Whittie
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quote: Originally posted by Balling
quote: Originally posted by James
I think Balling is just an English person living in Denmark TBH, he has been revelling in our praise.

Never even been to Britain though, ironically...
It's handy knowing other languages though, wish mine was Spanish and not Welsh though
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mwg
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What about people.
That do this.
Nearly every post.
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harrisp
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quote: Originally posted by nathy_87
Banned imo. Ian doesn't like swearing in the titles.
Still begging to be a moderator I see 
My spelling is shit and I rely on spellcheck most of the time, have to be more careful when posting from my phone.
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Ben G
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quote: Originally posted by nathy_87
quote: Originally posted by sc0ott
A spell checker would help, but do they exist on forums
Yes they do. We have/had one on the forum I moderate.
@Willay: Google Chrome has got one built in.
he already is harris. seems well chuffed with himself. bet he gets date offers every night of the week.
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mwg
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I'll carry on doing it then.
If that's ok with you.
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baza31
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quote: Originally posted by Ben G
quote: Originally posted by baza31
I also couldn't care, if I can understand what someone's wrote I couldn't care if it's slept wrong. It's not an exam and people that do care must have simple lives
i don't think words sleep mate. sorry to disappoint you
predictive text on phone . Ahhh well
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AlunJ
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quote: Originally posted by Whittie
It's handy knowing other languages though, wish mine was Spanish and not Welsh though
A girl spoke to me in Welsh yesterday and I just looked at her with a blank "huh?" expression.
People spelling morning wrong gets my back up
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Baskey
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The spelling and grammar on this site are fine, especially when you consider the target users of a Corsa website.
In answer to the question, no I do not spend as much attention to my spelling when typing on a corsa forum as I do in the real world, if you do then your abit sad.
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AlunJ
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Balling
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quote: Originally posted by mwg
What about people.
That do this.
Nearly every post.
Annoying as fuck to read! 
The same with people who use
random line breaks and make their
posts read like a mother fucking haiku
 
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Balling
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quote: Originally posted by Whittie
It's handy knowing other languages though, wish mine was Spanish and not Welsh though
At a wedding I attended in November, I was sat chatting with the best man, who was Welsh. I never realized until that day, that Welsh was a language and not just a very muddy dialect... 
No fucking wonder it's hard to understand.
 
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JonnyJ
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Like cavey, the loose/lose thing does my head in.
But also........people who for some..........reason........overuse pauses............and then go mental................................with exclamation marks!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Hammer
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Pisses me off. Not everyone will be right all of the time but you should be making an effort to be legible.
You wouldn't talk to someone and slur your words intentionally in order to shorten how long the sentence takes to speak
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LeeM
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I'm in uni 5 days a week most of the year, where things like that matter. On a corsa forum I really don't care.
The only reason there's capitals and apostrophes in this post is because my iPhone does it automatically.
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Anty
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does it really matter though?
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mwg
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quote: Originally posted by JonnyJ
Like cavey, the loose/lose thing does my head in.
But also........people who for some..........reason........overuse pauses............and then go mental................................with exclamation marks!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I like it when people get over excited and start throwing a few !!1!!!111!!!!1!1! in there
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Whittie
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quote: Originally posted by Balling
quote: Originally posted by Whittie
It's handy knowing other languages though, wish mine was Spanish and not Welsh though
At a wedding I attended in November, I was sat chatting with the best man, who was Welsh. I never realized until that day, that Welsh was a language and not just a very muddy dialect... 
No fucking wonder it's hard to understand.
It's not easy to understand at the best of times, let alone if you didn't realise it was a language
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nathy_87
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quote: Originally posted by harrisp
quote: Originally posted by nathy_87
Banned imo. Ian doesn't like swearing in the titles.
Still begging to be a moderator I see 
My spelling is shit and I rely on spellcheck most of the time, have to be more careful when posting from my phone.
I was joking you knob. I couldn't moderate this forum with plebs like you, it'd drive me insane.
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Gary
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tbh i just kinda bash the keyboard and hope for the best. Reply box is normally covered in red underlines but like fuck i'm changing it for you guys. At least my sentances are understandable. Spelling can gtf imo
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Sam
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Some interesting responses in here.
For those of you with the "it doesn't bother me" views on the subject, tell me something... Let's say you were in charge of hiring some new person at your company, and some of the CVs you received looked like they were written by a five year old.
Let's also say for argument's sake that part of the job you were hiring for required the person to communicate both with staff and customers in writing (be it emails or letters for example).
Would spelling and grammar still not bother you then?
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p
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quote: Originally posted by Sam
Some interesting responses in here.
For those of you with the "it doesn't bother me" views on the subject, tell me something... Let's say you were in charge of hiring some new person at your company, and some of the CVs you received looked like they were written by a five year old.
Let's also say for argument's sake that part of the job you were hiring for required the person to communicate both with staff and customers in writing (be it emails or letters for example).
Would spelling and grammar still not bother you then?
Can I ask you to opine about people that can't speak proper English? A real pet peeve of mine. I just hate it when I hear people speak and they can't speak like a normal person.
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sc0ott
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At work i check my spelling and grammar every time, but online im not so anal about it.
One of our directors at work spells properlly and all that but for some reason she puts pls instead of please.
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Baskey
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When I'm looking at someones CV at work with a view to offering them an interview I would expect it to be perfect.
I'm not sure how this relates to making posts on a corsa forum though, it's completely different ball game.
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*CorsaCal*
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quote: Originally posted by Sam
if you're of those people
FAIL
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Sam
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Registered: 24th Dec 99
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You've found a typo in my post, well done you.
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