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Learning how to spell or at least proof read your post.

Learning how to spell or at least proof read your post.

Things to consider before you post.

Don't post till you check your spelling. I know it might be difficult but why look like someone with a second grade education when you know you can do better. I think most just post and never look back to read what they have written first. Maybe you look after you post and think "oh no" did I really do that? Most miss-spelled words are just that, the person couldn't spell it, some are just silly as in the word wallpapers or problem, those look like someone who is frustrated but I think just re-reading your work is a must before you post. No one here might say anything but we do think it. There is no spell check for the posts here and I have been at other sites that have them and people seem to think they are too smart to use them. :LOL: I would say to that, so sorry but your post didn't make the cut because you didn't spell check. Here there isn't that option so you must proof read your post first and if you are not sure of the spelling please look up the word first to make sure you look like someone took a little time to read before you post. I do this for my own sanity. I try very hard to make sure I at least try to spell it right before I post. I might not be the brightest bulb in the box but I don't want to look like the broken bulb either. Please just check before you post and save the people here from looking at these mistakes and try to use "Caps" where needed. Couldn't hurt. Thanks from someone who goes crazy when she views posts like this. 
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Reply #151 Top
I say we should be keel-haulin' master Zubaz. Tis' shameful tha way 'e be treatin' tha King's English. Or per'aps we should be makin' fine master Zubaz listen ta tha entire Backstreet Boys collectshun...

At'll teach 'im a lesson or two.....
Reply #152 Top
Arrr, kissin' the gunner's daughter be the same as keelhaulin', ye scurvy bilge rat. Be ye sure ye be a real pirate?
Reply #153 Top
All ye scurvy spellers be walkin't plank soon enough arrr.
An' wots wiv all this 'ere speeling stuff... anybody wot knows tha king's english should orta know 'ow t' spell proper like.
Arrr, Cap'n, but what ta do wit dat there Zubaz blaggard? Is spellin be crook an no mistake - it not be the King's English.
He be kissin' the gunner's daughter soon enough, methinks. Arrrrr.
I say we should be keel-haulin' master Zubaz. Tis' shameful tha way 'e be treatin' tha King's English. Or per'aps we should be makin' fine master Zubaz listen ta tha entire Backstreet Boys collectshun...


What.
The
Hell?

How did this become about good ol' Zub?

Guys. . . c'maon . .  I was just kidding.   Put down those cutlasses . . please . . c'mon . . you're not real pirates . .  not really.

/me runs like a bat outta Hell!!!
Reply #155 Top
walk the plank, walk the plank!!!! :LOL: :LOL:
Reply #156 Top

Zubaz runs like a bat outta Hell!!!

Arrr, Zube matey, Davey Jones already be 'avin your name, arrr. There be no where t' hide 'cept at the Earth's end arrr

Reply #157 Top
Thar'll be no keel'aulin' o' Master Zub's aboard this 'ere vessel. It's not like 'e does it d'liberate. like... all 'is typos n' speeling mistakes be an accident of 'e's berth.


***note to self... put a dickshunary in Zubs cabin***

He be kissin' the gunner's daughter soon enough


Don' fink so.... 'ave ye see'd 'er?? Gawd, I 'ave, 'n yer'd 'ave ter be blind t' pucker up t' that thar wench... bein' 'er 'aves lips like a manatee wiv mumps. ;p

Reply #158 Top
Cap'n, wiv' 'at moustache of 'ers, I though she wuz tha gunner's youngest lad.... X-( 
Reply #159 Top
I see some good points in this thread, but I also see that some people like myself find spelling is harder than some, and if you are not a good reader then what good is a dictonary? I do try my best at what I do, I had a learning problem and if I don't know how to spell a word I often ask starkers and with his help I get what I need to get done. Ok so my punctuation is always in the wrong spots, I do try (:(
Reply #160 Top
Don't pay any attention to the grammar nazis (Godwin's Law Alert!), Mrs. Starkers. As far as I'm concerned, as long as communication is clear, errors aren't important. Now, if you were writing for me, it'd be a different matter, but internet forums shouldn't be held to as high a standard.

Oh, and arrrrrr, I be willing to bet that I be the only one here with proper piratical mutton chops. The rest o' ye be but pretend play pirate-types, arrrr.
Reply #161 Top
Don't pay any attention to the grammar nazis (Godwin's Law Alert!)


Thank you DonDodds, I thought that I may have to stop coming into these forums :NOTSURE: , I did not want to do that as they are so much fun, and I have made so many friends here arrrrr shiver me timbers arrrr :LOL:
Reply #162 Top
I thought that I may have to stop coming into these forums


I don't think this thread was intended to be about the occasional spelling error or Zubism, nor about the slightly off grammar I and quite a few others use.

This was more about the "cool" people that write the "plz hlp me, got trble"-posts. I doubt that mrs starkers is one of them (not that I have ever noticed?). ;)

grammar nazis


It seems to be an universal law, that anyone who behaves in a lazy and inconsiderate way is considered "cool" and "tolerant", while everyone who points that bad behaviour out is "a nazi". ;p

Now, have we decided yet whether Zubaz has to walk the plank or is getting dragged behind the ship? :D

Reply #163 Top
I be willing to bet that I be the only one here with proper piratical mutton chops. The rest o' ye be but pretend play pirate-types, arrrr.


