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[gali]

Heh, well, in my line of work, things get even shorter. To express a need, one simply indicates the lack of the needed object: For example, "NO BULLETS!". This can be further abbreviated to simply "BULLETS!" if it is apparent that you don't have any.

Still, you have to add the intonation of the Command, or Question.... It make things longer....

[Brynne]

Ah, I see my last post was taken quite differently from the way I intended it to be.

No, I do not think southerners are stupid.  I do not equate a southern accent with stupidity in any way, shape or form.  And I grew up saying "warsh", but have since dropped that.

Just so you know, I didn't take offense at your post. I was just making a generalization based on what reggiko said. No worries!

[ZephyrZodiac]

So the first one is: it is inevitable (beyond my control) that I am going to drown, and no one is willing to save me.
The second one: I am going to drown, and it is my command that no one save me.

Does that sound like I understood what you just said?

By George she's got it!

Do "we"? I've never heard that before in my life! "Next Tuesday" - the next time a Tuesday occurs. "Tuesday week" - the second Tuesday that is to occur. "Next Tuesday week" - wtf? The next time a second Tuesday occurs?! On a related note, a strange thing in English is the word "bimonthly". It means both twice a month and every 2 months. If you're thinking about having a bimonthly meeting, do make sure the rest of your committee has agreed on what this means, as one meaning is 4 times more frequent than the other .

Just goes to show we all learn different aspects of English!   To me, next Tuesday week and next Tuesday week mean the same, but I hear both, and probably use both.

The only one I can make an exception for is possessive its, because apostrophes are used to show possession in the rest of English (the genitive case), so it's rather strange that possessive its doesn't have one. I remember it because there's a usenet newsgroup called alt.possessive.its.has.no.apostrophe - I used to post there, back when I did usenet.

You don't write hi's or her's so why would you write it's?  The genetive is a case, not a contraction.

[laeshanin]

Well, Brummie may be considered unattractive, but at least most people can understand it!  And I've found that Brummies themselves are among the friendliest people in the UK, as goes for the Midlands generally.  Stand in a bus queue for an hour in London, and you're lucky if anyone talks to you, stand in one for five minutes in the Midlands and you can be chatting to a perfect stranger as if you've known them all your life!

Why, thank you kind sir... 

With regard to spoken English, the thing that bugs the hell out of me most is the over use of the word "what" as in "like what she did the other day..." Grrr. The combination of those two small words "like what" make my teeth grind together.

[ZephyrZodiac]

Why, thank you kind sir... 

Hate to disillusion you, but I'm actually female!

I do agree about "like what"!  what on earth is wrong with "as"?  My sister once had a boyfriend (he didn't last long) and every second word was "like"!  As in,

"Like I said, like, I was like goin' like dahn the road like and like I saw......."  get the drift?

[laeshanin]

Heh... sorry, but is also my way of saying ta to either gender. 

How about when "right" is interjected at every opportunity within a sentence and has the effect of making the listener feel patronised? "If you take this turn, right, you'll come to some lights, right, then take a left, right..." and on and on ad nauseum.

[Bane~Child]

  As for spelling, one thing I have noticed on this board is that a lot of people have trouble with "there" (that place), "their" (belonging to them) and "they're" (contraction for "they are".)  And we expect people from other countries to get it right?  This is confusing to a lot of people in our own country!  I'm not critisizing, just pointing out how hard it is for people who grew up here and were taught this in school from an early age to get it right.  I know a lot of people who have a hard time with these, as well as other homophones.

I am not sure it is entirely trouble with understanding the differences as much as trying to type as fast as your thought process.  Sometimes it seems the opposite is more true, your fingers get ahead of your thoughts.  However, I feel that the spirit of the content is understood and so I don't get upset at others' grammatical blunders as much as I do my own.  It doesn't matter how many times I read through my reply before I hit the post button.  I will always see something like new/knew or to/too/two, but more often than not I am most likely to leave out entire words.

[Brynne]

I have typed "there", meaning "their", etc, and it's just like you said, Bane~Child. My fingers are just doing there  own thing. I have also typed completely random words at times. Don't know what that's about pizza.

[ZephyrZodiac]

Oh, I frequently type the wrong there/their/they're!  As you say, your fingers type faster than your thoughts are processed, and of course, spell-checkers are useless for this type of error!  At least we know when we've got the wrong one - a spell-checker doesn't!

[ElviraGoth]

lol!  I guess my typing is so pathetic that I tend to edit every word as I type it!

Got another example of difficulty with the English language... saw a post where someone had used the word 'wound'.  I read it as in "I wound the clock" when the context should have been "JM shot me and I had a bullet wound". 

Then I have to back up in the sentence so it makes sense when I read the word with the correct pronunciation in my head.

Sound-alikes are bad enough, but a single word that is pronounced more than one way to get different meanings is probably worse.

[Brynne]

My husband thinks it's funny when I mis-read "misled" as "mizzled".

[ZephyrZodiac]

Well, if I thought you were a poor reader I wouldn't, but since I don't think so, ROFL!

[Brynne]

You wait; every time you see that word from now on you'll think of how mizzled I am.

[ZephyrZodiac]

 

[veilchen]

I'm with ZZ. I like the word, heck, I might even use it

[ZephyrZodiac]

It actually exists as a slang word, with various meanings! 

[Brynne]

It's da shizzle!

[ZephyrZodiac]

shizzle shmizzle!

[veilchen]

Uncle, Uncle...
Can't you gals at least wait until I pick myself off the floor.

[ZephyrZodiac]

Uncle Shmizzle?

[veilchen]

She has no mercy

[ZephyrZodiac]

Moi?

[Brynne]

Crying uncle to me or ZZ? Because I truly have no mercy. Mwahahahahahaha.

[SimsHost]

Heh, well, in my line of work, things get even shorter. To express a need, one simply indicates the lack of the needed object: For example, "NO BULLETS!". This can be further abbreviated to simply "BULLETS!" if it is apparent that you don't have any.

Hmmm... simply "BULLETS" might be miscontrued as "INCOMING!"  Try "NEED AMMO!" instead.

[ZephyrZodiac]

Oh, I think incoming bullets might be abbreviated to "DUCK!!!!!!!"