The importance of Grammar.

General Discussion
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This is a great thread!. And yes, sometimes people who have been speaking english their whole lives are the worst.

 

Wind up your car window so the wind doesn't get in. Same spelling, different pronunciation = totally different meaning.

 

Set. This word is a classic muddle. A set of fins. The resin needs to set. Same spelling, same pronunciation, completely different meaning.

 

 

I was pretty good in english at school, but the see through dresses my ( HOT! ) teacher wore meant that me and my best mate ended up dropping down into the lowest english class. Got some good marks though!

 

 

 

 

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Great thread (when there’s gale force onshores and I’m still trying to figure out how to bend xps rail around a tight nose curve - it does snap explosively!).

Good writing is a bit like making a surfboard…as much as art as technical…

  Who’s the reader/rider?

  How do you, the author/shaper, what the reader/rider to relate to the product?

  Will the reader/rider understand it?

  Measure twice, cut once!

  …

 

 

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Fixed it for you Mark. :slight_smile:

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wlel, its amzanig, the pweor of the hamun mnid… its rllaey not taht dfifcilut to uenrsdatnd waht soneome is tynirg to say, at laest

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  This is a thread for anal-retentive librarians and schoolteachers. Everyone is already in agreement on how screwed up “proper” English spelling can be but what kind of person cares if what someone writes in a surfboard forum is correct? A person with low self esteem maybe? Someone who sees an opportunity to feel smart by making someone else feel stupid? To me that type of person has more problems then the person who misspelled a word and it shows a real lack of class to try and boost your own ego by correcting another person’s grammar for no practical reason. Yes, not everyone in the world is as smart as you are as far as the English dictionary goes…well good for you, you must be a genius!

  The point of letters and the written
word is to convey and idea to another, right? Well if you get the gist of what
someone wrote, misspelled or not, what do you gain by pointing out his or her
mistakes? Better yet what do you gain by even caring? Do you enjoy judging? Are
you annoyed by their apparent stupidity because they haven’t mastered the
spelling of English words so you feel you must speak out and help cure this
problem? If so then go be a schoolteacher where people are trying to learn. But
give up your high and mighty crusade to cure the “ignorant” adults out there that
have moved beyond caring what some spelling nanny thinks.

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DOG POOP !!! That's all I have to say about grammer and spelling !!!!

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Billywillgo,

Take a good read through Surffoils’ (who started the thread) catalogue of threads and posts and get back to us all.

Hopefully you’ll show more respect.

 

 

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I’m a school teacher. Irregardless, I could care less about grammar. If there’s waves, than get out their. Entertaining post, bye the weigh. 

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WOT YA SAY

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I am in the shop setting up to re-saw some koa. This thread just kept going around and around in my head ! Then the light bulb flashed on! helping your Uncle Jack off a horse,

 

 and helping your uncle jack off a horse.

Many ,many years ago when my younger Siss was going to Kapaa Highschool. She had two part time jobs. One was just up the road at High Gates riding stable ( they did horse back tours up into the mountains). Siss would feed and water the horses and clean out their stalls. One of the trail bosses and handy man was an old Hawaiian man that all the kids called Uncle Jack. Her second Job was the next road over at  Ridge Line Horse Ranch and Stud services !! There she fed and watered the horses and cleaned the stalls. Uncle jack also worked at Ridge Line as a handy man.

So now I am thinking, what else was Siss  doing ?  Was she helping Uncle Jack off the horses ? Was she helping uncle jack off the horses ? Or ? This ones going to drive me nuts for the rest of the day!!

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"This is the sort of bloody nonsense up with which I will not put."

(Winston Churchill c 1948) 

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As you enter this thread please leave your values at the front desk. Is forbitten to complain thread poster please. If you are not person to do such thing is please not to read notis. The grammer is being fixed for the next day. During that time we regret that you will be unbearable. you are invited to take advantage of the chambermaid.

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The initial post was just a setup for the laff at the end. And that the post was taken the wrong way just shows how difficult it is to post concise information and the intention behind the words.

But in a light hearted way I mention grammar because Sways can be at times a very technical site. Its hard to get a good understanding of what people are doing with chemicals, ratios, vacbagging figures and glassing schedules when the words and meaning are indecipherable...

XPS or EPS, HDXPS or or is it something totally different again ??

 2# or 2lb, US or UK lbs?

