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 amazeer
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| posted on December 8th, 2008 at 09:19 PM |
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"words" that shit me.
I dont worry too much about spelling, not using the correct spelling of a word like their and there bothers me only a little, and I barely know a verb
from a noun but I hate it when people use non-words. 3 or 4 times in the past week I have heard the word "disorientated". Now is that a
real word or not? I just searched online and found both disorientated and disoriented.
Does anyone have a real dictionary, the type made from paper, that they can look it up? I need to know before I tell off someone who should know
better. Though it took me years to get her to say Vietnamese instead of Vietmanese,
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| posted on December 8th, 2008 at 09:22 PM |
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Disoriented.
I get annoyed when people replace nothing, with nothink. It really disorientates me somethink bad.
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| posted on December 8th, 2008 at 09:49 PM |
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Like when people are selling a car on epay or wherever they tend to say 'When i BROUGHT the car' etc.
It is spelt 'B O U G H T' not Brought!!
They may have 'brought it home' after they Bought it!
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| posted on December 8th, 2008 at 10:31 PM |
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My 1964 Oxford English Dictionary lists "disorientate" but *not* "disorient" (although the latter is [according to the Porter algorithm] the stem
of the word, and if you add back common suffixes to the stem, one possibility is "disoriented").
My 1966 (Chicago) Webster's lists neither but recognises both "orient" and "orientate" as verbs, to which one could, presumably, prefix a
"dis".
In any case, these words have a very particular meaning of placing a lodestone on an altar at other than the correct angle. This might be useful in
some, limited, circumstances. A more generic word for "to confuse, entangle; embroil" is "to embrangle" and it has a lovely onomatopoeic ring to
it, one becomes embrangled rather than disoriented/disorientated. The word is nearly archaic, but could do with a revivavl.
hth
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| posted on December 8th, 2008 at 10:50 PM |
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...revival
Pay your debts, CxxT
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oh ffs really you need to get outmore to the big smoke big feller!!! 
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| posted on December 9th, 2008 at 06:44 AM |
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I edit the Club Veedub magazine Zeitschrift, so much of my spare time is spent in fixing the spelling and grammar of the articles and stories we
get.
Lots of people seem to have trouble with 'their', 'there' and 'they're'. My Australian concise Oxford lists both 'disorientate' (it says
'see disorient'), and disorient, which has the expansion 'disorientation'.
But most of the problems seem to be not the words, but the way they are used. 'I done this' and 'we done that' really annoys me. It's 'we DID
this'.
I hate the way people still spell VOLKSWAGON after 54 years in Australia.
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| posted on December 9th, 2008 at 08:16 AM |
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oh ffs really you need to get outmore to the big smoke big feller!!!
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i have a daughter who is desperate to get into a selective high school... she at least needs to know how to speak the language, even if these days we
arent required to spell it.
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| posted on December 9th, 2008 at 08:32 AM |
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Ok, while we are onto the English language and it's grammer which one of these is correct..........."I will try and do it" or "I will try to do
it" thats one that I often notice, but then I've got bugger all else to do
I dream of a day when a chicken can cross a road without being asked for it's motive!
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| posted on December 9th, 2008 at 08:50 AM |
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I can not write a story or spell for shit as some of you may have noticed when ready some of my replies, sometimes they do not make since to me
But I AM 42 Years old and run a small business , I have no brains and happy with out them , thats why I have 6 beetles no brains
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| posted on December 9th, 2008 at 09:29 AM |
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my fave... can i arsk you something.. people do it all the time
i was brought up asking something not arsking
why o why
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| posted on December 9th, 2008 at 09:31 AM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by amazeer
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posted by h
oh ffs really you need to get outmore to the big smoke big feller!!!
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i have a daughter who is desperate to get into a selective high school... she at least needs to know how to speak the language, even if these days we
arent required to spell it.
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btw your lucky i kept reading your post as the first 7 words can so be taken outta context...
watch wot ya write there chrisso
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| posted on December 9th, 2008 at 01:43 PM |
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h.... i think you mean "Arks you sumfink" :-) & yeah i hate it too
& Modulus,,, "Embrangle"--> i very much like it :-) & "onomatopoeic" ,,, now that one takes the cake,,, i really love that one :-)
Fanks :-)
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| posted on December 9th, 2008 at 02:34 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by donn
Ok, while we are onto the English language and it's grammer which one of these is correct..........."I will try and do it" or "I will try to do
it" thats one that I often notice, but then I've got bugger all else to do
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Technically it should be 'try to' not 'try and'
Oh.. and since we're here... 'its grammar' not 'it's grammer' 
Apostrophes and their insertion when not required is my pet hate...
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| posted on December 9th, 2008 at 04:04 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by Jay_1965vw
| Quote: | Originally
posted by donn
Ok, while we are onto the English language and it's grammer which one of these is correct..........."I will try and do it" or "I will try to do
it" thats one that I often notice, but then I've got bugger all else to do
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Technically it should be 'try to' not 'try and'
Oh.. and since we're here... 'its grammar' not 'it's grammer'
Apostrophes and their insertion when not required is my pet hate...
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Technically it should be:
Apostrophes and their insertion when not required are my pet hates...
