It is 'etc' NOT 'ect'

_Crazy_Mary_

dunkman wrote:

i have to admit that i simply cannot get my head round the misuse of that one..


i.e "my one is bigger then yours"

that's just so wrong i cannot compute my rage on a simple family message board but to put it into visual terms i have just crushed diamonds using my gums... that's how annoyed that gets me.

i should be worrying about HIV in Africa, but the then/than bugs me more.

I doubt that you care about spelling errors. Not too long ago you called me "retarted"...

dunkman

_Crazy_Mary_ wrote:

I doubt that you care about spelling errors. Not too long ago you called me "retarted"...

prove it.

i just did a search with my username and the word "retarted".. i have never called you that.

GreenTeaDisease

I used to make this mistake all the time. I knew what it stood for and what it was supposed to be, but it like got mixed up in my brain or something, I could never get it right. I had to make a really conscious effort to change it!

_Crazy_Mary_

dunkman wrote:

prove it.

i just did a search with my username and the word "retarted".. i have never called you that.

http://forums.pearljam.com/showthread.php?p=4961106&highlight=retarted#post4961106

check out post #32

dunkman

_Crazy_Mary_ wrote:

I doubt that you care about spelling errors. Not too long ago you called me "retarted"...

so in 16th November of LAST YEAR... thats 4 months ago!!!!!!!!!!!! i said this :-

dunkman wrote:

this is true


i dont get the US system at all... people dont tip shoe salesmen, dentists, airline hostesses, bus drivers... all service staff... all paid a decent wage and dont have to rely on tips... i just dont get it? meals in the US cost roughly the same as here in Scotland and yet our staff are getting roughly $10 an hour minimum wage... thats regardless of whether its busy or quiet for that hour... its a stupid system

and whoever paid out $64 on tips is either a show-off with their money or has the brain of a slightly retarted spider.

someones harbouring a fucking grudge are they not? 1 spelling mistake out of 18000+ posts.. and you remembered it.. wow, can i have my stolen underwear back please...

_Crazy_Mary_

dunkman wrote:

so in 16th November of LAST YEAR... thats 4 mohts ago!!!!!!!!!!!! i said this :-



someones harbouring a fucking grudge are they not? 1 spelling mistake out of 18000+ posts.. and you remembered it.. wow, can i have my stolen underwear back please...

come on! You spelled retarded wrong! How could anyone ever forget that?!

vital5

ZiggyStar wrote:

So many people on here get this wrong.

Etc stands for et cetera.

That is all.

not when ur talking Ectoplasm!! :eek:

Rhinocerous Surprise

The worst offender: "Could of". I mean... seriously!?!?

dunkman

_Crazy_Mary_ wrote:

come on! You spelled retarded wrong! How could anyone ever forget that?!

4 months is a long time.. i was probably drunk.. but i still think post no. 32 is complete genius.. i also think that tipping $62 is fuckin insane

vital5

AmentsChick wrote:

THANK YOU! That's one of my biggest pet peeves!

my biggest pet peeve is when people say

"Aksed" instead of "Asked"

Seriously.. i've said it before... these people need to be culled!!!

decides2dream

dunkman wrote:

4 months is a long time.. i was probably drunk.. but i still think post no. 32 is complete genius.. i also think that tipping $62 is fuckin insane

that's also b/c you, along with most who participated in that thread, didn't understand what the thread was about. and sure, it was 4 months ago...but it WAS funny to read, b/c maybe ONE person understood crazy mary's question and actually addressed it. i understood, but since it didn't apply to me, i couldn't answer. basically, everyone turned it into a thread about TIPPING...whereas mary asked about 'tipping out'.....meaning for wait staff, what share of your tips do you split with the busboys/bartenders/hoststaff/kitchen. sure, the phrase 'tipping out' may seem deceiving to some not in that line of business - although i've never been a waiter and i understood, but she clearly addressed the Q to fellow wait staff. and that's why it was so funny. just sayin'.


