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    Posted: 12 Jul 06 at 3:52pm
Originally posted by Atum Bom

Hi BNS,

I double checked my spelling and grammar before that posting!

Don't forget the following:

  1. 'Choose' was spelled 'chuse' until very recently.
  2. 'Sulphur' is now officially and internationally 'sulfur'
  3. 'Foetal', 'oedema' and 'oedepal' are in the process of losing their 'o's.

So the battle for linguistic stasis is lost, whatever they say in Quebec!

You're French, aren't you BNS? Can you give me the low down on 'l'ordinateur' and 'le computer' please? I've heard different tales of it being 'le computer' but 'l'ordinateur' being introduced later, and tales that it is the other way round.

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PS Expressions such as "There off!" make me go "Ooooof!" like a blow below the belt, but I try to remember that the English I learnt at school may have horrified Shakespeare, if he'd understood it at all.



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I've decided that speaking and spelling correctly is very important in society today. Not enough young people can perform these tasks correctly, I think that 'MSN speak slang' should be kept there and not used on forums due to the fact that this can actually change the English language for the worst! I'm not saying we should all speak with received pronunciation but estuary english should not be the way forward.
I hope that there aren't any mistakes in this post...



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I agree with you Tom. if i wanted 2 i cood rite like this but u wood probably just glanse at it and fink "what the fark is that idiot chatting about". However, if I take that little bit of extra time to construct a post using correct spelling and grammar I feel that people will take me a little more seriously. Look at the big picture... If you write like that on a CV I'm not sure there will be that many people that would take the risk of employing you!

I'm not trying to pick on people with learning and spelling difficulties here but there are ways around not being able to string together a sentence that makes sense. Spell check, ask people or maybe even refer to commonly available texts... I have one here called the Oxford English Dictionary!
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Originally posted by tgruitt

...estuary English should not be the way forward...

Why pick on estuary English?

Why not ban Geordie, Scouse or for that matter west country dialects. There is a difference between poor grammar/spelling/txt and Estuary. I (as an adopted Northerner) am proud to speak the way I do which is unashamedly Estuary and I don't expect there is many of my posts whose meaning is totally lost by poor grammar/spelling.

If there's one thing I hate more than development boat sailors it's dialect fascists!
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Originally posted by Matt Jackson

If there's one thing I hate more than development boat sailors it's dialect fascists!

Irony, by the way, before you all go off on one!



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 funniest thing I've seen on this forum to date - thanks TT.

I do find it funny that boats using some of the hi-techest(?) materials sail around with runner bean poles on them.
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