For those of you , here's the scoop. i was reading some other thread and noticed on Jim Miller "losing" is spelled "loosing" so i asked him about it. he wanted me to start a thread about it to see how much power he and his spelling has. So at (my friend i hope) Jim's request we are testing the word.....:bowdown: All hail Jim miller.
Come on now, Jim you gotta laugh at this.....:D
Lol.. you rock dude!
personally....i think y'all are LOOSING your minds....ya can't lose em...we already have...cause we drive Tbird n Cougies....but we CAN Loose our minds....mine got knocked loose way back when..errr yeah...that's utter exhaustion from me...pay me no mind...:hick:
huh?
Excellent. Spelling and Grammar are just as important on the internet as they are in a text book. Only lazy fools think it's alright to ise (< that word is a good example) their language because "Its jus the intarweb".
wow, aren't we all just a bunch of smart guys ! you know what, tell them ricers "I might not be able to SPELL , but my car will burn you anyday of the week " . Can we all agree on that ???? Thanks Jim Miller for finding the humor in all of this. There's no replacement for displacement. so says the blue oval god in heaven, ALLMEN.
The way I spell I have to find the humor.
Years ago in grade school I flat out could not get "spelling". As far as I can recall I failed every spelling test we ever had (20 words every week) it was cracking under pressure (test :hick: ) as much as just couldn't get the whole
"E before I except after Y" BS! WTF is up with that? 1+1 ALWAYS =2 ... why can't the English language be the same?
My dad used to make me wright every one of the 20 words 100 times through out the week and still test day....F
One week the word GYM was on the test.. the teach decided to have a spelling bee where we had to go to the chalk board in front of the class (as if the TEST pressure wasn't enough) and spell a word she gave us. I got up there and she (I assume because she knew after 20-30 F's in a row) gave me the simplest word on the weekly list... she gave me "GYM", Piece of cake I wrote G Y M! THEN she has to go and instruct me to "Ok now before you turn around look at it close and sound it out"
BAH!! I knew THAT meant I had F'ed up so I start sounding it out... well that first letter's wrong.. thats a J sound, so I change it, now I have J Y M
H#!! no that's not right.... sound it out... Nope.. wtf do I have a Y in there for? thats an "I" sound... so i change that.. J I M
Sound it out... YUP thats it.
and I had just written GYM 100 times the night before!!!
After that embarrassment there is NOTHING any of you can say about my spelling that will get to me. It was there I gave up.. took on this 'I'm never going to be able to spell, the English language sucks" attitude.
Laity however, with everything I have been trying to change for the better in my life I have been thinking, once things slow down, I may enroll in some night classes and revisit this English language BS, See if I can get it now... sort of a 'face my fears" kind of thing... Dunno.. maybe someday.
If it's any consolation I was always good at math.. Aced almost every test.. but 1+1 ALWAYS = 2.. logical, I can GET that.
Who cares.If people misspell a few words,it is NOT a big deal.It's just part of that individuals character and how they are.Everyone has weak points and strong points.In a forum setting,such as this,I would relate sometimes misspelled words as more of a slang than something horrible that some seem to think it is.Some people aren't good spellers.....so what?Criticizing and belittling isn't going to change their spelling habits.People whine too much over that really doesn't matter one way or the other.There are much bigger things to tend to than a guy who misspells a word every once in a while.There,I've done my part for this thread.Feelin the love,Jimmy boy?
I don't see it as misspelling the word. The object is looooooosing. You're spelling how you would draw out the word if you were speaking it. I've done it here with the word so. As in I'm sooo bored I just read all of the rules of calling shotgun. Seriously, I read them all. :rollin:
We all misspell words now and then. But the people who do so on purpose make me want to grind their bones. Kids who learned to spell or use punctuation on MSN or AIM.
For the rest of us, there are spellcheckers. I don't think there's an excuse for not using a function that's already there.
Punctuation is harder to weed out, but when a person types out four paragraphs with nothing but the occasional string of periods to break it up, they deserve to be ridiculed. There's no way you can look at that, after typing it, and think all is well. ;)
Hey vinnietbird, you didn't put spaces after your periods.... :D
Yeah, its like that here.
I may not have used spaces after the periods,but we're talking about spelling,aren't we?Spaces after periods is a waste of perfectly good writing space,and I was always taught not to waste.
I have to chime in here. I am one of those people who can’t spell worth a lick. I have a genuine learning disability that lends it self to my ridiculously bad spelling. My situation sounds almost exactly like Jim Miller's problem. It’s a thing called dyslexia. I use spell check when ever possible but sometimes spell check doesn’t even help. Its pretty disheartening when your own computer doesn’t even know what your saying. I speak with class and elegance, and use $10 words all day. But normally come off like a baboon when I write. I misspell the simplest words.
