The correct spelling of 'Definately' is Definitely.

Westerberg
Westerberg Posts: 652
edited March 2010 in The bottom bracket
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  • CarbonCopy
    CarbonCopy Posts: 492
    O :lol:
  • deptfordmarmoset
    deptfordmarmoset Posts: 3,118
    Well, if you wanted to spell ''definately'' the best way to spell it would be ''definately.'' If on the other hand you wanted to spell ''definitely''.... :wink:
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  • rick_chasey
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  • Headhuunter
    Headhuunter Posts: 6,494
    That's up there on a par with "independant"... It's INDEPENDENT, like the newspaper, you bleedin' imbeciles!
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Propaganda, not Propoganda.
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  • Crapaud
    Crapaud Posts: 2,483
    Got a new avatar for you Westerberg:

    Grammar_Nazi_Logo.jpg:wink:
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Crapaud wrote:
    Got a new avatar for you Westerberg:

    Grammar_Nazi_Logo.jpg:wink:

    It's spelling, not grammar. :roll: :P
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  • Crapaud
    Crapaud Posts: 2,483
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Crapaud wrote:
    Got a new avatar for you Westerberg:

    Grammar_Nazi_Logo.jpg:wink:

    It's spelling, not grammar. :roll: :P
    Picky, picky, picky. :D
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  • timb64
    timb64 Posts: 248
    Shorely we've got better things to do with our time! :wink:
  • Headhuunter
    Headhuunter Posts: 6,494
    What about the your/you're thing or are/our.... Drives me insane sometimes...
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  • fungus_the_muffin_man
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  • CHRISNOIR
    CHRISNOIR Posts: 1,400
    My current pet peeve is people using 'of' for 'have' as in "I would of called you earlier but I'm a moron and my big fat, hairy, sausage fingers couldn't work the phone".
  • deptfordmarmoset
    deptfordmarmoset Posts: 3,118
    Would of and should of irritate me.
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  • Westerberg
    Westerberg Posts: 652
    Sorry, never meant to come across as a spelling snob - I have lapses myself. But I was just a bit browned off with reading 'definately' so often. After a while it starts to grate :(
  • skyd0g
    skyd0g Posts: 2,540
    timb64 wrote:
    Shorely we've got better things to do with our time! :wink:

    Surely, surely? :wink:
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  • zedders
    zedders Posts: 509
    This is a cycling forum not a English exam! I get racked off with folk moaning about posters spellings, & this is not the first time someone has moaned about spellings. Why do you feel the need too?
    I’ve had comments made about my spelling before and I don’t like it. I have other life skills that won’t come across when posting a reply. I don’t want to, or need to be told thank you. There really are more important things to worry about. I bet many of the spelling Gestapo have floors in their make-up, but in this format it's not going to be picked up on is it?
    Lets accept the fact that most read a post, and reply to it.
    If someone was submitting their CV, then I would completely understand your frustrations. But on a forum? Urmm. Every now and then someone is going to spell something wrong. Hit the wrong key by mistake, post a comment really late at night when they are tired, or are under the influence (a little bit) etc, etc.
    Are we all suppose to spell check everything or get it proof read, before submitting a reply? Are we all expected to have an A level in English language? I think not. I could go on, but I think you get MY point.
    Finally I accept that English is important and that we should all make an effort to spell words properly. But let’s do it in the right environment. As nit picking on a forum is not the place in my opinion.
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  • pedylan
    pedylan Posts: 768
    zedders wrote:
    This is a cycling forum not a English exam! I get racked off with folk moaning about posters spellings, & this is not the first time someone has moaned about spellings. Why do you feel the need too?
    I’ve had comments made about my spelling before and I don’t like it. I have other life skills that won’t come across when posting a reply. I don’t want to, or need to be told thank you. There really are more important things to worry about. I bet many of the spelling Gestapo have floors in their make-up, but in this format it's not going to be picked up on is it?
    Lets accept the fact that most read a post, and reply to it.
    If someone was submitting their CV, then I would completely understand your frustrations. But on a forum? Urmm. Every now and then someone is going to spell something wrong. Hit the wrong key by mistake, post a comment really late at night when they are tired, or are under the influence (a little bit) etc, etc.
    Are we all suppose to spell check everything or get it proof read, before submitting a reply? Are we all expected to have an A level in English language? I think not. I could go on, but I think you get MY point.
    Finally I accept that English is important and that we should all make an effort to spell words properly. But let’s do it in the right environment. As nit picking on a forum is not the place in my opinion.

