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Miscellaneous => General Chat => Topic started by: dc804 on February 06, 2009, 08:00:40 PM
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What types of literary mistakes have you made, or frequently make?
With me, I am always confusing the words soldier and shoulder. I mean shoulder and soldier. I am always spelling soldier as 'soldior'.
I also spell the word lose as the word loose. Why is it spelled L-O-S-E anyway? It has the long O sound. It should have two Os.
My favorite band is Queen. But for some reason, I always mess up while pronouncing the name and have to literally spell it out so the person I am talking to knows what band I am talking about. That's why I avoid saying what my favourite band is. Though if asked, I will say it.
And one time when I was talking about having a dream where I was counting sheep in my sleep, I said counting sleep in my sheep.
What word and writing mistakes do you make, and have made?
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I always remembered the difference between cavalry and Calvary because cavalry can't be compressed into two syllables to fit into a hymn.
I often switch around prepositions (like "the nearest Sunday in us to the future" rather than "the nearest Sunday to us in the future"), and sometimes use the wrong gender when I'm not concentrating enough; for example, I always end up describing Anderson Cooper as "Gloria Vanderbilt's daughter." Usually only in speech, though.
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When I made this topic, I accidentally named it "You literary mistakes". Now it's fixed.
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I noticed it, but I thought you were being witty.
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My cousin made a video series known as Yoshi's Island: Remade & Replayed, but the title screen on the opening scene said Replayed and Remade. He didn't find out until I told him 6 months later.
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Grammar and spelling are some of my high points. I've always been good with both (though I have loosened up with preposition rules and rarely punctuate sentences in IRC). I make many typos, however, and talk faster than I should.
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I more often make mistakes when when it has something to do with school.
One thing I've found rather odd is when I look at an old paper of mine with an obvious and incredibly stupid mistake, and my teachers never seem to see it. These mistakes bother the crap out of me, but apparently my teachers adapted easily to my really stupid mistakes on papers.
If you're talking to me on Facebook... never expect the same typing method I use here. I'm ridiculously sloppy when doing those instant-message chat things.
I have gotten better though. (well, less so on AIM or Facebook.)
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I have a bad habit of ending words with an "e". I think it's because I had so many British textbooks in college. BTW, I had to backspace in the previous sentence because I spelled "think" as "theink". Maybe it's just a habit of typing the work "the".
I spent several minutes today explaining to students the importance of proper spelling and grammar because of an English question that came up, but felt dirty about doing so because to me it seemed a lot like a "do as I say, not as I do" lecture. On the other hand, I had to take about twenty minutes out of my physics lecture today to clear up an Earth science misconception because another teacher had told students that California was going to fall off the map. It's likely I made a grammar mistake in my explanation that caused an English teacher to have to correct me, but in the word of two of my students, "English sucks; science rules."
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Online (and whenever else I type), I make a generous effort to spellcheck. However, there are certain words I often forget how to spell, like "chief".
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I'm pretty good with spelling, though I can never remember if it's tomorrow or tommorow.
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When I was 4, I thought the word "you're" was spelled "your".
I once briefly thought "explanation" was spelled "explaination".
I used to think the word "jibe" was "jive".
I still have trouble with the word "recommend" occasionally.
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When I was 4, I thought the word "you're" was spelled "your".
I'm 17 and half the people I know still do that... *facepalm*
As for "jibe" and "jive", that's an understandable eggcorn (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggcorn).
I still have trouble with the word "recommend" occasionally.
I'm pretty good with spelling, though I can never remember if it's tomorrow or tommorow.
Yeah, anything with a lot of alternating and/or repeated letters sometimes gets me.
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I have never encountered most of the eggcorns listed on that page. Or the word/misunderstood word "eggcorn" either.
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I've never done this, but I tire of seeing "definitely" spelled as "defiantly" on fanfiction.net.
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I'mg going to type and entire paragraph without using the backspace key at all. This may highlight some of my common mistakes in the chatroom setting. This includes saying thisngs straongely or making massive typos without correcting themfirst before pressing enter. I am highly dependent on the backspace key. Here is another phrase for the paragraph that I am now typing. Firefox has put quite a few lines of red under some words, I'm not doing erribly well. Crap I didn't type terribly correctly . I should have used uquotation marks just then for the word "terribly."
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I try my best to type fast, although I'm very bad when it somcomes to typing. I often make too many spaces and I hit tyoes but keep going and they end up realy bad at times. Also, I trype stuff, look at it, and then desice I want to change it. Decide I want to change it, I mean. That's why it often takes me a while to type a resoponce in the tchatroom. No, I didn't just make a typo across the entire keyboard. I just almost typed "the " again. Good lord I am a t really bad typist. U I hope it's just because I'm really tired.
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I would pwn you dudes at TypeRacer.
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You did, remember?
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I'm going to try to di this, but it probably won't be very interesting, because i'm a pretty good typist. Oh, darn, i did do wrong. And a keep messing up on I. HOW HARD IS IT TO TYPE I? Why c an't I do that? I'm not normally this bad.
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I feel confident saying that bobman and I are the only good typists around here.
Unless you'd like to get in the ring (http://play.typeracer.com/) and prove otherwise.
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You guys are freakishly good typists, but I think your standards are way too high. Wikipedia considers average professional typing speed to be between 50 and 70 WPM.
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Hey, I'm pretty good too. I beat bobman a few times, remember?
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This seems a good time to repost this.
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IM'm goint yo do the same as TEm and type this ehikloe post withought using the backspace button. I really like that inmmage. I;'m really a horribvle typist and I use the backspace button a TRON. Dang I'm horrible.
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I just playwed that game typeracing and i think i'm getting better because i tping faster and stiff and I jsut can't stop someone help me stoop no wait, don't casue i'm hsving to much fun oh help.
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Though I haven't played typeracer before, I don nkow that I 'm not a profesionally trained typist, so I cactually pec k the keytboard instead of typing properly. I have given an exacmple of my less-than-stallar typing prowess by not using the delete button Likie TEM did.
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I have never misplace a Z for an S in certain words like organize would not be spelled as "organise" many other people seem to find that funny all over the net and call it dialect.
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Yeh, why dant thoze dan m Brits learmn to speak Enhglish/
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Tennis is by far my favorite sport. I love watching Roder Gederer and Rafel Nadal battle it out on clay court, hardcourt or grass. Those are the only three types of tennis surface if professional tennis. I have heard of tennis players playing on water, but that is not official and IU don't even know who that would work. There would have to be onle like, half an hinch of water above a hard surface for the ball to bounce. And a web ball doesn't really boucne very well anyway.
I guess I struggle with names and hitting more than one character at a time because of my big hands.
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I'm gonna post again without using the backspace button. Wow I'm toing really well. Oops I chust made anothwer typeo. Oh darn I did it again. No, I;m not onna stoop any time soon. And you can't make me. YEah I type hoerrivly,. What's i t yo yaH>? Uh hu, yjay's what I tyhough.
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I'm going to type without the backspace button or looking at the keyboard starting now. lol, i am doing food.darn *exvlamarion mark* o shoild do this more odten/ le8boarding is a usefill skill.
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Neopolition is not Napoleon.
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Also, Neapolitan is not Neopolition.
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True Fact: I think worse of people who edit their mistakes when people point them out, thus making the conversation pointlessly confusing, than I do of people who just leave the mistakes, sparing like 20 people from figuring out the chronologically f'd thread.
Edits like this don't hide your dumbness. They add to it.
And people posting just to point out mistakes are kind of d-wads themselves.
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More like illiteracy mistakes, amirite?