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| NoDo$h Member Since: 18 Aug 2007 Location: Buried in deer guts in Dorset Posts: 972  
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A badly worded warning notice or instruction manual may well have done just that.
 
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16th Jan 2013 7:30am |
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| o4dn Member Since: 08 Jan 2010 Location: South West Posts: 548  
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Yet "Honi soit qui mal y pense" is....  go figure....  |
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16th Jan 2013 9:01am |
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| diesel_jim Member Since: 13 Oct 2008 Location: hiding Posts: 6112  
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Don't start me on that one! There's an ad on here in the for-sale section, with no punctuation and appauling spelling, almost to the point of the paragraph making no sense at all. Ok, some may have dyslexia, but there are apps or webpages you can type your text into to sort that out, so not really an excuse. As was said re: the ebay ads... if the spelling is that bad, it makes you wonder (in the case of vehicles) what the maintenance has been like! |
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16th Jan 2013 9:13am |
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| NoDo$h Member Since: 18 Aug 2007 Location: Buried in deer guts in Dorset Posts: 972
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Woz that delliber-rat?
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16th Jan 2013 9:55am |
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| ibexman Member Since: 13 Dec 2008 Location: Essex Posts: 2949
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WHO really cares, some people are not idiots or stupid because they cant get their head around spelling and puncuation as long as they get across what they want to say
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16th Jan 2013 10:03am |
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| leeds Member Since: 28 Dec 2009 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 8582
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Well Barbara who is the linguist in this household is out teaching today. However since I have a computer here,  "Honi soit qui mal y pense"
It is the insignia of the Order of the Garter and "Honi soit qui mal y pense" appears on the cap badge of the Corps of Royal Engineers of the British Army. Basic translation would be Shamed be he who thinks evil of it. So I am not a linguist but can just about use a computer 
The main point of any form of communication be it written, spoken, graphical representation is that the majority of people the communication is aimed at can readily comprehend it. Brendan |
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16th Jan 2013 11:50am |
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| Merlin Member Since: 30 Oct 2010 Location: Newmarket Posts: 981
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Sorry Brendan, but Fowler’s Modern English Usage, says that it’s alright to begin a sentence with ‘and’. My teachers also taught me wrong!
Merlin |
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16th Jan 2013 11:57am |
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| Laurie Member Since: 22 Feb 2008 Location: Sussex, England Posts: 2897 
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A preposition is the wrong word to end a sentence with..............
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16th Jan 2013 12:11pm |
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| roamingman Member Since: 15 Mar 2012 Location: nearly thier Posts: 152 
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try this one
Good example of a Brain Study: If you can read this OUT LOUD you have a strong mind. And better than that: Alzheimers is a long, long, ways down the road before it ever gets anywhere near you. 7H15 M3554G3 53RV35 7O PR0V3 H0W 0UR M1ND5 C4N D0 4M4Z1NG 7H1NG5! 1MPR3551V3 7H1NG5! 1N 7H3 B3G1NN1NG 17 WA5 H4RD BU7 N0W, 0N 7H15 LIN3 Y0UR M1ND 1S R34D1NG 17 4U70M471C4LLY W17H 0U7 3V3N 7H1NK1NG 4B0U7 17, B3 PROUD! 0NLY C3R741N P30PL3 C4N R3AD 7H15. PL3453 F0RW4RD 1F U C4N R34D 7H15. To my 'selected' strange-minded friends: If you can read the following paragraph, forward it on to your friends and the person that sent it to you with 'yes' in the subject line. Only great minds can read this. This is weird, but interesting! If you can raed this, you have a sgtrane mnid, too. Can you raed this? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can. I cdnuolt blveiee that I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd what I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in what oerdr the ltteres in a word are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is that the frsit and last ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can still raed it whotuit a pboerlm. This is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the word as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? Yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! If you can raed this forwrad it FORWARD ONLY IF YOU CAN READ IT Forward it & put 'YES' in the Subject Line Even if you are not old, you will find this interesting... Live Life Ti'l You Die Teddys are out thier http://teddybearspicnic.webs.com http://130sasha.co.uk/ |
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17th Jan 2013 12:05pm |
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| Laurie Member Since: 22 Feb 2008 Location: Sussex, England Posts: 2897
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You're nearly there.....
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17th Jan 2013 12:45pm |
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| custom90 Member Since: 21 Jan 2010 Location: South West, England. Posts: 20561
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I think you lot just want something to talk / moan about again don't you.
KEEP CALM AND Drill ON
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17th Jan 2013 1:02pm |
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| mk1collector Member Since: 17 Sep 2009 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 6771 
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Romanes eunt domus! Or is it Romani ite domum |
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17th Jan 2013 1:29pm |
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| rossy Member Since: 29 Nov 2010 Location: Co. Roscommon Posts: 1296  
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Perhaps this thread is the place to express my annoyance at the alarming increase in the misuse of apostrophe 's' just about everywhere these days on many plurals ending in 's' - even on official publications where you would expect some sort of proof reading mechanism to be in place - eg 'Landrover's for sale'. Most other sloppy English habits are, I believe, due to linguistic shortcuts in the practice of texting - IMHO lol
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17th Jan 2013 9:36pm |
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| Odin Member Since: 29 Apr 2011 Location: Aberdeenshire Posts: 237 
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Rubbish. Unfortunately inaccurate or poorly constructed messages frequently lead to mistakes and accidents. As a Chartered engineer you will also know that it should be a lower case 'e' as we are not classed as Professionals. |
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17th Jan 2013 10:33pm |
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