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johntothea
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 Message 1 of 47
25 April 2007 at 8:15pm | IP Logged 
Why can't native speakers of english tell the difference between to, too, and two, or their, there, and they're, and you're and your. Seriously, is it THAT hard? I can understand if a foreigner get's them wrong, I'm just saying I find it horrible when I read something and it says.

"your going to..." or something like that as opposed to "you're going to...'


Do any others find this annoying?
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Keith
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 Message 2 of 47
25 April 2007 at 10:43pm | IP Logged 
This is a typing problem and a problem of not checking before submitting.
I don't know how you type, but when I type I do not have to think about the spelling of a word. I just hear the word in my mind and I automatically type. Once in a while, the wrong spelling will come out, but I almost always carefully read my messages before posting. Although, when proof reading, sometimes these mistakes are not caught.

What I wanted to know is why the thread title is so short. Why?
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Sir Nigel
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 Message 3 of 47
25 April 2007 at 11:25pm | IP Logged 
I find these errors very annoying as well. Unfortunately, some hardly know what's right to begin with.

Accept/except is another one that comes to mind.
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Captain Haddock
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 Message 4 of 47
26 April 2007 at 3:40am | IP Logged 
Bugs the heck out of me too. I mean, I learnt that stuff in grade 2, and it's been reinforced hundreds of thousands of times in everything I've read since then.
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Keith
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 Message 5 of 47
26 April 2007 at 5:23am | IP Logged 
In Room: General discussion 4/22/2007 6:11:28 PM
johntothea wrote:
It depends what your priorities are. It basically comes down to two main points;

Would you rather have an oppurtunity to use you're Spanish and improve on your spoken fluency for six weeks?

                        -or-

Would you rather try to get to an intermediate level in Korean in that time?




I, like you seem to be, would never be able to choose :P.

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SamD
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 Message 6 of 47
26 April 2007 at 8:10am | IP Logged 
I'm teaching a college composition course, and I see this error more frequently every year. Rather than learn to spell words correctly or carefully proofread their own reading, students rely blindly on the spellcheck function of their word processing programs.

As a result, I often see "defiantly" in place of "definitely." One student referred to McDonald's having many "restraints" instead of many "restaurants."

Another problem is the fact that many students simply don't read very often or very well. Not all of them have the reinforcement that Captain Haddock has.

Some students do much of their writing as cell phone text messages in a variety of English where standard spelling rules don't seem to apply.

Another problem is that many students simply don't care whether a word is spelled correctly.


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Chung
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 Message 7 of 47
26 April 2007 at 8:33am | IP Logged 
SamD wrote:
I'm teaching a college composition course, and I see this error more frequently every year. Rather than learn to spell words correctly or carefully proofread their own reading, students rely blindly on the spellcheck function of their word processing programs.

As a result, I often see "defiantly" in place of "definitely." One student referred to McDonald's having many "restraints" instead of many "restaurants."

Another problem is the fact that many students simply don't read very often or very well. Not all of them have the reinforcement that Captain Haddock has.

Some students do much of their writing as cell phone text messages in a variety of English where standard spelling rules don't seem to apply.

Another problem is that many students simply don't care whether a word is spelled correctly.



Amen to all of the above.
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patuco
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 Message 8 of 47
26 April 2007 at 10:47am | IP Logged 
The one that annoys me the most is "definately" instead of "definitely".


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