While that may be true in some cases, it certainly is not all the time. I, myself, didn't know many of the corrections that I have posted here a year or two ago, and am always willing to improve my grammar and spelling, as are many people.
agreed yet i tend not to use them simply to type faster
in 10/10 cases its a typo
btw you should add the rules for ie and ei ... took me years to get weird reight (being german doesnt help at all with this) and i still dont reayll get the rule
On the topic of acronyms, initialism and abbreviations:
HIV, AIDS, till, Coke, OMG, WTF, LOL; are they abbreviations, acronyms, initialism, all the aforementioneds or what? The difference is quite "anal" indeed, as can be discovered by reading the article linked below.
I dont no these ppl who cant speel or even type good gramatics lol. ^^^Yes that was a piss take
Assume it was just a spelling mistake but i thought it was almost ironic. It is bad when people who speak native english spell words incorrect and get their grammer wrong. I don't mind it so much in people where english isn't their native tongue. As for don't, can't, havn't . . etc. it is probably best not to use them as it seems to not translate well especially through online translators.
I have to say, only the spell checker that came with FF 2.0 made me notice errors like "alot" and "atleast". It never occurred to me that they were wrong in the first place, probably because it sounds like they should be one word when you speak them out loud, well at least for me it does.
However, what gets me every time is replacing 've with of. Or people whose first language is English, yet cannot be bothered to at least try writing something remotely coherent. Arrrrghljksf
All of you probably know that the commonly accepted abbreviation of "will not" is "won't", but off your head, how many know why the short form is not "win't", and what "won't" actually means?
The abbreviation "won't" actually means "woll not". "Woll" is an older spelling of the word "will".
You should note the the words "It's" and "Its" are.. uhm... unconventional?
Unlike other apostrphed words, "It's" does not indicate posession. It is a conjunction of "It is." The form "Its" indicates something in the possession of "It."
If you really want to get anal, you put things into boxes, but you can't put the boxes onto the table. It's on to. Having said that, 60 years ago there was no such word as "today". It was "to day", or "to-day".
I have to agree with Al, and others, that point out that those people who REALLY need to soak up the information contained within, never will do so. I have always been very impressed indeed at the language level of non-native English speakers on the LFS forum, though, and I'm inspired by their determination to perfect their command of the English language.
My parents car broke down / My parent's car broke down - My parents' car broke down. Alex's shoes are nice - Alex' shoes are nice Charles's pretty pink dress looks nice on him - Charles' pretty pink dress looks nice on him. (no particular Charles in mind... *cough* <.<)
Radiuses - Radii Octopi - Octopuses [Technically octopi is acceptable too but octopuses is the form you should be using; English is not Latin.]
EDIT:
His having a bad day - He's having a bad day. He's car is really kool - His car is really cool.
No, no, you are wrong here.
"Scawen's code is great" implies there is one Scawen and his code is great.
"Scawens' code is great" implies that there are many Scawens and their code is great.
EDIT: The apostrophe's meaning is dependent on what comes after it. If it is an adjective or verb then it would mean " is ". If its a noun, it indicates possession.
I believe my examples are correct, what you have written is most certainly wrong. This thread belongs to me and Scawen's code belongs to him so they should be Josh's thread and Scawen's code.
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Because you know of this.
