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Arab Strap
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apostophes (sic)
generall (sic)
hve ((sic)
Is this not a case of the pot calling the kettle black Mr. Bepsi? Three 'unforced errors' in one posting..............michtie me.
If your life in Romania is so wonderful, you encourage posters to invest or holiday there, then why oh why do you spend so much time on this page giving us your learned insights and also giving free reign to your grammatical pedantry?
I understood perfectly what the guy was on about................it would behoove us to remember that we're not all perfect and that this is an information and opinion exchange not a classroom.
Fell free to splap this one on the speill czech 
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veiledsentiments
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| Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 3:02 pm Post subject: |
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I DO wish that there was a 'spell czech' on this board, but I think the biggest problem is proofreading... why is it that our brain wants to stick an apostrophe in front of every 's'??
BTW... pooreslteacher/crashartist... I had figured out that you were joking in the use of visa's in the second post (is it sarcasm?)... but too many here still think you are defending the indefensible as far as the teaching situation at these places that don't provide full work visas... bowing out of the thread may be your best option. 
Peace is good...
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Bebsi
Joined: 07 Feb 2005
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| Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 9:52 pm Post subject: It's an addiction! |
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| If your life in Romania is so wonderful, you encourage posters to invest or holiday there, then why oh why do you spend so much time on this page giving us your learned insights and also giving free reign to your grammatical pedantry? |
Life of leisure...a few big real-estate investments paid off, so I have taken early retirement. Being the generous, altruistic soul that I am, I want to share my good fortune with others, not to mention my grammatical pedantry.
I wish!! Actually, I am sort of "enjoying" a brief period of enforced idleness, while having to spend long hours at my PC...so what better way to pass a happy hour than to poke around in here and gloat at all ye in KSA, not to mention annoy the hell out of people like AS.  I think I must be addicted to this forum!
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apostophes (sic)
generall (sic)
hve ((sic) |
Well, like some do, I could say it is "sarcasim", but basically they were typos, wihch aer soemtiems comon here. 
However, placing apostrophes (or even apostophes...sounds like some Greek philosopher) in plurals smacks of grammatical ignorance...a very bad example indeed in so-called English teachers' forums (fora?). |
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Deveraux
Joined: 09 May 2006
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| Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 2:15 am Post subject: |
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Interesting posting.
Check out www.iespell.com
If you want to spell check your posts. This download puts an 'abc over check mark' icon in the IE tool bar, allowing you to check any text inputs in any forum or the like. It allows you to change the language Am/Eng Brit/Eng and add words to the dictionary. Most important, it's free!
No offence intended, but some people do not know about this.
On the subject of proof reading, that someone brought up, it helps to read the post backward.
HTH
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dmb
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| Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 4:26 am Post subject: |
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On the subject of proof reading, that someone brought up, it helps to read the post backward.
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 ?pleh taht seod woH |
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scot47
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| Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 4:55 am Post subject: |
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| You can also try it while standing on your head. This does not really help but scares the living daylights out of the other people in the office, who are already convinced that you are a deranged psychopath. |
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Deveraux
Joined: 09 May 2006
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| Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 5:11 am Post subject: |
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On the subject of proof reading, that someone brought up, it helps to read the post backward.
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veiledsentiments
Joined: 20 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 1:47 pm Post subject: |
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On the subject of proof reading, that someone brought up, it helps to read the post backward.
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I thought that was pretty creative. I'm not sure that I could have managed that.
I also taught my writing students the old read it backwards trick, but who has the time to mess about that on a message board. None of our posts are really all that important, are they?
Not to mention that it would take more than a spellchecker to get me to use IE.
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Deveraux
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| Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 5:04 pm Post subject: |
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On the subject of proof reading, that someone brought up, it helps to read the post backward.
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I thought that was pretty creative. I'm not sure that I could have managed that.
I also taught my writing students the old read it backwards trick, but who has the time to mess about that on a message board. None of our posts are really all that important, are they?
Not to mention that it would take more than a spellchecker to get me to use IE.
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What is it with IE. I have never used anything else and don't see a problem. |
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Stephen Jones
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| Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 9:14 pm Post subject: |
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| What is it with IE. I have never used anything else and don't see a problem. |
The fact that you have never used anything else explains all.
Download "Firefox" and try it out. You won't go back.
And if you really must use IE, then at least download one of the tabbed browser plugins. |
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veiledsentiments
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| Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 11:04 pm Post subject: |
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Exactly!! Firefox is superior in every way... and free... no popups... tabbed browsing... most virus creators fixated on easy Microsoft attacks... did I mention no $@%# popups?
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Stephen Jones
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| Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 3:26 am Post subject: |
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| then why oh why do you spend so much time on this page giving us your learned insights and also giving free reign to your grammatical pedantry? |
Free rein As in horses.
Arab Strap is proving the validity of Hartman's Law of Prescriptivist Retaliation, which states that "any article or statement about correct grammar, punctuation, or spelling is bound to contain at least one eror." |
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Arab Strap
Joined: 25 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 8:08 am Post subject: |
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'hoist by my own petard'..................yet again
Please check:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petard
for the validity of this statement |
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Bebsi
Joined: 07 Feb 2005
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| Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 9:57 am Post subject: To err is human |
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| Arab Strap is proving the validity of Hartman's Law of Prescriptivist Retaliation, which states that "any article or statement about correct grammar, punctuation, or spelling is bound to contain at least one eror." |
But Stephen, he WASN'T being a grammatical pedant, he was criticizing MY grammatical pedantry. He has no rite to do that!
I'm the grammatical pedant here, and I rarely make topographical errors.
I'm embarrassed that I missed "reign" though. How careless of me! It is a serious error, perhaps he should look up its meaning...spend more time poring "Reign" |
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veiledsentiments
Joined: 20 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 2:30 pm Post subject: Re: To err is human |
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| He has no rite to do that! I'm the grammatical pedant here, and I rarely make topographical errors. |
So... is that rite? or right? typographical or topographical?
typo or intentional to see if we notice? This is all getting so complicated!!
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