Little Misspellings You Hate
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It's ONLY = 'it is' - it's an exception to the normal 'use an apostrophe to show possession' rule, dammit! If only professional advertisers and newspaper journalists/editors knew that...
Butchering of the words 'you' 'you're' 'your' are annoying too, but getting 'there/their/they're' wrong is just poor.
Butchering of the words 'you' 'you're' 'your' are annoying too, but getting 'there/their/they're' wrong is just poor.
There are plenty of superfluous letters in words.epsilon246 said:
Watch.
Colour.
Color.
Both mean exactly the same thing, no? You read the same meaning from both, correct? The U was not necessary to convey the meaning, because the word is just as valid without as it is with. You say we see the shape of every word, and that is true. But if one is taught that Colour is spelt Color, then it means Color to that reader. Adding the U in this case seems superfluous from that reader's viewpoint, just as we would consider Magick to be a strange spelling of Magic. There is no universal "right" spelling of a word, only the most commonly accepted spelling, which varies across time and space.
Who is the "us" you refer to? Some guys who happened to be born and brought up in the UK? Do Americans somehow have a less profound link to their mother tongue by virtue of being geographically isolated from its place of origin? They grew up with it, they learnt it and lived it and spoke it and breathed it just as much as anyone from the UK did. The fact that their spelling has evolved slightly differently - and you can't say the spelling differences are anything but slight, not when you compare Modern English to Old or even Middle English (hint: Shakespearean English is by no means Middle English. Try Chaucer.), does not diminish the fact that it is no less, or more, their language than it is yours. For that matter, how can any body, be that body an individual, an organisation or a nation, hold exclusive rights to something as ubiquitous - and as arbitrary - as a language?
On a second note, I've not once seen Governour spelt with a U outside of direct references to its old spelling.
Incidentally, the American dropping of letters was anything but pointless. The movement had a very definite goal: standardised, phonetic spelling of English, for ease of use. You can argue that it was unnecessary (I certainly would, considering that phonetic spelling in a language with accents as diverse as English is just begging for disaster), but to call it pointless is to show profound ignorance of the movement, its vision and its goals.
I agree that Americans forcing their spelling on others is annoying, but I don't think that is actually relevant to this discussion, considering that you're doing the exact same thing. The justifications used are different (tradition/cultural elitism rather than simplicity/cultural elitism), but the end result is the same, and no less obnoxious.
My girlfriend has taken to keeping a red sharpie in her purse, so she can correct the grammar and spelling of the bathroom graffiti at the nightclub we frequent. But the only thing that truly drives me wild is 'leet-speak'.
It. Must. Die.
It. Must. Die.
When people take more time to purposely spell something incorrectly, and it has more letters that the correct spelling of the word. ex. "my" to "mah"
My English sucks now and then, but I hope you will still get to like me, someday, ever... Anyway, from the looks of it, it's more the spelling of certain words that irritates you, instead of just wrong grammar, wich I will subconsciously use sometimes. Sorry in advance!
Was this understandable or is it like, the suckiest piece of English you guys have ever seen?
Was this understandable or is it like, the suckiest piece of English you guys have ever seen?
People who overstress everything in IM.
'You' becomes 'yhuu'
I won't just block you from MSN I'll block you from this planet if I can.
'You' becomes 'yhuu'
I won't just block you from MSN I'll block you from this planet if I can.
Rouge annoys the hell out of me especially in World of Warcraft. I also really dislike all the your/you're stuff, also their/there/they're. American spellings used to annoy me, but online I have to put up with them, also when programming.
There's one or two WoW specific mis-spellings that get to me. Probably the second worst spelled word after rogue is the apparently simple "Exalted". For some reason it seems to attract various extra letters like u and h.
As for ones I have problems with myself, I'm afraid to say I've never got my head around its and it's. I still have to check up on that often.
There's one or two WoW specific mis-spellings that get to me. Probably the second worst spelled word after rogue is the apparently simple "Exalted". For some reason it seems to attract various extra letters like u and h.
As for ones I have problems with myself, I'm afraid to say I've never got my head around its and it's. I still have to check up on that often.
