Is your keyboard broken?

Originally Posted by Lucas

差不多

i know you are, but what am i

ratchet job - excellent post. I agree whole-heartedly. Those academic papers are bloody difficult to read sometimes, especially psychology ones!

[embee]

Beware, the pedantic high horse has many hands, Grasshopper.

One tries to utilise a varied vocabulary and apply a modicum of exactitude in grammatical format, but even one must confess to the occasional multiple ellipsis .....................purely for effect you understand.

Satire - the sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.
(Jonathan Swift)

Now STFU.

[gruntygiggles]

Originally Posted by embee

Beware, the pedantic high horse has many hands, Grasshopper.

One tries to utilise a varied vocabulary and apply a modicum of exactitude in grammatical format, but even one must confess to the occasional multiple ellipsis .....................purely for effect you understand.

Satire - the sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.
(Jonathan Swift)

Now STFU.

It's like having Stephen Fry on the .Org......pmsl

My my, what has this forum turned into?

I wasn’t aware that I had to spell check all my posts and correct all my grammar before I hit submit.

I agree that posts should be readable and a attempt at getting spelling correct is appreciated however if people are going to berate posts and users for NOT adding the correct punctuation to their posts, then quite frankly why are people surprised that members are drifting away from the org?

I will use punctuation and words to express how I feel or the emotion I am trying to convey in my posts. The fact that the OP was read by many as a rant and not as a "humours attempt" at bettering the org says quite clearly that the author failed to convey the correct emotion he was going for!

Language is forever changing and always will. It is part of society developing and evolving with the times.

“Language is the archives of history”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

[ophic]

Originally Posted by RatchetJob

English is merely what the speaker and listener agree on as English. No rules are set in stone with most being merely guidelines created by observing generally accepted usage.

I agree with this. It is quite different to many other languages that have an appointed body governing what is correct and what is not - which is a shame as Miss Ophic and I often argue over what is correct, and there is often no definitive answer.

"Catched" is apparently now considered correct English, which most people find abhorrent.

Originally Posted by ophic

"Catched" is apparently now considered correct English

Not in my house it's not! Outputted annoys me too...

The one that really gets my goat at the moment is burglarized - what's wrong with burgled?

[ophic]

Originally Posted by simesb

Not in my house it's not! Outputted annoys me too...

The one that really gets my goat at the moment is burglarized - what's wrong with burgled?

Lol I have pointed out that exact one in the past too. It expands to "burglarization", better known as "burgling"

"Utilized" is perfectly correct but means the same as "use"

Originally Posted by simesb

The one that really gets my goat at the moment is burglarized - what's wrong with burgled?

bur·glar·ize vt
to enter a building intending to commit a felony, usually to steal something (often passive)
U.K. term burgle


so its not correct to use?

[flymo]

or totally awesome...

it's either awesome or it isn't.

Originally Posted by Lucas

bur·glar·ize vt
to enter a building intending to commit a felony, usually to steal something (often passive)
U.K. term burgle


so its not correct to use?

it's an americanism. ipso facto wrong