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Old Jun 18, 2009 | 02:41 PM
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I'd like the thank my non English speaking English teacher from high school, and Dade county public school systems for caring more about teaching teen how to pass the fcat then how to read and writing.



lol i r
Old Jun 18, 2009 | 06:47 PM
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my boss likes to get into stupid pissing matches with other managers, he just sent out 2 consecutive emails to the whole company spelling the word "nothing" like this "nothen" what a dumb ****
Old Jun 18, 2009 | 06:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Mach929
my boss likes to get into stupid pissing matches with other managers, he just sent out 2 consecutive emails to the whole company spelling the word "nothing" like this "nothen" what a dumb ****
Dude poor grammar in work emails drives me crazy more than anything else. I've seen grammar in professional emails that rivals magna's by far.
Old Jun 18, 2009 | 07:12 PM
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Originally Posted by wayne_curr
Dude poor grammar in work emails drives me crazy more than anything else. I've seen grammar in professional emails that rivals magna's by far.
i know, it really is pathetic and it comes from both the people you would expect if from and also the people who you wouldn't
Old Jun 19, 2009 | 12:33 AM
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bad grammar and spelling is essentially apathy about the language. and apathy about the language is disrespectful to speakers of the language.

if i'm not sure how to spell a word, I have a whole lot of internet to check my spelling.

i can't say I relate because I can't relate. i see people type words wrong and I wonder how they came up with the spelling. did they guess? did they learn it wrong? did they just make something up? seriously. seryuslee.
Old Jun 19, 2009 | 01:23 AM
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ESL ftw
Old Jun 19, 2009 | 02:36 AM
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Stay in school, kids.
Old Jun 19, 2009 | 02:43 AM
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Magna's shitty grammar is under the grandfather clause of old members.
Old Jun 19, 2009 | 02:44 AM
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Old Jun 19, 2009 | 02:45 AM
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Originally Posted by y8s
if i'm not sure how to spell a word, I have a whole lot of internet to check my spelling.
Word! I may let some slip every now and then, but I try to do it all by the books. I have lost a lot of English skills since school, since I don't have to write much in my job. I find myself using Google for WAY to many words, some that I am quite embarrassed (that word <---) about. Thank god for Google Chrome too, since it has a spell check and lets me know when I'm being a back woods hick of a speller. No excuse to have bad grammar and spelling. I be tipe'n n **** sun. Dis grammer iz fo tha burdz...
Old Jun 19, 2009 | 12:30 PM
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Since most of you probably haven't read my new READ THIS FIRST sticky in the M&G forum, here's my take on punctuation and grammar:

https://www.miataturbo.net/forum/t35885/#post416643
Old Jun 19, 2009 | 02:17 PM
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Nice thread, but I noticed some spelling errors. Do I get to call you a noob?
Old Jun 19, 2009 | 03:25 PM
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Well at first I thought that all the internet misspellings and grammar butchery were intentional attempts at humor. Then, when I found out that a lot of people were serious, I felt what the Japanese refer to as "haji" or feeling ashamed by witnessing other people's shameful acts. I failed grade school and flunked out of college but have done decently in life thanks to self-education so I never took the high school dropout statistic too seriously. A lot of people who are fucktarded in their spelling/grammar are actually pretty darn fucktarded in broad areas of basic nonspecialized knowledge about the world and the US society. The DC area has a decent amount of pretty educated and intelligent people as well as decent pooschools so I frequently forget that the bell curve is sadly valid.

That **** said, the purpose of language is to communicate abstract concepts right? While a lot of you have smashed the spellingstupid, I usually do understand what most of them are trying to say. I personally find that the lack of spelling and grammar on the internets adds a special kind of cute quaint humorous colloquialism.
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Originally Posted by faeflora
Well at first I thought that all the internet misspellings and grammar butchery were intentional attempts at humor. Then, when I found out that a lot of people were serious, I felt what the Japanese refer to as "haji" or feeling ashamed by witnessing other people's shameful acts. I failed grade school and flunked out of college but have done decently in life thanks to self-education so I never took the high school dropout statistic too seriously. A lot of people who are fucktarded in their spelling/grammar are actually pretty darn fucktarded in broad areas of basic nonspecialized knowledge about the world and the US society. The DC area has a decent amount of pretty educated and intelligent people as well as decent pooschools so I frequently forget that the bell curve is sadly valid.

That **** said, the purpose of language is to communicate abstract concepts right? While a lot of you have smashed the spellingstupid, I usually do understand what most of them are trying to say. I personally find that the lack of spelling and grammar on the internets adds a special kind of cute quaint humorous colloquialism.
Ok is this a ****** term paper or what god damn dont tell me i have to go back and revise all my ******* posts cause im usualy in a hurry and jot the **** down off the top of my head.
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