Angry at bad grammar

Then/than annoys me, but it's not the end of the world.

 

I'd not normally post things like this, but considering WDK and I often discuss profanity, I thought he'd cheer-up if I posted this. It's posted in the spirit of friendship:



Taucias, than you'll enjoy this, it's a bit better then my normal posts ;-)

 

Haha, I always enjoy your posts good sir!

 

It's mostly a personality thing. I think once you learn the rules it's hard to read without thinking about them. They've been drilled into my head since I was 6 and I tend to pick out mistakes by others mentally.

It really doesn't make a difference in just one post, but yeah sometimes a collection of posts with horrible grammar does make you wonder what the future holds. Kids today are bad enough and I'm wondering how much of the internet grammar makes it way into high school papers...heh.

 

This thread is a joke, right? Bitching about grammar on the internet? What's next?

 

Why do you think I haven't made a comment yet? Oh crap, I just did.

Yeah, some people have really shitty grammar on here who are native speakers. None native speakers are fine however since it's not their main language. I myself make loads of mistakes while typing due to the fact that I don't speak to any native English speakers for up to 2 weeks at a time. This sure takes its toll on a native speaker over 10 years.

Anyway, who gives a shit:dance: Just sit back and think to yourself "What a dumb arse that guy / girl is." if you see some poor grammar.

Yakumo

 

The only person who's spelling really annoyed me was Kevster.

But actually I was really laughing at his posts.

I don't know if he's a native speaker or not, so I'm not making fun of someone trying to speak a new language or anything like that.

 

i dun com frum tha publik eddumacation sistim. i b luky ta spl at al

 

^^^^^Summed it up in a nutshell for me.

...Being English and not being grammatically correct, should never be punished; thats basically being racist to those concerned. No one knows their background or reasoning, the internet isn't that clever, niether are we!

 

Guilty as charged. Boss....
But as stated before in this thread - its just us English [speaking] folk not taking it too seriously. I have enough of speaking/writing correctly at work.

 

So you are going to screw your own language writing "a egg" ? Well, screwby doo for the devolution of a language I cherish and care about. Or should I say degeneration of a language I am also concerned about not going into the gutter own beloved language I have as my first language, where we also have two ways saying "one". With our nouns such as "en" and "et" which makes the difference between our common gender, and our neuter.

 

There is a very well respected & well known fortnightly magazine in the UK called 'Private Eye'. I purchase it from time to time when travelling around the country as it is informative, funny, satirical & rather enlightening. One of their main quibbles is the misuse of the English language and sometimes they poke fun at other publication, most notably the Guardian newspaper as it is notorious for spelling mistakes and poor grammar.

However, just to illustrate that even those who believe they are above reproach are not! I'm going to have to track down the particular page number and article I was reading, but in Issue No. 1199 (7th December-20th December - so still available if you want to check) they substituted 'an' for 'a' in error! Would you credit it, in print...that means we are ALL at it!

If you wish to vent your spleen & decry the utter abandonment of the English language you can have a go at them, after all they poke fun at others for their errors and get paid to be correct!

 

Bad grammer always makes me laugh so I don't mind. I like reading engrish and stuff!

 

i think its worth noting, that bad english, or engrish is most definatley not acceptable in,....oh, lets say how to properly operate a MIG welder...

 

a MIG is an acronym , meaning Metal Inert Gas , and then again it has become a name for the welding style, so that is why there is an exception to it. MIG is accepted. And yes I laugh at Engrish, but bad English isn´t really something I laugh at, in reality it annoys me. But as I said, if you want to ruin your language, then go ahead. I am not stopping you.

 

True, but it's unacceptable for really bad engrish on the instructions on how to set it up.....especially when they randomly throw numbers and question marks into middle of words........

 

I can mention a funny thing I experienced some months ago, when I bought a famiclone from a supermarket in Denmark. Since we have a law about , that a Danish manual is mandatory . And well it started back with SNES games, but anyway . The "Danish" (well the words were Danish with minor Norwegian/Swedish spelling errors in it). Manual had tried to translate the Engrish into something "we" could understand, and I was laughing my arse off, when I told my father what was printed in Danish, and my father was a bit shocked when he heard the safety rules. And he said, if anyone took it seriously, then they would end up hurting themselves in the process of obeying "the safety rules". But then again, I have a manual for my PC KID III famiclone which is the best written manual, I have ever read in English, and second of all. The manual is made in USA by a company and other stuff, so you can either be extremely fortunate and getting a great manual, or a very insane manual.

 

LMAO


...what's pissing me off right now, is when you buy something, and there's no instructions what so ever...

I picked up a BB secrets of ww2 boxed set, 4 discs double sided, yet they didnt include a sheet saying what was on each disc......you know how annoying it is to find "Nazi Germnay Architecture" without any sort of guide?