Old Man Posted December 31, 2018 Report Share Posted December 31, 2018 Threads that devolve into pointless UK-American grammar sniping when everyone knows the real enemy is Canada, eh? BoloOfEarth 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Bushido Posted December 31, 2018 Report Share Posted December 31, 2018 5 hours ago, death tribble said: Wasps. The entire species. The Nazis of the insect world. The fact that Americans call Wasps, Yellowjackets. People assuming they know something about Americans that is patently untrue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted December 31, 2018 Author Report Share Posted December 31, 2018 4 hours ago, Cancer said: Not true. There is a variety of wasps known as yellowjackets. Yellowjackets are a subset of wasps, not a synonym. And stop spelling aluminum with two i's! Yeah, I was gonna say yellowjackets and wasps aren't the same (well you know what I mean) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted December 31, 2018 Author Report Share Posted December 31, 2018 2 hours ago, Bazza said: Words spelt without "u". (I have heard that the reason is related to telegrams/classified ads etc where you were charged by the letter so dropping "u" allowed the word to still be recognised. I don't know how truthful this is.) Words spelled with an extra U, for no reason Actually, my only really big thing with grammar and spelling is when people type that they are "loosing the game". One O! Grailknight 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted December 31, 2018 Author Report Share Posted December 31, 2018 19 minutes ago, Duke Bushido said: People assuming they know something about Americans that is patently untrue. We beat the British twice, if we want to call things yellowjackets and have a hatred of the letter U, then well we earned it. Duke Bushido 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Bushido Posted December 31, 2018 Report Share Posted December 31, 2018 I won't go that far. The only people I have anything resembling true loathing for are those people who still haven't learned to cope with their favorite candidate losing an election and move on with their lives like the rest of us, and that's only because of just how long it's been. Fine. Your guy lost. Mine did to. I got over it. I've got the same bills to pay, the same job to do, the same family to raise, and it doesn't leave a lot of time to run around pretending I'm going to crushed between earth and sky. Even then, like I said-- I'm not a particularly hateful person. I just want to scream "GROW THE *()^&*) UP AND DEAL WITH IT!" at this point. But I tell you what: I would gladly trade the Brits a full supply of red wasps, black wasps, paper wasps, ground wasps, wood hornets, and those accursed guinea wasps for a sample of that "alyuminium." I-- well, spellcheck, autocorrect and I-- have always wondered just what that stuff is.... Badger 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted December 31, 2018 Report Share Posted December 31, 2018 43 minutes ago, Duke Bushido said: People assuming they know something about Americans that is patently untrue. Admittedly that applies to many Americans. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted December 31, 2018 Report Share Posted December 31, 2018 Hermit, Duke Bushido and Rails 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoloOfEarth Posted December 31, 2018 Report Share Posted December 31, 2018 22 hours ago, Pattern Ghost said: Someone planted a red sign in one of these roundabouts that said "DRIVE LIKE YOUR KIDS LIVE ON THIS STREET." I'm tempted to go plant a sign next to it that says "I DON'T LET MY KIDS PLAY IN THE STREET." I also despise those stupid green plastic meeple signs that say "Slow children at play," while holding up a little orange flag. I mean, first, it's mean to the slow kids to tell everyone. Second, it's a huge visual distraction that might make me miss your kid running out from between some parked cars. In my neighborhood, there are signs that say "Treasured kids at play here." Makes me wonder if some street has a sign that says, "Go ahead and speed here, we don't like these kids." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Bushido Posted December 31, 2018 Report Share Posted December 31, 2018 Put a big X on a map. Hand it to their parents. "This is where I buried them." