how can people fuck up THEN and THAN!!!

libragirl

Heineken Helen wrote:

Yip

So fuck all you fuckers, I'l mispel as much asI fuckin wanna... who hmakes thes rulz anyhoo?

lol...yeah!

catefrances

Heineken Helen wrote:

Yip

So fuck all you fuckers, I'l mispel as much asI fuckin wanna... who hmakes thes rulz anyhoo?

st patrick made the rules while he was chasing all the snakes out of ireland. and you show your gratitude by totally fucking the language. thats gratitude for you.

Heineken Helen

catefrances wrote:

st patrick made the rules while he was chasing all the snakes out of ireland. and you show your gratitude by totally fucking the language. thats gratitude for you.

Your forgeting that Irish people luv fuckin with this langage! Paddy had nuthin to do wit it!

MattCameronKicksButt

You mean like this? ...'has a lot more options then here' ? Yes it really bugs me.

Normally I'd agree with the girls about ignoring peoples spelling. Maybe it just annoys me because it's like no one even realises that it makes no sense.

Julien

Enlish sin't my mothertongue and I knwo the difference between THEN and THAN..

It's like THEY'RE and THEIR...

chadwick

funny stuff.
some of us on here have serious spelling issues.
it really is terrible.

catefrances

Heineken Helen wrote:

Your forgeting that Irish people luv fuckin with this langage! Paddy had nuthin to do wit it!

im not forgetting that at all. afterall why would an irish(wo)man worth his/her salt be listening to an englishman anyway?

chadwick

catefrances wrote:

im not forgetting that at all. afterall why would an irish(wo)man worth his/her salt be listening to an englishman anyway?

you tell em cate-ster.
yeah, why would they be listening to an englishman any fucking way?
yeah, yeah, why?
fucking Irish and those gd Englishman.
what the heck is wrong with you ppl and your spelling?
Helen, you must not be able to spell all that swell????

small town beck

It is the one thing in grammar that messes up... I am doing better now but man I still remember handing in a paper for high school English and I loved my teacher ( not in Lolita manner I just really thought he was funny and loved his classes, you dirty minded buggers ) ... anyway he scrawled the two words across the front of my paper and said I was too smart to make this error... A friend explained it to me and now I have it... I think

Oddly enough bad grammar drives me nuts but yet that one tends to catch me.

dunkman

Heineken Helen wrote:

Or simple confusion... there are words I've always had trouble with... fuck I never even know if it's grammer or grammar til I've actually written it, no matter how many times I know so I'm not one to give out to someone about their grammer

but 'then' and 'than' are words kids learn in frickin primary school.. aged 5... 'grammer' and 'tommorrow' are much more tricky and they wait until people are 8 :rolleyes:

a spelling mistake is fine... but then and than!!!

Heineken Helen

dunkman wrote:

but 'then' and 'than' are words kids learn in frickin primary school.. aged 5... 'grammer' and 'tommorrow' are much more tricky and they wait until people are 8 :rolleyes:

a spelling mistake is fine... but then and than!!!

but why worry so much about it dunk?

dunkman

Heineken Helen wrote:

but why worry so much about it dunk?

because it directly affects me.

if they are doing something wrong then surely try and do something about it?

if they arent doing something wrong then why worry?


so if you dont do it and you're not bothered by it.... why are you worrying about what i worry about?

havent you got the murder of a Russian diplomat to solve or something?

catefrances

dunkman wrote:

but 'then' and 'than' are words kids learn in frickin primary school.. aged 5... 'grammer' and 'tommorrow' are much more tricky and they wait until people are 8 :rolleyes:

a spelling mistake is fine... but then and than!!!

come on dunk, the english language is full of complex subtleties. it absorbs words from other languages(not to mention the different strands of colloquial english that abound) and that is why it is able to morph and stay alive. then and than are quite easy to mix up if one is not really thinking... and plenty of people make the mistake.
yes yes we all learn it in primary school, but life is so simple back then and im sure even you have accumulated quite the sophisticated vocabulary since you were 5. it seriously takes some effort to retain all the rules in english... and similar speeling are easily overlooked, for a variety of reasons.

Jeremy1012

Heineken Helen wrote:

but why worry so much about it dunk?

World, dogs, going to.

Rearrange to solve Dunk's thoughts on the subject.

I light-heartedly agree. It's a downward spiral people! Today it's a confusion between 'then' and 'than', next week it's a person, who makes that same error, sitting in the White House with his finger on the button

Heineken Helen

dunkman wrote:

because it directly affects me.

if they are doing something wrong then surely try and do something about it?

if they arent doing something wrong then why worry?


so if you dont do it and you're not bothered by it.... why are you worrying about what i worry about?

havent you got the murder of a Russian diplomat to solve or something?

How does it directly affect you? Do you lose money because of it? Do you have to work longer hours? Do you struggle to support your family? Does it take your family away from you? I'm curious!

ahhhhh... you bring back even further memories of 1984... the guy who was only interested in talking about the dictionary

Heineken Helen

Jeremy1012 wrote:

World, dogs, going to.

Rearrange to solve Dunk's thoughts on the subject.

I light-heartedly agree. It's a downward spiral people! Today it's a confusion between 'then' and 'than', next week it's a person, who makes that same error, sitting in the White House with his finger on the button

despite the fact that I've been using the words 'it's all connected dunk' quite often recently... I'm failing to see the connection here

I dont think that a simple spelling error in this case when it's pretty much impossible for the wrong word to make the sentence mean something entirely different... is bringing the world to the dogs

harmless_little_f***

catefrances wrote:

come on dunk, the english language is full of complex subtleties. it absorbs words from other languages(not to mention the different strands of colloquial english that abound) and that is why it is able to morph and stay alive. then and than are quite easy to mix up if one is not really thinking... and plenty of people make the mistake.
yes yes we all learn it in primary school, but life is so simple back then and im sure even you have accumulated quite the sophisticated vocabulary since you were 5. it seriously takes some effort to retain all the rules in english... and similar speeling are easily overlooked, for a variety of reasons.

But 'then' and 'than' are NOTHING to do with grammar and everything to do with meaning of words. We're not talking misplaced commas or semi-colons here, we're talking of mixing up two different words with entirely different meanings. That's pretty bad.

What would happen if everyone started mixing up 'if' and 'is'?

LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun

your,you're, and they're/their/there give me fits

harmless_little_f***

Heineken Helen wrote:

despite the fact that I've been using the words 'it's all connected dunk' quite often recently... I'm failing to see the connection here

I dont think that a simple spelling error in this case when it's pretty much impossible for the wrong word to make the sentence mean something entirely different... is bringing the world to the dogs

See above post! 'Then' and 'Than' ARE entirely different!!

catefrances

harmless_little_f*** wrote:

But 'then' and 'than' are NOTHING to do with grammar and everything to do with meaning of words. We're not talking misplaced commas or semi-colons here, we're talking of mixing up two different words with entirely different meanings. That's pretty bad.

What would happen if everyone started mixing up 'if' and 'is'?

and i mentioned grammar and punctuation where in the post you quoted?