You have to love American spelling.

Vulpes · Post by **Vulpes** » Sun Jun 12, 2011 7:36 pm

I cannot believe how far the art of spelling correctly has fallen since I was a young bloke. Now granted I'm no English major and we all get things wrong now and then but check this out I found on the net regarding Starions.

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I spot 12 mistakes in spelling alone, anyone get more ?

Komeuppance · Post by **Komeuppance** » Sun Jun 12, 2011 10:04 pm

There's about fourteen.

Judging "Americans" by people like this is like judging Australians by Trent From Punchy.

Bogans, let's talk about those fellows...

-Robert

Vulpes · Post by **Vulpes** » Sun Jun 12, 2011 11:58 pm

yer sorry robert, I'm married to a yank and lived there for 3 1/2 years in the Ozarks so I guess my view of the American grasp on grammar and spelling is tainted by my experience there. My wife and people from where she is from say the most incorrect things and think its perfectly normal. For example they will say " The car needs washed" or "The house needs cleaned" Washed and cleaned are both past tense I tell her and something that has yet to be done in the future cannot be past tense. She informs me that because everybody says it it is therefore is correct.
That's not to say bad spelling and grammar are the exclusive domain of Americans. Young people here can't spell for crap. Two young guys that work for me always say " Go and get them tools" A common mistake amongst bogans here.

fugazi · Post by **fugazi** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 4:34 am

Yea... I'd like to get my hairdo done....

And YES, I payed my juice!

robert26t · Post by **robert26t** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 8:49 am

Komeuppance wrote:There's about fourteen.

Judging "Americans" by people like this is like judging Australians by Trent From Punchy.

Bogans, let's talk about those fellows...

-Robert

HAHAHA I forgotten about that. Im amazed as to how big it got. I was in a pub in London and heard people talking about it!

redzone · Post by **redzone** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 10:07 am

^^^ thats because pubs in London are exclusively staffed by australians LOL

dirtygalant · Post by **dirtygalant** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 10:17 am

supposedly we all talk like thus too, eh bro?

thrash · Post by **thrash** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 11:28 am

"the car needs washed" and "grab them tools" are slang - perfectly acceptable when speaking, since slang is not meant to be proper english. Not meant to be there in written form, however.

Unfortunately these days kids don't get taught the proper difference in school it seems - and people on a more general scale seem to care less. It's not just the yanks. you see the same shit here.

People also try to say things they've overheard, but heard wrong - that's the funniest. I read someone on another forum saying "for all intensive purposes"... it's meant to be "for all intents and purposes" LOL

I'm perhaps the last person who should be so hung up on these things. After all, I ain't even white :pimp lol

Komeuppance · Post by **Komeuppance** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 6:01 pm

If there weren't any "dumb" people, how would one feel smart??

-Robert

Komeuppance · Post by **Komeuppance** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 6:03 pm

robert26t wrote:HAHAHA I forgotten about that. Im amazed as to how big it got. I was in a pub in London and heard people talking about it!

Haha, I only know about it because I saw it on here. Not sure the rest of 'muricans know of it... we only care about your country if it's got oil.

-Robert

redzone · Post by **redzone** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 7:30 pm

dirtygalant wrote:supposedly we all talk like thus too, eh bro?

Kiwi guy was my ex's flatmate, he thought that beached whale was over the top, and no kiwi's dont speak like that, but he went back to NZ for a couple of weeks, said when he got there he realised, oh shit, they do! His kiwi mates were giving him shit for sounding australian hahaha..

dirtygalant · Post by **dirtygalant** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 7:34 pm

haha yeah I know our accent isn't the nicest but shit me, it's like the Queen's english in comparison to what you Aussies churn out!

*hides*

1320ft · Post by **1320ft** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 7:36 pm

Apparently we drink Fosters here too.

redzone · Post by **redzone** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 7:38 pm

I've still NEVER seen foster's on tap in a pub here lol

1320ft · Post by **1320ft** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 7:43 pm

I just love it when I have mates from North America here, the comments they come out with when they open my beer fridge and dont see and fosters.

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You have to love American spelling.

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