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laogaiguk
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 Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 9:18 pm Post subject: Rediculous BAD, Ridiculous GOOD |
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| Wasn't sure of which forum this should go in, so here it is. This is just a friendly, helpful suggestion to all the English teachers here. |
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Tiberious aka Sparkles
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Location: I'm one cool cat!
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| Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 9:26 pm Post subject: |
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This is defanitely a good public service.
Sparkles*_* |
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laogaiguk
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| Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 9:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Tiberious aka Sparkles wrote: |
This is defanitely a good public service.
Sparkles*_* |
 Nice! |
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Wangja
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| Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 9:29 pm Post subject: |
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| bluddee ridikerlus to 'ave dis fred agin |
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jinju
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| Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 9:33 pm Post subject: |
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| This yhread is rodiquilous. |
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laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
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| Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 9:35 pm Post subject: |
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| If you show a student a word a couple of times in one class, they won't necessarily remember it. But you keep showing it to them everyday and they will remember it after awhile. I am hoping to do the same here. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 10:15 pm Post subject: |
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| laogaiguk wrote: |
| If you show a student a word a couple of times in one class, they won't necessarily remember it. But you keep showing it to them everyday and they will remember it after awhile. I am hoping to do the same here. |
Please tell me your just following on the misspelling train. |
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laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: somewhere in Korea
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| Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 10:19 pm Post subject: |
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| RACETRAITOR wrote: |
| laogaiguk wrote: |
| If you show a student a word a couple of times in one class, they won't necessarily remember it. But you keep showing it to them everyday and they will remember it after awhile. I am hoping to do the same here. |
Please tell me your just following on the misspelling train. |
The awhile, yes. This is another common one I have seen on this board. Last I checked though 'every' and 'day' together had become grammatically proper. Dictionary.com says it's fine  |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 10:30 pm Post subject: |
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| laogaiguk wrote: |
| RACETRAITOR wrote: |
| laogaiguk wrote: |
| If you show a student a word a couple of times in one class, they won't necessarily remember it. But you keep showing it to them everyday and they will remember it after awhile. I am hoping to do the same here. |
Please tell me your just following on the misspelling train. |
The awhile, yes. This is another common one I have seen on this board. Last I checked though 'every' and 'day' together had become grammatically proper. Dictionary.com says it's fine |
"Everyday" and "every day" have very different meanings.
Everyday is an adjective and means normal or commonplace.
As in, "A placid everyday scene."
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laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
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| Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 10:31 pm Post subject: |
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| RACETRAITOR wrote: |
| laogaiguk wrote: |
| RACETRAITOR wrote: |
| laogaiguk wrote: |
| If you show a student a word a couple of times in one class, they won't necessarily remember it. But you keep showing it to them everyday and they will remember it after awhile. I am hoping to do the same here. |
Please tell me your just following on the misspelling train. |
The awhile, yes. This is another common one I have seen on this board. Last I checked though 'every' and 'day' together had become grammatically proper. Dictionary.com says it's fine |
"Everyday" and "every day" have very different meanings.
Everyday is an adjective and means normal or commonplace.
As in, "A placid everyday scene." |
I didn't know that. Thanks. |
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Guri Guy
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Location: Bamboo Island
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| Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 10:40 pm Post subject: |
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| I am more concerned about the idiots that spell loser "looser". I find that intensely annoying for some reason. |
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rawiri
Joined: 01 Jun 2003
Location: Lovely day for a fire drill.
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| Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 10:41 pm Post subject: |
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| remember.....the principal is your pal. |
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jinju
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 10:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Guri Guy wrote: |
| I am more concerned about the idiots that spell loser "looser". I find that intensely annoying for some reason. |
kewl, I agree. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 10:50 pm Post subject: |
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| When I was in junior high I went to a basketball tournament where the big sheet that showed which teams advance used the word "looser" many times. It gave me brain cancer. |
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 11:26 pm Post subject: |
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One of the ways to avoid these problems is to pronounce the words you are attempting to spell.
Par example:
Pro-nun-ci-a-tion.
Nothing drives me battier than a grown English-speaking human that writes or says:
Pro-nown-ci-a-tion.
Nothing.  |
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