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#61 Postby bob rulz » Fri Sep 15, 2006 12:25 am

gerrit wrote:
caribepr wrote:And by the way...there are some here that have English as a second language (as on another site I use a LOT...oh and by the way, it is a lot, not alot) and, as a terrible speaker of Spanish, who is blessed to live on an island that forgives me so very much, I want to make sure it is known that any lapses of English by non English speakers from any country....they type and speak English a hell of a lot better than I speak their language!!!
So...take it all with a grain of salt...is fujiwara a type of sushi? 8-)


I'm one of those.. :) ( My Spanish sucks too, btw, but I'm, getting there..)
Anyway, I know the difference between quite and quiet and know when to use which one of the two. :ggreen:

A spelling error which annoyes me big time is: "I should of known" (instead of: "I should have known")


Yes, that bugs me too! Stupid lazy English speakers (makes it seems like shoulf of). Of course, the vast majority of us are guilty of this when we speak English, such as me.

Anyway, I'm a grammar and spelling Nazi. However, some things bug me and some things don't. l33t speak doesn't bother me (I can read most of it), although nobody really uses that all the time. "MSN" chat like lol, rofl, btw, omg, etc, I use myself. I usually conform to the expectations of wherever I'm at, however. Even on the most immature Internet forums I usually try to be as grammatically correct as possible. On this forum I especially keep close track of my spelling and grammar, since this is such a professional site.
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#62 Postby wxmann_91 » Fri Sep 15, 2006 1:33 am

I try to spell write.
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#63 Postby Robjohn53 » Fri Sep 15, 2006 6:25 am

Wow this is getting way out of hand. Everyone needs to chill out. This is a place to come and enjoy everyones company. And most of all to learn from others. Not to be putting each other down as to how we speak. We are people, normal living human beings, not machines or robots. As for those who complain about how we speak, i strongly doubt that any of you let anyone tell you how to live. So why you telling others how to speak? Are any of you beyond making a simple mistake? I hardly doubt it. We as people are allowed to make mistaes cause no one here is perfect. I think i remember in one of the threads that bashing Pro-Mets is not tollerated. If they make a mistake it's probly cause they work a huge amount of hours tracking these storms to keep us better informed. Be greatful for that cause with out them and there wisdom we would all be lost and it would be a dang circus.
Please keep in mind the Pro-Mets do the best they can and the Mods as well. Let them do there jobs. And for all of us we need to get along no matter how we speak. And if it takes alittle time to check spelling or what ever so be it. Have some consideration for everyone here from both sides. And most of all let's get back to what we all came here for. And thats weather.

One last thing through out the years weather men and women have not always been correct on the weather. We all know that. But over the years they have got much much better learning from all the past. Thats what the most of us are here for as well to learn and understand. So give them a break they are humans too. So lets get back to the weather and off each others case.
Wow i am so supprized this thread has not been locked already.

And i did proof read this and if it's wrong well I'm sorry but i tried. And if we all try thats all any of us can expect...
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#64 Postby Mac » Fri Sep 15, 2006 6:51 am

Robjohn53 wrote:Wow this is getting way out of hand. Everyone needs to chill out. This is a place to come and enjoy everyones company. And most of all to learn from others. Not to be putting each other down as to how we speak. We are people, normal living human beings, not machines or robots. As for those who complain about how we speak, i strongly doubt that any of you let anyone tell you how to live. So why you telling others how to speak? Are any of you beyond making a simple mistake? I hardly doubt it. We as people are allowed to make mistaes cause no one here is perfect. I think i remember in one of the threads that bashing Pro-Mets is not tollerated. If they make a mistake it's probly cause they work a huge amount of hours tracking these storms to keep us better informed. Be greatful for that cause with out them and there wisdom we would all be lost and it would be a dang circus.
Please keep in mind the Pro-Mets do the best they can and the Mods as well. Let them do there jobs. And for all of us we need to get along no matter how we speak. And if it takes alittle time to check spelling or what ever so be it. Have some consideration for everyone here from both sides. And most of all let's get back to what we all came here for. And thats weather.

One last thing through out the years weather men and women have not always been correct on the weather. We all know that. But over the years they have got much much better learning from all the past. Thats what the most of us are here for as well to learn and understand. So give them a break they are humans too. So lets get back to the weather and off each others case.
Wow i am so supprized this thread has not been locked already.

And i did proof read this and if it's wrong well I'm sorry but i tried. And if we all try thats all any of us can expect...


Wow. I hardly know where to begin. I hope my red pen has enough ink. :hehe:
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#65 Postby Robjohn53 » Fri Sep 15, 2006 7:06 am

Sorry what i wrote was not ment to be perfect just to get a point accross and thats we are her to get along and a little effort from both sides will go along ways. I am not a perfect person but i am willing to try the best i can thats all.
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#66 Postby Mac » Fri Sep 15, 2006 7:09 am

Robjohn53 wrote:Sorry what i wrote was not ment to be perfect just to get a point accross and thats we are her to get along and a little effort from both sides will go along ways. I am not a perfect person but i am willing to try the best i can thats all.


I think that perhaps you are getting more than a little too emotionally invested in a thread that, for the most part, has amounted to nothing more than tongue-in-cheek griping. I don't see any blatant personal attacks in this thread at all.

Edited to add: And by the way, your posts did contain a tremendous amount of spelling and grammatical errors, which makes it more difficult for the reader to accurately comprehend what it is you are trying to convey. Why not run your comments through the spell checker first? Or, better yet, how about running them through a word processing program, such as Microsoft Word? In doing so, most of the errors could be caught and corrected before making it to the board.

Like it or not, people will judge you based upon your communication skills. All sorts of assumptions will be made about you, as a person, based soley upon your ability to articulate your thoughts. That's just the reality of the world we live in. ;)
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#67 Postby Jim Cantore » Fri Sep 15, 2006 7:11 am

Mac wrote:I don't see any blatant personal attacks in this thread at all.


And we need to keep it that way. :wink:
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#68 Postby Aquawind » Fri Sep 15, 2006 7:13 am

Back to weather Please! The subject of this forum and thread!!
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#69 Postby O Town » Fri Sep 15, 2006 7:17 am

All of you spelling, and grammar Nazis just need to.......
Get over it!!!!!!

This thread has went on too long IMO, and alot of people I am sure take it as a big insult. So get over it already. :P
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#70 Postby Pebbles » Fri Sep 15, 2006 7:18 am

*Pebbles sneaks into the office of Webster's Dictionary wearing a black ski mask. She opens the MASTER DICTIONARY and erases the word 'Quiet' and replaces it with 'Quite'. She begins to tip toe away before turning back to the MASTER DICTIONARY. She looks up the word 'perfect' and changes the definition to 'Pebbles'. Smirking with a nod of satisfaction Pebbles silently tip toes away. *

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#71 Postby Mac » Fri Sep 15, 2006 7:19 am

Aquawind wrote:Back to weather Please! The subject of this forum and thread!!


Actually, you should have placed a comma after the word "weather" and the word "Please" should not have been capitalized. Other than that, your grammar was flawless.

Uhhhh, errrrr, nevermind. :eek:
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#72 Postby Aquawind » Fri Sep 15, 2006 7:34 am

Mac wrote:
Aquawind wrote:Back to weather Please! The subject of this forum and thread!!


Actually, you should have placed a comma after the word "weather" and the word "Please" should not have been capitalized. Other than that, your grammar was flawless.

Uhhhh, errrrr, nevermind. :eek:


I tried to ask nice. That will earn a suspension everytime.
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