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Post 1

Grendel

Dear Poinds of View. Why oh why oh why oh why.

Why do people insist upon repeating the same stupid spelling mistakes over and over again? I refer, of course, to the incessant misuse of 'your' (third person possessive pronoun) and 'you're' (concatenation of 'you are' - hence a inflected verbal phrase). Viz - 'I heard that your going to the pub tonight', or 'You're cat just peed on my shoes'. It's ungrammatical and ugly - anyone with a brain can intuitively see the difference - so why do people insist on being so sloppy? Or are the unwashed masses just growing increasingly more illiterate? I dispair.



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Post 2

Pea

My favourite bugbear is when people insist on putting an apostrophe at the end of any word which ends in "s" e.g. Pizza's and Burger's
AARRRRGGGGHHHHH..... *pant* *pant* smiley - sadface


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Pea

(BTW - I don't want to split hairs, but you spelt "despair" wrongly)
~ picks up skirt hem and runs in a terrified, scuttling rodent-like way from the building ~ Please don't kill me.... smiley - winkeye


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Grendel

I know - it was deliberate. smiley - smiley


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Post 5

Pea

~ hangs head in shame ~
oohhh. Sowwy. smiley - sadface


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Post 6

Grendel

That's okay - easy enough to not get the irony.


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