But who wants to be a Grammar Nazi?
hth
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| posted on December 9th, 2008 at 04:24 PM |
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I have many pet hates when it comes to spelling. Volkswagon is definitely one of them but another is 'specialty'. It should be 'speciality' and
also when people pronounce "schedule' as 'skedule' and not the correct way 'shedule'. But to be fair we live in Oz not England so I suppose we
get to choose plus anyone who knows me will probably realise I'm a cockney so pronunciation is not a point I should really dwell on BTW I spent many years in typesetting as a reader where the point of the job
was to check for correct spelling and grammar.
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| posted on December 9th, 2008 at 05:49 PM |
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I am also going to jump on this bandwagon. Firstly I will say that I am not the worlds best speller, but no punctuation in a sentence really P's me
off (off - spelt with 2 F's). When reading a sentence and it all rolls into one, doesn't make sense to me. Other forums I have been on state that
you must use full stops and no abbreviations. Sometimes with swear words you may need to abbreviate.
I'm 41 and a few years ago I didn't want to except when my son was at school that the plural of fish is fishes. This was a big No No when I went to
school. Also it was always Steve and I, but now its me and Steve. The standards have definitely dropped. 
Kevin
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| posted on December 9th, 2008 at 06:01 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by Wannavee
Like when people are selling a car on epay or wherever they tend to say 'When i BROUGHT the car' etc.
It is spelt 'B O U G H T' not Brought!!
They may have 'brought it home' after they Bought it!
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I am an english spelling freak.....
Brought is one of the most used words... lol
and their.. isn't even used by many journalists...
and I agree that everyone should know there IS an "e" in Volkswagen or "only One "o" in volkswagen
I'm on a few international forums -
so - I use - glassfiber - color - tire -
windshield = [windscreen]
fender = wing = guard - 1/4 lights = 1/4 windows
wing mirror = mirror on the guard- fender.
thats all I can think of at the moment.
But the one word that You see all the time if you have the idiots guide by the late John Muir .
"for the compleat idiot"
I do prefer 'complete'.....
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| posted on December 9th, 2008 at 07:57 PM |
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Oh.. and since we're here... 'its grammar' not 'it's grammer'
Orite, I'll back out now.
I dream of a day when a chicken can cross a road without being asked for it's motive!
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If you haven't noticed I can't stand when people are asked a question and they answer it with yeah no. What th. Please explain???????
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And the ones who "must of done xyz" instead of "must have" " or "must've". Also seen on here quite a bit is THERE instead of THEIR or even
THEY'RE. There's also the Yank (and even Poms) using "they got off of the train". Ah! Grumpy old teachers!!
DH
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| posted on December 10th, 2008 at 06:40 AM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by modulus
| Quote: | Originally
posted by Jay_1965vw
Apostrophes and their insertion when not required is my pet hate...
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Technically it should be:
Apostrophes and their insertion when not required are my pet hates...
But who wants to be a Grammar Nazi?
hth
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But surely that's what this thread is all about
Post in here, be prepared to have your writing criticised!
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I find it amusing the amount of people who can't spell QANTAS.....they find it necessary to throw a "U" in there also QUANTAS.
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| posted on December 10th, 2008 at 07:37 AM |
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| Quote: | Originally
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If you haven't noticed I can't stand when people are asked a question and they answer it with yeah no. What th. Please explain???????
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I love "yeah no".
"Yeah no" is now an accepted turn of phrase. It was accepted only a couple of weeks ago. I'll see if I can dig it up.
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One word I can never spell correctly without looking it up is DIARRHOEA. Even now it took me 5 minutes to find it in the dictionary. At least it
isn't a word I use in a VW club magazine very much.
Occasionally I have a mental block with little words - was it 'once apon a time' or 'once upon a time'?
Here's two annoying mistakes in one sentence: "I NEVER DONE NOTHING." And what about Jack Gibson's famous quote, 'played good, done strong'.
I really hate the former Apple Computer slogan - THINK DIFFERENT. Argh! It should be THINK DIFFERENTLY.
Lee you should be educating the Americans in proper English, not slipping into their lazy habits. Be proud of windscreen, mudguard, colour, harbour
etc. And yes, there's no such word as 'compleat'!
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My pet hate in words here is a strange one - "Hazard a guess"
SURLEY it is "has at a guess" or "have as a guess"
Why the hell would it be "hazard" 
Bigger idiots out there to worry about
Futue te ipsum!!!
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| Quote: | Originally
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My pet hate in words here is a strange one - "Hazard a guess"
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Not just strange - bizarre.
To "hazard a guess" is to "risk a guess", i.e. take the risk of making a guess. "Hazard" is only used as a verb these days in exactly this
construction.
hth
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'Impacting'. You know what I mean. 'Having an impact' anyone?
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Does anyone speak German fluently?
I am told that VW's recent slogan, 'Das Auto' (the car) should be 'Der Auto', but I haven't done German since high school so I don't know.
Anyway, surely 'Volkswagen - Das Auto' should translate as 'People's Car - The Car'. That really doesn't make sense!
And apparantly ordinary Germans hate VW's previous slogan - 'Aus Liebe zum Automobil', which roughly means 'for the love of the car', as its
grammar is not proper German. Is this true?
And yes I hate the way Americanism are creeping into our language, via TV, movies and sport. Since when does Ricky Ponting have to 'step up to the
plate'??
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The one that really pisses me off is when, as I work in retail and answer the phone a lot, is when people say "listen", as in "Yeah, listen, I'm
after a blah blah".
Do they think I'm not going to listen? So now I usually interject with "Yeah, listening".
Most people seem normal, till you get to know them.
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