Disappointment with the grammar and spelling of some TA users
I've noticed that many of the forum discussions that TA has tweeted lately have contained glaring grammatical and spelling errors. I find this disappointing and even personally embarrassing as it inevitably reflects not only on the original poster but on the forum as a whole and, by extension, the larger atheist community. I know written communication isn't everything, and it certainly isn't a high priority among the public generally, but we should try to meet a higher standard. Given the unlikelihood that individual posters will suddenly take more care when writing, I think the operators of the site's Twitter feed should consider not tweeting discussion titles with serious errors.
That's one poster's opinion, for whatever it's worth.
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Permalink Reply by Strega on -
I may never have forgiven you for that U'r - other than you gave away your fraudulent use of it by sticking an apostrophe between the two letters, thus defeating the entire abbreviate purpose - fantastic!.
I will admit to having spoken the sound Ur in my youth, but that was only whilst driving the porcelain bus (aka talking to god on the big white phone in the bathroom).
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Permalink Reply by archaeopteryx on -
Just playing with your comment, Strega - but without the apostrophe, it might have been mispronounced, "er," hence, the necessity.
"whilst?" - are we regressing to Chaucer?
"Whan that Aprill, with his shoures soote
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote
And bathed every veyne in swich licour,
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
Hath in the Ram his halfe cours yronne,
And smale foweles maken melodye,
That slepen al the nyght with open eye-
(So priketh hem Nature in hir corages);"Now THAT'S English!
But wait! Your English sounds more like my 'Merican, than it does Chaucer's - could it be you and I are BOTH speaking what her Royal Hiney calls "mistakes"? I shudder to think! (I don't always shudder, but it does help me think --)
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Permalink Reply by Suzanne Olson-Hyde on -
What a load of old Codswallop. A newy but a goody :)
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Permalink Reply by archaeopteryx on
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I prefer my Codswallop with just a touch of Tartar sauce --
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Permalink Reply by Kris Feenstra on -
"As long as I understand what you wrote, it's all good."
Pandora's box!
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Permalink Reply by archaeopteryx on
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Agreed! A woman should be allowed full control of her box --
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Permalink Reply by Damean Williams on -
I agree with you, but I'm 16 and not the best at spelling and grammar on a "profesional" level. I honestly don't know if the word is proffesional or professional. Sorry for the stupidity.
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Permalink Reply by Unseen on -
The software told you which one was misspelled by underlining it as you typed. You just didn't notice. Test it. Use it.
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Permalink Reply by archaeopteryx on
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One "f" Damean, but I understand what you're saying, and more importantly, I know what you Damean --
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Permalink Reply by Suzanne Olson-Hyde on
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@Damean - Don't apologise. I know some really smart people, who couldn't spell propa if their life depended on it. AND then you have English versus American spelling - just type into a word document of some sort, let it do the work, and learn as you go :) As long as you spell Atheist right - it is all good.
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