    Thank you Zedders, a floorless argument as usual. :wink:
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  • Westerberg
    Westerberg Posts: 652
    zedders wrote:
    This is a cycling forum not a English exam! I get racked off with folk moaning about posters spellings, & this is not the first time someone has moaned about spellings. Why do you feel the need too?
    I’ve had comments made about my spelling before and I don’t like it. I have other life skills that won’t come across when posting a reply. I don’t want to, or need to be told thank you. There really are more important things to worry about. I bet many of the spelling Gestapo have floors in their make-up, but in this format it's not going to be picked up on is it?
    Lets accept the fact that most read a post, and reply to it.
    If someone was submitting their CV, then I would completely understand your frustrations. But on a forum? Urmm. Every now and then someone is going to spell something wrong. Hit the wrong key by mistake, post a comment really late at night when they are tired, or are under the influence (a little bit) etc, etc.
    Are we all suppose to spell check everything or get it proof read, before submitting a reply? Are we all expected to have an A level in English language? I think not. I could go on, but I think you get MY point.
    Finally I accept that English is important and that we should all make an effort to spell words properly. But let’s do it in the right environment. As nit picking on a forum is not the place in my opinion.
    It's not nit picking, it's the cumulative effect on my tolerance levels of having to read 'definately' time and time again. I'm talking about it being spelled wrong 80% of the time I read it now. I'm sure I sound really anal and knobbish, but it just.....irritates. I know this language is a "living document" and all that, but come on, if you can't stick up for some basic standards now and again then, well....
  • softlad
    softlad Posts: 3,513
    zedders wrote:
    This is a cycling forum not a English exam! I get racked off with folk moaning about posters spellings, & this is not the first time someone has moaned about spellings. Why do you feel the need too?

    If someone is correcting your spelling, you should be thanking them - not bitching at them...

    Unless you enjoy looking like a moron, that is.

    I don't mean you in particular, by the way.. ;)
  • Headhuunter
    Headhuunter Posts: 6,494
    zedders wrote:
    This is a cycling forum not a English exam! I get racked off with folk moaning about posters spellings, & this is not the first time someone has moaned about spellings. Why do you feel the need too?
    I’ve had comments made about my spelling before and I don’t like it. I have other life skills that won’t come across when posting a reply. I don’t want to, or need to be told thank you. There really are more important things to worry about. I bet many of the spelling Gestapo have floors in their make-up, but in this format it's not going to be picked up on is it?
    Lets accept the fact that most read a post, and reply to it.
    If someone was submitting their CV, then I would completely understand your frustrations. But on a forum? Urmm. Every now and then someone is going to spell something wrong. Hit the wrong key by mistake, post a comment really late at night when they are tired, or are under the influence (a little bit) etc, etc.
    Are we all suppose to spell check everything or get it proof read, before submitting a reply? Are we all expected to have an A level in English language? I think not. I could go on, but I think you get MY point.
    Finally I accept that English is important and that we should all make an effort to spell words properly. But let’s do it in the right environment. As nit picking on a forum is not the place in my opinion.

    It's always slightly amusing when people have this knee jerk reaction in defence of their grammar and spelling. Why is it OK for some people to murder the English language and NOT ok for others to mention it?

    English has spelling rules and grammar, learn to use it properly or learn to live with people picking you up on it. It may annoy you to have your errors pointed out but as we can see it annoys others to have to read these errors and have to try to interpret what you actually mean!

    It's not difficult, just spell properly for chrissake!
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    zedders wrote:
    This is a cycling forum not a English exam! I get racked off with folk moaning about posters spellings, & this is not the first time someone has moaned about spellings. Why do you feel the need too?
    I’ve had comments made about my spelling before and I don’t like it. I have other life skills that won’t come across when posting a reply. I don’t want to, or need to be told thank you. There really are more important things to worry about. I bet many of the spelling Gestapo have floors in their make-up, but in this format it's not going to be picked up on is it?
    Lets accept the fact that most read a post, and reply to it.
    If someone was submitting their CV, then I would completely understand your frustrations. But on a forum? Urmm. Every now and then someone is going to spell something wrong. Hit the wrong key by mistake, post a comment really late at night when they are tired, or are under the influence (a little bit) etc, etc.
    Are we all suppose to spell check everything or get it proof read, before submitting a reply? Are we all expected to have an A level in English language? I think not. I could go on, but I think you get MY point.
    Finally I accept that English is important and that we should all make an effort to spell words properly. But let’s do it in the right environment. As nit picking on a forum is not the place in my opinion.

