Spelling and punctuation

Ron_D · Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 4:50 pm

edison · Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 5:28 pm

Speaking of acronyms, this one came up in, naturally, a biology lesson:

Q: What does DNA stand for?

A: Have a go at working it out, then open the next post

edison · Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 5:29 pm

Re: DNA acronym

A: National Dyslexic Association

TheLoadedDog · Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 6:54 pm

TA3015 · Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 11:04 pm

I got another, and I'm not sifting through 20-odd pages of posts to find if it's been done...

Stemming from a thread in SA, "thort" in place of "thought" is most annoying! It's not that effing hard to do it, in the end it comes down to laziness. I do, occasionally abbreviate when appropriate, bt nt evry wrd, othawise itd b Evil or Very Mad

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ARG706 · Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 11:41 pm

I don't think the kid knows how to spell it

TA3015 · Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 12:20 am

Ron_D · Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 3:37 pm

Ron_D · Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 4:40 pm

I have also seen a number of people type these words "dose", "whould". "nt"

EG:

Warks · Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 1:29 pm

I'm amazed at the dismal spelling on these pages by supposed university students. It's not the odd common misspelling - I know I'm not perfect - there's a few I have to think about. However, some are so basic that I can't believe they didn't have to repeat Year 6 until they could spell.
I guess the problem with having teachers checking spelling these days is that a lot of them can't spell anyway.
When you can't comprehend what the writer is saying it has really gone far enough. Some commentators around here (well NSW forum) are nigh impossible to understand sometimes. The woman who wrote "Eats Shoots and Leaves" calls this "unreasonable transfer of effort". It's all well and good for you to bang of an email in 10 seconds without thinking but if it takes two people half an hour to understand it then you have merely redistributed the effort.

I know we won't offend anyone on this thread as the perpetrators would never read this!!

PS I have trouble spelling misspell!

John of Melbourne · Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 10:34 pm

A misspelling that seems to be through ignorance that I've noticed a lot on another site, but also seen here, is intergrated (instead of integrated, for those that don't know).

ARG706 · Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 9:27 pm

from an SA thread

Tom · Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 10:23 pm

Ok that last one was done by me - In my defence I would just like to say that my spelling is getting better i know that im not very good at spelling 3 years ago i had some expert say i had some learning difficulty that made me spell bad and ive been working really hard to correct it, So dont worrie by the time im Prime minster i wont have tis problem - note the spell check often dosnt work on this site.

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TheLoadedDog · Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 11:27 am

I don't normally point out individual errors, well certainly not ones made in posts here, but when they are part of the RP site itself, they need to be fixed. To this end, I need to point out one that exists on a page we are all seeing more and more - the server overload page.

There is a bit of a plug for the donations link on there, which goes something along the lines of: "if you would like to see less of these error messages, please donate... yadda yadda".

If you want to see less of the error messages, I would suggest sticking a bit of paper over part of the screen. If, as I think is the case, they are asking if you would like a reduced number of error messages, then the word is FEWER, not less. "If you would like to see fewer error messages..." - lovely.

'Less' relates to uncountable things, and 'fewer' relates to the countable.

Less money - fewer dollars.
Less beer - fewer bottles.
Less downtime - fewer error messages.

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John of Melbourne · Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 2:55 am