GrumbleDook Posted July 8, 2007 Posted July 8, 2007 your you're sorry... pet peeve... Pet peeve returned ... Actually, Callum is correct. "Your" is possesive derived from Middle English Eower : you (as in belonging to or in relation to). "You're" is a contraction of "you are", which is not the case in Callum's original sentence. Remember when pulling apart the posts of others you don't get accuse of pendantry (a variation of pedantry that results in people want to string something around your neck ... usually a noose or a garroting wire!) Now that I have defended Callum ... Oi! Callum! ... remember your flamin' capitals and apostrophes of omission! No-one can say I am anything other than fair when it comes to pedantry (or pendantry!)
SimpleSi Posted July 8, 2007 Posted July 8, 2007 Can;t we just have it as a condition of using this forum that spulling mistooks and bad use of ; when it should have been a , are ignored regards Simon
Andrew_C Posted July 8, 2007 Posted July 8, 2007 Yeah we need an intergreated speel chucker Desperately. For a professional site, for professional people, written by (largely) professional people, the level of written English would be laughable if it weren't so depressing.
Joedetic Posted July 8, 2007 Posted July 8, 2007 s/professional people/geeks & engineers and then you get the reason for the spelling and grammar!
webman Posted July 8, 2007 Posted July 8, 2007 "I know your game, I'm on to you! This is a professional site for professional people, we'll have no trouble here!!"
kearton Posted July 8, 2007 Posted July 8, 2007 "You're" is a contraction of "you are", which is not the case in Callum's original sentence. Excuse me? 'Your' something means it belongs to you. "If your looking for some police..." is NOT correct. "If you are looking for some police..." is correct, and and IS the case in his sentence.
Joedetic Posted July 8, 2007 Posted July 8, 2007 I was taught the way kearton is saying it is. I have Bs in GCSE English Lang and Lit but that's about the extent of my skills.
Robunta Posted July 8, 2007 Author Posted July 8, 2007 I finally found the "Education UK island" you can get to it ('teleport') through this link: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Education%20UK/229/38/21/ Not that much there yet to be honest but there is a 'sandbox' to practice in. Might be a good location for a meet up? I'm sure there is questionable use of punctuation and grammer in this post but never mind! Probably some spelling mistakes too
kearton Posted July 8, 2007 Posted July 8, 2007 Apologies for going off-topic in your thread, Robunta!
kearton Posted July 8, 2007 Posted July 8, 2007 Just noticed. Gumbledook and I are *both* guilty of lack of clarity. Callum used 'your' twice in his original post. I was referring to the former, and it's obvious now that GD was referring to the latter. NORMAL TRANSMISSION RESUMED....
SimpleSi Posted July 8, 2007 Posted July 8, 2007 FFS - the lads dyslexic - and so are a lot of other posters here - so stop the pointing out of poor grammar, punctuation and spelling in posts !!!!!!! How many more incidents of insulting people's disablities do we need to before we all stop doing it. regards Simon
Joedetic Posted July 8, 2007 Posted July 8, 2007 ANYWAY...back to the second life thing. There was a speaker at LUG Radio Live who words at second life. His first words of his talk were "no jokes about flying penises please." (how's that for a spectacular attempt at getting the topic back on track)
SimpleSi Posted July 8, 2007 Posted July 8, 2007 As you said -back to topic :-) Well, I just went to the Education UK place - and decided to talk pluck up the courage to talk to someone for the 1st time - they said they were French and tried to sell me some clothes regards Simon
ChrisH Posted July 8, 2007 Posted July 8, 2007 As you said -back to topic :-) Well, I just went to the Education UK place - and decided to talk pluck up the courage to talk to someone for the 1st time - they said they were French and tried to sell me some clothes regards Simon that could only happen to you Simon
GrumbleDook Posted July 8, 2007 Posted July 8, 2007 As you said -back to topic :-) Well, I just went to the Education UK place - and decided to talk pluck up the courage to talk to someone for the 1st time - they said they were French and tried to sell me some clothes regards Simon oooh ... did you manage to get any decent stuff? I am looking into the land grants at the moment ... but that might be a summer project for a few members who think they may be on there fairly often.
lindylou Posted July 9, 2007 Posted July 9, 2007 Ahem - to get back to the education (I know, miserable spoilsport that I am ) I found some blogs about the NAACE use of Second Life. Gareth Davies' blog (Vice Chair of NAACE Exec) http://advisorymatters.naaceblogs.org/ and a blog about what they are doing in SL http://2ndlife07.naaceblogs.org/ None of my computer kit is up to handling SL, but I'd love to try it.
Robunta Posted July 9, 2007 Author Posted July 9, 2007 Apologies for going off-topic in your thread, Robunta! no problem - All is fair game in forum conversations I say!
StewartKnight Posted July 9, 2007 Posted July 9, 2007 am I the only one who thinks second life is for people who need to get a first life?
Gerry Posted July 9, 2007 Posted July 9, 2007 I read an article in New Scientist recently about 2nd Life. It said that people with autism prefer to talk to others through their keyboards as the majority of them had problems deciphering facial expressions. Apparently some find speaking face to face quite confusing and scary. I think the article also said that one of the 2nd Life founders had autism.
Jake Posted July 11, 2007 Posted July 11, 2007 Apparently some find speaking face to face quite confusing and scary. I have a similar troubles, which is why when talking with women I tend to always keep my eyes on other areas of their bodies. Thats my excuse, and I'm sticking to it !
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