how can people fuck up THEN and THAN!!!

norm

why did i read all 101 posts in this thread? :eek:

AmentsChick

cutback wrote:

why did i read all 101 posts in this thread? :eek:

To be enlightened?

norm

AmentsChick wrote:

To be enlightened?

nah...work i don't want to do....;)

AmentsChick

cutback wrote:

nah...work i don't want to do....;)

You mean you actually "work"??

norm

AmentsChick wrote:

You mean you actually "work"??

scary huh?

libragirl

Jeremy1012 wrote:

How has this lasted 6 pages?

The same argument has been made on both sides over and over.

Can we not just say that some of us are more anal than others? This is going nowhere

I agree...:). Let's face it some people can't spell or are careless typists. It's not going to change.

dunkman

Heineken Helen wrote:

good point : D

and I love how this is important... and yet the thing we're voting on tomorrow isn't... the thing which will change how Europe is run forever... the thing that your government thinks you're too thick to decide... the thing that YOU, who works in the government and knows everything about all government activities, know nothing about : p

You HAVE provided my amusement for the day however and none of your future posts in regards to 'I work in the government, I know all the top level stuff' will ever make a difference ever again : D

You continue to sort out these bad spellers though... VERY important

you're only voting on it to decide whether your country ratifies it.. my government has issued a legal challenge to it... etc etc boring boring.

never ever said i know 'top level stuff'... ever

anyway, what do you do again? oh thats right you post on here and sign invoices for bricks... good luck with that

catefrances

dunkman wrote:

its a fucking message board so instead of pics where ed is eating a lung, or Jeffs hairiest hat i wanted to start one about then or than... where did i say it was on a par with word hunger and poverty???

i see you are helping extreme poverty and continuing human rights abuses from the comfort of your salubrious homestead in one of the richest countries in the world.

you've totally contradicted yourself... ohhhh extreme hunger and poverty is my pet peeve... oh and bad spelling.. so its ok for you to get worked up about bad spelling but i'm not allowed to highlight the erroneous use of 'then' and 'than'

very hypocritical... which is no 4 in my list of pet peeves.

police your own threads.

Im aware it’s a message board dunk.
I didnt say you werent allowed to highlight the erroneous use of than and then. all I said was in the scheme of things it was nothing. at least I was trying to point out how people make the error (and the fact that they simply do… its just one of those things) when other people were basically just saying how dumb the error was.
When did I say that extreme poverty and human rights abuses were my pet peeves? If you read the post you quoted again you will see(perhaps) that with my last sentence, I was in fact poking fun at my spelling peeve not insinuating it was akin to extreme poverty and human rights abuses: which I never said were pet peeves of mine in the first place.

And how dare you assume to know my station in life. Sure I live in one of the richest countries in the world but that doesn’t equate to me living large.

catefrances

dunkman wrote:

but their and there are phonetically exact so its a common and easy mistake... than and then are different.. phonetically speaking

than and then are similiar enough for the mistake to happen. thats all dunk. it just happens.



anyhoo im off now to retire to my salubrious estate.

brainofme

haven't read the whole thing but this topic kind of annoys me.

you english-speaking people realise that there are many writing here that don't have english as their mother tongue, right?
i bet you would make mistakes if you would write in a foreign language as well.
i don't want to write a post and look everything up in a dictionary, just because some of you might find a mistake. writing here would no longer be fun.

ad english-speakers who make mistakes: who really cares? this isn't school.


ps: i'm sorry for any mistakes i made writing this. thank god i'm no longer in school. ;-)

Jeanie

brainofme wrote:

haven't read the whole thing but this topic kind of annoys me.

you english-speaking people realise that there are many writing here that don't have english as their mother tongue, right?
i bet you would make mistakes if you would write in a foreign language as well.
i don't want to write a post and look everything up in a dictionary, just because some of you might find a mistake. writing here would no longer be fun.

ad english-speakers who make mistakes: who really cares? this isn't school.


ps: i'm sorry for any mistakes i made writing this. thank god i'm no longer in school. ;-)

Many of us English-speaking people are well aware that there are people on the board whose native tongue is not English. I'd much rather hear what you had to say then sit here critiquing your spelling or grammar, or anybody elses for that matter. Don't sweat the small stuff, but than don't be too surprised if some folk get irritated by the smallest of things. It happens. If it makes you feel any better I can't count how many times I've had my spelling "corrected" because in Australia we use the English spelling of many words which is different to the American spelling. Using the wrong spelling or the wrong word really doesn't bother me but perhaps we need to get a few people a packet of gold stars so they can go check each and every post and mark us all accordingly?

