# GAH! "Breaks" do NOT stop a train! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 25, 2007, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gah-breaks-do-not-stop-a-train/393603 "2007-02-25T14:08:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gah-breaks-do-not-stop-a-train/393603/41 "2007-02-26T19:28:26Z")
You guys want pain? Our State Communications Director - who makes a shitload of money, I’m sure - regularly makes all of the mistakes in this thread. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gah-breaks-do-not-stop-a-train/393603/42 "2007-02-26T19:33:09Z")
[QUOTE=Canadjun] Only if the news sites cite stories about when people sight gnus. [/QUOTE] I resemble that remark. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@Johnny\_Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Angel)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gah-breaks-do-not-stop-a-train/393603/43 "2007-02-26T20:56:28Z")
I advise my students to avoid the following often seen mistakes on the grounds that they will tend to make you seem like a person who doesn’t read much when posting in online forums: Your a lier. Your biass. Your prejudice. ---
**Author:** ![Viridiana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Viridiana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Viridiana)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gah-breaks-do-not-stop-a-train/393603/44 "2007-02-26T21:56:31Z")
You’re definitely right, but it’s not like it’s braking news. _ducks_ ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gah-breaks-do-not-stop-a-train/393603/45 "2007-02-26T23:38:31Z")
I know I must drive you crazy. I try really hard to use the right words, but after checking and checking I still write badly. I’m having a particularly bad time of it again, but that’s how my brain is. I barely caught a simple mistake just a couple minutes ago. One. Won. The sentences were full of other problems. I try very hard to get it write (right), but writting is hard for me. I hope you’ll remember I try and give me at least credit for effort. It took me a year to remember that choice is how to spell the word I wanted and not chose. I can’t even come up with a phonetic spelling some days. I now know why I have the problem, but it doesn’t make things easier for me to write. I also type words out of order and mix the letters of two words together. I run entries through a text to speech, to help me catch the problems, because I can’t see the errors when I’m looking right at them. This has been full of errors and a pain to type. The Microsoft application spell checker is a piece of shit that doesn’t suggest what you want many times when off bt a single letter. I wish I could find a better word checker, so I don’t have to google every damn third word to check the spelling. I understand how the spell must drive you nuts, because it frustrates the hell out of me. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gah-breaks-do-not-stop-a-train/393603/46 "2007-02-26T23:57:52Z")
[QUOTE=Viridiana] You’re definitely right [/QUOTE] You spelled “definately” wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gah-breaks-do-not-stop-a-train/393603/47 "2007-02-27T04:34:07Z")
After pouring over this thread, I find that I’m leary of reading news sites. I could comment on all sorts of common spelling errors, but I’ll just bite my tounge and go back to trying to decide whether I want to play a cleric or a rouge in my next D&D campagne. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gah-breaks-do-not-stop-a-train/393603/48 "2007-02-27T04:46:27Z")
Go fore the rouge. That way you can waste time wondering whether to learn Vietnamese weapons to become a Khmer Rouge or simply dress up in red finery like a painted courtesan. ---
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gah-breaks-do-not-stop-a-train/393603/49 "2007-02-27T08:09:07Z")
[QUOTE=pilot141] It’s like serving Baked Lay’s at your Super Bowl party: everyone will eat, but no one will be satisfied. [/QUOTE] Those things cause anal leakage, you know. Says so on the bag… ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gah-breaks-do-not-stop-a-train/393603/50 "2007-02-27T10:14:37Z")
[QUOTE=boytyperanma] If the conductor takes a break couldn’t that stop the train? [/QUOTE] Dunnow, we’ll have to ask **zelie**. My rogue in WoW has a deafness problem. She can’t open locked boxes for anybody who calls her makeup. Given that she lives in a RPG world, where people get ignored for saying “can u hlp m?”, this seems to be an illness shared with many of her colleages. The other day a friend was speculating that it may actually be caused by some form of radiation emitted by the lockpicks. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gah-breaks-do-not-stop-a-train/393603.md?page=2)