'Ere, I'll 'ave ye know that I be frum a long lineage o' pirates frum England's West Country (th' 'ome of piracy an' yer Francis Drake 'eself... thar be no pretendin' 'ere me bucko. ;p

Yep, that be right, Francis Drake wur a scoundrel pirate 'til Lizzy I knighted tha blaggard n' got 'im rescuin' booty fer 'er frum tha Spanish... tha Froggies too, anybody wot sailed inta e's spyglass view.

Oh, n' does ye 'ave tha proper pirate talk when ye jaws, like? Aarrggghh, that's wot be tha diff'rence b'tween tha pirate pretenders n' tha genuine article.

Yer 'riginal cap'n starkers...arrrr!!!
Reply #164 Top

arrr what be 'e Natzi arrr, be that like a rev'nue man from't East India Co? arrr To Davy Jones wit em...

getting dragged behind the ship?

Behind? arrr, don't ye mean under from't front t'back? What kind a pirate wench be e? Cap'n, me thinks we have a stowaway on board. Arrr, a real pirate wench be 'avin a huge bust - oi volunteers to check the stowaway's pirate wench credentials arrr....

If not, we be slappin 'er in irons an' castin her in't dungeon next 't bones of miss Jennifer....

Reply #165 Top

It seems to be an universal law, that anyone who behaves in a lazy and inconsiderate way is considered "cool" and "tolerant", while everyone who points that bad behaviour out is "a nazi".

Yes, that's what it's really about....though somehow it got belayed [no...that's not a typo]...;)

Reply #166 Top
Behind? arrr, don't ye mean under from't front t'back? What kind a pirate wench be e?


:LOL: :LOL: :LOL:

OK, I admit; talking piratish in a foreign language it too much for me. :D

"keel-haulin" - what do ye mean with that gibberish?
Reply #167 Top
though somehow it got belayed


another word learned... had to look it up. Thanks :)
Reply #169 Top

It seems to be an universal law, that anyone who behaves in a lazy and inconsiderate way is considered "cool" and "tolerant", while everyone who points that bad behaviour out is "a nazi".


I'm a writer and editor; therefore, I *am* a grammar Nazi. :D But there's a huge difference between writing for professional publication and casual communications.

...and tell me about it, Aufisch. There's a reason I don't play online games anymore. :(
Reply #170 Top
My mother was an English teacher. I'm a grammer-nazi by proxy.....

Guilt by association, I guess....... X-( 
Reply #172 Top
Lamarck. Now that's a name I haven't heard in a few years...
inheritance of acquired characteristics, if I remember correctly......
Reply #173 Top
My mother was an English teacher


My father was an English teacher as wel


Neither of my parents were teachers... but, very much against my wishes, they sent me to school anyway... to an English teacher who'd give one a good lambasting with the blackboard rubber should they make a spelling mistake/punctuation error.

She was a cruel little woman who looked much like Granny Clampett from The Beverley Hillbillies; thus she got the name, Granny Russell... and pasted us black n' blue with the blackboard ruler if she ever heard us. Oh well, she got the job done... the thought of a flying blackboard rubber, which all too often found its target, prompted one to think twice about spelling words incorrectly.

I guess old habits...er, fears die hard!! I still try to use correct English...'cepts when I be 'aarrghhin' and 'ye scurvy swabbin'.
Reply #174 Top
I agree and have been bashed for all of it.

Paragraphs, yes punctuation, oh boy and on and on...

It's funny when someone just asked for a little look at one's post before they post so that we all look like we have some education isn't such a bad thing, really!

Texting has become so ingrained in our society that we fail to use our skills that were taught to us regrading spelling. My neice just told me she has noticed she is starting to have a problem with her spelling because of texting.

Now if she has noticed, I believe we should all look at what we post. I really don't care about those who think they are so good that they think they feel it shows a lack of confidence in what they do in life. How sad for them. I want to at least think I try to make what you read as good as I can. Yes I will make mistakes, don't we all?

I was just hoping for a little better quality and thought put into the posts. Sorry it turned into a spelling and grammer test for me instead of us looking at what we do ourselves. I didn't know people really didn't care about it but thanks.

To all who responded thanks for all the crap you gave me, I deserved it. This place is one place I know my spelling will get me in trouble, my posts, my downloaded wallpapers, my photos, and everything else I do here will get slammed no matter what. I don't mind, I have plenty of other places to visit too. The internet is a vast place to go for everything I need and what I get from here nowdays is very little.

I used to visit everyday, now maybe once a month. I have lost my interest in this site and don't think I will renew anything anymore. How sad is that. I have been telling my friends about this site for a long time and even putting it on my websites, not anymore.

This may not make it to print but thats ok too. I am just waiting to get slammed for this one. I paid my membership, and I remain paid. I will download what I need and move on, without interest in what goes on here.

Do as you wish and have a good time. Enjoy whats here and take what you need and move on. Great site for what I want to make my computer look good but the walls are getting boring and I have found much better elsewhere. I like photography, and thats what I download and yes I fix the sizes myself with the programs I have installed on my computer so size doesn't matter, this is for you Stardock and Frogboy.
Who don't like my photos because I don't resize them and they say are personal, what about kids here and photos of peoples cars? Thats not personal? Whatever guys.

Thanks for the memories of what Wincustomize used to be. Fun.

Thanks for everything else though. bye
Reply #175 Top

Who don't like my photos because I don't resize them and they say are personal,

One last time...your 'photos' were not 'liked' because they were being submitted to the wrong place.  For a photo to even be CLOSE to being suitable as a WALLPAPER it needs to have a recognized screen resolution and proportion.

It's not complicated.  It never was complicated....;)