OK, so what is it then?
‘Teh’ (The) ?
‘Definately’ ?
or is it Your instead of You’re?
THE(y) took THERE car to TE shop which is over THEIR.
Si® Rhosis
P. S. They PROLLY could OF fixed the car at home.
then / than
their / there / they’re
your / you’re
“there’s” = “there is” NOT “there are”
So: “there’s ten zebras here” is incorrect
athiest is not a word
atheist is a word
What the sodding heck is “evolutionism?”
Would you say “biologism?”
“physicism?”
“geologism?”
“anthropologism?”
“chemism?”
(There are no “isms” in science…)
a lot: two words.
alot: forgot a space.
That is all on the tip of my brain for now.
Cheers,
- Zaph’enath
u cant say which is the most common cuz everbode makes diffent typos when thier typign real fast anyway who sez my enlgish is wrong just cuz its not the same as yours your just a NATZI thats what you r
(Hmmm. I found that a strangely …liberating… experience.)
Zaph’enath got most of them. Along with the * definately* / definitely thing, that alot thing just bugs me a lot. The other one that gets on my nerves is rediculous. It’s **ridiculous **!!!
I can’t believe no one has mentioned “it’s” for “its.”
In personal ads, about a third of the women claim to be “independant.”
I don’t type “teh” in place of “the,” but when I hand type the bopard’s URL, more oftan than not it turns out as boards.straihgtdope.com.
is the sentences from people like : how nice 2 c u or the so called hacker language “dood eleet ect”
oddly i only see any on this online ie aol mirc ever quest ect
Yopu typed bopard.
I think that might be a valid spelling…
Main Entry: dependent
Variant(s): also de·pen·dant /-d&nt/
Function: noun
Date: 1523
1 archaic : DEPENDENCY
2 : one that is dependent; especially : a person who relies on another for support
Or just the rampant misuse of the humble apostrophe in general. We must all strive to educate the populace that apostrophes are NOT to be used to pluralize!
Alas, I fear the battle may already be lost. I ran a spell check on a document created in Word 2000 and it “corrected” a plural by inserting an apostrophe. Where Microsoft goes, the world has little choice but to follow.
I’m here to second the nomination for your/you’re. I feel sure that many people don’t realise that they are two different words.
I hate the increasingly popular “could of”; “should of”; “would of”. This is so very wrong.
My favourite online person would be a guy calling himself “Windows 4X” who posts in our ISP’s tech newsgroup. He once offered to help other people with their computer problems because “iam the top school nerd in my achool”. Here is a snippet of his latest offering:
> software pirate aghhh
> shever me timber’s my mate, then to 1 great isp of austarnetica won’t
allow
> it until XP FULL RELEASE, aghhh!
This one is almost legible. At times, his typing/spelling/grammer get so bad, it is impossible to understand what he is trying to say.
Recently on the Australian Big Brother website, someone came into the forum and submitted a post that stated that the housemate she didn’t like would win because only poorly educated morons watched the show. It was her opinion that only highly intelligent people like herself would pick the most worthy contestant. She spelt (almost) every second word in the post wrong. I answered, and pointed out some of her spelling errors, and she went nuts, called me a Nazi (she spelt that right). I told her that, if she was going to come in and call a bunch of strangers “poorly educated morons”, she could at least take the time to check her spelling before submitting or she was asking for trouble. I do not normally spend my days correcting other people’s spelling! She then started a whole thread urging others to stand up to spelling Nazis because they have every right to spell things wrong if they want to. She also said that people who do spell most of their posts correctly only do so because they write it in Word, spell check it and then paste it over - obviously, that’s because no one in the whole world can spell anything correctly. We must all be dumb like her.
I was scoping out a webpage that an acquaintance (not really a friend, or I would have soft-pedaled my assessment a bit more :D) had put up, and he had prominently misused “affect” and “effect” in several places.
I tried in vain to explain the difference (in general, affect is a verb and effect is a noun). He insisted that they were correct. I told him that if he wanted the people who visited his site to think he was a moron, to go ahead and leave it be, then. I don’t know if he decided to change them or not. 
The one that really chaps my hide is, “in regards.” It’s in regard!! This was drilled into my head in college and I’ve never forgotten it. Whenever I read, “This is in regards to…” I just think, “Oh, Mrs. Mayhan would have a fit if she saw that!”
Hey Jadis, post a link for us and we can all send an e-mail and tell him he used them wrong. Then maybe he’ll listen to you.
Was it an acronym? According to an English handbook I have around here somewhere, apostrophes can be used to pluralize acronyms. So, saying “I’ve got three VCR’s at home” is correct.
As far as the worst bastardizations of English these days, I’d have to vote for its/it’s and your/you’re. “Could of” and its ilk are up there, too, as is rampant apostrophe abuse.
I cannot stand people who make lame excuses like, “Everyone makes that mistake!” or, “You know what I mean, what does it matter how I spell it?” People like that are why it’s a good thing I don’t own a gun.
By the way, niteshadea, don’t make me ST4RT T4LK1NG 1N 1337-5P33K at you! Woo-hoo! That’s right, I’m a 1337 H4X0R D00D!!111!!1!!!
People trying to show off how smart they are by correcting me by saying that the centrifugal force doesn’t exist piss me off, but I got a precious email today informing me that “only the centripitel force is real.”
Just had to share.
Very often, people who care about correct spelling and grammar are dismissed as being anal. But I feel that the degradation of our language is becoming more and more obvious, and is perhaps proving out the “dumbing down” theory.
Maybe not…maybe our language is simply evolving, albeit in a direction I personally find repellant. It could be a waste of time to try to help people, but I for one will never give up. Please…it’s ‘definitely’, not ‘definately’…
there is no such word as ‘irregardless’…it’s 'would’ve, could’ve, should’ve ', not ‘would of’, etc…
If you’re in doubt about your use of the apostrophe, please take a minute and check it out…it won’t hurt you to learn the correct usage, I promise. And yes, I know, using it instead of quotation marks sucks, too.
I may catch some flack for one that’s always bugged me, but I truly believe the word is ‘oriented’, not ‘orientated’.
Someone please tell me I’m not wrong on that…
And hey, I apologize if I sound preachy, and I know that my speech and writing are far from perfect…but at least I’m trying.
loosers!
Excercise. Do people pronounce it that way? No. So why do they spell it with an extra “c”?
The use of “cum” for “come” annoys me to no end. And unlike some of the other errors here, it seems to be nearly exclusive to the Internet. Grrr!
Maybe they think it should be spelled like “exceed” or “excellent.” A mistake, yes, but perhaps an understandable one.