    By correcting someone's poor english people are doing them a favour - don't take it as a criticism.

    Anyway, you don't need spell check to spell right, nor do you need an A level in English language.( As such, I question your understanding of what an A level in English language entails. :!: ) Just learn from the mistakes and corrections, so that eventually, you'll write English correctly without having to worry about it. It's a good habit to get into.

    At least you don't get a condescending "aw, is that how they spell it in your country?" evertime you make a mistake! I've learnt to make use of that, in spite of the tone, to improve my English.
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  • Jez mon
    Jez mon Posts: 3,809
    zedders wrote:
    This is a cycling forum not a English exam! I get racked off with folk moaning about posters spellings, & this is not the first time someone has moaned about spellings. Why do you feel the need too?
    I’ve had comments made about my spelling before and I don’t like it. I have other life skills that won’t come across when posting a reply. I don’t want to, or need to be told thank you. There really are more important things to worry about. I bet many of the spelling Gestapo have floors in their make-up, but in this format it's not going to be picked up on is it?
    Lets accept the fact that most read a post, and reply to it.
    If someone was submitting their CV, then I would completely understand your frustrations. But on a forum? Urmm. Every now and then someone is going to spell something wrong. Hit the wrong key by mistake, post a comment really late at night when they are tired, or are under the influence (a little bit) etc, etc.
    Are we all suppose to spell check everything or get it proof read, before submitting a reply? Are we all expected to have an A level in English language? I think not. I could go on, but I think you get MY point.
    Finally I accept that English is important and that we should all make an effort to spell words properly. But let’s do it in the right environment. As nit picking on a forum is not the place in my opinion.

    Agree to a certain extent, if someone makes an occasional spelling or grammar error pulling them up on it is just pedantic. OTOH, I think that there lies a critical point where poor spelling or grammar just makes reading a post annoying, at which point, I think it's fine to correct the errors, or perhaps have a cheeky go at them.

    However, pretending that correcting other peoples mistakes is for their benefit is a bit of a lie, people blatantly do it because they like to talk to others in a condescending manner!
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  • glauciaregina9
    glauciaregina9 Posts: 259
    timb64 wrote:
    Shorely we've got better things to do with our time! :wink:

    What I think you meant to say was "Shorely weave got beta things two do wythe hour thyme!"
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  • antfly
    antfly Posts: 3,276
    zedders wrote:
    This is a cycling forum not a English exam! I get racked off with folk moaning about posters spellings, & this is not the first time someone has moaned about spellings. Why do you feel the need too?
    .
    Either nobody has noticed or they don`t want to be accused of being pedantic but that should be to not too.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    I noticed but my favourite part was
    I bet many of the spelling Gestapo have floors
    . :lol::wink:

    I'm assuming the post was ironic? :?
  • owenlars
    owenlars Posts: 719
    Dead simple. If you can't be bothered to spell correctly, then what other things can you not be bothered to do?

    Also bad spelling is not the same as typos.
  • John Stevenson
    John Stevenson Posts: 962
    If you don't care enough about what you have to say to make sure it's not full of irritating mistakes, why should anyone care enough about it to read it?

    The odd typo is forgiveable, we all make them, but total disregard for simple things that make your post understandable is just stupid.

    And now I will go and set the 'swear filter' to automatically correct 'definately'.
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  • softlad
    softlad Posts: 3,513
    John Stevenson wrote:
    And now I will go and set the 'swear filter' to automatically correct 'definitely'.

    can you also arrange for it to auto-correct inappropriate use of the apostrophe before the 's' in pluralised words...??
  • John Stevenson
    John Stevenson Posts: 962
    softlad, sadly there's a difference between search and replace and artificial intelligence!
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