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Re: What's going on with the misspellings as of late?

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Originally Posted by devu (Post 681156)

That was my concern as well but I've just write it down from somebody else signature trusting that he know :)

Do NOT let gerbick see that sentence!! :)

Re: What's going on with the misspellings as of late?

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Originally Posted by gerbick (Post 681154)

Just point to it and say "I own this." and be done with it.

I'm loving this thread :) It is more correct to say " A happy owner of a N900, because 'N' is not a vowel. However in 'ordinary' spoken English it does sound more natural to say 'an' in this circumstance. Neither way is wrong, it all depends if your writing or speaking.

Re: What's going on with the misspellings as of late?

I'm learning something new every day :) Thanks a lot guys!

@silvermountain I would like to correct this sentence or just remove it if I can't by you already highlighted it.. so let's see what happen ;)

Is it more correct?

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That was my concern as well but I've write it down from somebody's else signature trusted that he knew.

Re: What's going on with the misspellings as of late?

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Originally Posted by gerbick (Post 680787)

Increase file size it's limits?

As far as I know, "its" is the only world in the English language where you don't use an apostrophe for the possessive. I always spell it with an apostrophe to protest.

Re: What's going on with the misspellings as of late?

Signs of impotence on both sides.

Re: What's going on with the misspellings as of late?

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Originally Posted by mullf (Post 681194)

As far as I know, "its" is the only world in the English language where you don't use an apostrophe for the possessive. I always spell it with an apostrophe to protest.

It is (:p) true, but I always spelt it "it's" out of ignorance, not protest. It's (that one does need an apostrophe - a missing letter) a protest now.

Re: What's going on with the misspellings as of late?

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Originally Posted by acou (Post 681204)

Signs of impotence on both sides.

Na just having a laugh. I don't mind poor spelling or even the odd bit of text speech.

Re: What's going on with the misspellings as of late?

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Originally Posted by devu (Post 681140)

By the way... UK vs US are you really can't find some mid point for spelling differences issue? What's the background of this. Just curious...

No way, silvermountain. This sentence was the one that caught my eye earlier.

Devu, what is your native language?

Re: What's going on with the misspellings as of late?

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Originally Posted by dynomot (Post 681209)

Na just having a laugh.

You get it.

Re: What's going on with the misspellings as of late?

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Originally Posted by gerbick (Post 681211)

No way, silvermountain. This sentence was the one that caught my eye earlier.

Devu, what is your native language?

I let you guess.

Here is a clue
Reverse logic, 3 times less words in dictionary, 3 times less time permutations and 3 times more accurate because nobody keep asking every 3rd sentence "do you know what I mean?" :)

Edit: this is important. There is no difference between question and answer in terms of sentence construction. The only way you can recognize it is "?" mark, but when you speaking, different voice intonation, that's it.

But in this same time English is more flexible more emotional more adjectives that can describe different level of emotions. And personally I think computer programing wouldn't be possible in any other language since English has dialect characteristic as well.

No sarcasm here just my observations, and process of my learning since I came to UK 2 years ago and I was pretty much like yes, no, thank you.