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No.
Not now that 'typo' is an accepted term in the English language./editorial boringness
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Pachey ,
Tue 27 Sep 2005, 12:52,
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OK, so when does a term bocome officially accepted . . .
/boring question
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Sir Aunty Grampa Dave the Hat - enjoying a post-meridian muncheon - Ta! Cannaoogim!? ,
Tue 27 Sep 2005, 12:53,
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when the dictionary people have recieved enough bribes
:)
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bilbobarneybobs I'll be 14 in b3ta years soon. ,
Tue 27 Sep 2005, 12:54,
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whien?
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0800221155 Coldseal windows ,
Tue 27 Sep 2005, 12:56,
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ooh bloody hell
I always get that one wrong
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bilbobarneybobs I'll be 14 in b3ta years soon. ,
Tue 27 Sep 2005, 13:01,
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never mind . . .
the point is, it doesn't really matter, but we get a leetle bit of smug satisfaction pointing it out to others . . .
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Sir Aunty Grampa Dave the Hat - enjoying a post-meridian muncheon - Ta! Cannaoogim!? ,
Tue 27 Sep 2005, 13:04,
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..except after c is a fucking stupid rule,
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tomsk ,
Tue 27 Sep 2005, 13:05,
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i before e
okay then... reciept deciet riegn wieght hieght blah blah blah!!!
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RiverChelt ,
Tue 27 Sep 2005, 13:05,
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whoops...
...forgets rest of rule, excpet after c, still, at least two of these were valid!
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RiverChelt ,
Tue 27 Sep 2005, 13:07,
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But it's wrong half the time, and deeply misleading.
Learning shitty pedantic rules is no substitute for actually learning how to spell words. Not that it matters that much anyway nowadays. The only reason we have such crazy spelling in English is to stop Johnny Foreigner (oh look, there's another one) from learning it in a couple of months.
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tomsk ,
Tue 27 Sep 2005, 13:11,
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Yes...
...particular credit should be given to the old gent who invented so many ways to pronounce the letters "...ough". That'll confuse those darn foreign types!
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RiverChelt ,
Tue 27 Sep 2005, 13:13,
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couple of months
PPfft..3 weeks is more than enough
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olivier8 (euroloon) ,
Tue 27 Sep 2005, 13:45,
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When it's in the dictionary
But it doesn't matter if it's unofficial if everyone knows what you mean.
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Pachey ,
Tue 27 Sep 2005, 12:58,
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but the term "typographical error"
is too. So it goes either way, really.
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0800221155 Coldseal windows ,
Tue 27 Sep 2005, 12:55,
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