Correct spelling is showing respect to others.

You are just doing fine with your English skills, I rather read your originality, instead a bunch of jargon. Just doing fine.

My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. So be it.

1 Corinthians, Chapter 16,

no offence taken terramax.

normally i would get irritated by such mention but i choose to take this as positive criticism. i am in a good mood.

after you mentioned this, i realised that after having learnt english from very good teachers, i decided to go downhill by making my own shortforms, which is not very good, yup its lazy and was becoming a bit of habit forming.

so the positive note out of this thread is that I shall try to correct myself.......for my own good, and you will understand my posts much better. is this fair now?

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drive safe because someone is waiting for you at home

Yeah! Holy Spirit Water!

I'm going to cast away, those misspelled heretic words, with my Holy Dictionary or spell checker.

For that Mojo, one good bath in Holy Water.

:)

Red_Pope: ... I hope you didn't expect me to take you down with my mojo? After all it is not me who wears a pink shirt.

Command post radio dispatch :

Calling all patrol cars, the Terramax guy is on the loose again.

Dispatch message:

Warning to all cars, cruising north bound Language Highway.

Dispatch message:

Description of the Terramax guy.

He is wearing and well wrap around a multidimensional brain helmet for languages, he could take you down with his Austin spelling powers.

Enjoy.

It hs not been retired still in the avatar, and I am going to be wearing it to the club on Wed. night as well or perhaps Thurs but one night this week it will rise again.

Hmmm- which personality is coming out today?

Personality wearing pink shirts.

Ok, no more pink shirts jokes, I see you took it out.

Retired for good. LOL

Do I hear blah, blah, blah, or wah wah wah? Oh lord it is time to go home........

Hmmm- which personality is coming out today?

Richard123: don't be sad, it makes you fat. And once you are fat in Doha, there is no way back!

Han19: No offence please, but I named you because I stopped reading your posts, exactly because of spelling and line breaks.

When I read, I read the whole phrase at once, not word by word.

Your posts I have to read word by word, because they are full of "unusually" spelled words and they are like a sand in the eye.

Also pagelong phrases make it impossible to read by phrase, because a phrase which is more than 5 lines long can't be read at once.

I have to communicate daily in 4-5 languages, and something out of normal, especially not in your own language is very annoying... like speed bumps on the street.

I know we all are imperfect and I welcome any critics (yeah, I know I am boring, stop nagging me Richy Rich!). Writing is like driving, let's pay attention to everyone around. You don't HAVE TO change the way you write, but I also don't have to read what you wrote if you chose to write this way. Fair enough?

Tyler: The thread is dead long time ago. It is the sad ghost which is still around.

I will take you seriously tyler...pink shirt or not.

let is be one sad club richard....lets all cry together and be over with it.

what is the final verdict of this thread though....i am all for respecting the members.....its like a mini cyber family.

we are interacting everyday so everyone's point of view is valuable....what say terramax..........where are you?

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drive safe because someone is waiting for you at home

I think we have officially killed this thread, no easy drawn out death like most others.

Who can take a guy in a pink shirt seriously?

A river of sadness runs through this thread. You are now an official member of the sad club. You join me, Tyler, BBK, and I suspect even Terramax in this terrible state.

Will this sadness ever end? Maybe we should segregate the sad club into male and female or we run the risk of even more sadness.

such was the effect of your post that i had to change the spellings of my moral signature :-(

you also mentioned long posts....since you have already mentioned me happily before please enlighten me if I too post long posts (other than the one posted above :-)

I do talk a lot and very fast so it could reflect in my writing as well:-(

Oh I am not happy at all.Pls dont ask me to check the caps on beginning of sentences.........thats going to be really hard. How will I get over this?

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drive safe because someone is waiting for you at home

Like i had mentioned earlier on terramx......i enjoy reading your posts.

I was waiting for my name to come up but then you stated you wont mention names but you just couldnt resist.. you did :-(

Am i ashamed of it.........no....because in official documents i have automatic corrections so I dont have to bother.

Why do i do it...........yup may be i am lazy and it has become a habit.......i guess.

Didnt know you were getting scratched the wrong side by the short forms.

By posting messages we are showing respect to our forum members.Its by reading their views and accepting or disagreeing with them.

I thought this was a free forum for discussion...now do we have to stick to correct spellings and full words..........no problem......... can do it.......it will take some time to correct.........you will have to excuse the occassional short forms. SO the next time i will have to frame my entire reply in word....get it formatted and then paste it here.its tedious to make corrections here and its already taken me 5 minutes here.

For some bizarre reason, I find this email chain quite funny. I am still LOL as I type. Whoever is taking notes - I have a few more to abbreviations to add to your collection.

OIC = Oh! I see

GSOH = good sense of humour

SWAG = Scientific wild a** guess

Red_Pope: An Englishman is arguing with an Indian. Englishman says "I f@#ed your mother ten times". Indian just smiles.

Englishman winds up "I f@#$%ed your sister hundred times". Indian just smiles.

Englishman almost explodes "I f@#$%ed your daughter a thousand times!"

