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Seece on 25 July 2011

Sales / Sells / Sold

'It sales 50 copies this week wooo'

'NO IT FUCKING DIDN'T'



 

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Seece on 25 July 2011
TruckOSaurus said:

This being a sales site, the worst offense is people who confuse "sale" and "sell".

You stole my beef!!



 

Seece on 25 July 2011

Also I shamefully got country's countries wrong, but you put me right rol and I don't think I've got it wrong since ..



 

Troll_Whisperer on 25 July 2011

Also:

Seperate instead of separate.

Sequal instead of sequel.



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Galaki on 26 July 2011
Soleron said:
effect/affect is the one that I hate the most.

That is a tricky one for most people even if English is native.



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mchaza on 26 July 2011

i go against your statement that the English language is the easiest to learn because i say the English language is the Hardest to learn with even native English speakers have troubles with it and the Whole range of screwed up things like silent letters to words with multiple meanings and to top it off the Americans fought it would be awesome to screw up everything and make their own version of English with different spelling.

But thats what you get when you mix German, french, old celtic,latin and many many more, and add a Arabic letter system.

Japanese is much easier, tho i had to give it up and stick to learning my own language before moving onto others.



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Final-Fan on 26 July 2011
mchaza said:
i go against your statement that the English language is the easiest to learn because i say the English language is the Hardest to learn with even native English speakers have troubles with it and the Whole range of screwed up things like silent letters to words with multiple meanings and to top it off the Americans fought it would be awesome to screw up everything and make their own version of English with different spelling.

But thats what you get when you mix German, french, old celtic,latin and many many more, and add a Arabic letter system.

Japanese is much easier, tho i had to give it up and stick to learning my own language before moving onto others.

I wouldn't have "fought" someone resenting 200 year old spelling reform would be using such blatantly wrong new spelling variants himself, "tho" evidently I was mistaken. 



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mchaza on 26 July 2011

hey i have bad spelling and grammar but that's a product of years of poor english teachers with myself having to catch up over the past few years. I am on this forum and post alot and read gaming news constantly as a way to help improve my english skills and no doubt my English has improved greatly then it was before i joined.

Also i have been trying to solve my "an" issue but i cant help myself, maybe that has to do with being told to sound out things before you write and i sound out "an" then "a".

But i stand by English being very hard but because its so widely used in media and has a large global adopting rate and a wealth of good resources and teachers that must be the reason why its can be easy. But its still a hard language.



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MrT-Tar on 26 July 2011

What gets me annoyed is the continuous misuse of apostrophes.




mchaza on 26 July 2011
RolStoppable said:
mchaza said:
hey i have bad spelling and grammar but that's a product of years of poor english teachers with myself having to catch up over the past few years. I am on this forum and post alot and read gaming news constantly as a way to help improve my english skills and no doubt my English has improved greatly then it was before i joined.

Also i have been trying to solve my "an" issue but i cant help myself, maybe that has to do with being told to sound out things before you write and i sound out "an" then "a".

But i stand by English being very hard but because its so widely used in media and has a large global adopting rate and a wealth of good resources and teachers that must be the reason why its can be easy. But its still a hard language.

What is your native language? Hard to tell when your profile says that you live in Australia.

British commonwealth nation, so English :D 



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