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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2010 0:35:08 GMT
hehehehe ;D
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2010 2:52:35 GMT
I used to be worse, and would correct people though I am not guiltless myself. People who misspell a lot of words I tend to assume aren't native speakers or are graduates of the "school of hard knocks" and I don't get worked up about that (Though I do silently wonder why they never seem to use spell check) but the text messaging does make me assume someone is a bit of a goofball and I don't take them very seriously. I'm just old and crotchety.
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Post by randomnobody on May 6, 2010 3:05:14 GMT
OMFG. U r sew korrekt in ur post. I h8 it whn ppl can't speel porerply or usse basick gramar day lernt N skool. Day are sofa king we todd did! Sadly I see more grammer than gramar. I also have to admit my first thought on this was "y u h8" On another note, my phone "autocorrects" most of these things. Like "u" is automatically turned into "you" and "ur" generally becomes "you're" and so on. In fact, this post was quite difficult to type because my phone kept changing everything. teh itarweb sux
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2010 3:08:09 GMT
I have to disagree with that Depriving people of technology is just being mean How would you like it if someone took your car away and said it is good for you to walk, you will be healthier, or took your computer away and made you write letters instead of emails? When I took trigonometry in college, my teacher had every student buy a trig calculator, and explained that he was going to teach us trigonometry, not how to look up values in tables in a book Apples to oranges. If you can't walk where you're going, you can still get there by other means. Furthermore, your job probably doesn't have you driving inside your office or in the warehouse. Secondly, if you can't do math by hand, you just plain can't do it. And there are too many times when you need to do math that you don't have a calculator on hand. An actually applicable comparison would be the trucker. If he can't drive a stick shift, he really can't drive a big truck. And why would you be looking up values in a table for trig? Logarithms are calculus.
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Post by torawashi on May 6, 2010 3:28:16 GMT
.....This forum is very educational.....I am learning lots of new words.....or is it just new ways to spell them? ;D
WHAT?! Me fail English?? UNpossible!!
MOUSE POTATO : The on-line, wired generation's answer to the couch potato.
Jim
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Post by torawashi on May 6, 2010 3:36:47 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2010 4:05:26 GMT
Yes, well, try "etc." Here we are discussing proper grammar and you're agreeing that it should be done and not doing it yourself... The full word is "etcetera" for those not having encountered it before. If you will notice in Greg's original post that 'etc etc' was included within the quotations along with the text speak. Etc means etcetera, eh? Thanks for clearing that up. Actually the correct usage is et cetera from the latin.
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2010 4:11:30 GMT
So it is.
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2010 4:15:56 GMT
Well when I'm doing the "Quick reply" it dosnt get spell check, so you see my lack of spelling in all it's glory!! And I dont get paid to spell, And I speak American, Not English, it took me six months to figure out what the heck they were saying!! ...................SanMarc. Yo Habila Mexicano!!
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Post by torawashi on May 6, 2010 4:30:36 GMT
Well when I'm doing the "Quick reply" it dosnt get spell check, so you see my lack of spelling in all it's glory!! And I dont get paid to spell, And I speak American, Not English, it took me six months to figure out what the heck they were saying!! ...................SanMarc. Yo Habila Mexicano!! Hablo Americano tambien, verstehen sie? ;D Jim
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2010 4:47:37 GMT
Yavole!! das Is Gute!!!
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Post by torawashi on May 6, 2010 4:50:51 GMT
Das iss GREAT! Anudder Doych sprekker! ;D Jim
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2010 4:54:54 GMT
Well It was allmost my second languge, my Da was born in Berlin in 1926, the family came over in 38....SanMarc.
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Post by torawashi on May 6, 2010 5:02:59 GMT
Well It was allmost my second languge, my Da was born in Berlin in 1926, the family came over in 38....SanMarc. Sanmarc.....that's an interesting family history you have. I have no German in my bloodline at all, but I did spend 10 years in Germany in the military and speak fluent German, Bavarian dialect. Was married for over 30 years to a girl I met over there near Munich. Pros't Kamerad! Jim
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2010 5:10:12 GMT
yeah, it is interesting, Hunsbrook dialect here.......SanMarc.
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2010 15:36:26 GMT
I have to disagree with that Depriving people of technology is just being mean How would you like it if someone took your car away and said it is good for you to walk, you will be healthier, or took your computer away and made you write letters instead of emails? When I took trigonometry in college, my teacher had every student buy a trig calculator, and explained that he was going to teach us trigonometry, not how to look up values in tables in a book Apples to oranges. trigonometry tables: Sine, Cosine, Tangent: Thats what I remember from trig in college in1977, that seems like a lifetime ago, and I am getting old I use Excel at work, and I don't know how people doing my kind of work could ever work efficiently without it Big rigs: I know of at least one kind of tractor rig that has an automatic, a White's Autocar
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2010 16:09:05 GMT
You needed tables for those? Sad. I learned to work them with a slide-rule and by hand. Yes, there are automatic transmissions in some big rigs. I drove a few of them. God forbid I ever got going down a slope too steep for the transmission in those rigs or had any number of other events occur that aren't life-threatening emergencies in a manual.
If you stick with a job long enough, there always comes a day when you must know how to do the job without the aid of the most modern technology. If you can't still do the job that day, you just plain can't do the job.
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2010 16:34:50 GMT
If you stick with a job long enough, there always comes a day when you must know how to do the job without the aid of the most modern technology. If you can't still do the job that day, you just plain can't do the job. Not always. Some of the statistical analysis's I've had to run would have taken me months or years to do if I had to do them by hand. When you're using most of a mainframe or a supercomputer to calculate the answers to your problems, you probably would have a pretty tough time doing it by hand before you turned very old and grey.
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2010 18:21:32 GMT
And I'd run out of fingers.
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2010 18:57:57 GMT
If you stick with a job long enough, there always comes a day when you must know how to do the job without the aid of the most modern technology. If you can't still do the job that day, you just plain can't do the job. Not always. Some of the statistical analysis's I've had to run would have taken me months or years to do if I had to do them by hand. When you're using most of a mainframe or a supercomputer to calculate the answers to your problems, you probably would have a pretty tough time doing it by hand before you turned very old and grey. Yep, when your job revolves around computers and the internet, if the computers don't work, how are you supposed to do your job
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