I think we have bigger fish to fry in terms of racism/negativity/sexism before we start getting on people's backs about double spacing.

Although I do agree that even small things like using capital letters, correct spelling and grammar seems to push people towards being less troll-like.

Edited by anth: 4/8/2010 08:25:57 PM

Mate, of course; that just goes without saying...

But, it is called the Grammar Nazi thread. Setup the Anti-Racism/Negativity/Sexism thread and I'll be all for it...

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I think that would start a war!

Ps. The Grammar Nazi is kinda racist... Oops.

A racism thread? Oh dear...that's a disaster waiting to happen.

Anti! Anti-racism... Anti is the key word there...

Do you remember when I started the Car Park?

That was a ticking time bomb.

Nothing wrong with the term "Grammar Nazi". It probably stemmed from the Soup Nazi.

No double space for you!!!

... Fact!

Really? FMD. I was totally confused, though it was the other way around :oops:

Nazi is not a racist term, it is a political ideology term. Of course it has negative connotations due to the whole purity of race, pastoral utopian ideal that it was sprung from. Same as Communism.

As for the double space thing, I only use it in essays - everywhere else it is common practise to use a single space.

Have you ever written the same word down so many times that it doesn't look like a real word anymore and you think you are spelling it wrong?

Same thing with saying the same word over and over again and before long you start thinking that the word sounds really weird and shouldn't be a word?

Eg. Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four Four.

Or am I just a weirdo?

:lol: Nah, pretty sure that happens to everybody. I experience it more with spoken words than with written words though.

Yes, I get that sometimes. But its usually bigger words than Four :lol: :lol:

Yep that's happened to me a few time. It's a weird feeling, cause every time you write it, you wonder if you're spelling it wrong.

But ditto Erebus - it's usually longer words then 'Four'

I had that happen to me when I was trying to write specificity today... say that 10 times quick.

Something just as bad.. Im decent with spelling but some words get me. I know the correct spelling and the incorrect spelling. I can recall the times I was picked up on a mistake and the teachers who picked it up but I cant remember which one is the spelled the correct way! Makes me rage. Eg. seperate and separate. Opportunity and Oppurtunity. Theres some processing fault in my mind with just those words and I get confused writing them.


What pisses me off sometimes is when people have difficulty pronouncing words that arent even difficult to pronounce.

now i'm wondering if you've spelt 'specificity' correctly myself :lol:

i hate it when people say. 'youse' as in ...how youse all doing.

especially when it's in one of those horrible bogan voices

those bogan voices are annoying...

massive issue of mine. at work, i have a big habit of only prescribing by generic names (eg, paracetamol) rather than trade names (panadol). it's a principle things more than anything else. a deeply held mistrust of the pharmaceutical industry.

what shits me most, however, is when nurses come up to me and tell me i've written the wrong thing because they don't recognise generics. epic failure of the system when nurses and trying to get me to rechart meds because they've never heard of their 'real' names.

the oxford comma turns me on a bit.

11 days later and it hits me :lol:.

RIDICULOUS. So often I see it spelt 'rediculous' and it REALLY annoys me.

I was close, I thought it was 'de' or 'di'. It's 're' or 'ri' - followed by a D :lol:


Edited by imnofreak: 7/8/2010 02:59:14 AM

Thats another one - effect/affect. I never know which one to use.

I always have trouble with separate... I go to write seperate instead.

Nah, I have the same thing. It's because the repetition makes your mind start breaking down the word into individual syllables and sounds, obviously the sounds themselves and the phoenetics are nonsensical once you break it down enough. You actually use this in audio engineering to break down a sound into components, it's either very useful or very annoying.

affect is for action, effect is for reaction.

Fuck I hate the fox sports news writers. Every second story starts with "meantime.." on both channel 513 and on the FSNactive news list thingy. Its "In the meantime.." or "Meanwhile.." not just "Meantime..". It doesnt make sense you dumb cunts and the fact that it comes up every day pisses me off.

Awesome, that helps.

Whoever writes their segues needs to be shot. They're bloody terrible.

FINALLY! It was getting rediculous! :lol:

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