Thank you. I don't put myself forward as an expert, you understand. I simply try to be the best I can be.
What is this place? A football forum or a English language school?
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Thank you. I don't put myself forward as an expert, you understand. I simply try to be the best I can be.
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Mr Jack Liddell use to beat me with his slipper if I made a mistake in my lessons at the Knoll School for Boys.
I had Mr Liddell for maths at St Mary's hall. right seargent major he was.
Jack Daniels
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Finally something everyone agree's on. Hasn't turned into a bar room brawl yet either
terryberry1
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Im fed up wiv peeple slaging off mi splellings. I fank the fred startar for briging this 2 are atencion. Not evarybodie is prefect yoo kno
looney
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- Jul 7, 2003
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Thank you. I don't put myself forward as an expert, you understand. I simply try to be the best I can be.
Yes OK. I dont have a prob with peoples spelling or grandma, but if someone is going to preach about it I expect theirs to be perfect, usually though this isn't the case.
NMH
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I'd like to at least be able to read what the thick people say.
This. Do we really want to be discouraging people who might have something interesting to say but have difficulties with spelling etc posting? As long as you can understand what they mean it doesn't matter; and if you don't understand you can ask them to clarify
NMH
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No, Bry was quite correct to have used "the basics of English language" without typing 'THE' before it.
Your correction is WRONG looney.
Must try harder, and should desist from flicking bogeys at admin. personnel.
SICKASAGULL
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- Aug 26, 2007
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The poor spelling and grammer are the result of our education system over past years,when mentioning to teachers that our childrens spelling was not good the reply was its better that they put their thoughts on paper without being restricted,spelling and grammer would follow later.
I want to read various views/opinions and am not put off if spelling/grammer is not perfect.
I want to read various views/opinions and am not put off if spelling/grammer is not perfect.
JamesAndTheGiantHead
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I see some comments from younger family on friends on Facebook/Twitter and I worry for them. 'goin out 2 nyt' and the like really grinds my gears. I can sort of understand it when people were using predictive text on late 90's mobiles, but when you're sat in front of a keyboard, is it really too much more work to occasionally hold down the shift key?
Maybe I'm imagining it, but I also find good spelling and grammar a lot easier to read and digest. If people start dropping vowels out of words willy nilly them I have to actually think about what that word is.
i jus dnt lyk it
Maybe I'm imagining it, but I also find good spelling and grammar a lot easier to read and digest. If people start dropping vowels out of words willy nilly them I have to actually think about what that word is.
i jus dnt lyk it
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Brian Fantana
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Personally, I'm inclined to take people, and their opinions, seriously if they can spell and write well.
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I don't think so.
So you wouldn't take the opinion of somebody with dyslexia seriously?
- Oct 19, 2003
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could you repeat that I didn't understand
There's no such thing. Schools realised years ago that if you classify a child who has shit spelling as dyslexic he/she would not count when the league tables were compiled. This coincided with an explosion of kids being classified as dyslexic.
I'd agree if it was isolated incidences, but the illiteracy just gets annoying. I'm really bad at spelling, finally passed English at the third attempt, but I make an effort.