are you there in canada just for a little or are you there for a long time? cause if he were there for like just vacation or something then i guess he wouldnt know who is the queen, but if he has lived there a long time then i guess he should know, just my opinionare you there in canada just for a little or are you there for a long time? cause if he were there for like just vacation or something then i guess he wouldnt know who is the queen, but if he has lived there a long time then i guess he should know, just my opinion

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:o

Look at any single Canadian coin or other currency and you will know who the Queen is. You do need Canadian currency in most of Canada last time I checked.

Speling and grammer is overatid.

Speling and grammer is overatid.

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Overraytid

correct spelling is one of the many tools of the devil

now nobody will read this topic. if i didn't have such a commitment to organization and rule-following i'd be disappointed that the topic was moved.

 

*cheers the guilty mod unenthusiastically*

 

woe is me

And btw: You should have posted this in the "Site Issues" forum. It has nothing to do with the Florida Marlins. Just letting you know for future knowledge.

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When did you become a moderator?

And btw: You should have posted this in the "Site Issues" forum. It has nothing to do with the Florida Marlins. Just letting you know for future knowledge.

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When did you become a moderator?

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I didn't. I'm just being informative and teaching him. Is there a problem with that?

correct spelling is one of the many tools of the devil

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Just like Dollar General deodorant. :mischief

correct spelling is one of the many tools of the devil

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Just like Dollar General deodorant. :mischief

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Don't forget red dye #40. Without it he'd never have his firey complexion, nor all those corporate bigwigs with him in hell who put it in our food and give us cancer.

More people on this site think that instead of winning you "loose", than lose.

More people on this site think that instead of winning you "loose", than lose.

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Exactly, and a spell checker would not catch that since it is a correctly spelled word. It is not that people misspell a word or two in a sentence, it is that half the post is butchered. And one of the biggest problems is the use of words that are not interchangeable (there/their, know/no, etc.) And those are the types of mistakes most spell checkers will not correct.

 

I finally resigned myself to the fact that this area has one of the lowest rated education systems in the country, so nothing will change very quickly.

 

p.s.

If you would like to know what the most common misspelled words are, click here.

It's true that a good portion of the misspelled words wouldn't be caught by a spell checker, but the main point of this thread is just to tell people to chill. I notice people misspell things all the time or use words that are incorrect in the context with which they use them, but that doesn't mean that I have to call attention to it and embaress them. It's just jerky and inconsiderate, and does nothing but ruin the feel of the thread/site. It also probably wastes more space on the boards than any other topic (save perhaps for hair-brained schemes to acquire adam dunn).

Your Japanese made American technology is way too advanced compared to the stuff up here in Canada.

Your Japanese made American technology is way too advanced compared to the stuff up here in Canada.

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Swish.

Hey Admin, what can you do about attaching a spellchecker app to the website, so that these people won't get their panties in a twist over every damned typo?? The number of irrelevent posts you'd cut down on would be astronomical. Think about all the argumentative tirades we'd eliminate, which serve no purpose but clog up threads that we actually want to read about.

 

Or people can just stop being f***in morons and let a spelling mistake pass without crucifying the person. Jerks.

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Also. Insert "on" where indicated to make the grammar of sentence # 2 correct. Thanks.

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Actually, it's fine the other way. Looking at the sentence, you'd see that "cut down" modifies "number". Saying that you "cut down" the "number of posts" is fine. You can also "cut down on" "the number of posts", and that would be fine too. :thumbup

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hrmn. True. Someone gramatically inclined should do a small writeup of common errors like the difference between its and it's...etc. No? Maybe tack it up somewheres?

I am SO gonna correct everyone now....

Hey Admin, what can you do about attaching a spellchecker app to the website, so that these people won't get their panties in a twist over every damned typo?? The number of irrelevent posts you'd cut down on would be astronomical. Think about all the argumentative tirades we'd eliminate, which serve no purpose but clog up threads that we actually want to read about.

 

Or people can just stop being f***in morons and let a spelling mistake pass without crucifying the person. Jerks.

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Also. Insert "on" where indicated to make the grammar of sentence # 2 correct. Thanks.

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Actually, it's fine the other way. Looking at the sentence, you'd see that "cut down" modifies "number". Saying that you "cut down" the "number of posts" is fine. You can also "cut down on" "the number of posts", and that would be fine too. :thumbup

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hrmn. True. Someone gramatically inclined should do a small writeup of common errors like the difference between its and it's...etc. No? Maybe tack it up somewheres?

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HAHA. A crib sheet for people who don't know how english works....priceless.

Wee want Speel Chek!

 

Wee want Speel Chek!

Speling and grammer is overatid.

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I think he did that on purpose.

Speling and grammer is overatid.

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Overraytid

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I think he did that on purpose.

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purpurse

porpoise.

purple. he did it on purple. i think that's what you guys mean

OMG!

I knew kids who said that.

 

 

ROTFLMAO!!

 

 

Another-

 

I had kids ask me about "Deaf Row" in Prison- where you went to prison to await execution. They swore it was deaf row.