Yet on the other hand, I have a friend who literally studies the dictionary. He always throws out his word of the day at me. Than asks with a pen 15y air about him, "oh do you know that word?"
He is then put back by the fact that I normally respond with near Webster’s own definition. lol Although one time as a joke said the definition of the word rebuke was to buke again! Lol
Oh and by the way, I’m still pissed that they made the word dyslexia such a hard word to spell!
Jim you write some of your posts in Word to spell check them first don't you? With the Board theme I use some of the times your text shows up black where as everyone else's shows up white.
Oh and I ****ing hate MATH. Why isn't it as easy as grammar?
I love my Mozilla. Notice guys I've been spelling better? Its fixes all my mistakes before I post.
ok, ok, ok, ok, now just to clear things up . i did not mean ANY harm whats so ever to Jim Miller, none at all. i was only messing with him. I believe he took it like that. I don't want everybody thinking i was out to "BELITTLE" Jim Miller. Not the case at all......just some laughs....hopefully i will finish my bird and make it to catjam to meet Jim Miller. He sounds like a real cool dude
I took it all in fun Screaming, not a problem. looks like just chatting about spelling and grammar and all here, so I don't think anybody thinks otherwise. If they do, well then thats there issue. don't sweat it.
And CougarSE,
Yes I do use word when I post from work.. if it wasn't for spell check you wouldn't understand anything I type. This loosing / Losing thing is one of those times where spell check let me down (English language is even to ODD for spell checkers) both are actual words.. so spell check let it go.
I should add an "O" and go with 5.0WillGo's idea, "Looosing"
OldRaven,
I just learned that ppl = people, I hate that , but ya gotta admit that ones pretty clever.
4Bangin
"Its pretty disheartening when your own computer doesn’t even know what your saying. "
lol ain't that the truth!
If you think English is hard, try learning German, lol.
And I don't mean just the spelling either.
I hate it when kids TyPe LiKe ThIs BeCaUsE iT lOoKs CoOl
Do you know how long it takes to type like that?
Only people that do that around here are ghetto nasty girls.
Any abbreviation's you guys have questions on, ask I can help!
So what do you guys think about our spelling here in the UK? You're gonna have to cope with me spelling things our way - such as 'colour', 'favourite', 'tyres' and 'centre'! Hope it doesn't wind you all up too much! ;)
Niki
Oh GrEaT, NoW I'm GoInG To GeT AlL TuRnEd On EvErY TiMe I SeE TyPiNg LiKe ThIs!:hick:
my spelling has always been horrendous. now let me check........nope, still dont care...
ROFLMAO... :rollin:
I'm poor in grammar as well, but read very well... Just watching how others construct their sentences, has helped me make reasonably coherent posts... Like some others, my biggest gripe is run on sentences with no punctuation or spaces... Generally I don't bother reading them... Some where along the way, I started using three periods after my sentences(dunno when that actually started, but at least you KNOW when I'm finished), guess It's now sorta my trademark... Now hard for me to finish a sentence and not do it...
Tom
I'm bored so basic abv's I use allot on AIM
lol- laughing out loud
lmfao- laughing my ****ing ass off
lmao- laughing my ass off
rofl- rolling on the floor laughing
ur- your
idk- I don't know
idc- I don't care
idfk- I don't ****ing know
idfc- I don't ****ing care
w.- with
nmu- not much you
ah I'm tired I can't think of any others at the moment......
daboss351......what does the ph stand for in PHAT ?? huh,....so maybe i'm old (35) and don't understand the phat???
Correction ur ---> u r ---> you are ---> you're.. not your
You've just been Warned... (http://"http://myspace.com/theyourepolice")
That's awesome! Have you thought of goin..umm, international...and taking out the "your" felons and associated language terrorists in the states!? :shakeass::D
Round here we use is as your. guess it could be you are, never thought of it.
Phat is ghetto, I'm not ghetto, therefore have no clue. Phat is just a word for cool as far as I know.
It's correctly "You're", a contraction for "you are"...
You are(you're) and your have TOTALLY different meanings...
Book 'em Daniel... errr... Baxo...
NO! Abbreviations are a banable offense!
OK! GTFO! :mad:
;)
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/thick
Find the definition that fits
your life. :hick:
Fordtruckfreak, the linguistic atrocities being committed in the US are.... far too vast for one lowly organisation, (someone please swap the 'z's for 's's whilst they're not looking), to abolish. It's just too far gone for help. I don't know if we'll ever be able to remove the American from their English. :(