OT word usage

Just for clarification - some words are commonly misused. Here is a
guide,
Your - possessive - belonging to.
You're - contraction - "you are"
There - at a place
Their - possessive - belonging to.
They're - contraction - "they are"


---MIKE---
In the White Mountains of New Hampshire
(44° 15' N - Elevation 1580')

On peut faire ceci en francais. De cette facon je ne ferai pas de fautes et
j'aurai le plaisir immense de corriger TES fautes...

Passe une bonne journee.

--
Will~

"... so that's how liberty ends, in a round of applause."

Queen Amidala, The revenge of the Syth.


"---MIKE---" wrote in message
...
Just for clarification - some words are commonly misused. Here is a
guide,
Your - possessive - belonging to.
You're - contraction - "you are"
There - at a place
Their - possessive - belonging to.
They're - contraction - "they are"


---MIKE---
In the White Mountains of New Hampshire
(44° 15' N - Elevation 1580')

On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 08:52:08 -0500, (---MIKE---)
wrote:

Just for clarification - some words are commonly misused. Here is a
guide,

I already new that!

L.

Willow,

I may not be understanding your note correctly - my French is pretty
rusty! - but it looks like you think that Mike is criticizing your grammar
in particular. I realy doubt that is the case.

I think he was reacting to something I said in the "Switching from dry food
to canned" thread - see the comments following Joe Canuck's answer to my
question - and then generalizing from there with a general refresher for
_everyone_ on some common grammar mistakes made all the time by native
English speakers.

English is notoriously difficult as a second language due to its many rules
and exceptions to those rules. Heck, those rules and exceptions make it a
minefield for native speakers too, especially since many schools stopped
making much effort to teach grammar 30-odd years ago. English speakers have
no real equivalent to l'Academie du langue francais either to police the
language.

I've read several of your posts, Willow, and I had no idea you were not a
native English speaker; you're English is on a par with that of most native
English speakers.

Rhino

"Willow" wrote in message
...
On peut faire ceci en francais. De cette facon je ne ferai pas de fautes
et
j'aurai le plaisir immense de corriger TES fautes...

Passe une bonne journee.

--
Will~

"... so that's how liberty ends, in a round of applause."

Queen Amidala, The revenge of the Syth.


"---MIKE---" wrote in message
...
Just for clarification - some words are commonly misused. Here is a
guide,
Your - possessive - belonging to.
You're - contraction - "you are"
There - at a place
Their - possessive - belonging to.
They're - contraction - "they are"


---MIKE---
In the White Mountains of New Hampshire
(44° 15' N - Elevation 1580')

"Lorraine" wrote in message
...
On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 08:52:08 -0500,
(---MIKE---)
wrote:

Just for clarification - some words are commonly misused. Here is
a
guide,

I already new that!

L.

LOL
Alison

---MIKE--- wrote:
Just for clarification - some words are commonly misused. Here is a
guide,
Your - possessive - belonging to.
You're - contraction - "you are"
There - at a place
Their - possessive - belonging to.
They're - contraction - "they are"



to this day I cannot tell you for certain how to spell

thier or their
peice or piece

on the Charlie Brown spelling bee, it was, "i before e except after c"

hard ones are like, though "even though you paid", it looks like tough
but it's not so

"a christmas tree" wrote in message
oups.com...

---MIKE--- wrote:
Just for clarification - some words are commonly misused. Here is a
guide,
Your - possessive - belonging to.
You're - contraction - "you are"
There - at a place
Their - possessive - belonging to.
They're - contraction - "they are"



to this day I cannot tell you for certain how to spell

thier or their
peice or piece

on the Charlie Brown spelling bee, it was, "i before e except after c"

hard ones are like, though "even though you paid", it looks like tough
but it's not so


Hay! I am back. Did you miss me?

"---MIKE---" wrote in message
...
Just for clarification - some words are commonly misused. Here is a
guide,
Your - possessive - belonging to.
You're - contraction - "you are"
There - at a place
Their - possessive - belonging to.
They're - contraction - "they are"


Snippets borrowed from a long forgotten source........

Look at them. Websites. Everywhere. How many billion websites are there
now? Surf around, and for every five well-designed, easy-to-get-around,
useful sites that exist, there are 69 that suck ****, play stupid little
MIDI files, are hard to read, hard to navigate, and, more importantly, have
obvious and glaring grammatical and spelling errors everywhere.

This sort of thing has been pointed to by many as evidence that literacy
skills are in decline at the dawn of the twenty-first century. Blaming it
all on computers is an understandable, if entirely incorrect, next step.
Consider the history of literacy. Before about 2000 BC, everybody in the
world was illiterate. When writing started to develop in China and the
Golden Crescent, it wasn't something that everybody just jumped up and
started doing. The first literate people were specialists; the myopic
computer nerd of the twenty-first century has an analogue in the 'scribe'
of the minus-twenty-first century. These scribes also often served as
priests in whatever the local religion was, especially because those who
were smart enough to read and write were generally also smart enough to
figure out eclipses, and such things.

Now that everyone has TV and everyone has a computer, a printer, and access
to the Internet, everyone thinks they're a potential Charles Dickens. The
skyrocketing demand for 'news' filler in TV, radio, and print means that
hordes of journalism-school graduates are imposing on you constantly. The
ability to print your own material at home on your computer, and more
lately to 'print' it for the whole world to see on the World Wide Web, has
merely exacerbated that difficulty.

The problem isn't that people are less literate than they were one or two
or four hundred years ago. The problem is that instead of reading the
material of the 1% of the population who were the most literate, we can now
read the material of almost the entire ****ing population, and literary
ability be damned.

While it probably doesn't help that schools have lately been focussing on
'whole language' (often interpreted as 'Scribble whatever you want, no-one
gives a **** if it's understandable from a grammatical, spelling, or even
legibility point of view), thereby reducing children's exposure to the
basic concepts of HOW TO ****ING SPELL and HOW TO PROPERLY PUT A ****ING
SENTENCE TOGETHER, I doubt that it matters much. The children of the
phonics era mostly weren't paying enough attention to get much of a clue,
either. And heaven knows, surviving written material from the 19th
century's plebes is replete with, uhh, imaginative spellings and
grammatical formations.

In short, the illiteracy was always there. Only now, instead of being
decently hidden in private letters, it's published to poke out the eyes of
everyone in the world who can access a computer.

The Internet is the great equaliser.

The only possible difference lies in the discrimination of the reading and
surfing public. Unfortunately, as we currently live in a society of
voluntary illiterates who seldom read anything more complicated than TV
Guide, the result is that the title of 'most clever sheep' is bestowed not
by an intelligent and omniscient shepherd, but rather, by the dumbest of
the other sheep. (See 'People's Choice Awards' for further details.)



Sort of.

"Rhino" wrote in message
.. .
....... you're English is on a par with that of most native
English speakers.
Rhino
Hi Rhino,
If you're one of those native English speakers, your example proved the
point that many native English speakers don't know the difference between
you're and your.
About as many of them can't tell their its from their it's, and are really
lying when they think they're laying.
But, we can love them, anyway, especially our fellow cat lovers, right?
Annie

cybercat wrote:

Hay! I am back. Did you miss me?

Babe, your back early!
What a surprise!!

did you sleep well, you missed quite a bit
are you ready for your bloody mary...
the mix tonight is wonderful, it even has meat in it