lose

[ClintEastwood]

Doggamn, eye hayt it wen eye mayk a smelling ****take!

 

[dr nick]

it's i before e except after c, except for words that sound like "ay"

for example.. neighbour, weigh, neigh, feign etc.. protein is just an exception to make sure you study extra hard.



i tell you what else is always being misspelt, and its gaol.

 

[dr nick]

Originally posted by Falchoon
agree on lose, I had it in my signature ages ago as the internets most misspelt word.

Have is right up there in terms of should of, could of, would of.

ahhh, i normally use could've.

not using capital letters at the start of sentences and for proper nouns also gives me the ****s

 

[lioness]

Originally posted by BomberGal

I agree with NMWBloods - those ones absolutely annoy the crap out of me. Their/they're/there, and your/you're, as well as getting the apostrophe wrong in its and it's...and I wish people would realise it's "would have" not "would of"...FFS, what are(n't) people learning these days?

OH THANK GOD it isn't just me who feels that way. Drives me insane.

 

[dr nick]

Originally posted by lioness22
My last major one is saying 'hewwo' which I actually do say in real life when I speak to people,

hahaha

hewwo.. number 42 fry rye??

 

[Chiz]

Originally posted by Mr. Blonde
Stop piking on theese poeple that struggel to spel. I now im a god spelar, but juts becorse sum poeple unt as god as me, theyre is no nede to inslut them.

thatt is funy

 

[lioness]

Originally posted by nicko18
hahaha

hewwo.. number 42 fry rye??

LMAO yeah yeah

I don't know, it's just something I've done ever since I was a kid. Well, unless it's a job interview or something, then I make a conscious effort to speak correctly.

Just going back to words such as 'could've' and 'should've' (which I've been guilty of using too) are these 'correct' abbreviations? It's one I've never thought about till now, just when I typed them they didn't look exactly tidy.

 

[sbagman]

Originally posted by nicko18
must be the most misspelt word on bigfooty i reckon.

Loosers.

 

[Nic]

Originally posted by lioness22

Just going back to words such as 'could've' and 'should've' (which I've been guilty of using too) are these 'correct' abbreviations? It's one I've never thought about till now, just when I typed them they didn't look exactly tidy.

I abbreviate anything and everything - it's all good!

 

[DaveW]

Put me down as another who gets shitted off by seeing could/would/should of.

 

[DaveW]

Originally posted by Kenny_01
Most people spell if definately for some reason

Guilty as charged. I get 22 matches on the BF search engine for that. Hopefully at least some of them are quotes.

(edit) 23 now, but at least one of them is defina, err... definitely someone else's quote

 

[TheBloods]

Just going back to words such as 'could've' and 'should've' (which I've been guilty of using too) are these 'correct' abbreviations? It's one I've never thought about till now, just when I typed them they didn't look exactly tidy.

Yep, these are the correct abbreviations, although they're rarely used in writing (except messageboards/emails/etc, which are closer to speaking).

 

[mantis]

Re: Re: lose

Originally posted by sbagman
Loosers.

HA HA HA, I agree sbaggy, you have to love it when someone posts "your all a pack of loosers". ROFLMAO

Don't forget "your", for you're, another classic, better when they put them together as above.

 

[dr nick]

Re: Re: Re: lose

Originally posted by mantis
HA HA HA, I agree sbaggy, you have to love it when someone posts "your all a pack of loosers". ROFLMAO

Don't forget "your", for you're, another classic, better when they put them together as above.

Mark Rudd has this award going around, and it's called the "YOUR A GOOSE AWARD" he doesn't even realise the irony of it all... pure comic genius i was once added to his list of "gooses"as well

 

[Mobbs]

Found one! found one!

Originally posted by {name removed}
Our big men mustn't of been doing much if I'm getting a run in the ruck.

Mobbs 1

 

[dr nick]

Originally posted by Mobbenfuhrer
Mobbs 1

nicko 4

 

[BillyGoatTeaser]

Re: Re: Re: lose

Originally posted by mantis
HA HA HA, I agree sbaggy, you have to love it when someone posts "your all a pack of loosers". ROFLMAO

Your loose

 

[otaku]

jesus people....

get over it....

as a medium, the internet id deveoping its own language, and if that bothers u, start doin somting about it.

the whole idea of "u", "r", "WTF?", "IMO" etc is simply to save time/effort in typing.

the internet written language is leaning more towards a conversational style, rather than fomal writing. This isn;t a bad thing as some people seem to think. However, it should be noted, that once this spills over into a more formal stlye, it then becomes incorrect.

so, iffen u dont like it, u gotta think "wtf ismy prob?" cause, this dont affect no1 but me

 

[Mobbs]

I'm not too fussed about internet shorthand ... its simply the way.