Heineken Helen

dunkman wrote:

you're only voting on it to decide whether your country ratifies it.. my government has issued a legal challenge to it... etc etc boring boring.

never ever said i know 'top level stuff'... ever : confused:

anyway, what do you do again? oh thats right you post on here and sign invoices for bricks... good luck with that ; )

and yet somehow... I still know more about what your governments up to than you, who works for the government We're the ONLY country who GETS to vote... and it needs unanimous ratification... and every parliament is going to ratify it... so therefore we are voting for europe. Your government is DEFENDING a legal challenge to it! Your government wants to ratify it, the opposition wants a referendum... at least read the links properly :rolleyes:

Soooo... ya looked it up then and that's all ya got from it? Oh and you seemed to think you'd be informed of any attempts by your government to monitor the people I'd imagine that's pretty top level stuff, lol.

dunkman

Heineken Helen wrote:

and yet somehow... I still know more about what your governments up to than you, who works for the government

Soooo... ya looked it up then and that's all ya got from it?

well i dont work for the BRITISH government... i work for the Scottish government and the Treaty has no bearing on that government... i would have thought you'd known that oh fountain of knowledge.

3 invoices waiting... hurry along... tea and biscuits

dunkman

catefrances wrote:

Im aware it’s a message board dunk.
I didnt say you werent allowed to highlight the erroneous use of than and then. all I said was in the scheme of things it was nothing. at least I was trying to point out how people make the error (and the fact that they simply do… its just one of those things) when other people were basically just saying how dumb the error was.

of course its nothing... but then so is spelling mistakes... but you point them out, yet i cant point then and than out. hypocritical i'm afraid.

catefrances wrote:

When did I say that extreme poverty and human rights abuses were my pet peeves? If you read the post you quoted again you will see(perhaps) that with my last sentence, I was in fact poking fun at my spelling peeve not insinuating it was akin to extreme poverty and human rights abuses: which I never said were pet peeves of mine in the first place.

you didnt, apology accepted.

catefrances wrote:

And how dare you assume to know my station in life. Sure I live in one of the richest countries in the world but that doesn’t equate to me living large.

you can afford a lot of booze.. these people can't buy rice... in the grand scheme of things its 'larger' than they live.

dunkman

Jeanie wrote:

Many of us English-speaking people are well aware that there are people on the board whose native tongue is not English. I'd much rather hear what you had to say then sit here critiquing your spelling or grammar, or anybody elses for that matter. Don't sweat the small stuff, but than don't be too surprised if some folk get irritated by the smallest of things. It happens. If it makes you feel any better I can't count how many times I've had my spelling "corrected" because in Australia we use the English spelling of many words which is different to the American spelling. Using the wrong spelling or the wrong word really doesn't bother me but perhaps we need to get a few people a packet of gold stars so they can go check each and every post and mark us all accordingly?

its not about non-english speakers or people who have a primary language other than English... to be honest i've only ever noticed it coming from N.Americans... its not difficult... then and than... spelling pulchritudinous is.. then and than isnt.

Heineken Helen

dunkman wrote:

well i dont work for the BRITISH government... i work for the Scottish government and the Treaty has no bearing on that government... i would have thought you'd known that oh fountain of knowledge.

3 invoices waiting... hurry along... tea and biscuits

ah well... there's no intelligence in the scottish government anyway... case in point: they hired YOU

I've nothing to do with invoices ya eejit... don't ya need to go draw some lines or something? :cool:

dunkman

Heineken Helen wrote:

and yet somehow... I still know more about what your governments up to than you, who works for the government We're the ONLY country who GETS to vote... and it needs unanimous ratification... and every parliament is going to ratify it... so therefore we are voting for europe. Your government is DEFENDING a legal challenge to it! Your government wants to ratify it, the opposition wants a referendum... at least read the links properly :rolleyes:

Soooo... ya looked it up then and that's all ya got from it? Oh and you seemed to think you'd be informed of any attempts by your government to monitor the people I'd imagine that's pretty top level stuff, lol.

do you know every single aspect of the construction industry? hmmm i doubt it... ok you might know how much Hob-Nobs cost in 14 different countries... but i work in one sector of government... its a multifaceted organisation.. they deal with literally hundreds of differing areas... some of which i know nothing about.. ask me something about my area of expertise and i will perhaps know about it.

Jeanie

dunkman wrote:

its not about non-english speakers or people who have a primary language other than English... to be honest i've only ever noticed it coming from N.Americans... its not difficult... then and than... spelling pulchritudinous is.. then and than isnt.

I don't care who does it dunk, it doesn't bother me.

Heineken Helen

dunkman wrote:

do you know every single aspect of the construction industry? hmmm i doubt it... ok you might know how much Hob-Nobs cost in 14 different countries... but i work in one sector of government... its a multifaceted organisation.. they deal with literally hundreds of differing areas... some of which i know nothing about.. ask me something about my area of expertise and i will perhaps know about it.

Funny... that's a completely different argument to the one you used the other day when you said 'I work for the government (you then implied British too as it was the British government I was talking about), and they AREN'T doing that... I would know'

So which stance ARE you taking then? This new one or the one that suited you last week?

MattCameronKicksButt

I love watching you two bicker. It's so funny.