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

Originally Posted by Hymie

Yeah, but would you buy a used car from this man?

Or an unused one...all car salesmen should hence forth pass a basic literacy test.

I hope these standards don't apply to working families

Originally Posted by Hymie

Yeah, but would you buy a used car from this man?

might give it a go...he might not notice a couple of zero's missing on the cheque

or is it check

Originally Posted by rangieman

Maybe he,s a typical uneducated LandRover (Disco) owner

I have yu know that I'm youniversity edumicated.

The EU have a solution to the problems presented by a difficult language like "English" which is the result of the bastardisation of one language by many others over a long period due to the repeated invasion of the mother country. The following plan should solve most spelling difficulties...

• Five year phase-in plan for "EuroEnglish"

The European Commission have just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the EU, rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five year phase in plan that would be known as EuroEnglish".

In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump for joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of the "k". This should klear up konfusion and keyboards kan have 1 less letter.

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with the "f". This will make words like "fotograf" 20% shorter.

In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of the silent "e"s in the language is disgraseful, and they should go away.

By the 4th year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v".

During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters. After zis fifz year, ve vil hav a realy sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi to understand each ozer

ZE DREAM VIL FINALI KUM TRU!

love it.

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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?

"Gotten" is not a made up word. It dates from Old English but according to SOED is now restricted to dialect and North American usage. Many "American" words are in fact archaic English words that dropped out of use in Standard English by the end of the eighteenth century.

John

Besides all the spelin mistooks, isn't that Godzilla, owned by one of Greylandys mates.

Baz.

i have not read all of the posts so i thought i would give him the benifit of the doubt and a bit of support

i failed english at school but have managed to get through an apprenticeship and land a not so bad job managing a team of tradies

i quite often get picked up for spelling and grammer and now that i am going to uni i am under the pump even more so with academic writing so my wife kindly proof reads everything for me

this guy could well be at the limits of his ability but thinks he has done a good job, there are people out there with way worse learning ability than myself and struggle everyday with it.......

re: would i buy a car from him, well spelling has nothing to do with it, he has pointed out issues the car which is what a buying would be looking for

there is an old saying would........never judge a book by its cover..

anyway how did i go........