Spelling 101

[The Doctor]

Klames paige tu!

[mathgrant]

Originally posted by Death Mage in this thread:

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And virii. KaZaa is perfect for finding virii.

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Originally posted by Lepton:

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And viruses. KaZaZ [sic] is perfect for finding viruses.

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[This message has been edited by mathgrant (edited 06-01-2003 01:30 PM).]

[CrystyB]

where was that??

[mathgrant]

Extropalopakettle claims to have a Tesla coil under "connstruction".

[extropalopakettle]

With a capacitor that can kill a man "innstantly". It's called a typo, dipwad, often caused by flaky keyboards.

[jesternl]

dippwadd

[Hitchhiker]

5-question self-quiz: Can you spell the names of all of the following, without looking them up?







[This message has been edited by Hitchhiker (edited 08-26-2003 12:49 AM).]

[Lepton]

glockenspiel, light fixture, cat, free transportation, shears
_{Edit to fix typo...I swear!}

[This message has been edited by Lepton (edited 08-26-2003 12:53 AM).]

[Hitchhiker]

If you had spelled "transportation" correctly, I might have given you full credit

[Sparticus]

Xylophone, chandelier, weiner dog, ambulance, scissors.

Well, I guess Lept's answers were [SB grammar]more better[/SBg] than mine.

[mathgrant]

Xylophone, Chandelier, Dachshund, Ambulance, Scissors

[Lepton]

While the instrument portrayed in the first picture is neither of the two, it is more closely related to a Glockenspiel than a Xylophone.[/interlude]

[Hitchhiker]

Or it might be a marimba.

By the way...wiener is a word borrowed from German, so just remember that the second vowel in a vowel combination is the one you hear.

Long E sound: wiener, Diesel, glockenspiel
Long I sound: heil, mein, weiß

sorry to use you as an example, Sparticus, but the moment seemed opportune

[Dragon Phoenix]

In relation to that, I often (in geo quizzes) see people misspell Liechtenstein.

[Hitchhiker]

Bump.

Originally posted by Vader, in the Good job, mr. Sharon thread:

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If there are mispellings in any of my posts I do not care, you get the point and that is all I care about.

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So, you don't mind if I use some of your posts as examples then? Great. Thank you.

Israel (not Isreal)
Palestine (not Palastine)
Britain (not Britan)
misspelling (not mispelling)
their (not thier)
mightier (not mighter)
pompous (not pompass, unless you were making a conscious pun there)
considered (not concidered)
insane (not insaine)

[Dread Pirate Westley]

Nonono. You mean "It's elf." Of course, elf is a noun. You want to use elven.

I frequently typo because and against (Just did it there, in fact) by switching the vowels. Of course, I usually catch myself and correct my mistake, but these may just be typos rather than misspellings (Yes, two s's).

[Hitchhiker]

Word of the day: apostrophe

Bob the Angry Flower's quick guide to the apostrophe: http://angryflower.com/aposter.html (color)
http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif (black & white)

Queen of Wands on "lose" vs. "loose" (Warning! Strong language!)

Also worth a look: The Gallery of "Misused" Quotation Marks

[The Cruciverbalist]

This article takes a vaguely heartwarming, vaguely disturbing look at misusage of apostrophe's and "quotation marks".

[jesternl]

is it "true" though?

[mathgrant]

Originally posted by Kordelia:

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When worn by itself, the decoder ring guarentees removal of all stars on your belly.

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Originally posted by mathgrant:

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I don't think the players want something that guarentees the removal of all stars. I think they want something that guarantees it.

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[RequiemEternam]

Originally posted by firemeboy in Racist:

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... a female from the Phillipeans?

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Philippines, for King Philip II of Spain. In English text, a person from the Philippines is Filipino. The people of the Philippines are Filipinos.

(Posted only because I am Filipino, and not because I am a spelling Nazi.)

[Vinny]

Teach!

Is this sentence wrong?

"All of my issues were addressed and fixed in just a matter of minutes - literally."

[Vinny]

