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Inglish as She is Writ
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BruceS
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Re: Inglish as She is Writ
Oooops!
I'll attempt to find it & fix it Ray!
I'll attempt to find it & fix it Ray!
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Re: Inglish as She is Writ
Give the job to Ray. Does it apply to the kiwi spelling as well i.e Fush & Chups 
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Only if you spell it fu'sh & chip's...
I must admit sometimes I'm a bit slack with my punctuation & apostrophies.
Then again I don't do too bad for a bushie..........
I must admit sometimes I'm a bit slack with my punctuation & apostrophies.
Then again I don't do too bad for a bushie..........
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Ray can you remember where or when you received that email with the bad grammar in it?
I think it may have been on the first original forum.
Even my banner is OK.
I think it may have been on the first original forum.
Even my banner is OK.
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Just appeared in my PM In-Box. Now I can't find it there...
Latest one to add to the list:
Seen in a real estate/rural agent's window yesterday in a Country Town Which Shall Remain Nameless...
A local farmer placed a notice looking for agistment for 80~100
"quite cows" .
Perhaps they were not quite bulls, but were quite cows.
Maybe.
Latest one to add to the list:
Seen in a real estate/rural agent's window yesterday in a Country Town Which Shall Remain Nameless...
A local farmer placed a notice looking for agistment for 80~100
"quite cows" .Perhaps they were not quite bulls, but were quite cows.
Maybe.
Regards & God bless,
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Ray, that farmer has both literacy and numeracy issues, if he doesn't know exactly how many "quite" cows he owns.Greynomad wrote:Just appeared in my PM In-Box. Now I can't find it there...
Latest one to add to the list:
Seen in a real estate/rural agent's window yesterday in a Country Town Which Shall Remain Nameless...
A local farmer placed a notice looking for agistment for 80~100
Maybe.
Deborah
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Re: Inglish as She is Writ
They just keep appearing...
In a supermarket in a Small Country Town WSRN* in outback NSW:
"Cigarettes can only be bought at registor 1"
Home-made computer-printed notice... spell-checker obviously not used.
Billboard at a Roadhouse on the Newell Highway:
"It's where your mouth want's to be!"
I was so shocked by the second apostrophe (first one is correct) I stopped reading, fixated on the ignorance, so I have no idea what it was advertising. It was a professionally-produced board, so I presume an ad agency was involved...
Fail on two counts.
1. English punctuation
2. Failed to register the product with a potential customer.
* See previous post for meaning of FLA.
In a supermarket in a Small Country Town WSRN* in outback NSW:
"Cigarettes can only be bought at registor 1"
Home-made computer-printed notice... spell-checker obviously not used.
Billboard at a Roadhouse on the Newell Highway:
"It's where your mouth want's to be!"
I was so shocked by the second apostrophe (first one is correct) I stopped reading, fixated on the ignorance, so I have no idea what it was advertising. It was a professionally-produced board, so I presume an ad agency was involved...
Fail on two counts.
1. English punctuation
2. Failed to register the product with a potential customer.
* See previous post for meaning of FLA.
Regards & God bless,
Ray
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W.C.Fields
Ray
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Re: Inglish as She is Writ
I see that one and raise this one "WHO cancer rate data show's Australia has worst in the world"Greynomad wrote:.....professionally-produced ......
Read more: http://www.news.com.au/national-news/fe ... z2awUf1UnH
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OK I see where there are too many punctuation marks but don't you find it harder to read when you get just one long paragraph with no capitals, no commas, no full stops etc?
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Re: Inglish as She is Writ
No, equally difficult trying to make sense of what message is being offered. I can understand the occasional typo and poor sentence construction but repeated, and especially professional, stuff ups, suggest to me that the writer lacks respect for their intended reader.BruceS wrote:.... don't you find it harder to read ......
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