Was that pressure in mm,Hg inches , psi, Kgsqm, sqft, sqm, cubicms,H2O or oil, and what sort of oil ?

The technical information is important to a lot of us who are keen to learn and make better boards. Social posts dont bother me because I dont read them, but the tech ones I keenly scrutinise, after all where else am I going to get a free global classroom on design and construction?

  If its important to you, that your post be understood, take the time to make it understandable.

Typos cant be helped, and then theres the constant problem of beer fueled posting, can I suggest a   (B)  placed at the end of every post for those who like to drink and type?

 As someone here used to say... No attitude just gratitude. I just want to make better boards.

 

(B)

 

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This thread was entertaining.  I care about communication, grammar not so much.  I have been an avid reader my whole life, so I can generally spot a misspelled word from 50 yds.  Unless its one of my own, of course.  But my favorite writer is Sam Clemens, who wrote a lot in the vernacular of his day.  I love it.  I love language, and all its kooky nuances.  I misspell all the time, for the sake of brevity, or just 'cuz I wanna.

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Well, it being away in the night and stormy, and all
so mysterious-like, I felt just the way any other boy
would a felt when I see that wreck laying there so
mournful and lonesome in the middle of the river. I
wanted to get aboard of her and slink around a little,
and see what there was there. So I says:

"Le's land on her, Jim."

But Jim was dead against it at first. He says:

"I doan' want to go fool'n 'long er no wrack.
We's doin' blame' well, en we better let blame' well
alone, as de good book says. Like as not dey's a
watchman on dat wrack."

-- Sam Clemens

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Visiting friends in Texas, I once said "we're getting ready to go"

Their teenage daughter looked at me funny, then she said, "Y'all shore do talk funny.  Do y'mean yore fixin' to go?"

I said "were gonna get some pizza, you guys want some?"

To which she responded, "I ain't a guy, I'm a girl"

"After pizza, I have to go to the laundromat."

"Laundro-what?  You mean the wash-ta-teria?"

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I once met a Brit who was here in Calif. courting a young woman I knew.  (They later married, then later yet, divorced, but thats another story.)

We were driving somewhere, and I said I've gotta run by my house real quick and pick something up"

He said, Why do Californians have to say they're going to do everything "real quick"?

I said "I have a bunch of errands to run, and I need to get my list."

He said - Bunch?  You mean like bah-nah-nas?

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And yet another incident was the time I knew a British lady who lived nearby.  She would often say "ring me up in the morning" (call me).  One day I was visiting with some friends, and her neighbor mentioned he was going somewhere the next day, would she like to come.  She said "Yes, I'd love it, knock me up in the morning."  Couldn't figure out why we all started cracking up.

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Language is just weird.

 

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So is your problem with spelling and grammar or is your problem with inaccurate technical information? Those would seem to be two different things?

“If its important to you, that your post be understood, take the time to make it understandable.”

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From some chain email I received

Can you raed this? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.

 

 I cdnuolt blveiee that I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd what I was rdanieg.
The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at
Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno’t mtaetr in what oerdr the ltteres in a
word are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is that the frsit and last ltteer be
in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can still raed
it whotuit a pboerlm. This is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed
ervey lteter by istlef, but the word as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? Yaeh and
I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!

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omg

 

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roflmao!

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Ogre - have you read any of James Herriot's books?  Hilarious misadventures of Welsh country vet.  In one of them (The Lord God Made Them All) he describes he and his best friend Tristan having the unfortunate task of taking a sperm sample of a bull, for artificial insemination.  One of the funniest passages I've ever read.  Worth hunting down and reading anything you can find by him, btw. 

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Boys, Michael has asked that I drop in, as you might say, from time to time to check on how well you are communicating with each other.  I shant concern myself with the occasional preposition trailing a sentence, not shall I insist on perfect spelling. I will, however point out needed corrections when your message is obscured for lack of good grammar or basic intelligible syntax. You come here to communicate with each other and to the extent this becomes a struggle, I will seek clarifications.

For now I will simply point out that, at some level, you are communicating effectively with each other.  This is well evidenced by the those of you who have apparently broken Mr. Huies’s code and can actually understand his messages.  I salute this success, and further ask that you all continue to make the effort to include a verb in each of your sentences.

Now, it is past my bedtime and I still have papers to grade.

Respectfully Submitted,

Mrs. Wordperson