Is everybody who posts on this folder illiterate??
10-09-05, 11:31 AM
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Originally Posted by tippy
Be careful about nit-picking peoples "faults" on this NG. You will get absolutely no sympathy (speaking from experience). People are not illiterate, they are lazy and if their message is spelled close enough to get the message across then it's OK with them. Typically, the attitude is this, if you try to spell check posters, you are considered "stubborn, self-righteous, and unable to understand others' opinions". Consider yourself lucky enough to recognize words that are misspelled and then let it be. They ain't gonna change for you. Live and let live.
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Me personaly i got better things to do than spell and grammer check posts. Things like oh i dont know work on my bike go out on a ride. Clean a place out in my room to put my bike in for the winter....
Oh and to the OP waht was a good old fasion typo. You know the things you do when you time your key strokes wrong or your fingure hits the wrong key. And this is a sub forum not a folder (even though it uses a folder icon)
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https://aspell.net/win32/
Spell checker for text.
Spell checker for text.
10-09-05, 11:34 AM
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Originally Posted by carless
https://aspell.net/win32/
Spell checker for text.
Spell checker for text.
Lol wont work im on linux
edit
seems it is for linux as well i might just have to give it a run through for the heck of it and see how it does.
Besides those things can make a huge mess of your spellign jst as fast as they can correct it. Try writeing out a big email with gmail then spell checking. Theres a accident waitign to happen. It corrects spell to speel lol.
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I dislike bad spelling and grammer. Some folks make points that you want to understand and learn from, but are hard to comprehend with certainty. Otherwise, random misspellings happen due to a hurried nature of getting the post accomplished. I've gone back and edited, but toher times don't ahve the time.
10-09-05, 01:47 PM
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Folder? Is that using internet slang?
10-09-05, 02:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Savas
I dislike bad spelling and grammer. Some folks make points that you want to understand and learn from, but are hard to comprehend with certainty. Otherwise, random misspellings happen due to a hurried nature of getting the post accomplished. I've gone back and edited, but toher times don't ahve the time.
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This is Africa, 1943. War spits out its violence overhead and the sandy graveyard swallows it up. Her name is King Nine, B-25, medium bomber, Twelfth Air Force. On a hot, still morning she took off from Tunisia to bomb the southern tip of Italy. An errant piece of flak tore a hole in a wing tank and, like a wounded bird, this is where she landed, not to return on this day, or any other day.
This is Africa, 1943. War spits out its violence overhead and the sandy graveyard swallows it up. Her name is King Nine, B-25, medium bomber, Twelfth Air Force. On a hot, still morning she took off from Tunisia to bomb the southern tip of Italy. An errant piece of flak tore a hole in a wing tank and, like a wounded bird, this is where she landed, not to return on this day, or any other day.
10-09-05, 02:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Dchiefransom
Folder? Is that using internet slang?
My first thought when i seen this post was the op was newb to the internet. Ive never heard the term folder used to describe a forum or sub forum. The net doesnt have folders or drives it has sites and pages.
And oh ye to the original poster proper gramer would be in this folder not on this folder
Just cause he wants to hassle others about their grammer
10-09-05, 02:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Savas
I dislike bad spelling and grammer., but toher times don't ahve the time.
ahem hint hint
Just kidding
10-09-05, 02:12 PM
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Originally Posted by nova
Lol wont work im on linux
10-09-05, 02:14 PM
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Originally Posted by womble
10-09-05, 02:18 PM
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Originally Posted by tippy
Be careful about nit-picking peoples "faults" on this NG. You will get absolutely no sympathy (speaking from experience). People are not illiterate, they are lazy and if their message is spelled close enough to get the message across then it's OK with them. Typically, the attitude is this, if you try to spell check posters, you are considered "stubborn, self-righteous, and unable to understand others' opinions". Consider yourself lucky enough to recognize words that are misspelled and then let it be. They ain't gonna change for you. Live and let live.
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And, in addition, you pick up habits from the people with whom you associate. No one is asking for perfect English, but something close to it would be an improvement. I would hate for people visiting this site to think cyclists are unschooled, illiterate morons--whether or not that is the actual case.
10-09-05, 02:23 PM
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Their are four errirs in this sentance.
10-09-05, 02:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Dave Stohler
Is everybody who posts on this folder illiterate??
This one:
This one:
How 'bout mine:
Certainly you can't be talking about any of these folders:
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I agree. Please..."everybody" don't posts anything illiterate on any of these fine folders. It just ain't right.
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10-09-05, 02:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Expatriate
There's a valid point to be made here. There was a recent thread regarding a newspaper editorial that painted an unkind picture of cyclists. One of the least literate members of the A&S forums contacted the writer by email, expressing his opinions in his own form of woefully poor grammar. Several of us agreed that we could not have chosen a worse spokesperson. The writer dismissed the forum member as a nut-job, partially based on the difficulty of understanding what he was trying to communicate. So let's view this as an opportunity for a constructive dialogue.
We all make tpyos once in a while. Happens to everyone. But how many of us dismiss the comments made by other members when their posts are barely legible? If someone has problems with basic spelling and punctuation, not to mention sentence structure, does this affect how you view their comments?
