Continuing Rant Thread - Get it Off Ya Chest here

[Dave70]

It's lager, not larger ffs. Poor spelling ***** me to tears. Peek/Peak. To/Too. Lose/Loose. There/They're/Their. Not/Knot. Witch/Which. Etc...

I think you'll discover its context and grammar that **** you to tears.

Whether / weather / wether.

English is a ******* stupid setup anyway with all the same spelling for words with different meanings and silent letters. I wish we just had cool symbols like the Chinese.

 

[Not For Horses]

It's lager, not larger ffs. Poor spelling ***** me to tears. Peek/Peak. To/Too. Lose/Loose. There/They're/Their. Not/Knot. Witch/Which. Etc...

Having said that, 'larger' could be an autocorrect issue for some. There is no valid excuse for the others though.
As a side note, I tried to write 'duck' in a text the other day and my phone corrected it to '****'. Perhaps that is more a reflection on me though...

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

**** this lager/larger/lagre ****.

I got cask wine.

Chatue-de-plonk.

 

[Florian]

Château du plonque

 

[spog]

I just want my lagers to get larger.

 

[Florian]

Warra, so you reckon plonque is masculine?

 

[bradsbrew]

Well...looks like they are going to have to build more TAFE centres.

There goes the educatiin & training budget up in smoke.

They didnt think that bit through very well. They will have to spend $$$ on new buildings,teachers etc & pay them to study..

Will be interesting to see what happens to all the unemployed who applied to study but got knocked back due to lack of positions...looks like starvation is the only option ...

TAFE has been slashed in QLD. **** apprentices who needs them anyway, we'll just import the skills...........oh **** we stopped the boats . .........................................Oh hang on we only stopped talking about the boats......all is good.
Onya Tones.

 

[spog]

Little ******* wonder we are all now copping it in the arse and are all looking down the barrel of " hard times" with a new federal government.
If any private business conducted themselves in the same way and ****** so many things up as did the previous federal government they would all be on the inside and looking out.
I didn't vote for the incompetent cnuts but still have to pay,while they take their former PM pay packets and **** off.
Is it true that here in Oz that former prime ministers in this country get paid/ entitlements for being a former prime minister?
**** me,I would be very grateful and happy to be collecting a pay check for all the former employment in my life,but then again a fellow aussie would be expected to take a hit for me.
Kevin Rudd ran his election on Kevin 07 ,so it was all about him!
The media rammed the idea of our first female PM down our throats and look what happened,I don't give a **** about gender,the best person for the job is the end of it! But the same Shiite kept on coming and yep WE all are paying....and ....ahh **** me................

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

Lemons or Limes spog

 

[manticle]

Yes it was the previous government's fault that this current one is full of arseholes reducing education and health opportunities and punishing the vulnerable.

 

[goomboogo]

As starvation looms;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ykJ1GVnUtKo

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

Yes it was the previous government's fault that this current one is full of arseholes reducing education and health opportunities and punishing the vulnerable.

Its Ok. Alan Jones & Andrew Bolt are to blame ...

They are diverting the heat into leadership speculation...

At least leadership speculation takes the heat away from bad polling...and a budget that is..shall we say...not overly popular..

 

[Liam_snorkel]

Two great characters there, amongst their many flaws have both been found guilty of racial vilification. Personal friends of our prime minister. Occasionally (but not often) I'm envious of how racism is taken seriously in the USA.

 

[pk.sax]

Two great characters there, amongst their many flaws have both been found guilty of racial vilification. Personal friends of our prime minister. Occasionally (but not often) I'm envious of how racism is taken seriously in the USA.

That might be because of their history with black people.

 

[slcmorro]

I think you'll discover its context and grammar that ***** you to tears

Whatever it is, it's annoying. English is taught free in our schools still to this day.

 

[manticle]

As much as I like to ensure my written word is articulate, properly spelled and reasonably correct in grammatical terms, not everyone has either the same level of education, ability or even interest. Maths, history and sport are also all taught free in school.
I have two, very good, very intelligent friends with dyslexia and as much as the misuse of apostrophes for every plural annoys me, I can't forget that language is an evolving system of communication rather than a stagnant set of rules.

 

[dent]

WPMO is people using the "evolving language" excuse for what is really laziness and ignorance. Dyslexics aside, most people just don't give a ****.

 

[manticle]

Its 'evovling' ffs

 

[pedleyr]

As much as I like to ensure my written word is articulate, properly spelled and reasonably correct in grammatical terms, not everyone has either the same level of education, ability or even interest. Maths, history and sport are also all taught free in school.
I have two, very good, very intelligent friends with dyslexia and as much as the misuse of apostrophes for every plural annoys me, I can't forget that language is an evolving system of communication rather than a stagnant set of rules.

To me, the "language evolves" line in response to incorrect usages is a complete cop out. The other points you make are perfectly valid, there is no need to say "language evolves" when someone says there instead of their or something similar - that's not the language evolving, that's someone making a mistake.

If we adopt that line of thought, I could just start calling every fireman a **** - house is on fire? "Call the *****". That'd be perfectly acceptable because language evolves.

 

[pedleyr]

Why did it sensor out "*****" but not "****"?