Is There A Shortage Of Spaces?

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Is There A Shortage Of Spaces?

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I'm with you on both of those. But I'll be honest, my biggest concern is the "dumbing down" of society due to 'web speak'. "OMG r u [abbreviated profanity deleted] reelz?" "c u l8r!" I see this in formal writing!

Another thing, and I am just as guilty, is the reliance of spell check. It should just be turned off. People my age should be able to spell 'recommend'. :tiphat:
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Everyone can spell. It's just that some don't spell well. LOL
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but the czary prat is I bet ylal can slitl raed tihs eevn thguoht all the ltertres are jblmued anourd in the wdros.
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Wildscar wrote:but the czary prat is I bet ylal can slitl raed tihs eevn thguoht all the ltertres are jblmued anourd in the wdros.
They did a study on that....weird thing is...I can read that and yours just fine!
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WarHawk-AVG wrote:
Wildscar wrote:but the czary prat is I bet ylal can slitl raed tihs eevn thguoht all the ltertres are jblmued anourd in the wdros.
They did a study on that....weird thing is...I can read that and yours just fine!
Yaeh I konw. Tahts wehre I got it form. :cheers2:
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My grammatical pet peeves:

People who don't know the difference between: "your" and "you're" or "there", "they're", and "their"

People who use apostrophes to pluralize words: "Honey, have you seen my shoe's?", "The car's are all parked", "My rifle's are locked in the safe"

This one would really irk me:

"Your going to die because there rifle's are pointed at you" :nono:
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Kythas wrote:This one would really irk me:

"Your going to die because there rifle's are pointed at you" :nono:
I'll take it for granite that'd make you loose you're temper. :mrgreen:
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Loose is another of those words people confuse with lose.

How about "rediculous" or "coarse" when they mean ridiculous and course.

Of course, I haven't a clue how to properly use commas. I just shake them on like pepper and hope for the best.

I guess we all have our failings...
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Abraham wrote: ...
I guess we all have our failings...
... and some of us exhibit them in public.

I'm with Kythas. The misuse of possessive plural never fails to draw my attention.
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Mine, and I'll keep it short... Knowing when to use:

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Is There Such a Word as Irregardless in the English Language?

aarrgghh!!!
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Abraham wrote:Of course, I haven't a clue how to properly use commas. I just shake them on like pepper and hope for the best.
You can't use too much pepper or too many commas. :smilelol5:
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longhorn_92 wrote:Is There Such a Word as Irregardless in the English Language?

aarrgghh!!!
The answer is, well, yes.... and no.

Read the full story on dictionary.com.
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I dislike statements that are repititously redundant:

Such as, i.e. : I got up at 7 am, in the morning.

/signed/ Me Myself

I had a computer instructor who liked to use irrevalant for the word irrelavant. We tried to tell him, but he never got it. :banghead:
Irregardless, I learned alot from his class.

I could go on and on, ect. :mrgreen:
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