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shovav91
shovav91 Posts: 2,335 Member
edited October 4 in Chit-Chat
That we learned to spell. I LOVE MFP and all of you wonderful people, so I'm going to share some wisdom that my favorite TA shared with us :D

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/misspelling

Enjoy!
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  • skittybang
    skittybang Posts: 1,525 Member
    Where's that adorable "beating a dead horse" emoticon???
  • SergeantSunshine_reused
    SergeantSunshine_reused Posts: 5,382 Member
    Lol! So true xD I see these all the time!

    I think I am guilty of the "its or it's" simply because I am too lazy to add in the apostrophe to most words xD
  • kapeluza
    kapeluza Posts: 3,434 Member
    Where's that adorable "beating a dead horse" emoticon???

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  • shovav91
    shovav91 Posts: 2,335 Member
    Where's that adorable "beating a dead horse" emoticon???

    tumblr_lt17mjlXXr1qbdppl.gif

    Haha I love it. It was worth a shot...
  • lindalee0315
    lindalee0315 Posts: 527 Member
    **Like**
  • AlsDonkBoxSquat
    AlsDonkBoxSquat Posts: 6,128 Member
    Where's that adorable "beating a dead horse" emoticon???

    tumblr_lt17mjlXXr1qbdppl.gif

    Was it in the drawer right next to the grammar complaint?
  • robin52077
    robin52077 Posts: 4,383 Member
    I LOVE The Oatmeal!
    One of my favorites is the Alot :smile:
  • shovav91
    shovav91 Posts: 2,335 Member
    I LOVE The Oatmeal!
    One of my favorites is the Alot :smile:

    Me too!
    For those of you who haven't seen it:
    http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html
  • kapeluza
    kapeluza Posts: 3,434 Member
    The Oatmeal rocks! I love the polar bear one.
  • AZTrailRunner
    AZTrailRunner Posts: 1,199 Member
    There's some kind of romantic notion that piss-poor grammar and illiteracy is justifiable because this is the internet. :ohwell:
  • shovav91
    shovav91 Posts: 2,335 Member
    There's some kind of romantic notion that piss-poor grammar and illiteracy is justifiable because this is the internet. :ohwell:

    Yeah... I wish they would have consulted the rest of us =/
    I don't know why, it just makes me cringe when I see "your the best!" and things to that extent.
  • shovav91
    shovav91 Posts: 2,335 Member
    Also, any "Friends" fanatics out there?
    I always hear Ross yelling "Y-O-U- Apostrophe- R-E means YOU ARE. Y-O-U-R means your!"

    Love that show :)
  • deeharley
    deeharley Posts: 1,208 Member
    Where's that adorable "beating a dead horse" emoticon???

    My thoughts exactly.
  • Rae6503
    Rae6503 Posts: 6,294 Member
    Honestly I would really like to learn to spell, but since it hasn't happened yet, I'm not holding my breath.
  • robin52077
    robin52077 Posts: 4,383 Member
    I LOVE The Oatmeal!
    One of my favorites is the Alot :smile:

    Me too!
    For those of you who haven't seen it:
    http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html

    oh yeah! I forgot the Alot was H&1/2. They're both equally awesome. As soon as I realized Hyperbole was a chick, I thought they should get together and birth some more comic genius.
  • shovav91
    shovav91 Posts: 2,335 Member
    Honestly I would really like to learn to spell, but since it hasn't happened yet, I'm not holding my breath.

    Haha, fair enough.
  • glockster972
    glockster972 Posts: 704 Member
    I spel gud
  • shovav91
    shovav91 Posts: 2,335 Member
    I spel gud

    :laugh:
  • HeidiMightyRawr
    HeidiMightyRawr Posts: 3,343 Member
    I love this,although I'm guilty of a few that I can just never grasp.
    "Definitely" being the main problem, I nearly always spell it with an "a" - I also just noticed I spelt it that way just typing this out! (thanks spell check!)
    I also get confused over effect/affect sometimes, and always spell a lot "alot" To me it looks odd with the space.
  • shovav91
    shovav91 Posts: 2,335 Member
    I love this,although I'm guilty of a few that I can just never grasp.
    "Definitely" being the main problem, I nearly always spell it with an "a" - I also just noticed I spelt it that way just typing this out! (thanks spell check!)
    I also get confused over effect/affect sometimes, and always spell a lot "alot" To me it looks odd with the space.

