Spelling

Or "you're" instead of "your" for "you are".

Brakes instead of breaks

"Skied" instead of "Skiied"

"Skis" if you're talking about what you hook your boots to.  "Skies" if you're talking about a bluebird day.

And the use of "then" for "than" drives me nuts.  "There was more snow then I've ever seen!"   Aargh!!!

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Originally Posted by Posaune 

"Skis" if you're talking about what you hook your boots to.  "Skies" if you're talking about a bluebird day.

 

And the use of "then" for "than" drives me nuts.  "There was more snow then I've ever seen!"   Aargh!!!

I actually saw "Skies" used on a website selling skis!

"It's" used as a possessive when it is actually a contraction of "it is".  CONSTANTLY seeing this in the local paper.  I keep wanting to tell the editor I'd appreciate him actually running the paper instead of running his mouth.  (Other stuff like losing the end of the article pretty much every issue abounds.)

It seems like half the time people ask for advice here they spell it "advise."  Schools have stopped teaching cursive handwriting script, which means the next generation will not be able to read it either.

One of the national news headline stories today is about a mother who sent her kid to high school with a stun gun.  His big quote was but "I didn't use it on nobody. .." 

Technology is definitely a double-edged sword when it comes to spelling and grammar.   U no what I mean?  Unfortunately real life does not come with Spellcheck. 

Even more unfortunately, people RELY on Spellcheck rather than KNOWING how to spell or the correct usage of a word.  

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Originally Posted by mudfoot 

It seems like half the time people ask for advice here they spell it "advise."  Schools have stopped teaching cursive handwriting script, which means the next generation will not be able to read it either.

 

One of the national news headline stories today is about a mother who sent her kid to high school with a stun gun.  His big quote was but "I didn't use it on nobody. .." 

 

Technology is definitely a double-edged sword when it comes to spelling and grammar.   U no what I mean?  Unfortunately real life does not come with Spellcheck. 

My favorite is more of a typo/habit thing, but on ski websites, people always ask about googles anymore.

I hear people complain about how spell check has ruined people's spelling, so there must be some truth there, but it's helped me become a better speller by seeing corrections instantly.  You have to pay attention and care, though.

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Originally Posted by Xela 

Frankly, now that Bushwacker/Josh isn't around anymore, I see much less of this stuff.  I kind of miss it.

Whut happend too hem?  Does that make you feel better?   

Wow, those spelling mistakes are rediculous, what a bunch of morans!

alot and a lot.... uggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

"Orientated."

The confusion about bass versus base always confounds me.

'Color' instead of 'colour' ;) . Hilarious, I know.


Lack of capital letters at the beginning of sentences. Then again, most spelling and grammar mistakes annoy me to a certain degree.

Lukas

Enshrined in stone (or at least code) when Bill Gates suggested there was something called American English.............................

Terrible first post on a ski forum, in place of .... nope, that looks about right.

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Originally Posted by gregmerz 

"Orientated."

T'feck is wrong with that. It is the correct British English spelling. "Oriented" is ridiculous - it reads like 'east-ed' or 'China-ed'. And what's the opposite of being oriented???? Occidented maybe!

Should I "orient" you, or "orientate" you?  Methinks the latter.

Damn 'mericans, ruining our language

Actually 'oriented' as a verb is also right in British /  'World' English, as it does derive from 'east-ing' oneself according to a compass or sun. Oriented isn't wrong either though, at least in the UK/World English, not sure about US spelling.
 

Lukas

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Originally Posted by Lukas 

Actually 'oriented' as a verb is also right in British /  'World' English, as it does derive from 'east-ing' oneself according to a compass or sun. Oriented isn't wrong either though, at least in the UK/World English, not sure about US spelling.
 

 

Lukas

As a native British English speaker, holder of A-Level English Language & Literature qualifications, one time technical writer and general upholder of the true tongue, I can say with great certainty that I have never heard a UK native use the American English forms orient/oriented/disorient/disoriented (except perhaps when directly quoting Object Orientated Programming literature originating outside of the UK). To my ear those forms sound very wrong.

I can accept that the American English forms are legal, even in British English, but I could never bring myself to utter them and would be disappointed to hear my countrymen adopt them.

My understanding is that Americans generally think that orientate/orientated/disorientate/disorientated are made up, joke versions (back-formations) of the words. They are not.

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Originally Posted by Squawker 

As a native British English speaker, ......

Oxymoran

Just for thrills and giggles; I'm always mystified by the myriad and sometimes baffling word formations that I hear and read when people conjugate the verb "to be." 

You all are a bunch of pre-Madonna pet ants.

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Originally Posted by steadyfreddy 

I predict one day people will learn to spell "losers" correctly.

 

Looser? Used correctly in context it might be "you can turn a screw to make it tighter or looser"

Did you really register to make this dumb thread? This is an internet message board for skiing. If you come here for the spelling and grammar then your just a looser.

see what i did thar?

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Originally Posted by CerebralVortex 

You all are a bunch of pre-Madonna pet ants.

Your right, and I say there also a bunch of loosers!

Its time someone adviced them to get back to threads dealing with skies, bindings, ski breaks, boots, etc. rather then waist time with this nit-picking spelling thing! 

They're obviously isn't much sking left out their...