Does anyone know what percent of members on here are outside the US??? Seems like a good amount of blokes that dont know how to spell.........
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Spelling and Trading
- Thread starter Arthur Deco
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Yes, Stosh, and some of them quite egregious. This is true: I cancelled my WSJ subscription. I found I was reading it strictly for entertainment. That's what ET is for, and it's free!
Actually, it seems to be mostly the ardent, flag-waving, Hard Right Republicans inside the US borders who seem to be far too patriotic to waste their time on spelling, grammar and other forms of "commie/fascist" subversion. They value their freedom far too much to be limited in their choice of expression. Heroes, all.Quote from TheROTrader:
Does anyone know what percent of members on here are outside the US??? Seems like a good amount of blokes that dont know how to spell.........
I do not, and I doubt many others, intend criticism of those who use English as a 2nd or 3rd language.....only of those of us who sat in English grammar classes year after year after year in grade school, junior high, and high school without paying attention. Here in Texas, I have to occasionally speak and write Spanish (Tex-Mex), and would certainly not want to be constantly corrected in doing so. Stosh
Of course.Quote from Stosh:
I do not, and I doubt many others, intend criticism of those who use English as a 2nd or 3rd language.....only of those of us who sat in English grammar classes year after year after year in grade school, junior high, and high school without paying attention...
Quote from Stosh:
I knew I would be setting someone up for such a response.....you're welcome (as opposed to your welcome). By the way, anyone else notice how often people on TV pronounce et cetera (etc.) as ek cetera? Stosh
Not so much that as the misspelling of it : "ect. " . I recently saw a classified ad from a tutor who claimed to have some fairly respectable academic credentials (advanced degrees, 4.0 GPA), and the person used "ect." several times in the ad.
I do hear them say "exspecially" on TV alot lately. And on the news crawls on cnbc and cnn the spelling/grammatical errors are rampant. Must be a low paying gig.
Text messaging standards are fast becoming the norm, it seems.
It's sussposably, dummy! Doncher kno nuttin'?
Quote from Arthur Deco:
As a language purist and somewhat of an historian, I am keenly aware these days of the age-old correlation between the deterioration of spelling standards and the decline of society. When the public at large no longer thinks it necessary to spell correctly, they seem no longer to care to accomplish anything else properly, either.
ET is society writ small. Often I wonder "How can an idiot who cannot even manage something as simple as spelling imagine that he can trade?" I know this is an elitist attitude, but I can't help it. I am old and set in my ways. The curse of a classical education wherein most of what you learn is ancient.
So I am going to vent my spleen in this thread. For starters, today, we have:
"explination".
One supposes this person says "Let me expline something to you."
People who are skilled in abstract thinking, do not tend to spell well, which is a concrete not abstract matter.
There are people who are good at both, but not many.
It is often the case the articulate can teach and write books, but can not trade and can not do math well.