    I make a lot of spelling mistakes... that's why I adore spell check! It's the grammar ones that can't be fixed with spell check that make life difficult =/
  • PegasusDeb
    PegasusDeb Posts: 665 Member
    LOL That was "alot" of fun! Oops, I made a faux paus! I wish they would have had "seen" & "saw" I still use them wrong, I'm sure!
    And the "literally"... OMG I want to send this to my friend! She says this, literally, a dozen times an hour! Drives me crazy!! And she's an ENGLISH TEACHER!!! Ugh!

    Thank heaven for spell chick! I will never spell "definitely" correctly! (I don't put an "a" in there, I add an extra "e" in there! Bad spelling in one of my peeves.
  • WendyFitMomCHANGED
    WendyFitMomCHANGED Posts: 311 Member
    Haha. To funny! Sum people just never learn the effect of wierd grammer. Weather they spell alot worse then others is they're problem more then you'res, but its dafinitely they're loose.
  • kapeluza
    kapeluza Posts: 3,434 Member
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  • shovav91
    shovav91 Posts: 2,335 Member
    LOL That was "alot" of fun! Oops, I made a faux paus! I wish they would have had "seen" & "saw" I still use them wrong, I'm sure!
    And the "literally"... OMG I want to send this to my friend! She says this, literally, a dozen times an hour! Drives me crazy!! And she's an ENGLISH TEACHER!!! Ugh!

    Thank heaven for spell chick! I will never spell "definitely" correctly! (I don't put an "a" in there, I add an extra "e" in there! Bad spelling in one of my peeves.

    Wow! I can't imagine your friend standing up in front of a class and talking like that... I don't think I would be able to keep a straight face!

    I think whoever decided "definitely" should be spelled that way should "definitely" be smacked in the face with a sock full of butter.
  • shovav91
    shovav91 Posts: 2,335 Member
    Haha kapeluza, I love that!!
  • revnica
    revnica Posts: 50
    Also, any "Friends" fanatics out there?
    I always hear Ross yelling "Y-O-U- Apostrophe- R-E means YOU ARE. Y-O-U-R means your!"

    Love that show :)
    love that episode!!!
  • jetscreaminagain
    jetscreaminagain Posts: 1,130 Member
    The thing that helped me with "definitely" is that there's a "finite" in there. And when you think about it, if something is definitely X then you're saying the finite number of things it can be is limited to X. I used to always put the errant a in definitely but I'd never do it in finite so that worked.

    I was so pissed when I caught myself at work typing loose instead of loose. Totally from MFP.

    What gets me here is that I'm on my phone which makes errors easy and editing difficult.
  • shovav91
    shovav91 Posts: 2,335 Member
    The thing that helped me with "definitely" is that there's a "finite" in there. And when you think about it, if something is definitely X then you're saying the finite number of things it can be is limited to X. I used to always put the errant a in definitely but I'd never do it in finite so that worked.

    I was so pissed when I caught myself at work typing loose instead of loose. Totally from MFP.

    What gets me here is that I'm on my phone which makes errors easy and editing difficult.

    It is so much harder typing on my phone! And autocorrect seems to make everything worse. I was trying to type "joy" at one point and it "corrected" it to "philharmonic". What?!
  • shovav91
    shovav91 Posts: 2,335 Member
    Also, any "Friends" fanatics out there?
    I always hear Ross yelling "Y-O-U- Apostrophe- R-E means YOU ARE. Y-O-U-R means your!"

    Love that show :)
    love that episode!!!

    I'm so happy someone else got that reference! :D
  • sryan8408
    sryan8408 Posts: 244
    Love it "alot" lol jk.
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