RE: NOW : Enough!, WAS : RE: Re: (Mark ?)

["Kenneth Watt" <kennethwatt@xxxxxxx>]

Jesus H people!

A few grammatical errors and you're against a wall facing tall guys with
guns or rifles, whatever is correct :-)

Look IMO, misuses of the language do irritate some people, it's kinda
infectious, but slang, text message abbreviations and misuses of Queen's
English is here to stay like it or not. Personally, at times I pick up
on it as well, but I do not feel the urge to correct someone, if the
pick it up from either my postings or another's then so be it, but I am
here to learn about things other than English Language. However in the
interest of fair-play on all sides tolerance cuts both ways and that
means we all say sorry regardless, or we just let it be and give it a
rest.

This group is extremely tolerant of any question or subject raised on
it, I like it that way thank you very much, I do not really want to sift
through countless mails trying to figure out who used a comma
incorrectly or said the wrong thing to the wrong person at the wrong
time.

My vote's with Phil on this one, please can we all play nice and just
deal with it?

If someone really wants upset by misuses of the language I can get some
of the job application letters that we get, that would really make you
think about the system of education we have let alone the use of the
language! :-)

Take it in good humour and not too seriously folks, it ain't getting
upset about!

As for the Yanks, well they know they're all wrong anyway...honest, they
do, they kicked the Brits out then went about pissing us off as much and
as often as possible and can we blame them?

Anyway if it weren't 4 spellchecker and using word to correct my errors
I'd have been on the receiving end a long, long time ago!

K.

-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Harris [mailto:phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 06 August 2001 08:34
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: NOW : Enough!, WAS : RE: [ukha_d] Re: (Mark ?)


Come on children, lets all play nicely together! If you don't then I'll
have
to smack your bottoms and put you all to bed without tea and crumpets.

Everyone's entitled to their opinions. Tim likes to see proper use of
English in mails and I must admit that in a business email so do I. I
have
seen far too many emails bouncing around at work (that may or may not
end up
forwarded to clients) that have bad spelling or bad grammar (usually
both)
and that annoys me - it looks bad on the company and on the employees.

****HOWEVER****

This is a (generally) friendly little newsgroup and - like any
relationship - I'm sure we all have habits that wind each other up a
bit. I
know that I certainly do tend to drop my checking of messages before I
send
them out knowing that as long as you all understand the meaning of what
I
want to say then that's enough. We have many different people here with
many
different personalities and the mix works well providing what at times
becomes stimulating and productive discussion but this mix can also
provide
opportunities for locking horns too.

I've been on the receiving end of criticism from Tim over the years - I
think we first "bumped" into each other on one of the home cinema
newsgroups
about four years ago and I seem to remember that one of our early
"discussions" became quite aggressive - and I now remember that
Tim has
strong opinions and is willing to back them up quite vocally. This is
not a
bad thing and I hope that if anyone here wanted to take a pot shot at me
then I'd try to stop it becoming a flame war even though the criticism
would
hurt.

Now, please, let's leave it alone. Tim, please accept that people don't
necessarily want to use "proper" English grammar and spelling
here
(everyone, you should try deciphering some of the messages on the E10
section of Phil Askey's digital photography board!) as it's an informal
forum, and to everyone else, can we all go back to being pals? (Before
we
start trawling through the messages archives flagging up each others
previous bad spellings and dodgy grammatical constructions when the
whole
point of this group is supposed to be discussing Home Automation!)

I'd really hate to see this become even more of a pissing contest than
it
already is and even more so I ate to see friends fighting for no reason
...

Cheers

Phil





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