Huey (7:44:58 PM): he's using it wrong, he's such a hurmpnth
Vinny (7:45:28 PM): hahhaha
Vinny (7:45:31 PM): LITERALLY!
Huey (7:45:54 PM): how did we responded literally ?
Vinny (7:46:01 PM): ah
Huey (7:46:04 PM): we responded using paper and pencil?
Vinny (7:46:10 PM): no no
Huey (7:46:10 PM): we wrote them a letter?
Huey (7:46:13 PM): hee hee
Vinny (7:46:19 PM): he meant "matter of of minutes" as literally
Vinny (7:46:25 PM): you can read the sentence that way too
Vinny (7:46:33 PM): literally "matter of minutes"
Huey (7:46:34 PM): that's still not the correct usage
Vinny (7:46:40 PM): it's fine
Huey (7:46:46 PM): literally has to do with something that's read
Vinny (7:46:52 PM): tho redundnat =p
Vinny (7:47:50 PM): he should change it to "All of my issues were addressed and fixed in just a matter of minutes - REALLY!!!!"
Huey (7:48:12 PM): ha ha
Vinny (7:48:20 PM): i think it's actually ok to use literally in that sense tho
Vinny (7:48:28 PM): as in, this sentence is literally true
Vinny (7:48:42 PM): my problem was fixed in a matter of minutes
Huey (7:49:07 PM): no no no
Vinny (7:49:10 PM): it would have been more correct if he has used "4.22 minutes - Literally!!!!!"
Huey (7:49:12 PM): it's wrong i tell you
Huey (7:49:15 PM): wrong wrong wrong
Huey (7:49:28 PM): if what you're saying is true, then I can say you're right!
Huey (7:49:31 PM): literally!
Huey (7:49:37 PM): but that's just gaaay see?
Huey (7:50:28 PM): you 'd use the literally if you say something like "it's raining cats and dogs" and outside there's really cats and dogs coming down
Huey (7:50:34 PM): literally!
Vinny (7:51:06 PM): that's going extreme, yes
Huey (7:51:06 PM): what he meant to say was "My sh*t was taken care of in a matter of minutes - FIGURATIVELY!"
Huey (7:51:09 PM): that would've worked
Huey (7:51:16 PM): or make sense at least
Vinny (7:51:33 PM): aha
Vinny (7:51:39 PM): but "figuratively" sounds so retarded

[This message has been edited by Vinny (edited 04-27-2004 07:54 PM).]

[Hitchhiker]

If something is "literally" true, it is true exactly as it is stated. Exaggerations are not "literally" true. Neither are metaphors or idioms, though they can be "figuratively" true.

If you looked at your stopwatch, noted that it took seven minutes to make a pancake, and said, "It took seven minutes to make that pancake," you would be speaking literally. If you said, "That pancake was done in a flash! That pancake was done in no time!" or conversely, "That pancake took forever!" you would be speaking figuratively.

[Vinny]

so clarify, Teach.

is

"All of my issues were addressed and fixed in just a matter of minutes - literally."

a silly statement to make?

[Hitchhiker]

Well, were they fixed within minutes? If you meant what you said, then it isn't silly.

[Vinny]

yeah, they were really fixed in minutes. But I think Huey's point was that a "matter of minutes" is too broad and vague to have the term "literally" applied to it.

It's like saying, "I was remembered by somebody, literally."

[roley]

It's congratulations (from con 'with' and gratus 'pleasing'), not congradulations. Unless I'm missing an inside joke.

[Hitchhiker]

And once again, debates on current events give us a crop of misspelled words to harvest.

Libya (not "Lybia")
Afghanistan (not "Afganistan" or "Afghanastan")
marriage (not "marrage")
religious (not "religous")
definition (not "defination")
yin (not "ying")
agree (not "aggree")
invalid (not "invalad")
inherently (not "inheriently")
territories (not "terratories")
organization (not "orginization")
apologise or apologize (not "appologise")

And once again...Israel!! Not Isreal. Really.

[Vinny]

just curious,

Why isn't it "yin and yan" or "ying and yang"?

Who came up with these formal spelling?

[extropalopakettle]

Why isn't it yin and ying? Or yan and yang? Huh, wise guy?

Oh, and add "rediculous" to the list.

[Vinny]

Well, not-too-wise guy, in Chinese it is pronounced "yin" and "yan", or something similar. There is a slight "g" sound (as in game, not gem).

If you were to transcribe the chinese word to English, the ending soft "g" can be said to be or not to be presence.

It's weird to say that it is presence on the yang and not the yin.

[Yin]

Hey Vinny! You're a ying yang!

[Hitchhiker]

"I sighted the information on a site, and now I'd like to cite that site in my paper."

sight: v. To perceive with the eyes.

site: n. 1) The place or setting of something.
2) A website.

cite: v. 1) To quote as an authority or example.
2) To mention or bring forward as support, illustration, or proof.

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"It will affect my theory, though I'm not sure yet what effect it will have, or what changes may be effected."

affect: v. 1) To have an influence on. 2) To act on the emotions of; touch or move. 3) To attack or infect, as a disease.

effect: n. Something brought about by a cause or agent; a result. tr.v. 1) To bring into existence. 2) To produce as a result. 3) To bring about.

[bot]

I was wondering why people spell speech as speach - maybe it's because of the word speak.

[extropalopakettle]

Or the word 'peach'.

[Vinny]

Or the word 'stupead'.

[Hitchhiker]

A few more from current political threads:

expatriate (not expatriot)
centrist (not centerest)
conservatives (not conservitives)
allegiance (not allegence)

[Mercuria]

heh... that reminds me of a ticker i saw on a news channel... they tried to use "repatriate" but butchered it into "repatriatize," and spelled it "repatriotize." it was in a quote, so i assume someone was taking dictation, and it's actually weirdness from two separate people...