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Everyone knows how to spell. Love it! My English-teaching Mom would be proud.
 

Oh no it's not about age sometimes. One site I frequent has such spirited political discussions people start sputtering as they type. Spelling goes out the window.
Well obvesously SOME people are SOCALIST IDIOTS who should go back where tehy come from...YOU no who you are
 
What I like here is the utter absence of cutesy little abbreviations, i.e. rezzies for reservations, vay-cay for vacation, trippies for trips (hell, that one isn't even shorter!). On another board, someone referred to someone else as a "prossie". I had to ask what the heck that was (prostitute). Nobody has manicures and pedicures, they have manis and pedis. And what about vay-jay-jay? Half the population has one....why do we have to make up some hip name for it?

And then there are the acronyms: Is DH Dear Husband or Dumb Head? Is SIL sister-in-law or son-in-law or maybe sick, ill & livid. Who knows? It took me forever to realize that AFAIK stood for As Far as I Know and wasn't referring to an Islamic terrorist.

If you do, however, want to be with-it and use computer acronyms, here's a list of one for folks our age. Please study......there will be a test:

BFF
1) Bran Flakes Forever
2) Best Friend’s Funeral
3) Been Falling Frequently

BRB
1) Bring Radio Back
2) Bursitis Real Bad
3) Beloved Red Buttons

BTW
1) Born To Wander
2) Broke The Wheelchair
3) Bed The Widow

GTG
1) Going To Graveside
2) Good Time Granny
3) Got the Gout

HAGD
1) Have Any Good Diuretics?
2) Hopeless Assclowns Getting Drunk
3) Heard Andy Griffith Died?

IMO
1) In Monday’s Obituaries
2) Imagine My Outrage
3) Incontinence May Occur

LMAO
1) Like Many Absentminded Oldsters
2) Love My Arthritis Ointment
3) Like Most Angry Octogenarians

LOL
1) Little Old Lady
2) Lots Of Lumbago
3) Lincoln Oldsmobile Lover

OMG
1) Old Man Groaning
2) One More Goiter
3) Open My Geritol

OTW
1) Off The Walker
2) Open To Whisky
3) Old Time Wattle

POS
1) Please Obey Seniors
2) Post Operative Stitches
3) Proud of Senility

ROFL
1) Rude Oafs Flaunting Lawlessness
2) Really Old Ford LeBaron
3) Retirement Opportunity, Fort Lauderdale

TTYL
1) Those Tattooed Young Layabouts
2) Tube Topped Young Lady
3) Try Taking Your Laxatives

WTF
1) Wag The Finger
2) Where’s The Fire?
3) Wanton Teenage Freaks
 
jujube said:
What I like here is the utter absence of cutesy little abbreviations, i.e. rezzies for reservations, vay-cay for vacation, trippies for trips (hell, that one isn't even shorter!). On another board, someone referred to someone else as a "prossie". I had to ask what the heck that was (prostitute). Nobody has manicures and pedicures, they have manis and pedis. And what about vay-jay-jay? Half the population has one....why do we have to make up some hip name for it?

And then there are the acronyms: Is DH Dear Husband or Dumb Head? Is SIL sister-in-law or son-in-law or maybe sick, ill & livid. Who knows? It took me forever to realize that AFAIK stood for As Far as I Know and wasn't referring to an Islamic terrorist.

If you do, however, want to be with-it and use computer acronyms, here's a list of one for folks our age. Please study......there will be a test:

BFF
1) Bran Flakes Forever
2) Best Friend’s Funeral
3) Been Falling Frequently

BRB
1) Bring Radio Back
2) Bursitis Real Bad
3) Beloved Red Buttons

BTW
1) Born To Wander
2) Broke The Wheelchair
3) Bed The Widow

GTG
1) Going To Graveside
2) Good Time Granny
3) Got the Gout

HAGD
1) Have Any Good Diuretics?
2) Hopeless Assclowns Getting Drunk
3) Heard Andy Griffith Died?

