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Do dakka grammar errors annoy anyone else? I'm no rocket scientist, but it's embarrassing. I understand that ours is a pursuit of the young. This forum mixes kids with adults. Most of us access via mobile devices. Spelling errrors and minor grammar missteps I overlook - likely because I'm just as guilty. However, the British flags seem the most flagrant violators. C'mon guys.

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I never noticed british posters having poorer spelling skills.

Unless you mean their nasty habit of misspelling certain words such as armor, grey, and color. And their insistence on calling cookies biscuits.

Or chips crisps. Or cigarettes fags. Or subways tubes. Or freedom fries chips!

Red coats.... Sheessh.

But really? You haven't noticed a skew?

USA = Gravy and Biscuits
UK = Gravy and Cookie

Armor/Armour
Grill/Grille
Tea/Coffee
Left side/Right side
Facing movement/facing movement and stomping right foot(?)


Though the "pub" in your all "Ro/Ro" ship was a very nice suprise

It always makes me think of the scene in Snatch when Avi says "This is the country that spawned the F$&@ing language, and so far nobody seems to speak it!" If it's an American I just channel a bit of Samuel L. Jackson "English MF Do You Speak It!?

I. Just think it lowers the attention I pay a post if it's consistently misspelled or has no punctuation. If the poster doesn't put enough effort in to post clearly, why would I expend effort to read it?

What unholy creature mixes gravy and cookies?

 doktor_g wrote:
Do dakka grammar errors annoy anyone else? I'm no rocket scientist, but it's embarrassing. I understand that ours is a pursuit of the young. This forum mixes kids with adults. Most of us access via mobile devices. Spelling errrors and minor grammar missteps I overlook - likely because I'm just as guilty. However, the British flags seem the most flagrant violators. C'mon guys.

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The one that really gets me is when people say "advise" when they mean "advice", I don't know why that one in particular, perhaps it's the one I notice the most?

Jihadin wrote:


Though the "pub" in your all "Ro/Ro" ship was a very nice suprise

It's called a Ferry you heathen!

Hlaine Larkin mk2 wrote:What unholy creature mixes gravy and cookies?

I believe its a bread roll. They re-used an existing word so it wouldn't push another one out.

I understand that when "Lyndsay Lohan" was first used both "self" and "respect" ceased to exist in the States.

I have the problem that what i think i type, is not the same what appears on the screen, some kind of typing dyslexia, maybe , often the moment i post it i go, damn it's wrong and hit the edit button.

I don't often have that problem to be honest. I usually post on an Android device or my iMac and both, happily, have pretty darned good auto-correct features. Hell, the iMac even adds missing punctuation.

It does tend to make one lazy though...

 Hlaine Larkin mk2 wrote:
What unholy creature mixes gravy and cookies?

Nobody. That's the point.

To enhance your culinary education: Biscuits and Biscuits and Gravy.


No charge for that.

Scones with gravy? Yuck!
Now with Jam and cream, I can get behind that!

I not no what your talking about. I speak english gooder.

 Hlaine Larkin mk2 wrote:
What unholy creature mixes gravy and cookies?

My grandmother makes chocolate gravy, and its damn good with cookies.

Jebus...UK even heard of "Chicken and Waffles"?

 dogma wrote:

 Hlaine Larkin mk2 wrote:
What unholy creature mixes gravy and cookies?

My grandmother makes chocolate gravy, and its damn good with cookies.

Chocolate Gravy? Surely that's just melted chocolate? In which case, I'm up for that!

 sarpedons-right-hand wrote:

Chocolate Gravy? Surely that's just melted chocolate? In which case, I'm up for that!

Very much not. The texture is totally different.

MMmmmmm MRE Ranger Fudge....................

Very much not. The texture is totally different.

That looks amazing…. Screw the high blood pressure, I'm making a batch this weekend..

I haven't noticed a tendency for one nationality to have poorer spelling or grammar, honestly. (I've noticed that one nationality in particular tends to have a higher-than-average number of people who think rudeness is a virtue though. On Dakka, at any rate.)

Certain spelling errors (or grammar errors) drive me completely bananas.

'Loose' instead of 'lose.'
The word 'versing.'
'For all intensive purposes.'

And there seems to be a divide on it, with no clear right-or-wrong (like dove and dived), but the use of 'homebrew' rather than my preference of 'homebrewed' makes me want to chew my own fingers off.

As a riter I pride myself on good speling and grammer and find that its iritating when people cant not adhere to basic rules suchlike adding comas to break up unnecesssarily long sentences and lists and other things and people who cant seem to grasp ending sentences before starting new one's just annoy me you know what I mean?

 Jimsolo wrote:
'Loose' instead of 'lose.'
The word 'versing.'
'For all intensive purposes.'

ermagahd, these too.

 doktor_g wrote:
Do dakka grammar errors annoy anyone else?

Does Dakka's grammar errors annoy anyone else?

 44Ronin wrote:

Does Dakka's grammar errors annoy anyone else?

Dakka itself doesn't make grammar errors.

I've noticed it mostly from people with the US flag actually, but probably because they make up the majority.

 dogma wrote:

 sarpedons-right-hand wrote:

Chocolate Gravy? Surely that's just melted chocolate? In which case, I'm up for that!

Very much not. The texture is totally different.

At first I went "Ew!", but after reading it, It sounds interesting and, dare I say it, interesting! I'd definitely eat that with scones! (Biscuits to you Americans)
Not with bacon, though. Despite what people think bacon does not go with everything! (Bacon as a side would be fine )

Damn all this talk of food has taken me off topic...

Honestly, I don't tend to get too annoyed about it if is at least readable, however by god if it is a massive wall of text that isn't legible, see you I'm out of hear!

 dogma wrote:

 44Ronin wrote:

Does Dakka's grammar errors annoy anyone else?

Dakka itself doesn't make grammar errors.

I never claimed this. Dakka still has grammar errors, considering when someone posts it becomes part of Dakka and therefore it can be considered with regards to the possessive.

I've seen a few where I have had to do a double take grammar errors don't annoy me as such. Though they can sometimes make understanding a post slightly difficult.

I know my spelling is rather pants, especially when I am posting from my phone where the anoying touch keypad and stupid cursor/copy and paste thing it has going on, so I can certainly forgive it in others.

I have a somewhat irrational annoyance at people using then when they mean than.

 Grey Templar wrote:
I never noticed british posters having poorer spelling skills.

Unless you mean their nasty habit of misspelling certain words such as armor, grey, and color. And their insistence on calling cookies biscuits.

I use the words armour, grey, and colour.

Am I an abomination?