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 HappyDaze
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How impotent is spelling?
Apart from often changing the whole meaning of a word, incorrect spelling can make reading hard work.
The bright side is - you get the odd laugh!
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Greg
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| posted on December 16th, 2009 at 11:02 AM |
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Well put Greg.
Alot hear carnt spel four knuts!!!! Eye saie PHUKM !
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| posted on December 16th, 2009 at 11:09 AM |
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yep iamwiht u matt phukeum the spelng
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| posted on December 16th, 2009 at 11:40 AM |
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The spelling and use of punctuation on car forums is slightly worse the the fashion sense at your average swap meet IMO.
eg " I went there to see there things if I could do so while there at home."
Or it's a bit silly when you can't spell four letter words or use an apostophe in any shape or form.
Spell check isn't rocket surgery is it?
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| posted on December 16th, 2009 at 12:01 PM |
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It's not spelling that irks me, but incorrect grammar like "I done that" and "nothink". Urgh.
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| posted on December 16th, 2009 at 12:37 PM |
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I just hate everyone equally
Dont care if ya cun spell or not
Futue te ipsum!!!
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| posted on December 16th, 2009 at 03:20 PM |
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How important IS Spelling..? VERY
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The spelling and use of punctuation on car forums is slightly worse the the fashion sense at your average swap meet IMO.
eg " I went there to see there things if I could do so while there at home."
Or it's a bit silly when you can't spell four letter words or use an apostophe in any shape or form.
Spell check isn't rocket surgery is it?
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EXCELLENT ...
My thoughts too....
but many people have gone thru life not being able to spell..
and now it shows.... lol
I read on a US VW forum a post by a very illiterate fellow..
how He managed to turn the computer on I don't know..
but every word was spelt incorrectly...
and He had terrible problems trying to write what He was thinking..
LEE
PS: I do use the US spelling like thru, meter, fiber, and color as I'm on US Forums a lot... Lee
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| posted on December 16th, 2009 at 03:31 PM |
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nice 1 bizzarre
matt
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| posted on December 16th, 2009 at 04:11 PM |
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Spell check isn't rocket surgery is it?
Ho ho hoTwokombies larfed mi selv gidie
But I do think that with a bit of effort we could improve the gramar and spelling, I tend to use a different word if I think I don't know the correct
spelling, but I still slip up occasionaly.
Lee, we don't live in the US of A so dump that spelling please, that's the thing that realy makes me mad.
(like you would care if little old me got a dose of the crankies)
Ha, just noticed "importent"
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 16th, 2009 at 04:29 PM |
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as long as we all speakin good and doin good we must be good??
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| posted on December 16th, 2009 at 04:59 PM |
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PS: I do use the US spelling like thru, meter, fiber, and color as I'm on US Forums a lot... Lee
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It must be hard to work out if you are communicating with Americans or Australians.
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| posted on December 16th, 2009 at 05:55 PM |
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Guys, I understand about the spelling and how frustrating it can be for what most of us see as simple words. One of the miss spelled words that
pisses me off, it the word 'off' when people only use one F. Makes all the difference.
With that said, I can overlook the spelling but the lack of punctuation gets right up my nose. You are reading through a sentence and it doesn't
make any sense, then you realise(with an S) that they left out the full stop 
Now do we all feel better now after offloading out troubles 
Kev
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| posted on December 16th, 2009 at 06:12 PM |
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if yuo can raed tihs, you hvae a sgtrane mnid, too.
Can you raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.
i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde
Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit
pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef,
but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!
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| posted on December 16th, 2009 at 06:18 PM |
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Seen that before but always good 
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| posted on December 16th, 2009 at 06:49 PM |
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Hi
I hate when people put a long rant into one sentence without a comma, full stop etc, its really hard work to read.
I'm a dumbarse that only just got through year 10, but I try as best as can, but I use Opera as my browser which has a really good spell-checker in
it.
I never thought that after leaving school that I would need to use grammar or spelling again or Algebra for that matter, then the net came along and I
just had to go and get a computer and get involved.
Steve
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| posted on December 16th, 2009 at 06:49 PM |
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well there are days i'm in a daze and who knows how my nose is , but i'll say no to knowing too much. no wonder i wander off too much
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by Twokombies
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PS: I do use the US spelling like thru, meter, fiber, and color as I'm on US Forums a lot... Lee
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It must be hard to work out if you are communicating with Americans or Australians.
