So does Chrome - sadly I am stuck with Internet Explorer at work and so must self check my work :(

Half of them give you US spelling though. I refuse to change my S's to Z's.

There's an add-on for FF though to give you Australian dictionary.

FF FTW. ZOMG FF4L MF. WTF LMGTFY. L8Z.

Isn't l33t a banable offense? :-k

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l33t isn't, but 1337 may be :P

The textbook for Heat Transfer and question sheets we are given for tutorials and quiz's are full of spelling mistakes, grammatical errors and usually are missing a key sentence or two.

I thought both were equally acceptable for proving how bare your gonads are?

Hmm, maybe I am more behind the times than I thought...

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THIS. Majorly. Sorry to pick on you Nico, but nearly EVERYBODY does it. It's supposed to be 'have'.

I wouldn't of noticed. I'll watch that in the future. Cheers.

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Okay so here is where I am confused...

"Do you like shooting down peoples dreams?"

OR

"Do you like shooting down people's dreams?" (Apparently this is the correct version on Google)

So do you use the apostrophe in two cases?

1. It is = It's
2. Ownership for a group or for a name (*but not for a single entity when not using a name)
Eg. - This is Kevin's ball.
- That is the people's right.

* Eg. - That is his ball. (Not he's).

Fucking English.

What do mean? Only the second one is correct.

I meant two cases where an "'s" occurs. As in "it's" and "people's" examples.

yes.

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Actually, you don't always have to use it for its, only when it's it is or something. But always use it for possession.

Yes I understand what it is. I also understand what it's. It is its own worst enemy. Isn't it?
Enough of it now, it's getting old and I'm getting over it!

Single spaces after a full stop... Although, I think these boards may auto correct it to 1 full stop.

'A' instead on 'an' before a word starting with a vowel... :twisted:

So you are a double spacer?

Screw you. I hate double spacers (especially those that save their double spacing for after full stops - like a full stop is a grenade or something).

I hope you have fun typing away with your little grenades...

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I'm a double spacer after my full stops. See... BUT, I don't consider the '...' to be a full stop. The '...' probably signifies I've got more to say on the matter, but couldn't be bothered on an internet forum... Unless someone wants to argue...

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You surely can't have a gripe against people who single space though? Surely single spacing in the norm and double spacing is the exception.

But TBH I can not be bothered arguing and so will leave it... :P

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Actually, the common practise is to single space the comma and double space the full stop... If you're reading a large document of sorts, then it does make it easier to distinguish a sentence...

I find that double spacing is more appropriate for certain fonts; the default for MS Word 07, Calibri, for one. Otherwise I just single space. Some academics I know demand double spacing (amongst other nit-picky things).

Who would have thought that this thread would have 8 pages of largely intelligent conversation?

Just grabbed something from AF that I thought would fit in here.

Actually I remember back in High School when we were introduced to Microsoft Works and some typing test program thing, the rule was single space for comma and double space after a full stop. Just doesn't seem to be used too often though. I remember in Works it was quite distinguishable and the double space was needed after a full stop, whereas somewhere like here, its not really needed.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/its

Well there ya go!!!

"its" is possessive of "it"

"it's" is "it is"

You learn something new every day.

Yeah, "it" is the exception to the rule of the apostrophe of possession.

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You're right, but don't you think it goes a little way to increase the quality of the boards/posts?

He is referring specifically to the double space after the stop... and I would agree that is isn't really needed. I never use a double space after a fullstop. I wasn't even aware that was the gramatically correct method. :lol:

I realise that, but I think if people take the time to do the little things (double space after the full stop etc), then I think it goes a long way to increasing the quality of the boards... Probably starting to get very, VERY anal though! :lol: