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#1410341 21-Oct-2015 09:43

jonathan18:
I'm a self-confessed pedant, and have been embarassed to glance over some of my posts and find some really obvious errors caused by auto-corrections... I imagine this is defiantly the same cause of the mistake you point out.

There's a couple for yer

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#1410349 21-Oct-2015 09:53

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jonathan18:
I'm a self-confessed pedant, and have been embarassed to glance over some of my posts and find some really obvious errors caused by auto-corrections... I imagine this is defiantly the same cause of the mistake you point out.

There's a couple for yer

Oh, that's quite brilliant, especially as that definitely versus defiantly autocorrect problem is one of my favourites... It's all rather EMBARRASSING!

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#1410411 21-Oct-2015 11:18

That is why I politely ask people to proofread what they write, especially those who are paid to write in newspapers and magazines.

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#1410468 21-Oct-2015 12:51

Rikkitic: That is why I politely ask people to proofread what they write, especially those who are paid to write in newspapers and magazines.

Unfortunately you really need someone else to proofread your stuff - unless you put it down and come back to it a (long) while later it's very easy to read what you expected to write, rather than what you actually wrote.

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#1410477 21-Oct-2015 13:02

True, and that is why they should bring back sub-editors.

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#1410520 21-Oct-2015 14:58

Rikkitic: True, and that is why they should bring back sub-editors.

Agree - and if you want to see some truly awful writing that really needed a proofreader/editor's eye (and red pencil) before going to print, try reading the Ford Focus review in the latest M2 magazine.

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#1410584 21-Oct-2015 16:58

Is it just me, or has this thread gone completely off topic here (or there...)?

But following on from some of these comments, I was watching player interviews from the rugby match (think it was Julian Savea?), the expression "you know" or "y'know" seemed to prop up a lot.. The whole time I was thinking to myself - no, I don't know actually...

Also, "Yea definitely" is a favourite. I love that segment they have on the Crowd Goes Wild. But I guess it's related to poor questioning from the Journos...

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#1410622 21-Oct-2015 18:08

Actually the topic it started with was something else but it doesn't really matter. Writing 'prop' when you mean 'pop' seems to fit well, though.

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#1410629 21-Oct-2015 18:29

Rikkitic: Actually the topic it started with was something else but it doesn't really matter. Writing 'prop' when you mean 'pop' seems to fit well, though.

wow! so you know how I think? That's kinda creepy.. so what am I thinking now...?

Personally I thought it was a clever play on words... Guess I should have pointed that out more clearly. My apologies.

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#1410642 21-Oct-2015 18:55

I don't find a lot of these too bothersome.

What does grind my gears though is "to be pacific" and "he aksed me".

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#1411152 22-Oct-2015 14:26

I hate when people say "addicting" instead of "addictive". "Addicting" isn't a real word is it?

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#1411177 22-Oct-2015 15:05

Paul1977: I hate when people say "addicting" instead of "addictive". "Addicting" isn't a real word is it?

Seems that it is. Interesting:

http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/addictive-versus-addicting

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#1414364 27-Oct-2015 09:06

eracode:
Paul1977: I hate when people say "addicting" instead of "addictive". "Addicting" isn't a real word is it?

Seems that it is. Interesting:

http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/addictive-versus-addicting

Hmmm... well.... I still hate it!

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#1414403 27-Oct-2015 10:00

NZtechfreak: "he aksed me".

It's hard to even say that wrong, if you know how it should be pronounced. Like, you know, its a weird sound that's actually quite hard to make in practice, like it literally grinds a hole in your throat doin it.

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#1414413 27-Oct-2015 10:10

Kids nowadays loves saying "Me and my friends" etc.

I was always taught to put myself last when referring to myself in a sentence. Ie, "My friends and I".

Nowadays I'm really not sure which one is grammatically correct. It was more a case of just common courtesy.

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