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Posted by habboi on Fri Jan 7th at 4:34pm 2005

I hope everyone learnt from my mistakes and we get along together.

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Posted by Andrei on Fri Jan 7th at 4:36pm 2005

Note the british form "learnt". 1 white mark for you. [addsig]



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Posted by habboi on Fri Jan 7th at 4:39pm 2005

I live in Britain and i have always spelt it that way :O unless you mean learn't :O [addsig]



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Posted by Orpheus on Fri Jan 7th at 4:48pm 2005

? quoting habboi
I live in Britain and i have always spelt it that way :O unless you mean learn't :O

its spelled and learned silly, there isn't a "t" in those words

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Posted by Gwil on Fri Jan 7th at 4:53pm 2005

Either form of spelled/spelt and learned/learnt is acceptable, as it happens.

We always debate this
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Posted by Andrei on Fri Jan 7th at 4:56pm 2005

http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutspelling/learnt [addsig]



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Posted by Orpheus on Fri Jan 7th at 4:58pm 2005

? quoting Gwil
Either form of spelled/spelt and learned/learnt is acceptable, as it happens.

We always debate this

really?

sorry, i have never heard it was correct, just accepted. like the word "ain't"

my bad.

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Posted by Nickelplate on Fri Jan 7th at 5:10pm 2005

? quoting Mephs

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you wouldn't be impressed if books in school were all written like "omg wtf boo radlye!!!1 l4m3r".

Give it time; I foresee the mass extinction of all vowels by 2020, and by 2050 the entire English language will have reverted back to a muffled grunting sound.

Seriously! Mobile phones and mass stupidity have quickly taken hold of this, and the next generation. It's only a matter of time untill the number 8 becomes the 27th letter of the alphabet.

It'll mess up scrabble too, what with the over use of the 'cool' letters, X K, Z and 0

Repent...!

Actually I think that the "cool letters" not are E- and I: Ipod Email Imac Eharmony. QXKZ are all popular for radio stations. ALSO more and more product names are being spelled wrong. K is substituted in for C. Z takes over for S at the end of words. The U taking over for many sounds like "Gurl" or some even spell it "Grrl" E takes over for many sounds as in "werd up" as i have seen.

In my 5th graade year i was a finalist in a spelling bee, I was asked to spell "Barbecue" I did not spell it BBQ as so many places spell it, but i spelled it "Barbeque" as it is spelled on every restaurant and product i have seen to date. This is, however, improper spelling. This is just one example of how our stupid-spelling culture f**ks things up.

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Posted by Tracer Bullet on Fri Jan 7th at 5:15pm 2005

? quoting Nickelplate
? quoting Mephs

? quote:
you wouldn't be impressed if books in school were all written like "omg wtf boo radlye!!!1 l4m3r".

Give it time; I foresee the mass extinction of all vowels by 2020, and by 2050 the entire English language will have reverted back to a muffled grunting sound.

Seriously! Mobile phones and mass stupidity have quickly taken hold of this, and the next generation. It's only a matter of time untill the number 8 becomes the 27th letter of the alphabet.

It'll mess up scrabble too, what with the over use of the 'cool' letters, X K, Z and 0

Repent...!

Actually I think that the "cool letters" not are E- and I: Ipod Email Imac Eharmony. QXKZ are all popular for radio stations. ALSO more and more product names are being spelled wrong. K is substituted in for C. Z takes over for S at the end of words. The U taking over for many sounds like "Gurl" or some even spell it "Grrl" E takes over for many sounds as in "werd up" as i have seen.

In my 5th graade year i was a finalist in a spelling bee, I was asked to spell "Barbecue" I did not spell it BBQ as so many places spell it, but i spelled it "Barbeque" as it is spelled on every restaurant and product i have seen to date. This is, however, improper spelling. This is just one example of how our stupid-spelling culture f**ks things up.

Don't get me started on the drive "thru"! That is one that pisses me off endlessly because I have a friend who claims that is the proper way to spell "through".

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Posted by Nickelplate on Fri Jan 7th at 5:26pm 2005

? quoting Tracer Bullet

Don't get me started on the drive "thru"! That is one that pisses me off endlessly because I have a friend who claims that is the proper way to spell "through".

Oh, geez. You know that is the sort of thing I'm talking about. Oh yeah i've noticed you're pretty smart. what degrees do you have? and why do you know all this stuff, You are one of the few ppl I have seen using words like i use like "Quantum mechanics" other things like that "thermodynamics." You seem to be at least at my level, which is saying something.

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Posted by Tracer Bullet on Fri Jan 7th at 5:44pm 2005

I graduated last spring with a bachelors in Chemistry, and a minor in Physics. Mostly Chemists don't worry overly much about quantum mechanics (not baccalaureates anyway), but I did allot of scanning tunneling microscopy for my senior research project, so I got to learn quite a bit about it. As for thermo, it was one of my favorite classes. I think the Second Law is about the best Bulls**t-O-Meter anyone could ever hope for. [addsig]



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Posted by Nickelplate on Fri Jan 7th at 6:40pm 2005

for those of us who who DON'T know what the second law of thermodynamics is:

http://www.entropylaw.com/entropy2ndlaw.html

read about it there.

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Posted by OtZman on Fri Jan 7th at 6:42pm 2005

I feel mentally raped after a few of those lines.

Interesting though.
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Posted by $loth on Fri Jan 7th at 7:17pm 2005

? quoting habboi
unless you mean learn't :O

Wouldn't that mean lear not

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Posted by Foxpup on Sat Jan 8th at 1:09am 2005

Some people here don't speak English, so they're excused. Everyone here is human, so some mistakes are still acceptable. The only other excuse for complete lack of spelling and grammer is mental disability. If you refuse to speak properly, we will assume you are mentally disabled and treat you accordingly. [addsig]



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Posted by parakeet on Sat Jan 8th at 1:19am 2005

Not all disabilities cause bad spelling... Just about every one of my friends has at least one , but they can sure spell adequatly. I had a teacher who couldn't spell anything longer than 6 letters, but he has been one of the most inspirational and hard working teachers ive ever had , Very intelligent just "couldnt spell to save his life". Thru ,u and all those other shortenings are caused by the person who has typed them. A disabled person might type yoo or yu as equally as u. Disabilties are only an excuse if you mispell the word in a way that its not typical internet shortenings = P.
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Posted by Leperous on Sat Jan 8th at 1:21am 2005

I'm not aware of many disabilities (other than being foreign, of course )which let you read but not spell properly! :/



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Posted by Gorbachev on Sat Jan 8th at 1:43am 2005

http://www.verbix.com/webverbix/go.asp?T1=spell&imageField.x=12&imageField.y=7&D1=20&H1=120

Both spelled and spelt are valid. But "spelled" seems very informal when used compared to spelt. Same goes for a lot of words. Oddly enough many tend to be the general American form.
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Posted by parakeet on Sat Jan 8th at 2:35am 2005

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I'm not aware of many disabilities (other than being foreign, of course )which let you read but not spell properly! :/


yeah he has a bit of trouble reading large words as well = P
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