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Scotland, say aye for devolution!

 
 
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Reply Tue 9 Jun, 2009 11:09 am
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those that has this compulsion to correct spelling or typing errors.


I expect you encounter a lot of those?
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Reply Tue 9 Jun, 2009 11:15 am
Certain uptight people on A2k have a complusion of correcting others for minor things - even though we all know what they mean - directed at any and all individuals.

I suspect this is to make them feel better about themself.
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Reply Tue 9 Jun, 2009 11:32 am
The difference of meaning between "British" and "English" is not a minor thing.
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Reply Tue 9 Jun, 2009 12:16 pm
That I agree is a big difference - my mistake in my rush to type and in reference to the first post - I am referring typing/spelling errors that you have been so kindly pointing out to everyone on this post.
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Reply Tue 9 Jun, 2009 12:54 pm
A person's name is special. If you write a cheque to "Barry Crier" and give it to Barry Cryer, he will not be able to pay it into his bank account. It is not like writing "I fed my dogg".

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Reply Tue 9 Jun, 2009 01:29 pm
Ah come on - you know that person just made a typo and do you really think Cyrer is reading about this.
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Reply Tue 9 Jun, 2009 02:02 pm
Of course, but if I just wrote "Yes you are right" I would have to drink to the dregs the bitter cup of defeat.
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Reply Tue 9 Jun, 2009 02:26 pm
You should be bowing down saying I'm not worthy, I'm not worthy!
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Reply Tue 9 Jun, 2009 02:41 pm
I understand the distinctions and I took your story, Linkat, for what it was, a cheery memory that was related to the topic. I tell mostly-interesting-only-to me stories about my time in Italy, and figure/know that any italians reading my comments would be eye rolling at my lambent stupidity. Yet I persist, it's really fun, a measure of pleasure.

Apparently though, it is Fie on You Forevermore for the dastardly derring do of error.

No, no, don't make me look up the derivation of 'Fie'.
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Reply Tue 9 Jun, 2009 02:43 pm
Au contraire, banks have often accepted misspelled checks, in my experience.
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Reply Tue 9 Jun, 2009 02:54 pm
Well I got a chuckle and I certainly got a chuckle when that young man so gayly told us about it.
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Reply Tue 9 Jun, 2009 03:43 pm
Well, I work for a company in the UK that processes around 5000 cheques a day and we return any where the payee is misspelled. We could endorse them by writing a line through the error and putting the correct spelling above, and get an authorised signatory to sign the alteration but we don't choose to.
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Reply Tue 9 Jun, 2009 04:06 pm
That's nice, but doesn't relate to my experience. Maybe we have a lot of terrible spellers and writers here in the US.
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Reply Tue 9 Jun, 2009 05:10 pm
Linkat wrote:

Well I got a chuckle and I certainly got a chuckle when that young man so gayly told us about it.


Hey! You misspelled gayly!!!!!!!!!! It's GAILY, dontcha know that?

50 lashes with a wet noodle for you, my girl.
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Reply Tue 9 Jun, 2009 05:18 pm
What kind of wet noodles?
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Reply Tue 9 Jun, 2009 06:00 pm
ossobuco wrote:

What kind of wet noodles?


Soba
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Reply Tue 9 Jun, 2009 06:15 pm
all right...
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Reply Wed 10 Jun, 2009 11:06 am
Some times I even purposely spell incorrectly - just to see....who the h*ll is the uptights
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Reply Wed 10 Jun, 2009 11:32 am
Linkat wrote:
Some times I even purposely spell incorrectly - just to see....who the h*ll is the uptights


You misspelled are . . .
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Reply Wed 10 Jun, 2009 11:52 am
Let's talk about the Irish....
 

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