also, while i KNOW the whole tipping arguement, and quite honestly agree.....think all should simply be paid a decent wage, and don't want to get into all THAT in any case. point is, that is NOT how it is here, and we tip. so, depending on how much you spend, even $62 is not *crazy*...put it in perspective. i remember when i completed my masters degree, we took a total of 10 people out to my fave restaurant for dinner. the bill was close to $400, very good service.....definitely tipped at least 20%, so that's $80.


back on topic:

vital5 wrote:

Seriously.. i've said it before... these people need to be culled!!!

this seriously made me laugh!
i'd not go that far...i am sure my horrific typing can be very cringe-worthy, along with my posts for many ....but sure, such erros do cause MANY pet peeves at least!

pearljamjen

vital5 wrote:

my biggest pet peeve is when people say

"Aksed" instead of "Asked"

Seriously.. i've said it before... these people need to be culled!!!

:eek:

Vital hangs out with lame brains!

I don't like that either. I also do not like when people say "expresso" instead of "espresso." I do not like it when people confuse adjectives and adverbs. There are a lot of things I do not like, but somehow I'll live instead of whinging about it.

Oh, but my biggest pet peeve is when people do not finish their sentences! (VITABRITS!!!)

Lizard

pearljamjen wrote:

Vital hangs out with lame brains!

I don't like that either. I also do not like when people say "expresso" instead of "espresso." I do not like it when people confuse adjectives and adverbs. There are a lot of things I do not like, but somehow I'll live instead of whinging about it.

Oh, but my biggest pet peeve is when people do not finish their sentences! (VITABRITS!!!)

what's whinging??

pearljamjen

Lizard wrote:

what's whinging??

It is what Vitabrits is doing. "wahhhh wahhh wahh!" Like a little baby.

Poor Vitabrits. He isn't really whinging. I just enjoy teasing him.

ZiggyStar

I hate it when people say eXcape instead of eScape...

"Press the EXCAPE key" --- what the fuck? If that's the way you say it, wouldn't it have "Exc" on the key instead of "Esc"?

Ledbetterman10

ZiggyStar wrote:

So many people on here get this wrong.

Etc stands for et cetera.

That is all.

what's much worse are people who misspell Led Zeppelin as Led "Zepplin."

pacifier

I have to say I get a lot of spelling and grammer mixed up, so it doesn't bother me when I see other people get their writing mixed up on something like the message board (although it would be different if it was in a book or report). There are some times when it really bugs me, but I prefer seeing someone give it a go rather than write in, for lack of knowing the right word, TXT SPK.

My big annoyance at the moment is the graffiti in the parking lot across the road from me. It says "FUCK ALL YALL". This irritates me on so many levels! Not only is it offensive, but 'YALL' is an American term and we are Australian. Not to mention it is short for 'you all' so it should be written 'y'all' and because it is short for you all there is no need to add all before it. Now if only it said "FUCK ALL OF YOU" or "FUCK YOU ALL" then I could just be annoyed by the offensive graffiti, but the "ALL YALL" gets me everytime!

pacifier

_Crazy_Mary_ wrote:

come on! You spelled retarded wrong! How could anyone ever forget that?!

I think you will find that he was talking about a tarty spider that just went to off to powder its nose, or, as one might say, 'retart' itself.

ForestBrain

dunkman wrote:

i have to admit that i simply cannot get my head round the misuse of that one..


i.e "my one is bigger then yours"

that's just so wrong i cannot compute my rage on a simple family message board but to put it into visual terms i have just crushed diamonds using my gums... that's how annoyed that gets me.

i should be worrying about HIV in Africa, but the then/than bugs me more.

Drives me crazy, as well. It's easy:
Than = comparison
Then = time

dunkman

...

