Oh i didnt even realize. i read the OP’s name quickly and thought it said halfagirl, the “L” looked like an “i”. (a lower case “L” and upper case “i” look the same.
Whoops!
Here is a subtle example of a hurtful username twist. So subtle there’s a chance it could have been accidental, but since the post already had to be edited for some reason…
Avram in MD:
Oh i didnt even realize. i read the OP’s name quickly and thought it said halfagirl, the “L” looked like an “i”. (a lower case “L” and upper case “i” look the same.
Whoops!
I guess we should have been dan l’caf z’chus. YummyYummy, please be moichel.
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