To flout is to wilfully and egregiously disobey. To flaunt is to display ostentatiously. Unless you`re planning on wearing it on your head, a rule cannot be flaunted.
That was quite humourous.
Nah, color, vapor, humor, savor and flavor are much better. All those French Us make it funny looking. We got that Roman thing going on. Well except for savor and flavor but we’re still closer to sapor and flator then you.
No point arguing over it, IMHO, who is going to change their mind?
NB: Another vote for the inclusion of the U. 
I consider the confrontation of two subjectivities, the recognition of the “other” by the “self” if you will, to be an essential componant of erotic interplay.
Well, what did you think my personal ad meant? 
I had to bring it up though. I figure at the very least it should be mentioned once every 100 times you make fun of us for our spelling of color.
Anyway now that I got you let me ask this quickly. When you go to Cambridge Dictionary on-line and enter humour you get
which seems to imply that Australians are on the fence on this.
Man, I’m useless in the pit.
Oh, get over it. Did you understand my meaning? Then get on with your life.
I couldn’t give two fuck stumps whether my typing is good or evil. Sometimes shit just happens and having some anal retentive stump sucker whinge and whine about it solves nothing.
I’m not sure how “english is the language of the Bible”, but certainly, apalling grammer and spelling do make one seem less intelligent, or at least less well-educated. Obviously, I fall victim to it myself with stunning regularity.
b.
Claiming that having an appreciation for the depth and nuance of our language is petty or anal-retentive (note the hyphen) is pretty fucking pathetic. The only basis we have around here for evaluating another poster is by their written word—both content and style. And while I might get the meaning, don’t bitch at me when your misuse of the language creates a less-than-ideal impression. There’s a BIG difference between a typo or a spelling error and a common word being completely and consistently misused. The first makes you look human; the second makes you look idiotic. Now—that might be the look you’re going for, but I think most of us would prefer to appear more intelligent than you.
Thanks for sharing, though.
bella
Ok, if it has to be from this board:
JIVE: Jazz or swing music
JIBE:To be in accord: agree
If one more of you guys says “That doesn’t jive with what I’ve heard” or “Your numbers don’t jive” I’m gonna start cracking skulls.
I’m going to be nice and give you a do-over on this one, Billy.
See, I think Enron’s and some other corporation’s number have been jiving, which is what has caused some many problems.
Hey, I already SAID I couldn’t type.
Thanks for the do-over anyway.
b.
Somebody please close this rediculous rant.
Why is it that now everyone’s so up in arms about spelling properly? It wasn’t always this way.
And is it really such a great improvement? Personally, I love to see a little creativity in spelling.
As Lady Hobart wrote, describing the fire of London…
“sure soe sad a sight was nevor seen be foare as that sitty is now lying in ashes besides the unimmajanable loos the hole kingdom receives buy it so trobled at the sad nuse of the distroction of Londone that i could not rit”
Now I think that that’s a delight to read. Sew they’re.
Why is it that now everyone’s so up in arms about spelling properly? It wasn’t always this way.
And is it really such a great improvement? Personally, I love to see a little creativity in spelling.
As Lady Hobart wrote, describing the fire of London…
“sure soe sad a sight was nevor seen be foare as that sitty is now lying in ashes besides the unimmajanable loos the hole kingdom receives buy it so trobled at the sad nuse of the distroction of Londone that i could not rit”
Now I think that that’s a delight to read. Sew they’re.
I still presume that you understood my meaning despite the fact that I didn’t use the hyphen in anal-retentive. That’s my point. What good is it ranting about the loose use of spelling when you still get the meaning.
If the meaning changes based on the inappropriate spelling of a key word then I can see your point.
Yes, there are lots of its and it’s problems and loose and lose and to and too and two and all of the others, but is it really necessary to get riled at those? (Where there too many ands in that sentence?)
Do you monitor individual posters to see how many times they incorrectly user the terms that cause you to lose your mind or do you see an occassional mis-type and then lose your mind?
And if the way that I present a point is not to your liking and therefore I appear less than intelligent, then, guest what, I’ll get over it and maybe, for your own sanity, you might want to too.
I definately have a problem with the aportophes. I cannot remember where they go. I seem to have a block that despite many attempts at trying to remember a mnemonic I simply cannot get it. Is it possible that others are not actually idiotic, but do not posses the ability to get everything right, every time?
Re-read the OP, Caught, it’s actually pretty mild. I was just pointing out something that drives me nuts, and I acknowledged in the title that it was dorky. The first one to get worked up was you–who so kindly called me an “anal retentive stump sucker”.
I don’t start gibbering uncontrollably when I see these things, but I do notice poor English, yes. Based on the responses here, I’m obviously not the only one. I make errors in my writing. We all do–but I think if I made the same stupid mistake more than a couple times I’d be grateful to be called on it. The reason I think it’s such a bugger to me–and again, I’m talking about consistently using the wrong word, not simple misspells or typos–is that every time someone uses a word incorrectly, it risks one more person being mislead to believe it is the correct usage. I LOVE the relatively high smarts-factor around here–it’s why I spend my time on the SD and not on yahoo boards (Where our Morons are Free Range!) or “KewliePeepsWtPics” crapfests that drag our entire language into a festering pit of confusing banality. Language–and especially writing–is about clarity. If you want to play fast and loose with words, become a poet. If you’re trying to compose an intelligent and easy-to-read post that conveys your point clearly, you have to play by the rules. And those rules include knowing when to use “lose” and when to use “loose”, when to capitalize and where to put the quotation marks.
belladonna. Yes, I did refer to you in that way, it was unintentional and I apologise. I did get a little worked up and I apologise for that as well.
I still stick by my point that there are some things that I (and possibly others) just can’t grasp. Like the apostrophe. I am not an idiot but I do have failings. There are some things I can’t grasp (why, I don’t know, if I did I would address them).
In general I check for errors prior to posting, but for some reason, I skip straight past the of and if and on and the others small words. My SO has a fit when she reads my typing. For some reason I just can’t see them when I’m reading back my own work (sometimes it’s just because I know what is supposed to be there and I suppose because I know what is supposed to be there I assume it is).
I would never take a job as a proofreader, because I am no good at it.
Let’s part amicably and I’ll take your advice and avoid getting worked up so easily and maybe you could offer some advice to me as to what mnemonic I can use to place those blasted ‘’'s.
Ah, see–the problem has been revealed, I am a proofreader. 
As for the apostrophes–the way I always remember it is that the apostrophe is like a letter in disguise. When you’re contracting something, you just stick the apostrophe in wherever you removed the letter or letters. That’s why “you are” becomes “you’re” —the apostrophe is the ‘a’ in disguise! This comes in handy when adding the “-s” to a word as well. Apostrophe or no? Well, if your intent is to say “Sally is a bitch” it would be “Sally’s a bitch” with the ‘i’ becoming the '. See?
I do so love it when things turn out friendly-like…maybe we should sing Kumbaya or something now, d’you think?
bella