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[sirwiggum]

Aye

[Welly]

You could always borrow my keyboard if you want........

[steve_earwig]

No thanks, this one's weird enough alreađy.

[HimBigChief]

because they're spelled right.

Check back for typos, ok, and....submit

FAIL. Shouldn't that be spelt?

[steve_earwig]

Ajoj, someone else who wants me to write in Croatian

Isn't it one of those optional things? I dunno, I didn't do an English class for 29 years, what do you expect from me?

spelt1 past tense, past participle of spell1

2.
(of letters) to form (a word, syllable, etc.): The letters spelled a rather rude word.


Anyway, a typo is one thing, a spelling mistake is something different, kužiš?

Oh, and I must have got the furniture polish right (anyone know what wax is in Italian?) 'cos the keyboard still works fine. I thought maybe it would have set by now if I hadn't.

[FarmerPug]

whats this about. I like spellings correct althouh im not overly concerned with them or punctuation marks ive better things to do than to use them, as for spellings try and get it right but dont be too concerned about the i before e except after c rule etc. Still spell iorn wrong all the time, but you know what im talking about when i talk about using the iorn to remove creases. Febaruary is another thing i spell wrong. Ive been spelling them like this for a long time and im too stubborn to change even though i know im wrong

[steve_earwig]

I dunno really, one moment I think I'm loosing the power of English, the next moment I'm getting criticised for not getting 100% in an English test ne učim engleski, uredu? English isn't the language I am presently learning so I think you'll forgive me if I start forgetting some.

I'm not incredibly fussed about your punctuation and spelling, so long as you make sense. Although sometimes stuff like some abbreviations annoy me, u no what I mean? And WHOLE PARAGRAPHS OF BLUDDY BLOCK CAPITALS REALLY GET MY GOAT. Or words putting in order weird so gibberish make sometimes of fish. There are worse things, a few years back I had to wade through lots of legalese and they make it as difficult as possible, resorting to dead languages when they can't find enough incomprehensible English to not say what they mean to not say.

Man, this keyboard is silky-smooth now :smug:

[FarmerPug]

I tried to learn french back in school, i was quite good at it, then the verbs started then i lost all interest. I did like it just preferrd geography more.
I dont have much time to listen to the blabberings of people who overuse the word like. (do you like know what i like mean)

[DiscoPol]

I am now having structured Polish lessons and its killing me ,

English is such an easy language, its just a shame more of the natives can't use the bloody thing

How many letters in the Croat alphabet Steve? 32 in the bloody Polish one , makes me wistful for simple ABCs

Ne razumijem

= I don't understand, right?

and in Polish "nie rozumiesz" very similar,

all the Slovak languages seem just too similar for my liking. your a southern one, I'm trying to learn a western one but I reckon a few Vodkas and we could muddle by

[steve_earwig]

Correctamundo. I noticed some of the Polish you've used had the odd familiar word too, although with a few spiky consonants crammed in here and there.

Erm, hold on, according to Wiki there are 30 letters in the Cortina, sorry, Croatian alphabet.

I did originally find a lady to teach me Croatian, I was working on the principle that if I didn't know her I'd feel obliged to take it seriously, rather than being taught by someone I did know and taking it as a joke. However, we got on really well and we've been married for just over 2 years These days I'm learning it by osmosis which is taking forever but it's ok, my wife likes talking so I let her get on with it

My wife teaches English to kids from home and you're wrong, English might not have all the stupid cases (Croatian has 7, how about Polski?), it might have almost no genders (how can a table be male, where's it's knob?) but just think about how many words that sound the same in English but mean something totally different, how many past and future tenses (Croatian has one of each), just how many spellings that don't make any sense at all? What about all the different pronunciations of the same letters? (Compare rough and dough for instance). Croatian has no words for "the" and "a". imagine how hard a concept they are. I watch her trying to cram this untidy language into these little kid's heads day after day and sometimes I feel quite sorry for the little bastards.

[Welly]

I've always understood English to be incredibly hard to learn.

Where's my English book Miss?...over there near the coat stand, you know, their coat stand. We are going to decide whether to go outside because of the weather. They're pedicting high winds again. If we go outside you will need to wear a coat.

[FarmerPug]

The grass on the golf course is very coarse you know over beside the three trees

[steve_earwig]

Ghoti

[DaiRees]

because they're spelled right.

FAIL. Shouldn't that be spelt?

No, Steve spelled it correctly the first time.

Bad spelling, grammar, punctuation, txt spk, CAPS etc. all wind me up too, but only if they're there to the extent that they slow down the reading process. You can get away with many spelling mistakes because the brain recognises word patterns, so in some circumstances the order of the letters in the middle of the word is unimportant as long as they're all there. I think there's a lot to be said for typing as you'd speak, particularly in an informal situation such as a forum, but it can be taken way too far!

Txt spk is for texting, it was evolved for situations where where character input can be slow and space (number of characters per message) is limited. Using it elsewhere is just lazy. I rarely use it, even when texting!

C U L8R!

[DiscoPol]

Homophones boys, they're all homophones.

t'is easy, that's why its the "Lingua Franca" (ironically an Italian phrase) of the world today, it has rules and reason, the extra spelling and letters all comes from the Dutch printers originally employed to print some of the first books(paid by the letter), if you need to, you can communicate with less than a 1000 words and still be understood.