TAKE BACK THE SITE!! PART TWO

[Rick Munroe]

Next suggestion: can we please stop correcting others' grammar & syntax & spelling? Some people just can't spell, or they excel more at the spoken word, or they can't type well, or English is their 2nd or 3rd language, etc. Correcting them seems to only serve two purposes: making the misspeller feel stupid, and making the person playing schoolmarm look/feel superior. It reminds me of 4th grade, when Brenda Martin was reading aloud & mispronounced "miscellaneous." Well, Lisa Gold just couldn't wait to throw her hand up & blurt out, "I know how to pronounce it AND spell it!" What a jerk she was. I knew, too, but I wouldn't have wanted to make Brenda feel bad. I was satisfied just knowing that I knew, and that I had good teachers who would correct Brenda or me or anyone else when we needed it. The people who post here, however, are not schoolchildren who need it! And in my opinion, one Lisa Gold here is one too many.

 

On occasion, I've found humor in some peoples' typos here, when they can be read two ways, or double entendres exist as a result, and I've made a lighthearted joke about it. I don't equate that with telling someone they're not very well educated!

 

I don't advocate censorship. Maybe we can't stop the posters who want to ridicule or berate those who make English mistakes, but again, we can ignore them when they do, or maybe just thank them with a smiley, and perhaps they'll stop. Personally, I know I'd rather read a well thought out & useful post that is grammatically odd than one that is flawless but snotty.

[Guest Les]

I'll second that!

It might be a little self serving...being a bad speller and having a lack of grammar skills.

There, they're and their or your and you're will do me in every time.

I also can't tell left from right.

:7

[chrismac]

And I can't tell my ass from a hole (or is it, whole?) in the ground, for that matter - so I'm all for it!!!

[Guest ortrud45]

I second Rick's statement wholeheartedly: English is definetly my third foreign language and first, when visiting this site, I was very

hesitant to post, just because I'm fully aware that I might be the laughingstock of some people here.}>

I got over it.:-)

Contents are more important than correct spelling!

[Guest Fin Fang Foom]

>It reminds me of 4th grade,

>when Brenda Martin was reading aloud & mispronounced

>"miscellaneous." Well, Lisa Gold just couldn't wait to

>throw her hand up & blurt out, "I know how to pronounce it

>AND spell it!" What a jerk she was. I knew, too, but I

>wouldn't have wanted to make Brenda feel bad. I was

>satisfied just knowing that I knew, and that I had good

>teachers who would correct Brenda or me or anyone else when

>we needed it.

 

I need an insulin injection.

 

What a story. The only thing missing was the hounds snapping at Brenda's rear end.

 

Sympathetically yours,

 

FFF

[Rick Munroe]

>What a story. The only thing missing was the hounds snapping

>at Brenda's rear end.

 

I don't get the reference but how did you know Brenda Martin had a big ol' butt? She was also pregnant by 11th grade...I'm not sure if there's any correlation.

[KY_TOP]

I really agree with this thought. My problem is I am not a good typer which contributes to my mispelling.

 

I've tried to use Webster's but I keep on getting distracted.

It seems that in my dictionary there is this small picture of Rick's backside beside the words Ass, Butt, Crack, and Bottom.

[Guest Fin Fang Foom]

>>What a story. The only thing missing was the hounds snapping

>>at Brenda's rear end.

>

>I don't get the reference

 

I was paraphrasing a famous line: "Whadda story. Everything but the blood hounds snappin' at her rear end."

 

Bonus points to the first person who can identify the quote.

 

Cinematically yours,

 

FFF

[mmk]

Boy Rick, that Lisa sounded like a real bitch! (The kind of person you would have liked to bitch slap)Let's hope that God got revenge on her by giving her a bad sense of fashion and the inability to put on make up without looking like a bad drag queen!

[chrismac]

>I really agree with this thought. My problem is I am not a

>good typer which contributes to my mispelling.

 

That's "misspelling".

 

Oh I'm sorry I just couldn't RESIST!!!!

:+

 

Smack smack smack (the sound of my self-flagellation). Forgive me Fathers.

[+ nycman]

>I was paraphrasing a famous line: "Whadda story. Everything

>but the blood hounds snappin' at her rear end."

>

>Bonus points to the first person who can identify the quote.

 

Birdie Coonan (Thelma Ritter)in "All About Eve"

[Chuck50]

If we really want to make this better then investt in a good spell check program. At least the nemisis AOL has one so why can't we HUgs Chuck

[Chuck50]

THe other point here is we have become a society (hope I spelled that correcttly) that lives and die's on the fact that something or someone will correct us. HUgs Chuck

[Losgatan]

Chuck,

 

I strongly recommend that we all compose our posts in a word-processing program like "Word." Not only do you get the advantage of spell-checking, but you get additional editing tools as well.

 

When everything is as you want it, simply copy and paste the text into the message center. Take one last look and hit the "Post Message" button.

 

I find this process especially valuable when I'm replying to a post that has punched one of my "hot buttons." The extra time involved gives me a chance to cool down and get my thoughts in order.

[Houston Bonfires]

Pick me; pick me;

Okay Dear Mr. FFF:

 

I'm gonna guess! Is it that comic strip about Lucy & that pesky beagle Snooper or whoever? Is it? Is it?

 

Did I win?

 

H B:P

[Guest Fin Fang Foom]

>>I was paraphrasing a famous line: "Whadda story. Everything

>>but the blood hounds snappin' at her rear end."

>>

>>Bonus points to the first person who can identify the quote.

>

>Birdie Coonan (Thelma Ritter)in "All About Eve"

 

WE HAVE A WINNER!

 

Congratulatorily yours,

 

FFF

[+ Charlie]

I guess "nemesis" isn't in the AOL spellchecker. (Sorry! I couldn't resist! Actually, I agree with Rick that editing one another's posts for spelling and punctuation is anal compulsive, in the wrong sense.)

[CT Dick]

In the meantime, we can use:

 

http://www.spellcheck.net/

 

Dick

[bluenix]

>>It reminds me of 4th grade,

>>when Brenda Martin was reading aloud & mispronounced

>>"miscellaneous." Well, Lisa Gold just couldn't wait to

>>throw her hand up & blurt out, "I know how to pronounce it

>>AND spell it!" What a jerk she was. I knew, too, but I

>>wouldn't have wanted to make Brenda feel bad. I was

>>satisfied just knowing that I knew, and that I had good

>>teachers who would correct Brenda or me or anyone else when

>>we needed it.

>

>I need an insulin injection.

>

>What a story. The only thing missing was the hounds snapping

>at Brenda's rear end.

>

>Sympathetically yours,

>

>FFF

 

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