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Larrchild

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Re: America - an English speaking country?
« Reply #45 on: September 12, 2007, 04:20:17 PM »

By George, I think you've got it.


I'm the eighth old man, I'm 'enery.
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Re: America - an English speaking country?
« Reply #46 on: September 12, 2007, 04:33:54 PM »

Fox wrote on Wed, 12 September 2007 10:06

"I don't care if he's painting the God-damned sixteenth chapel!"

I find this type of error a lot in the US. Not this specific one, but simply that there are words and phrases, derived from some specific source or example in the world or history that are not directly visible to current users, where they substitue (in speech and spelling) the closest known word(s) instead. I've heard many. Can't remember them all right now, but one notable example...

"Stone Hedge"
What?? It ain't no stinkin' 'hedge' - that's the wall/fence like thing grown out of shrubs.
It's "Stonehenge" - there are also general wooden henges (they jsut didn't last as well).
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Re: America - an English speaking country?
« Reply #47 on: September 12, 2007, 04:37:13 PM »

The New York conversation:

Jeetchet? (did you eat yet)
Joo? (did you?)
Nah. Skweet {No, let's go eat)
Rolling Eyes  Rolling Eyes  Laughing
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Re: America - an English speaking country?
« Reply #48 on: September 12, 2007, 04:54:30 PM »

I'm orientated towards pouring over the internet for those lists.

For all intensive purposes, its easier than thinking.

You’ve got to know I could care less if its lazy.

Same difference.

I’ll try and do better.





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Re: America - an English speaking country?
« Reply #49 on: September 12, 2007, 04:57:34 PM »

Actually, I do have some intensive porpoises... in case you're interested! Wink

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MDM (maxdimario) wrote on Fri, 16 November 2007 21:36

I have the feeling that I have more experience in my little finger than you do in your whole body about audio electronics..

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Re: America - an English speaking country?
« Reply #50 on: September 12, 2007, 05:47:26 PM »

I read the founder of Greenpeace's autobiography:
"The Porpoise-Driven Life"
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Re: America - an English speaking country?
« Reply #51 on: September 12, 2007, 06:03:24 PM »

Here's one that always bugs me : "graphical interface".
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Re: America - an English speaking country?
« Reply #52 on: September 12, 2007, 06:31:56 PM »

Please try and bear with me... although now that I think of it, this may be more than you can bare:

Their's also a problem with some people and the way there actually spelling they're words. -I NO its shocking, but it's true. There not using they're spell chequers I think.

Irregardless of there grammer, the spelling is enough to let people no that there a certain type of person. You better think.


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If I want a job -ANY job- done thoroughly, done right, done with thought at every stage... -leaving 'no turn unstoned', then I want a detail-oriented person. -Bad spelling suggests to me that a person may be 'casual'. If they retort that "it's enough... you get the meaning, and that's all that's important" -or something along a similar line- That flashes a "sloppy worker" light on my mental 'alert' panel.

I received a "re-fi" offer in the mail a month or two ago, and I almost called the person who sent it just to LAUGH down the phone at them for a few minutes. -You want to handle my finances? -then you'd better learn to write!.

A sample off the cuff:

"Your payments may be about to rise do to the in creased interest rates..."

I honestly can't remember all of them, but "do to" was repeated three or four times, and there were about TWENTY such examples on a single side of 8½"x11" paper.

See, if you can't spell correctly, it implies a poor education. -Do I REALLY want to let a poorly-educated person handle  my money???

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MDM (maxdimario) wrote on Fri, 16 November 2007 21:36

I have the feeling that I have more experience in my little finger than you do in your whole body about audio electronics..

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Re: America - an English speaking country?
« Reply #53 on: September 12, 2007, 06:55:08 PM »

Say what you want about forums, nothing beats a bad Japanese instruction manual translation.

You are down on the floor with a work light and head buried inside some machine, doing an alignment and suddenly, you are laughing uncontrollably.
Frightens the co-workers.


BTW, Mr. Detail, fix yer freakin own spelling eh, mate?
Quote:

I have a colleague here at work named Mitch... He's abotu 60 years old,

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Re: America - an English speaking country?
« Reply #54 on: September 12, 2007, 09:54:24 PM »

No really that's his tribe... -"Abotu"...

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MDM (maxdimario) wrote on Fri, 16 November 2007 21:36

I have the feeling that I have more experience in my little finger than you do in your whole body about audio electronics..

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Re: America - an English speaking country?
« Reply #55 on: September 12, 2007, 09:57:14 PM »

It's enough... I get the meaning.
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Re: America - an English speaking country?
« Reply #56 on: September 12, 2007, 10:10:02 PM »

Graham Jordan wrote on Wed, 12 September 2007 13:33


"Stone Hedge"
What?? It ain't no stinkin' 'hedge'.

Well, no, its not - but it is where the demons dwell, where the banshees live and they do live well.

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Re: America - an English speaking country?
« Reply #57 on: September 13, 2007, 11:38:48 AM »

I've been there...

...and I saw that it was good.
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MDM (maxdimario) wrote on Fri, 16 November 2007 21:36

I have the feeling that I have more experience in my little finger than you do in your whole body about audio electronics..

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Re: America - an English speaking country?
« Reply #58 on: September 13, 2007, 01:43:25 PM »

I always thought is was "stone hinge" and that the doors just fell down.

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