Can you tell that I don't get out much?

[blackburn_stevie]

I don't think that I'm pedantic as such. It's just that I see the way that people make errors when typing out a message and it is obviously not a typo and it makes me cringe. Mostly because I'd be scared of making a similar kind of mistake myself and have readers thing that I'm an **bleep**.

 The simplest kind of errors made on this forum are when folk say "their" when they mean "there". When people get those mixed up it says to me that the person is lazy and just can't be bothered to make sure that they are using the correct word. It also shows me that they don't care that other folk think of them as fools.

I mean, how hard can it be to get it right? 

[ilove2patch]

Very hard if the person is dyslexic. I do know what you mean though. It's a sign of the times sadly.

[mustard-tree]

"Mostly because I'd be scared of making a similar kind of mistake myself and have readers thing that I'm an **bleep**."

And some people get their "g" and "k" mixed up

I don`t get out much either

[blackburn_stevie]

Exactly Hot Bush .... (Is that the ID you meant?)

We all make mistakes and I won't shie away from the fact that I make them too

BTW .... I didn't write the word "**BLEEP**" ... That was down to eBay changing the original word which must have started with a vowel.

[dwnmll]

Sign of the times? Not necessarily a problem restricted to the young as I've seen plenty of prime examples from posters I know are from the older generation!  My bugbear is "should of" and "could of", they drive me nuts!

[blackburn_stevie]

One of the worst examples of the way we humans speak the English language is shown by the Magician, Dynamo. The way that he just obliterates the language is unreal. Things like, "I fink" instead of "I think" and "I fought" rather than, "I thought"

It's nothing but laziness.

[queenelsa83]

I unfortunately know of quite a few people who make many typos online, either intentional or otherwise 😞

[mr-expresso]

How do you calm down the Grammar Police?

"There.... Their..... They're....

[electric*mayhem*band]

Time for a little poem I think.

Eye halve a spelling chequer,

It came with my pea sea,

It plainly marques four my revue,

Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.

Eye strike a key and type a word,

And weight four it two say,

Weather eye am wrong oar write,

It shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid,

It nose bee fore two long,

And eye can put the error rite,

Its rare lea ever wrong.

Eye have run this poem threw it,

I am shore your pleased two no,

Its letter perfect awl the weigh,

My chequer tolled me sew.

[clifford2031]

"Please, maam! How do you spell ichael?" The teacher was rather bewildered. "Dont you mean Michael?" she asked. "No, maam. Ive written the M already."

[rose2008-2008]

Yes come to think of it that Dynamo does speak oddly. He sounds like hes trying to sound well hard when hes not!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. I do think hes cute though!!!!!!!!!!!.

[bankhaunter]

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@blackburn_stevie wrote:

One of the worst examples of the way we humans speak the English language is shown by the Magician, Dynamo. The way that he just obliterates the language is unreal. Things like, "I fink" instead of "I think" and "I fought" rather than, "I thought"

It's nothing but laziness.

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Forty thousand frushes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np9EO2Qehxc

[saasher2012]

I think you'll find it forty fousand frushes , me duck! lol.

[bankhaunter]

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@saasher2012 wrote:
I think you'll find it forty fousand frushes , me duck! lol.

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That was Billy Cotton's version but I couldn't find it.

It's one of the songs I remember from his Band Show on the Light programme Sunday lunchtimes.

Wakey Wakeeeeee! da dada da da da...

[saasher2012]

Actually I think I've got it wrong as well!
It's forty fousand Fevvers on a frush, & I apologise to the purists if the spellings wrong!

[bankhaunter]

On a frush's froat.

[saasher2012]

Yes! That's it. lol.