31 Mar 09
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Originally posted by wormwoodHave to disagree on this, though. In my opinion grammatically incorrect text just doesn't read well.
grammatically correct text just doesn't read well. it's stiff and choppy.
that's why nobody speaks 'correctly', it just doesn't flow well. in any
language.
Recognize Thomaster's experience in this. The amount of mistakes in
written texts, newspapers etc. is ridiculous.
Why can't people speak or write their own language correctly? What's so
hard about it? If you ask me, they're just lazy... and that's probably about 90-95% of the Dutch people.
If I get letters, e-mails, read articles in (good) newspapers, or see a
minister on television, mistakes just makes them look stupid. You don't
want your article or for instance your CV to look stupid because of
something as basic as your first language.
Speak or write correctly, or you will be judged.
I, too, care about 'dan' or 'als' and the -t's and -d's.
01 Apr 09
Originally posted by duecerASL is very straight-forward as well!
Japanese is rather easy as well. tenses of verbs etc.. very srtaight forward. ASL now that's HARD
What I like about English is only one form of "you" and "the" but yeah, the spelling is dreadful. I'd read once, though, that many words were actually once pronounced the way they're spelled, and that it was the changing of pronunciation that caused the problems, not the original spelling.
01 Apr 09
Originally posted by smw6869Originally posted by smw6869
I have a Phd in linguistics and i can tell you i have no idea what you just said.
GRANNY.
The School is called DDS. My Phd was in ecomomics. Nothing stupid 'bout that. You seem to have trouble reading.
GRANNY.
Can you please make up your mind what degree you have or do you have many more?
🙄
01 Apr 09
Originally posted by adramforaller, ah, my mistake. I meant to say i have a Phd in Linguini.....Not linguistics.
Originally posted by smw6869
[b]The School is called DDS. My Phd was in ecomomics. Nothing stupid 'bout that. You seem to have trouble reading.
GRANNY.
Can you please make up your mind what degree you have or do you have many more?
🙄[/b]
Uncle GRANNY.
01 Apr 09
Originally posted by ThomasterI have a friend who used to write like that. forgetting crucial words and even sentences, so that there was absolutely no clue what he was talking about. then he got an ADHD diagnosis and drugs for it, and suddenly all problems disappeared.
I that text I found more than 150 mistakes. The writer seems to be inable of using comma's, past tenses and doesn't know the difference between a cause and a reason.
I can't read that text without thinking: 'HUH??? What is meant here?!'
01 Apr 09
Originally posted by ale1552>The best mistake I've seen in a newspaper, obviously a typo, was in a small town newspaper in big bold headlines on the front page that loudly proclaimed, "City Hall Studies Farts and Figures."
I can't believe the grammatical errors and misspelled words I see in the newspapers. Our local lady editor informed us that something was "peaking" interest in something. Another reporter talked about the "mid-evil" times. I am not making this up.
>However, that was back in the 1950s, but I think proofreading has gone by the wayside. Somehow proof-reading is worse now with computers. That doesn't seem to make sense with spell-check and grammar-check, but it does seem to be the case.
>I wish spell-check was available for posts on RHP forums.
01 Apr 09
Originally posted by AttilaTheHorn"I wish spell-check was available for posts on RHP forums."
>The best mistake I've seen in a newspaper, obviously a typo, was in a small town newspaper in big bold headlines on the front page that loudly proclaimed, "City Hall Studies Farts and Figures."
>However, that was back in the 1950s, but I think proofreading has gone by the wayside. Somehow proof-reading is worse now with computers. That doesn't seem t ...[text shortened]... but it does seem to be the case.
>I wish spell-check was available for posts on RHP forums.
I have spell check on RHP forums. I thought everyone did. By the way, you spelled everything correct in your post except AttilaTheHorn . Oops, there's that red line again.
GRANNY.