IMO
1) In Monday’s Obituaries
2) Imagine My Outrage
3) Incontinence May Occur

LMAO
1) Like Many Absentminded Oldsters
2) Love My Arthritis Ointment
3) Like Most Angry Octogenarians

LOL
1) Little Old Lady
2) Lots Of Lumbago
3) Lincoln Oldsmobile Lover

OMG
1) Old Man Groaning
2) One More Goiter
3) Open My Geritol

OTW
1) Off The Walker
2) Open To Whisky
3) Old Time Wattle

POS
1) Please Obey Seniors
2) Post Operative Stitches
3) Proud of Senility

ROFL
1) Rude Oafs Flaunting Lawlessness
2) Really Old Ford LeBaron
3) Retirement Opportunity, Fort Lauderdale

TTYL
1) Those Tattooed Young Layabouts
2) Tube Topped Young Lady
3) Try Taking Your Laxatives

WTF
1) Wag The Finger
2) Where’s The Fire?
3) Wanton Teenage Freaks
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Love it! AFAIK.....hahahahahaha!
 
Courtesy of a classical education - lots of Shakespeare and English classics, Latin, French and German - and many dictation tests - I emerged from school with a pretty good vocabulary and ability to spell. However, even now I sometimes get bamboozled over spelling some words. That's when I turn to Mr Google and instantly I am sorted out. Today there is little excuse for bad spelling. Editing is so easy and all it takes is a little time.

:crying: My typing is another matter. Classical educations did not cover touch typing. I have to spend most of my editing time sorting out my typos, some of which I don't find immediately. When they do hit me in the face I am compelled to correct them. I don't worry about an untidy house or garden but I have a thing about keeping my posts tidy.
 
The problem is spell check doesn't always find things that are basically spelled right but used wrong. I feel for people who learn English as a second or third language. I got a BA with honors in it...don't tell a soul I only passed grammar with cheat sheets...but English is a screwy language.
To, two,too
Know, no
There, their, they're
 
No, no, no, Warrigal! Don't do it !!! Walk away, it's not your concern...

Oh, what the heck! In for a penny, in for a pound. Might as well stick my neck on the block.

The :devil: is making me do it.

The problem is spell check doesn't always find things that are basically spelled right but used wrong.
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That's wrongly because a verb is qualified by an adverb, not an adjective.

:badgirl: :hide:
 
No, no, no, Warri, dear!


The problem is spell check doesn't always find things that are basically spelled correctly but used ​incorrectly.
 
Gaaaah! The grammar police. Save me, Santa! Lol. My mother was an English teacher who sent me to elecution classes when I was a child. Can you imagine the ramifications? I even ended up with a transatlantic accent. Boy, I dumped that quickly. Learned to speak two sorts of English, one at home with the reality shapeshifters, another when dealing with the rest of the world. Scary thing is, my kids say if I am really angry, I revert to perfect grammar, clipped accent. Ewwwwwwww.lol.
 
Shalimar said:
Gaaaah! The grammar police. Save me, Santa! Lol. My mother was an English teacher who sent me to elecution classes when I was a child. Can you imagine the ramifications? I even ended up with a transatlantic accent. Boy, I dumped that quickly. Learned to speak two sorts of English, one at home with the reality shapeshifters, another when dealing with the rest of the world. Scary thing is, my kids say if I am really angry, I revert to perfect grammar, clipped accent. Ewwwwwwww.lol.
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Shali, my maiden aunts were the grammar police when I was growing up. Even worse was the great aunt who was a school headmistress.
I spoke with an "educated Australian" accent until I started to teach. Then I reverted to broad Aussie to fit in with the kids. I can be as ocker as Paul Hogan or as proper as an ABC news presenter if I choose. I can't get rid of the somewhat nasal twang though.
 
My English-teacher Mom and I were out at a magazine and newspaper store (remember those?) and there was a teen magazine that had a pic of Rod Stewart in super-tight pants. I was 17, and showed it to her. She said, "Oh my goodness. Those pants are so tight you can see his balls."

I nearly passed out! I said, "MOM!!!"

She just looked at me very calmly and said, "Well, you really don't think you all ever came up with anything new, did you?"

I know this doesn't have anything to do with spelling or grammar, but it certainly has everything to do with um ... words.
 
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