[StevieDvd]

My pet peeve is when I've had my spelling corrected, usually by young people, of words like 'honour' and 'colour'.

 

[elmoe]

The most mispelled word on the internet is most certainly the word "okay"

 

[cosmopragma]

Sometimes even members of team "foreign head-fiers" wonder if only a small percentage of head-fi's population is actually native anglo.
We are trying hard to improve our lingual skills for your convenience (well, maybe except some italians

).
Your sloppiness doesn't help in this regard.

 

[Bill Ward]

Quote:

Originally Posted by greenhorn You don't fool anyone

I'm not Shure about that.

BW

 

[ls20]

Quote:

Originally Posted by kramer5150 "inasmuch"... I had some college texts with this ... word, and I still do not know what it means. Does anyone know? I cant even recall the context in which it was used. Garrett

im a fan of "insofar"

 

[JuveDuke]

Quote:

Originally Posted by some1x Should of

I'll agree with that one (along with could of, would of, etc.).


Separately also gets butchered more often than not.

 

[Glod]

I don’t know why, but I make silly mistakes like:

"...witch headphones?" (smart ass answer: "I didn’t know they had any..."

).

Then/than confusion is common too. The use of the distinction who and whom is fairly poor as well I think.

Then there is of course the fact of different spelling in different kind of English.

You know, like color and colour. But then we enter the discussion on what a language is and who can, or has the authority to, change it. [size=xx-small]Oee, that could be a long thread.[/size]

 

[Covenant]

The most misspelled word on the Net?

Covenant.

I constantly have to remind people i am not a nun, nor a prisoner.

 

[Xanadu777]

One that gets to me a bit is "loose". It's LOSE! Like in win and lose or lose an item under a table. Loose is something you might find your dog when the gate is open. You might have a loose screw. Sure you can lose a screw too. You may even lose something with someone that's loose. "Suprise" (it's suRprise most definitely).

 

[cpw]

Glad to know I'm not the only one this bugs. I'm not saying I never make mistakes.
It cracks me up though when people say something is a typo when really it's just bad spelling. For example, when you spell "definitely" as "definately" it's pretty hard to believe that you accidentally hit the "a" when you meant to type "i"; they're (there, their

) not even close to each other on the keyboard.
To me, bad spelling is sending out a message that you don't care how other's perceive you and/or that you're just lazy. It's somewhat hard to say this without coming off as judgemental but, in the end, that's what it comes down to.
CPW

 

[gloco]

Thank God for MS Word which fixes most basic spelling errors automatically. It saves me a lot of time going over basic spelling errors that I may miss even after reading over my document twice. I usually watch my spelling and puncuation wherever I hang out, like I am presently. I also use dictionary.com to help me out when I'm stuck on a word.

However, this really irritates me:

YO! I got a NEW

24/96 audiocard and it RULEZ

your face!!!!

WUT UP WIT DAT?!

There's one putz that keeps using those

emoticons and it's seriously irritating....

 

[Bill Ward]

Quote:

Originally Posted by cpw To me, bad spelling is sending out a message that you don't care how other's perceive you and/or that you're just lazy. It's somewhat hard to say this without coming off as judgemental but, in the end, that's what it comes down to. CPW

And we wouldn't want to sound judgmental now would we?

Anybody here want to cast the next stone? We all live in glass houses.

Regards,

BW

 

[Kraegorn]

Lier = Liar

It gets better when another person corrects a spelling error and comments ,"you're grammer sux".

 

[JMT]

I don't know about the "net," but the most misspelled word on Head-Fi has got to be vinyl. Give me a break, vynil doesn't even look right.

 

[MusicJunkie]

My two pet peeves in this regard are the use of apostrophe s when it isn't necessary, as in "how many CD's do you own?"; and people that use an open parenthesis but not the closing parenthesis (I really hate it when people do this.

MJ