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#3883710 - 12/25/13 02:39 PM Re: Spelling Nazi pet-peeves [Re: Cold_Gambler]  
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#3883711 - 12/25/13 02:41 PM Re: Spelling Nazi pet-peeves [Re: Cold_Gambler]  
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And,of course,there is the entire colonial habit of dropping the U from words such as colour, honour, and neighbourhood biggrin


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#3883735 - 12/25/13 04:10 PM Re: Spelling Nazi pet-peeves [Re: No105_Archie]  
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Originally Posted By: No105_Archie


And,of course,there is the entire colonial habit of dropping the U from words such as colour, honour, and neighbourhood biggrin


I thought you Canucks still used that funny little "u" for words that don't really need it? wink


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#3883742 - 12/25/13 04:28 PM Re: Spelling Nazi pet-peeves [Re: Cold_Gambler]  
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Some of this thread needs fixed.

#3883770 - 12/25/13 05:41 PM Re: Spelling Nazi pet-peeves [Re: Cold_Gambler]  
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"Would of" and "could of". My God, that is annoying!

Also, since we're an aviation-minded bunch, "hanger" instead of "hangar". This has gone to such lengths that several aviation magazines have been guilty of this error. A hangar is a building in which you put your aeroplane, a hanger is something to...hang things on! biggrin


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#3883776 - 12/25/13 05:56 PM Re: Spelling Nazi pet-peeves [Re: Cold_Gambler]  
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Pron and porn being used interchangeably. Prawn and Shrimp also.

#3883855 - 12/25/13 09:18 PM Re: Spelling Nazi pet-peeves [Re: semmern]  
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Originally Posted By: semmern

Also, since we're an aviation-minded bunch, "hanger" instead of "hangar".
Thank God, I thought I was the only one.

And "capitol" instead of "capital". Makes me cringe every time.

Last edited by Johan217; 12/25/13 09:19 PM.

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#3883867 - 12/25/13 09:37 PM Re: Spelling Nazi pet-peeves [Re: Cold_Gambler]  
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There's also mute versus moot. More for a vocabulary nazi than a spelling nazi. wink

#3883903 - 12/25/13 11:12 PM Re: Spelling Nazi pet-peeves [Re: Cold_Gambler]  
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How about medias. I actually heard that used by a
media person, quite recently. Ouch.

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Pron and porn being used interchangeably. Prawn and Shrimp also.

Pron (and pr0n) are old traditional net words,
used to dodge nanny bots. Their use now is like
a cultural reference, like B1ff and l33t.

#3883907 - 12/25/13 11:23 PM Re: Spelling Nazi pet-peeves [Re: Cold_Gambler]  
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'Action' used in the sense 'you need to action that'.

#3883913 - 12/25/13 11:38 PM Re: Spelling Nazi pet-peeves [Re: Cold_Gambler]  
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LOL... When my wife says that I ask if she plans to freeze it again!


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#3884158 - 12/26/13 12:41 PM Re: Spelling Nazi pet-peeves [Re: Cold_Gambler]  
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#3884497 - 12/27/13 12:16 AM Re: Spelling Nazi pet-peeves [Re: Cold_Gambler]  
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How about just throwing "er" behind a word. The media loves doing this and it makes me cringe.

Sick, sicker, more sick....


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#3884501 - 12/27/13 12:30 AM Re: Spelling Nazi pet-peeves [Re: Cold_Gambler]  
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Awesomer! biggrin
Something that is more awesome than awesome but not awesome enough to be the awesomest.
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Just..um wow,
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The bad part is I HAVE to use that website just to know what my 17 year old daughter is saying to her friends!
When did I become my dad? I have no clue what the young say anymore!


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#3885014 - 12/27/13 11:18 PM Re: Spelling Nazi pet-peeves [Re: Cold_Gambler]  
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#3885019 - 12/27/13 11:22 PM Re: Spelling Nazi pet-peeves [Re: Cold_Gambler]  
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Oh btw, not to up-nazi the OP, but viola does not mean raped in French

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#3885025 - 12/27/13 11:38 PM Re: Spelling Nazi pet-peeves [Re: Cold_Gambler]  
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None so much as Netspeak, and what has evolved from it-

2day
4ever
H8ter
hax0rz
rotflmfao
bcuz or b/cos

This is more deliberate than common misspellings, this is a deliberate form of slang. Slang in itself doesn't necessarily bother me, but this is conformity that bugs me- particularly because it's a form of speech that an adult might copy from a twelve year old. No twelve year old in the world is cool.


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#3885047 - 12/28/13 12:14 AM Re: Spelling Nazi pet-peeves [Re: Cold_Gambler]  
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"Would of"
"should of"
"could of"

...makes me want kill people. If you want to come off as a moronic grade-school drop-out, I'm not sure there's a more effective method than this.


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#3885093 - 12/28/13 03:13 AM Re: Spelling Nazi pet-peeves [Re: Cold_Gambler]  
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Basically, any misspelled word does it for me. I don't make spelling mistakes (typing mistakes are another story!) and I never could understand how it can be so hard not to spell words correctly. To me it's like not learning the alphabet or numbers in order.

Last edited by NH2112; 12/28/13 03:15 AM. Reason: Figured a split infinitive in an "errors" thread should be fixed! :)

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#3885137 - 12/28/13 05:34 AM Re: Spelling Nazi pet-peeves [Re: Kontakt5]  
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Originally Posted By: Kontakt5
None so much as Netspeak, and what has evolved from it-

2day
4ever
H8ter
hax0rz
rotflmfao
bcuz or b/cos

This is more deliberate than common misspellings, this is a deliberate form of slang. Slang in itself doesn't necessarily bother me, but this is conformity that bugs me- particularly because it's a form of speech that an adult might copy from a twelve year old. No twelve year old in the world is cool.


haven't seen bcuz b/cos, but cuz, and the brit equivalent cos,
have been around for many decades prior to computers. I believe
you may be able to find 'cos in A.A.Milne's Christopher Robin
books, for instance IIRC. It comes under the general heading
of rendering (or is it called transliterating?) dialect, I
believe.

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