Indian makes a winning smile and says "And we f#$%ed up your language forever!"

Could I learn, the dialect of the monkeys in the zoo? or Do I need, to pay-them a visit in the west or Central Africa?

Red_Pope: Armed with Russian guns :)

Poor Drake, his fleet of ships got sunk by the brazilian Armada.

Red_Pope? Teaching English? Not in this incarnation. I've never learned any language properly... English included.

Drake (or is it Richard?): Missing letters come from three sources a) crappy keyboard b) lazyness and c) bad education.

There is a difference between honest typos and consistent use of "pigeon english". Of course I do make spelling mistakes, 90% come from writng fast on a crappy keyboard and 10% from bad education (I have never actually "learned" English anywhere). But I don't consistently convert it into a "monkey language".

Your English is remarkably 13th century old English....LOL

In your initial posting:

"Thank you for yor attention." Don't U hate it when people spell "your" as "yor"?

Next example:

"I am not saying it is incomprehencible, I am saying it is annoyng." Feeble attempts at trying to appear intellectual is INCOMPREHENSIBLE and ANNOYING!

next example:

"in early 90th"..do u mene 90s

Next example:

"Next time you will see a post full of "coz", "shud" etc. look up the information about that member."

I looked up the information on a member who spelled "your" as "yor", "incomprehensible" as "incomprehencible", "annoying" as "annoyng", and "90s" as "90th". It explained a lot when I found out he was from the Subcontinent of Brzil.

BTW, advertize can be spelt with either a z or s.

point is, who care's! If the poster makes a good point, who cares if there are spelling mistakes and incomplete sentences. As u can see, we all do it.

Terramax

Is a force to be reckon with, extremely, speaks good old fashion english. He must be a Professor in the English Language.

For being foreigners, in a foreign land, we are doing just righteous in our mannerism, behavior and injecting our values to others.

lets not forget, " the supermarket coupon discounts for the day". Stating; In fine print, "You have won, a spelling bee contest at LULU HYPERMARKET TONIGHT". Your crowd will be the illustrious labor force from DOHA trying to purchase food and feed themselves. Including all of us.

Just being sarcastic about our saint BBKSIU and his personal crusade.

I had my issues with him previously and his annoying intrusive out of context words and believes , specially in the topic of alcohol consumption.

The good thing for him, he is free to express himself as he wishes and not some personal witch hunt.

I'm sorry I don't think I got it. What is it that you exactly mean? :-)

No disrespect Aicha,

I harmlessly, I lay down poison traps for rats and glue traps for roaches when they become a personal pest. This not direct to you Aicha none at all, Just the soul brother in question.

for Terramax. He is old and crabby.

Richard it’s not about agreement or disagreement. You don’t have to agree with him in order to be sad for what he’s facing by some members.

This is just unfair the way he is treated. And he never says a thing about it... still they don't get IT and just SSSSSSSSSSSTTTTTTOOOOOOOOPPPPPPPPP... the guy is ignoring, you know..

His opinions are his, you don’t have to agree.

The thing is people here go crazy over him though he’s just expressing his thoughts harmlessly.

I say that listening to him just for knowing how some other people see things is better than mocking him continuously!!

At least he is more civilized than many of us in the sense that he doesn't shoot back ;-)

peace :-)

I agree totally with BBKSIU and it makes me sad that other people don't.

Aisha- No sorry for you getting that impression, just the theme for today has been digging at him in as many posts as possible. No offense intended and I retrct the previous comment.

And the apprehension was quite painful, I think I said somehting about his mum or was it his bum?

Who can take a guy in a pink shirt seriously? Darn americans being abusive and beating on the innocent again

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That picture is just showing someone being secured and apprehended. Off course the quessstiiioonniiinnngggg, Are you ALQAIDA?

Welll, not any more :-) regardless your intentions that I know nothing about, NOW I’m happy that you’ve put me and bbksiu in the same category ;-)

Does being bad make you sad? I dunno if you wanna get consoled but BBKSIU is sad too.

Who can take a guy in a pink shirt seriously? Darn americans being abusive and beating on the innocent again

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Does being bad make you sad? I dunno if you wanna get consoled but BBKSIU is sad too.

Who can take a guy in a pink shirt seriously? Darn americans being abusive and beating on the innocent again

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They were the only two I'm using.

I promise I'll try to avoid this.

Thanks!

I use "dunno" and "wanna" alottt :-(

I'm bad :-(

Press your nostrils together and repeat this words, continuously about five times. Then try to write its phonetical sound as you hear it. Just the sound of the following words:

1- Mississippi

2-Gauntlet

3- Browsing

4- communication

5- Terramax

6- Red_Pope

Once you have done that. Tell me, which one's are the hardest and the easiest to repeat?

The result of what you just heard is in testimony of the other person abilities of understanding you or comprehend your pronunciation. Just do it for fun.

A tale of the tales:

While approaching my dog at night in a distance of 15 meters, I changed the tone of my voice one time, calling names and mumbling stuff, he almost attack me. When he saw me closer, he stop flat and started shaking his tail.