KosmicJelli

This reminds me of a story... I used to be the editor in chief of the college newspaper... so at the start of my term I spent hours creating a style book for the paper. I passed it out to the fellow editors. My advisor got a hold of it... I got my ass chewed out for spelling etc ... wrong...

dunkman

decides2dream wrote:

that's also b/c you, along with most who participated in that thread, didn't understand what the thread was about. and sure, it was 4 months ago...but it WAS funny to read, b/c maybe ONE person understood crazy mary's question and actually addressed it. i understood, but since it didn't apply to me, i couldn't answer. basically, everyone turned it into a thread about TIPPING...whereas mary asked about 'tipping out'.....meaning for wait staff, what share of your tips do you split with the busboys/bartenders/hoststaff/kitchen. sure, the phrase 'tipping out' may seem deceiving to some not in that line of business - although i've never been a waiter and i understood, but she clearly addressed the Q to fellow wait staff. and that's why it was so funny. just sayin'.


also, while i KNOW the whole tipping arguement, and quite honestly agree.....think all should simply be paid a decent wage, and don't want to get into all THAT in any case. point is, that is NOT how it is here, and we tip. so, depending on how much you spend, even $62 is not *crazy*...put it in perspective. i remember when i completed my masters degree, we took a total of 10 people out to my fave restaurant for dinner. the bill was close to $400, very good service.....definitely tipped at least 20%, so that's $80.

i know about the 'tipping out' phrase as its explained later on that very thread.. but at the time post 32 was in relation to me thinking it was someone who tipped $62... which i thought was insane.. now do you want me to go back through that thread and correct every post once i had found out what 'tipping out' meant??? no chance... it was in context and you tipped $80 between 10 of you... so thats $8 each... if you read the first post in THAT thread you'll see that, before i knew what tipping out meant, it reads as if one person was tipping $62.. one person.. not ten

and if you're going to argue with me at least spell 'arguement' (sic) properly

ZiggyStar

dunkman wrote:

i know about the 'tipping out' phrase as its explained later on that very thread..

I think that should be -- it's -- not its.

Can't---stop----proofreading!!!!

dunkman

ZiggyStar wrote:

I think that should be -- it's -- not its.

Can't---stop----proofreading!!!!

i never ever do apostrophes on here.. i might occasionally pop one in by accident.. and my other thing is that i never do I as its should be.. i always do i. i also never ever eat the top biscuit from a pack of biscuits... dunno why?! i also do .... a lot as well... again dunno why... just like it.

Boom The Cat

pearljamjen wrote:

I also do not like when people say "expresso" instead of "espresso."

To think I've always said the first one :eek:

Damnit. Well, you learn something new everyday!

ZiggyStar

dunkman wrote:

i i also never ever eat the top biscuit from a pack of biscuits... dunno why?!

ha ha I'm like that with bread -- always grab from the middle of the loaf and never eat the crust. My boyfriend always eats the crust first and it drives me insane because it makes the next piece of bread stale. Well, I think it does anyway!

What if the top biscuit is the only biscuit left....will you eat it then?

meme

pacifier wrote:

I have to say I get a lot of spelling and grammer mixed up

vital5

Boom The Cat wrote:

To think I've always said the first one :eek:

Damnit. Well, you learn something new everyday!

I'm sending the people around right now to "fix" you up heh... culled!

pearljamjen

I do not like it when people say "flustrated." One time I was talking to this guy and he kept telling me how "flustrated" he was. I was looking at him and thinking "is this guy for real?" Finally I just started laughing...I think he ended up getting very "flustrated" with me! :rolleyes:

dunkman

ZiggyStar wrote:

ha ha I'm like that with bread -- always grab from the middle of the loaf and never eat the crust. My boyfriend always eats the crust first and it drives me insane because it makes the next piece of bread stale. Well, I think it does anyway!

What if the top biscuit is the only biscuit left....will you eat it then?

bread freak

yeah i would eat it by convincing myself it was really the bottom biscuit...