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DetEcTive
Think you´ll find the expression is "can´t be ar*ed"
A favourite of my daughter.
Marion

WE HAD A NEW SHOP OPEN A FEW MILES
AWAY

WHAT ON EARTH DO WE NEED A WHOLE SHOP
SELLING POLISH FOR !!
OH LOOKED AT ME,SAYING
POLISH FOOD
NOT
TIN S OF POLISH

The Polish War Memorial - polish the War Memorial.

I would suggest that while all the foregoing may aggravate we rarely, if ever, correct somebody (unless maybe family) for using the expressions. I would far rather people wrote/posted than didn't. And the mixture of dialect, personal ways of writing (even text) make these boards the friendly colourful places they are.

Dizzi


lol!!


you old rebel you!


I worked for over 30 years in the same department at the uni here, but kept being moved to different areas ....... and one of them was being in charge of the departmental library


for about 8 years



with absolutely NO library training!




and Kriss

..... I didn't think you were getting at academics.


Just wanted to point out that not all academics are picky porkies!



sylvia

SYLVIA DO YOU WANT A LAUGH

CANT SPELL,
NO GRAMMAR

BUT FOR 18 YEARS I WAS A LIBRARY ASSISTANT

YEP THE OLD UN WHO WENT AN HAD TATTOOS AND

REBELLED AND SHAVED MY HAIR OFF IN MY 50;S

I sometimes find that those with nothing to say, spend a long time telling me so.

Recent reports indicate that reading is not apparently a national accomplishment in schools anymore.

Kriss, already found the article where I expected it to be, and sadly not surprised anymore by the depths to which people will sink, or at some of the comments.

edit to add: if a person is kind to animals and people then that is of much more importance to me than whether they can spell correctly, read, write etc.

No I'm not squeamish Kriss, have to say though anything concerning cruelty animals is guaranteed to send my blood pressure up ... I like animals...sometimes much better than people lol.

and I have just told you a whole lot more about myself than I usually tell people!



sylvia

Kriss

I have mixed in academic circles all my life

...... 5 years at uni, being a teacher (of biology!), marrying an academic and working at a university as a technician while OH was a faculty member can do that!

I also wrote scientific articles and was a copy and author's editor for others, all part of my job.



HOWEVER ............ I would never ever correct anyone's written or spoken English on any kind of forum

I would do it when marking essays as a teacher

I have done it to my daughter when checking homework or trying to teach her something

I have done it or suggested it when editing someone's writing for publication


Those are all very different situations from taking part in a forum

I would also be doing it privately, not in public


To me ........ people who correct others in a forum are just showing ignorance!


I'm Lancashire born and bred, even though we left the UK in 1967 ............. and I can lapse into dialect with the best of anyone (athough I do now have to think carefully how to spell dialect!)


Like Rose, I would rather read tolerant, broadminded comments written with poor spelling and grammar than a perfect one with evil views.


I do take care with what I write ..... but I certainly don't dismiss or ignore writings by others who don't or can't write as I do.


I do dismiss and ignore those with extreme views




sylvia

lol Kriss, other than 2 years at college, I haven't mixed in 'academic' circles either, and even there, as it was a WEA college nearly all of the students and tutors had backgrounds which were 'non-academic' ( welsh mining families and the like).

Re the newspaper site, i look at a couple of those, and agree the comments often get very personal and have little to do with a serious discussion of the topic. Rascism and bigotry are rife, which is worrying in itself.

I'd certainly rather read comments from someone tolerant and broadminded but written in poor grammar and spelling, than a perfectly crafted piece of writing expressing abhorrent views :)

HOW ABOUT WHEN THEY KEPT SAYING

"TALK TO THE HAND,,NOT THE FACE"
THAT ONE REALY BUGGED ME

One which annoys me, mainly said by teenagers .
To me it sounds like

'I can't be asked' ......(to be bothered to do something)
But the offspring insist that it is actually
'I can't be a*sed'

Which doesn't make sense!

Unfortuantely, our region loves its Off Of's!

SORRY ROSE I KNEW THREAD WASNT GETTING AT ANYONE
JUST LET MY BRAIN OUT TO PLAY ON ITS ITS
OWN
NAUGHTY BRAIN ,,VERY NAUGHTY,,,NOW DONT SULK DONT DO
YOU GOOD,,,,,LOL

MY DAUGHTER IS FOREVER TRYING TO CORRECT MY
GRAMMAR OR SPELLING WHEN I EMAIL HER
(NOT VERY OFTEN)
SO I TOLD HER WHO TAUGHT YOU TO READ IN FIRST PLACE
IF YOU DONT LIKE IT I WONT EMAIL AGAIN,,SO I DIDNT FOR MONTHS

GOOD THING IS ,GRANDAUGHTER AGE SEVEN IS A BRILLIA NT READER HAS STARTEDNPULLING HER UP ON HER SPELLINGS
LOL

Kriss, there may be many reasons why people are "afraid" to participate on threads...but I suspect fear of having their spelling or grammar commented on is way down the list behind other circumstances that have put them off posting?

I wouldn't ever suggest that someone with a limited vocabulary for instance had less of importance to say than someone who 'dressed it up' with big words. Sometimes one very ordinary word says just as much as a page full of them lol.

Dizzi that is something entirely different, and as you know I always understand what you write :)

My noticing spelling or grammar is not directed at anyone who has dyslexia, or illness or lack of opportunity to learn when they were young , which I hope everyone realises.

I do think if one 'can' write so that the majority of people can understand ( and these boards are chat rooms for people from all countries and districts), then one should.

I hope no one would ever be put off posting because they 'can't do spelling' .

AS LONG AS WE'RE NOT RUDE INSULTING
DOSE IT MATTER HOW WE WRITE

I HAVE PROBLEMS EVEN ON THE PHONE
UNLESS IM LOOKING AT YOU WHEN YOU TALK
AT TIMESI CANNOT UNDERSTAND A LOT
I HEAR BUT IT CAN JUMBLE OR JUST NOISES NOT WORDS,
THOSE I CHATTED TO ON MESSY KNOW LATE AT
NIGHT ITS PURE GUESS THE WORD BUT THOSE
WHOI CALL GOOD FRIENDS,KNOW THE WAY I WRIGHT AND ADAPT TO ME,,AND I THANK YOU VERY MUCH, :))))
THE WORLD WOULD BE A LONLY PLACE WITHOUT
TALKING,(WHATEVER WAY) WRITTEN TEXT OR TALK I DONT UNDERSTAND TEXT OR THE EMOTIONS USED;;;SE ME SITTING THINKING WHAT ON EARTH IS A BALL BOUNSING ROUND POKING ITS TONGUE OUT
AS YOU CAN TELL IM WAFFLING NOW IM TIRED WORDS INHEAD BUT DONT MAKE IT TO FINGERS
XXXXXXXXDIZZ ZZZ

something that

!for sure!

gets up MY nose.

is when F1 drivers (in particular)

refer to " certain, or certainly" as


"" For Sure""

but most of them are foreigners,
any road up........aint they?

Bob