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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-23-05 03:05 AM
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Should I try to teach DU how to spell?
discuss
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Ladyhawk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-23-05 03:06 AM
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1. Naw, it would waste your time and annoy the freeper trolls. n/t
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-23-05 03:07 AM
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2. Hey Ladyhawk
How are you doing?

:D
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Whoa_Nelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-23-05 03:23 AM
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7. Hi there, Ladyhawk!
Good to see you here! :hi:
You are awesome! Hope you got my PM!
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youthere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 06:33 PM
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31. annoy AND confuse
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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-23-05 03:07 AM
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3. Unless you're up for a completely fruitless
and unappreciated endeavor, I'd say no. Beating your head against a roughly-spackled cement wall for several hours would probably yield the same result as trying to teach some of us to spell. :shrug:
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-23-05 03:09 AM
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4. LOL
It was a silly idea, the whole moron versus moran thing that rears up around here sometimes got me thinking about it.
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greatauntoftriplets Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-23-05 06:41 AM
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16. The moron vs. moran thing is an old joke....
And damn funny.
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Spider Jerusalem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 01:39 AM
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24. Not really...
it was funny for about five minutes back in 2002 or whenever it was. Now it's old and tired.
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 08:28 PM
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36. It is
I love the photo!
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Spinzonner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-23-05 03:10 AM
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5. In view of your nom de guerre

shouldn't you be teaching DU to CAST spells
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-23-05 03:11 AM
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6. Oh, oops
I better go back and read my mission statement and core values. :evilgrin:
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6000eliot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-23-05 03:36 AM
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8. Perhaps just the proper use of the apostrophe
And the difference between plural and possessive nouns.
:hi:
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NoQuarter Donating Member (532 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-23-05 03:49 AM
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9. Amen.
nt
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RebelOne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-23-05 03:52 AM
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And amen again.
Also, the difference between it's and its. Hear and here, there and their, etc.
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tjwmason Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-23-05 03:52 AM
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11. Abso-blooming-lutely
Plus maybe a few of the more commonly used homophones (their there they're &c.).
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NoQuarter Donating Member (532 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 12:09 AM
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19. The difference between
subject and object would be helpful, too. (e.g. who and whom.)
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tjwmason Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-23-05 03:51 AM
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10. Whilst you're at it
Solve world-poverty, cure cancer, end the AIDS pandemic, negotiation peaceful and lasting settlements in Israel-Palestine and Northern Ireland - after all each of these is as likely as accurate spelling on D.U. :hi:
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Lefta Dissenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-23-05 04:00 AM
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12. Gno,
Edited on Tue Aug-23-05 04:03 AM by Lefta Dissenter
Tis frootless.

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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-23-05 05:29 AM
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13. To late.
You only be waisting you're time. :hi:
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REP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-23-05 06:35 AM
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14. How About the Proper Use of the Subjunctive?
Well, I can dream, can't I?
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crispini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-23-05 06:36 AM
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15. Yes!
Please post a nice firey little rant explaining why our lack of spelling skills make us no better than freepers and how all DU'ers better wise up and use the spell check or else.

:popcorn:

:bounce:

heh heh heh heh heh. 50+ posts, easy, before it gets locked.
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texas1928 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-23-05 07:08 AM
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17. Wat r u tawkn abowt?
wee kan spel jus fien.

:shrug:
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rbnyc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-23-05 07:56 AM
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18. Yes
I was a terrible speller when I was in school. I just never got it. I worked very hard in my late 20's to learn to be a better speller, and I still struggle.

I know the difference between your and you're and its and it's. :-) But I'm willing to bet you could teach me something.

:)
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Blue-Jay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 12:10 AM
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20. Only loosers complain about spelling.
Rediculous.
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Lilith Velkor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 12:11 AM
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21. You'd have better luck teaching a pig to sing.
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khashka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 12:28 AM
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22. Waist of tim cuz
sum ov us r unteechble.

Khash
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NMMNG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 01:35 AM
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23. DU already knows how to spell (for the most part)
If you really want a challenge go visit the cesspool and teach them how to spell. We'll see you again when you're about 95 or so. :rofl:
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hfojvt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 01:54 AM
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25. as long as you remember, it is
reMuNeration.
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Kire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 01:55 AM
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26. You can lead a horticulture.
But you can't make her think.
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Dave Reynolds Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 02:24 AM
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27. My speling is jist fyne, thang yew.
Butt it is nice of yew to ofer.

:hi:
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flaminbats Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 02:37 AM
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28. "Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium"..
or.."diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence." ;)
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Dave Reynolds Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 05:59 PM
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29. And also,
when you are done with that, could you teach the world to sing in perfect harmony?
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 06:12 PM
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30. Whut mkaes yu thingk we nead too lurn how two spel?
Redsstine
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jmowreader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 06:47 PM
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32. Yes, and start with this lesson
Here, it's spelled morAn.
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Pharlo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 06:48 PM
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33. We kin spel alrite....
Maybee yu kneed ta lern ta reed bettir.
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Lefty48197 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 07:08 PM
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34. nah, buncha morans here.
Don't botther.
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flaminbats Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 07:21 PM
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35. cool..I voted for moran once
:applause: too bad I'm not one!!
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