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted December 31, 2018 Report Share Posted December 31, 2018 3 hours ago, Badger said: Actually, my only really big thing with grammar and spelling is when people type that they are "loosing the game". One O! I've stopped caring about those. Homonym errors are simply rampant. Too many to mention specifics. LOTS of them tend to be spell checkers tho. They don't error check so much as they error induce. Actually...that brings up an annoyance of mine. I use a real simple checklist app for grocery lists. It has a spell checker. I can't turn it off; there's no option to do so. I'm on a phone "keyboard", I'm entering stuff for my use and my use only, so I use lots of shorthands...chkn for chicken, ssg for sausage, etc. It bitches and tries to change it...resulting in more work. This is a stupid-simple app so it doesn't have its own dictionary, but damn, it should let me turn off the checking. So...anything where the software thinks it's smarter than me and doesn't let me tell it where to put that feature. (Like most of Win 10.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted December 31, 2018 Author Report Share Posted December 31, 2018 3 hours ago, Old Man said: No way Australia looks like that. Australia would be wearing the family cat as a Davy Crockett hat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted December 31, 2018 Author Report Share Posted December 31, 2018 14 minutes ago, unclevlad said: I've stopped caring about those. Homonym errors are simply rampant. Too many to mention specifics. LOTS of them tend to be spell checkers tho. They don't error check so much as they error induce. Actually...that brings up an annoyance of mine. I use a real simple checklist app for grocery lists. It has a spell checker. I can't turn it off; there's no option to do so. I'm on a phone "keyboard", I'm entering stuff for my use and my use only, so I use lots of shorthands...chkn for chicken, ssg for sausage, etc. It bitches and tries to change it...resulting in more work. This is a stupid-simple app so it doesn't have its own dictionary, but damn, it should let me turn off the checking. So...anything where the software thinks it's smarter than me and doesn't let me tell it where to put that feature. (Like most of Win 10.) Yeah, most of those errors I have learned to ignore, but that one I just cant seem to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted December 31, 2018 Report Share Posted December 31, 2018 I'm constantly surprised by the words that the web browser spellchecker doesn't know. I'm constantly adding simple things to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted January 1, 2019 Author Report Share Posted January 1, 2019 2 hours ago, Pattern Ghost said: I'm constantly surprised by the words that the web browser spellchecker doesn't know. I'm constantly adding simple things to it. Well if it doesn't know the word "lose", then they are "loosers" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucius Posted January 1, 2019 Report Share Posted January 1, 2019 2 hours ago, Badger said: Well if it doesn't know the word "lose", then they are "loosers" Some people play fast and lose with spelling, but I wouldn't loose my cool over it. They're just loosers. Lucius Alexander Recycling a palindromedary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 1, 2019 Report Share Posted January 1, 2019 Not being able to find the backscratcher when I really need it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted January 1, 2019 Report Share Posted January 1, 2019 This thread. Duke Bushido 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted January 1, 2019 Report Share Posted January 1, 2019 7 hours ago, Cancer said: Not being able to find the backscratcher when I really need it. No tree available? ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 1, 2019 Report Share Posted January 1, 2019 SMOKE DETECTOR STARTS CHIRPING BECAUSE OF LOW BATTERY ABOUT 6 AM NEW YEARS MORNING Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted January 1, 2019 Report Share Posted January 1, 2019 The underside of my nose being rubbed raw & red due to constant nose blowing thanks to this damn cold. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Bushido Posted January 1, 2019 Report Share Posted January 1, 2019 I believe that it was the forestallation of that very problem for which the oft-derided but supremely liberating "tissue walrus" was created. Cancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted January 1, 2019 Report Share Posted January 1, 2019 1 hour ago, Cygnia said: The underside of my nose being rubbed raw & red due to constant nose blowing thanks to this damn cold. Do you get the tissues with lotion? They are lifesavers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted January 1, 2019 Author Report Share Posted January 1, 2019 2 hours ago, Starlord said: No tree available? ? or an angry cat? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted January 1, 2019 Author Report Share Posted January 1, 2019 7 minutes ago, Starlord said: Do you get the tissues with lotion? They are lifesavers. Speaking of annoyances (for my fingers) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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