Typos and Oh, how I wish it was better English in general

[Amy]

They're some thing's that great grate on my Home Counties nerves. Dear God, I do believe some people on the forum have not been to public school and Cambridge.

Please miss, does that correction meen you think's the rest is ok and I get's 9/10?

Jeezzz,. I had a flash back then and was about to count the cash before we commenced with your punishment.

Maybe you had better stay behind after class for some extra detention

[SteveH]

I knows that name - I bided a fan thingy for my Sky box several year's ago which was meant to stir things up a bit from ee.  It still werks  :-)  Heems real hot on spellin's and apostra-thingy's.

(Got a good site though  ;-)  )

  I know the name too... I think we share the same "Neck off the woods"...

 

Interesting posts but I confess that I'm more interested in what Crete can do to earn money and create jobs. I like the idea of harnessing sun and wind to produce electricity. But it will need a heck of an investment and sensible infrastructure.

For myself, I plan to install some panels on the roof to charge batteries and run an inverter. I can produce enough to run my computer system during the day and maybe some lights at night.

 I can not recommend this site & it's contributers highly enough. Navitron have always given me very good service (But telephone them, rather than use email)

 If you would like too, PM me & we can talk by telephone... I suspect you would not enjoy my dyslexic tapping's at the computer... Even if I might be above average intelligence...

 Steve...(Preveli, Crete)
 

 

[EccentricAnomaly]

What I've done a couple of times is send a personal message to the author asking them to correct the error.  These have been for cases where people have got units wrong and where leaving the error in place would likely contribute to further confusion on the subject.

I've had rather shaky net access for the last few weeks so haven't done this recently even when I've noticed problems.  E.g., use of "a/h" which is always wrong.  Maybe there's a unit with the symbol "a"; informally people use it for years (annum) but I'm not sure if that's actually officially defined anywhere, but that's not what's meant here.  The SI symbol for the amp is "A" (upper case, as are the first letters of symbols for all units named after people, though the names of all units start with a lower case letter).  In theory "A/h" could be correct for a rate of change of current but I've never seen it used appropriately.  The SI symbol for the unit of charge is "Ah" or, ideally, "A·h".

It's worth getting that right as writing "A/h" or "W/h" instead of "Ah" or "Wh" reinforces the misconception that amps and watts are, in a sense, amounts of something rather than rates of flow.
 
By the way, "it's" is short for "it is" or "it has" only; the possessive form of "it" is "its".  Using "it's" to indicate something belonging to "it" looks about as silly as using "hi's" for something belonging to "him".  Apostrophe-s is used for possession on nouns (amongst other things); "it" is not a noun, it's a pronoun.  "One" and "one's" puzzles me, though; is "one" not a pronoun?  "Your" and "you're" does follow the "it/it's" pattern.  E.g. "commenced with your punishment" is fine (though I'd drop the "with") but "Your doing good Billi" should be "You're" as it's short for "you are".

And, yes, it has been great to see Billi's improvements in his English.

[billi]

EA

You are right .

One should be corrected , when describing an apple and showing a pear,  in his attached picture  

And, yes, it has been great to see Billie's improvements in his English.

I  am a bit vain , when it comes to my name , or would Billie`s then right 

Billi  

[Amy]

"Your doing good Billi"

I have a very dry sense of humour, and when for instance someone starts talking about deafness, I immediately reply with 'Pardon'?

So in this thread context of grammar, Im bound to use bad grammar to push a point.
'Your doing good', instead of 'your doing well' is my humour.

On this occasion I wont mention the gender spelling difference between Billi and Billie

Doh, ....damn and blast, I just did. 

[Baz]

Not to mention the Old Bill ie the Police.

Look, the sun is out, almost. Get off that computer and go out and do some gardening.

[Amy]

Good idea, im gonna get dressed and go play with my batteries 

[welshboy]

I think, it is a great language school for me here , thanks all !

There would be no  3510 posts  from me , if i would have to think about each word twice


I know..., half of the posts    were cr@p 

Billi

As Dhaslam says the content is what matters most. I try to read all the posts from quite a number of forum members as they are stimulating . There we are I have just named two. I must have missed the cr@p ones Billi .

[Jonathan]

'Your You're doing good', instead of 'your you're doing well' is my humour.

[wookey]

SatCure - go ahead. I'm all for proper English (within reason). I'm afraid I don't believe dhaslam's claim that poor spelling correlates with high intelligence. Mostly it corresponds with laziness, youth and/or inability to spell properly. Clearly there are quite a few good engineers with terrible spelling, but some of us can do both :-)

I think Amy's right that people who care about this stuff are almost all over a certain age (not quite all, but a definite trend), and in the long term we're fighting a losing battle. But sometimes it matters and is confusing: units are a good example. The wrong affect/effect can be confusing too.

English as a second language is a good excuse, as is genuinely doing your best but still not being very good, so some sensitivity is required if going round pointing out errors. I note that Billi and Amy have both now posted almost exactly the same amount: 3512. It's fair to say that Billi's have much higher infomation content on average.

[EccentricAnomaly]

I  am a bit vain , when it comes to my name , or would Billie`s then right 

Oops, sorry, typo, fixed.

[billi]

 .... EA     no worries  ( picked that up from my Irish friends that worked with me )


 

[billi]

I note that Billi and Amy have both now posted almost exactly the same amount: 3512. It's fair to say that Billi's have much higher infomation content on average.

Wookey  , one of the most important /enjoyable  facts in  live is : The different  characters of Humans

I wouldn't  be here  , if it would be a Wookey Forum, or an Amy Forum , or a Billi Forum

No need to compare

Billi

[desperate]

Wotcha

Nuff said?

[Eleanor]

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