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Final-Fan on 26 July 2011

So being in a British commonwealth nation means your native language is English? Someone better tell India...



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mchaza on 26 July 2011
Final-Fan said:
So being in a British commonwealth nation means your native language is English? Someone better tell India...


well the offical language, which english is in India, kinder they do need it since they have so many different languages in India. 



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ithis on 26 July 2011

English is easy to speak but difficult to spell. (for example, "speak" I would spell it speek or better yet, spic, I have to know and remember that it is spelled speak) I was like WTF, when I saw that spelling tools were many and of high importance for english writing, but since I use it every day, I have to use a spellchecker and am glad they exist. It's kinda ridiculous to use one in my native language, since over 90% of what you hear is what you write, which is nice. But not in English.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language_spelling_reform
The spelling will be reformed whether those who are against it like it or not, since, proud as most of those are for it being the de facto international language, it also means it's not theirs anymore.

PS: Often I hate trying to remember how to spell words in English.



TruckOSaurus on 26 July 2011
Seece said:
TruckOSaurus said:

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

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Troll_Whisperer on 26 July 2011

I've got another one:

Its and it's.

Seriously, one is the possessive and the other means 'it is', nothing more! Why do people find it so complicated??



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Moren on 26 July 2011

I often phail in ridiculous and definitely, those are so confusing!

In facebook, I overuse "k" and "z", but that's on purpose.



Griffin on 26 July 2011
Troll_Whisperer said:
I've got another one:

Its and it's.

Seriously, one is the possessive and the other means 'it is', nothing more! Why do people find it so complicated??

Because nobody cares?  The subject was no doubt taught back in grade 3 for a few mins and nobody remembers. 



scottie on 26 July 2011

Almost as bad as those who spell troll as rol?



Kirameo on 26 July 2011
Griffin said:
Troll_Whisperer said:
I've got another one:

Its and it's.

Seriously, one is the possessive and the other means 'it is', nothing more! Why do people find it so complicated??

Because nobody cares?  The subject was no doubt taught back in grade 3 for a few mins and nobody remembers. 


It's a bad habit to include everyone in a group to make you feel better.



 

Troll_Whisperer on 26 July 2011
Griffin said:
Troll_Whisperer said:
I've got another one:

Its and it's.

Seriously, one is the possessive and the other means 'it is', nothing more! Why do people find it so complicated??

Because nobody cares?  The subject was no doubt taught back in grade 3 for a few mins and nobody remembers. 

Shouldn't you care?

You need to be taugh that? Isn't it obvious from reading the simplest of texts? No one taught me that. He's, she's it's. His, her, its.



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