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A few members of this site need to take note of this

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Simon1 7 Oct 4
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i red it already!

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only the british. lol

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There is only one rule when it comes to the English language:

They're our know rules.

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I wood never dew that...well, maybe one or too times

Eye sea what ewe did their.

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The article says "loose" does not phonetically sound like "lose" but neither does "lose". It would have to be spelled LOOZE.

godef Level 7 Oct 4, 2018
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I guess you could call it a loose lose situation.

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The one that really pisses me off is the fake news chant, Alternative facts, The idea of demeaning scholars and thinkers by stating their are alternative facts that debate a certified conclusion. This just drives me crazy, the hypocrisy of it all.

EMC2 Level 8 Oct 4, 2018
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I post and comment on my phone and my fingers are too big for the little letters on the thing, so I make all kinds of spelling mistakes.

This

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Their crazy.

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Damn... You people are STRICT!

But I DID learn something.... Doctors have discovered that duct tape cures calluses

And I can save with Geico

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Shit a brick, IF the Death Penalty was instigated for that then Americans would extinct long before they can finish killing each other off with their guns.
The American understanding of the ENGLISH language, Grammar, Pronunciation and Spelling in particular is WOEFUL to say the least.

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I may loose my shit over that article.

See? That works.

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If only.....

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I think I'm inlove with you.???

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Pretty sure this is satire, but in today's climate, it can be difficult to be certain. Interesting the writer selected this one peccadillo, when the world is full of "to/two/too," "their/they're" and all other sorts of language irritants.

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People that pronounce 'ask' as 'axe' drive me nuts, too, but I don't think they should die for it.

Yes, they SHOULD die for pronouncing "ask" as "axe". 🙂

Actually "Axe" is over twelve centuries old and was indeed the way it was pronounced. The very early bible states ‘Axe and it shall be given.’ The American slaves we taught language from their owners who also used the word Axe.

@EMC2 The Stephen Frye video at the end is interesting, too. I can rationalize it, but it still drives me nuts to hear it.
[npr.org]

I wrote a long comment about ‘aks’ a good while back. It isn’t standard English, but only for about 150 years. It is a perfectly correct dialect variation, and it was pretty much a toss up as to which became standard. As it turned out, the OED lexicographers had a preference for ‘ask’, followed and preceded by most, but not all, other English dictionaries. In a large number of English, Irish, Scots, and Welsh localities, ‘aks’ is still the go to version. And most Brits of Caribbean descent, like most African Americans, prefer ‘aks’. It’s in their linguistic culture, having been learnt from their white, Brtish (all) slave-masters, who also used that form.
You say ‘hood’, I say ‘bonnet’; you say ‘trunk’, I say ‘boot’. It doesn't matter.
Language is always in a state of flux. One language shared in many different places will develop differently in each of those places compared to the way it develops in the others. Standardisation works to ensure people will understand each other, but only really works in formal or educational contexts. It takes a long time to filter down to the daily speech that people will use where they live or come from. The only rules that tend to remain consistent for a long time are those concerning grammar, not vocabulary. Poor or unusual grammar can completely alter the meaning of the wriiten word, and less often the spoken word, at least in the context of English.

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A little much, don't you think? While it can be annoying I think most people can figure it out.

"You know what they mean.", is no excuse. Ignorance (not knowing)( can be forgiven, stupidity (not caring and/or making excuses for ignorance), is not forgivable. Making the excuse, "You know what they mean.", makes as much sense as, 2 + 2 = 5...because you know what they meant.

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