By the way, that was intentional, ok?
We all make tpyos once in a while. Happens to everyone. But how many of us dismiss the comments made by other members when their posts are barely legible? If someone has problems with basic spelling and punctuation, not to mention sentence structure, does this affect how you view their comments?
By the way, that was intentional, ok?
10-09-05, 02:35 PM
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Originally Posted by ViciousCycle
Their are four errirs in this sentance.
Its suppose to be more like this
**** sentnece has erorrs in it
Human mind will still interprate it as "this sentence has errors in it". Even with all the transposed letters and spelling errors. Yours show a valid point though. Even with major grammer and spelling errors you still get your point accross. There was a email that made rounds some time ago that was like 12 or 15 lines long and had over 50 spelling errors and mixxed up letter. Yet just reading it and youd say wtf is this guy talking about then you re read it more carefully and see the errors.
Spelling esp with simply out of order letters is not very important in a writen or typed media. As lnog as all the lteters are thrwe and first and lsat are corerct we have no porblem readnig typed messages.
i included a few more mixxed up letters in my post some where but i bet untill most read this last line they did not even notice them. For those of you who did congratulate your self your n a very small group that makes up less than 25% of the worlds native english speaking population
10-09-05, 02:38 PM
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Originally Posted by MERTON
and you spelled forum "folder".
10-09-05, 02:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Expatriate
There's a valid point to be made here. There was a recent thread regarding a newspaper editorial that painted an unkind picture of cyclists. One of the least literate members of the A&S forums contacted the writer by email, expressing his opinions in his own form of woefully poor grammar. Several of us agreed that we could not have chosen a worse spokesperson. The writer dismissed the forum member as a nut-job, partially based on the difficulty of understanding what he was trying to communicate. So let's view this as an opportunity for a constructive dialogue.
We all make tpyos once in a while. Happens to everyone. But how many of us dismiss the comments made by other members when their posts are barely legible? If someone has problems with basic spelling and punctuation, not to mention sentence structure, does this affect how you view their comments?
By the way, that was intentional, ok?
We all make tpyos once in a while. Happens to everyone. But how many of us dismiss the comments made by other members when their posts are barely legible? If someone has problems with basic spelling and punctuation, not to mention sentence structure, does this affect how you view their comments?
By the way, that was intentional, ok?
I sent him spell corrected versions of the same emails i posted here as well. Explaing gmails screw up to him. Gmail if youve never used it is a beta email service from google. Its spell check system is um very beta. It stripped all the spaces out of one email i sent. It was correcting spelling to speeling. I dont know if some joker messed with the dictionary gmail uses or if it was screwed up to begin with.
10-09-05, 03:11 PM
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Originally Posted by ViciousCycle
Their are four errirs in this sentance.
10-09-05, 03:39 PM
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Originally Posted by trayer350
Nitpicking is faulting someone for misplacing a comma or transposing letters. When you complain about the public slaughter of the English language, you are not nitpicking.
And, in addition, you pick up habits from the people with whom you associate. No one is asking for perfect English, but something close to it would be an improvement. I would hate for people visiting this site to think cyclists are unschooled, illiterate morons--whether or not that is the actual case.
And, in addition, you pick up habits from the people with whom you associate. No one is asking for perfect English, but something close to it would be an improvement. I would hate for people visiting this site to think cyclists are unschooled, illiterate morons--whether or not that is the actual case.
Someone mispells. Another points it out. The anti-speller/grammar advocates say "who are you to say that's incorrect". Another posts with the maximum amount of errors possible in one post. The anti-speller/grammar advocates DECIDE thats too much and pound you even more. It's ironic that the the anti-speller/grammar advocates call the nitpickers elitist.
Long live the nit-pickers!
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10-09-05, 03:40 PM
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That moron picked out 3 or 4 spelling screw ups out of around 10 emails to him from me. There was many other emails to him i didnt post all had correct spelling and grammer
grammar
grammar
grammar
grammar
grammar
You best get one more spellchecker! Your current one isn't very good.
. . . i . . . didnt . . . there was . . . .
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Originally Posted by nova
...**** sentnece has erorrs in it ...
This séance has horrors in it
Amazing how you think the mind puts things together. Just don't forget, different minds put things together differently. That's why if you want a SPECIFIC message to be received, you have to deliver a specific message, not a message that's just in the ballpark.
Eats, shoots, and leaves
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10-09-05, 04:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Dave Stohler
Geez, just look at all the misspellings in the title lines!!!
"Waht is cycliing advocacy?"
"Whatsa in front of me is not important!"
"thieft"
Man, **** plaec has gon downhil.......
"Waht is cycliing advocacy?"
"Whatsa in front of me is not important!"
"thieft"
Man, **** plaec has gon downhil.......
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10-09-05, 05:13 PM
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Originally Posted by koffee brown
U knead to kalm doown. Its knot to bad.
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10-09-05, 05:39 PM
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Originally Posted by koffee brown
wat u talkin bout?
Lol what realy iritated me on it is i seen it right after i hit submit and seen loading....
All i could think was ahh crap.