Not using capitalisation, and shorting "you" to "u" etc, whatever ... no fuss by me.

It's the ones that show holes in our education system that irk me ... "would of" being my favourite example.

Oh, and re "its" v "it's" ... I think that's over-rated. The correct grammar/spelling on this seems shady to me.

- When short for "it is" ... shouldn't that be "it's"? Same as "he's" for "he is".
- When denoting ownership (the thing that belongs to it) ... I reckon that should be "it's" as well. Same as "their's" and "Mary's"

One of them is actually meant to be spelt "its" without the apostrophe ... but it seems wrong to do so, when you look at my dash points above.

 

[ClintEastwood]

Damn this board and its swearing filter! Damn it to hell!!

It stuffed up my joke.

I made a smelling pi55take.

 

[Nic]

I hate "it's" and "its" - now I'm not sure I've ever been typing them right.

 

[Mr Q]

Originally posted by otaku
as a medium, the internet id deveoping its own language, and if that bothers u, start doin somting about it.

the whole idea of "u", "r", "WTF?", "IMO" etc is simply to save time/effort in typing.

OK, I'll abuse the next person who suggests using "u" or "r". The abbreviation of a word to a single letter obscures the word itself, and makes the actual sentence much harder to read. However the use of common acronyms (such as IMO) is reasonable. Note the capitalization as well - that makes detection of an acronym easier. Also remember that IMO and WTF etc are traditional Internet usage from the early days of the Internet, while "r" and "u" are transferences from common SMS messaging conventions; IMO not acceptable as it really isn't that hard to type a three letter word on a keyboard. SMS text messages are usually hard to read at best, and to transfer those conventions to a forum where there are many people who do not regularly use SMS is foolish and dilutes the value of your message.

Originally posted by otaku
the internet written language is leaning more towards a conversational style, rather than fomal writing. This isn;t a bad thing as some people seem to think. However, it should be noted, that once this spills over into a more formal stlye, it then becomes incorrect.

But one of the important things about the written (or typed) word is that it must clearly send the intended message. Relaxing the style is OK, we all do that. But you need to draw a line somewhere before it relaxes to the point where it is illegible.

Here is a good example of what I mean, posted on the West Coast board: "hmmmmm ur gonna loose when you Vs sydney @ sydney in the finals!" (http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=72817)

This sentence is unclear and hard to read (also a poor troll at best). Its really not that hard to make an effort to make what you type legible for the entire possible audience.

Originally posted by otaku
so, iffen u dont like it, u gotta think "wtf ismy prob?" cause, this dont affect no1 but me

"If you don't like it you should think "WTF is my problem?" because this doesn't affect anyone but me." Including the de-Americanisation of your sentence (no offence to our resident Yanks, but the average Australian doesn't talk like that either), that's a whole 10 more keystrokes - how difficult.

 

[aggels]

Originally posted by Mobbenfuhrer

- When denoting ownership (the thing that belongs to it) ... I reckon that should be "it's" as well. Same as "their's" and "Mary's"

What about his and hers, which also indicate ownership? You probably don't write her's and you certainly don't write hi's. And so it's "its" when indicating ownership, it's all about saving confusion.


That's not one I really care about though. The of instead of have is a bad one, but nothing makes me want to -edit- like seeing the following on a fish and chips menu:

minimum chip's - $2.20
dim sim's - 50c
sausage roll's - $1.50


Eeek! People seem to see an s and assume there has to be an apostrophe. This is even worse when the plural ends with a 'y' as people seem to have forgotten the rule about changing it to 'ies'.

 

[Mobbs]

Originally posted by aggels
What about his and hers, which also indicate ownership? You probably don't write her's and you certainly don't write hi's. And so it's "its" when indicating ownership, it's all about saving confusion.

Yeah but you've changed the WHOLE word in those cases.

David - david's.
Wolf - wolf's.
Azalea - Azalea's.
Skyscraper - skyscraper's.
???? - his.

There's no word it comes from that's just an adding of " 's ". Therefore it's different.
So why It - its?

 

[Thrawn]

Originally posted by nicko18
and "your" when it should be you're are genuine spelling errors.

That's not a spelling error. That's a grammatical error. "Your" is spelt correctly because, well, it's a true word. But when people use this word in a sentence such as "your not right", then that's a grammatical error.