I hate knocking people, but wouldn't you TRY to spell things right?

A couple of years back I received a letter from a 'Temporary Staffing Agency' (who will remain anonymous,) consisting of around 130 words or so, pointing out many benefits my business could reap from employing some of the vast 'office skilled' personnel they had on their books on a "when needed" basis.
With a red texta pen, I corrected in excess of 75 spelling and grammatical errors and returned the letter to the sender with a note suggesting that perhaps their office could benefit from making use of some of my coach drivers skills.
Alas, I got no response from them.
At least this bloke with the ad. is only trying to sell a car!
Regards
Glen

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Some years back I received some software we were trialling for tracking fishing vessels.

I read the user manual, used a highlighter on nearly every page of the 200+ page user manual. It had lots of spelling, lots of grammatical, and lots of factual errors. I made lots of suggestions, rewrote sections, and sent it back

The company rang me up to thank me!

Hi Ron , Good to see you back on the site :BigThumb: . I have bought a few things lately and have noticed a lot of the manuals have spelling mistakes . what is it .... are they not using spell check or just being lazy these days ?

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Originally Posted by stevo68

Hmm, are you and this bloke brothers :p, anyway I think this bloke is more a case of laziness or he spends to much time on 4WD Action as that ad would be a pretty good comparison to what you read over there........not so much if hardly ever over here,

Regards

Stevo

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Too :D:D

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Too :D:D

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too - no capitals.:o

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Originally Posted by one_iota

;) Now Slunny we know that you are not an idiot, ignorant or illiterate nor do we need to correct you. We are all guilty of the occasional gaff but it doesn't interfere with communication.

The Ebay writer has managed to communicate to us with effort on our part.

Long ago I met a kid at a school camp who asked me to write his letter home to his family...he was literally iliterate. He was intelligent but had slipped through the education net...I wonder how he has gotten on in life. I admired his bravery.[/quote]

i think someone else slipped though the education net as well.
i believe gotten is not part of the english language, but comes from a strange "made up" language that is known as "American". they don't seem to grasp the idea that sometimes one word can be used in many different ways without having to alter it.
was that disco from Lokka?

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Well - that's a new one on me.;)

I have just looked at my "Concise Oxford Dictionary" &, as you say, it shows "gotten" as US.

I've used "gotten" from when I learned to speak proper. :D

Well bugger me.:eek:

I agree with JDNSW, "gotten" is a leftover from the changes to English of old. I suspect a lot of it came about owing to the separation (in time and distance) of the "USA" from Britain and Noah Webster's dictionary which was ubiquitous in US schools.

Another thing that has remained is the US Gallon. It's (I understand) the same as the gallon the white settlers from the Mayflower, etc. took with them. The Imperial gallon has changed, the US gallon has not. The Imperial gallon was changed to be the volume of 10lbs of water at a certain temp.

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Hmm, are you and this bloke brothers :p, anyway I think this bloke is more a case of laziness or he spends to much time on 4WD Action as that ad would be a pretty good comparison to what you read over there........not so much if hardly ever over here,

Regards

Stevo

Too :D:D

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Juuuussssttttt checking to see who is awake :angel: :p,

Regards

Stevo

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Hmm, are you and this bloke brothers :p, anyway 'I think this bloke is more a case of laziness' or he spends to much time on 4WD Action as that ad would be a pretty good comparison to what you read over there........not so much if hardly ever over here,

Regards

Stevo

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as they said also,
not 'to' but 'too',
and grammar in the underlined part [of the]sentence is less than expected also.
perhaps: 'i think this bloke is lazy' etc.
oh, don't bother to correct me about capitals, i don't do them.
i type here for fun.
sorry stevo, just being picky,























and fishing.

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I agree with JDNSW, "gotten" is a leftover from the changes to English of old. I suspect a lot of it came about owing to the separation (in time and distance) of the "USA" from Britain and Noah Webster's dictionary which was ubiquitous in US schools.

Another thing that has remained is the US Gallon. It's (I understand) the same as the gallon the white settlers from the Mayflower, etc. took with them. The Imperial gallon has changed, the US gallon has not. The Imperial gallon was changed to be the volume of 10lbs of water at a certain temp.

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In Britain (and America) there were formerly a variety of different gallons for different commodities (Wikipedia lists 16 different gallons). In the 1824 Britain standardised on the "Ale" gallon for all purposes, modified slightly to be exactly ten pounds of water, a response to metrication on the continent.

The U.S., perhaps to be different, or perhaps reflecting different tastes in beverages, standardised (much later) on the "wine" gallon (dating from Queen Anne, but that was formalising a measure that goes back to the middle ages) for most purposes, although the "corn" gallon, a little smaller than an Imperial gallon, remained in use for dry commodities until quite recently.

John