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As most of My writing is to Americians and Canadians I do use the US Spelling...
You should realize Kev that "z's" are good in the USA.. lol
and Yes, I don't know why people use of for OFF ??
and My favorite [US spelling] is there, their and they're .. lol
which most people get mixed up with or just don't know...
LEE
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| posted on December 16th, 2009 at 08:27 PM |
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Who 'corrected' my spelling, and why?
I'd rather wear a Beetle out by racing it than by polishing it!
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| posted on December 16th, 2009 at 08:34 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by HappyDaze
Who 'corrected' my spelling, and why?
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68AutoBug
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| posted on December 16th, 2009 at 08:36 PM |
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How important is spelling... very important..
I finally changed the spelling of important..
it was driving Me crazy..
Lee
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| posted on December 16th, 2009 at 08:43 PM |
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Did you not think that it might have been an 'important' part of the message?
O.K., I have a strange sense of humour - can't help it!
Cheers, Greg
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| posted on December 16th, 2009 at 08:47 PM |
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Stop doing that!!!!!!!
I'd rather wear a Beetle out by racing it than by polishing it!
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| posted on December 16th, 2009 at 09:13 PM |
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How important is spelling???
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posted by HappyDaze
Stop doing that!!!!!!!
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OK
LEE
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| posted on December 17th, 2009 at 04:46 AM |
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Hiya Lee,
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posted by 68AutoBug
........ I do use the US spelling like thru, meter, fiber, and color as I'm on US Forums a lot... Lee
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Hah! It might interest you to know that "thru" is not a technically acceptable American spelling. It should properly be "through". But there is
an interesting story behind it.
It seems as though the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper tried to reform US spelling habits around the turn of the twentieth century. Readers back then
were not all that well educated and the editors at the Sun-Times figured that if we make the words spell like they are sounded we can gain readership.
So they set out to change the way many words were spelled in their paper. Night became "nite", through became "thru", and so on. The Sun-Times
eventually gave up these spellings but we Americans are still living with the fallout of this experiment.
And I have to say that, on our own, as an entire country, we have done more than our share to mangle English. As was said by Professor Henry Higgins
of Americans, "Why they don't even speak it (English) anymore!"
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| posted on December 17th, 2009 at 08:29 PM |
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I always fix mine up if I notice I've done anything wrong because I'm OCD. I'd prefer it if people dont use SMS language when they have a full
qwerty keyboard but as far as I know, this is just the internet, not a phd thesis and it doesnt matter at all.
If my wife told me I was an impotent member of the family, I'd probably not like that much though.
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| posted on December 17th, 2009 at 09:26 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
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I just hate everyone equally
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Especially those who can't work out the difference between 'to' and 'too', 'of' and 'off', 'there', 'their' and 'they're', those who
don't know how to use apostrophes (especially when they write dates like 76' for 1976 - if you think you need help see http://www.apostrophe.org.uk/ ), those who use moronic abrieviations (such as
'deffo' and 'shizz').
And those who think it doesn't matter.
'76 Golf
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| posted on December 18th, 2009 at 07:17 AM |
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Those who think it doesn't matter are, I believe, are the problem. What else do they think doesn't matter?
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| posted on December 18th, 2009 at 08:19 AM |
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| Quote: | Originally
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What else do they think doesn't matter?
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They're probably the ones that work at the vee dub shop that everyone complains about, you know, the ones that can't be bothered to return emails/
phone calls etc, or give advise when selling you those parts you order, or can't even be bothered to clean the oil strainer when changing the
oil..... or......I better stop cause I could fill the page......
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| posted on December 18th, 2009 at 10:24 AM |
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The use of grammar and syntactic elements aids communication in this "online" context -- adding credibility to one's post.
Language -- particularly the english language -- has been, and continues to be in flux.
Not all of us are writers.
Not all of us have english as a first language and a generation of those that do were done a dis-service via a curricula which didn't teach grammar.
Most are still able get their point across.
We're all into Vee Dubs. 
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| posted on December 18th, 2009 at 10:34 AM |
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Too true, it is just he internet, but some pride in one's spelling is important IMO.
I suppose it's similar to people who take great delight in driving rat look cars and those who drive them without realising it.
I think that we should learn by all this writing and reading we do, like we learn a bit about our cars from sharing experiences with other dubbers.
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