If we are to amsuse taht sclinamrbg is not a pelbrom then we slhoud all just use fsirt and last leettr ceekhcr vcie slpel cechk as you wluod iplmy that we cloud slitl cmmonutacie quite effectively without proper spelling.

note: due to english you can see that could is also cloud as many words can be derived from misspellings of the intended word therefore altering meaning considerably

Who can take a guy in a pink shirt seriously?

LOL, AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

Humorous but for many individuals who do not sight read this is impossible. Just as dyslexia causes problems reading, many individuals for whom english is not native (especialy with a diffrent alphabet) this is an impossible task. Many foreigners still read and speak phonetically. For instance the english spoken in India is very phonetic resulting in it being spoken in almost a sing song way. Spelling and meaning are interlaced to those who did not grow up with this language.

to, too, two all have different meanings. 0ne can hope that by context poor spelling may be understood but if the grasp of english is poor then even the context cannot be grasped without sensical sentences. So to clarify spelling does matter in written communication.

try this one if one one were to mispell as "write" for "right"

write mrs. right right now

Who can take a guy in a pink shirt seriously?

makes me so sad.

Sure. Let's scramble the whole forum like this :)

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

dunno wat u r tryin 2 say about a bait. this spellin thang make me so sad

That was a bait, Tyler :)

advertise which in turn is made advertising no z in the word, gawsh even the moder8r has the prob cuz if you look above it is der

Richard, sure, but at least you can read what I write... if not there is nothing which can't be corrected with a bottle of ..."If I will use alcohol advertizing I will be banned from this site."

I can say that because I am one year older than you. It makes me sad.

Buttefly, beats me. Let's ask someone - for example han19. Han19, tell us why do you do this?

i dunno why any1 wud want to make spelling mist8ks on purpose

It is not my view. Next time you will see a post full of "coz", "shud" etc. look up the information about that member.

Red_Pope, internet could have been "nerdish" in early 90th. Now it is mainstream. Again, the topic was about misspelling on purpose by those who would know how to write correct English.

How do you justify the statistic that 90% of those who write this way come from the subcontinent ? Or is it just your view ?

Tyler, whe should call this "Subbonics" then, because 90% of those who write this way come from the subcontinent.

Terramax, Is the internet word, a nerd word?

Not only that. Some users don't know how to use capital letters and instead of separating their messages in "digestable" blocks write everything together in a 40-50 line message.

This is not laziness, this is plain lack of respect to other users. The "stepsister site" btw. is rather clean of this disease so far.

For all you Americans and some of the Brits, let us remeber Ebonics.....officially recognized for a period of time and consisting of the language we are discussing.

All hail Ebonics, it's back and on this forum

You go all the way to the university to get a good education, getting a good job abroad. Then you write English with these 'enuff', 'wud','cuz','dunno','shud'?

Why????

I agree with what you have said. As for myself, English is not my main language, only start to learn it during my university. :-)

darn back on topic.... ;)

I am not talking about abbreviations. LOL, IMHO etc. are normal abbreviations which by now became practically idiomatic expressions. I am talking about plain misspelling on purpose - "shud" instead of "should" for example.

There are 3-4 users who post big messages (I will not point fingers, they know who they are), whose posts are simply annoying to read. I am not saying it is incomprehencible, I am saying it is annoyng.

Also, English is a second language to many of us, or even third or fourth as in case of yours truly. Sometimes when a known non-native speaker persistently writes this way in an otherwise normal English it simply brands him/her as a poorly educated person.

You can't be too old as even those of use in our 30's have seen/used each of those items. Now you are really old if you have a slide rule and your rubber company algorithm book.

j/k= joke

rofl= rolling on floor laughing

brb= be right back

lol= laugh out loud

ttyl= talk to you later

shoot....lets start that thread....how many of these can we come up with and please include definitions so we can all learn to be lazy and barely comprehensible.

I know what lol,ttyl is but what is j/k?

I remember when there were rotary dials on telephones, computers took up whole floors on buildings, hand held calulators cost houndreds of dollars, cell phones were these huge radio things..spelling and grammar were important.

I guess I'm an old fogey.

Unfortunately for all of us who grew up with pagers and land lines, text messaging and IM have taken over a large portion of communication in today's world. The fact that we all know lol,ttyl,j/k would suggest that the english language has forever been corupted by laziness. The adverse effects of this form of writing our language is that many individuals learning engliush do so via email, IM, and SMS which results in their knowledge of the language being corrupted. We can all ask that they refrain from using these shorthand words, but as the years go on I feel we are destined to see a decline in the proper written word.

In the SMS world an entire converstion can now occur with only a handful of nonsensical letters arranged to from a message. I am not literate in the SMS language but have seen many examples which have had to be explained. This is happening on the forum as well. It comes downto laziness and cultural indiferrence.

Thank you Terramax for asking these individuals to take a little pride in how they communicate with the rest of us.

thanks Terramax I agree with you its a little bit annoying and makes it like reading a thick accent or something. Besides I think it takes away from the argument if you are writing like a teenager on a cellphone.