[Soundy]

http://www2.moltenimage.com/photos/revscene/misspelling.png

[carisear]

*shrug* there's always a lupoll to get around those spelling rules.

[bloodmack]

Its almost like re-learning english for some of the folks here lol.

Side note: when did we have a "like" button for RS posts for FB o.o.

[seakrait]

higher-res here:

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/misspelling

[tr0ubl3s0m3x]

The mistake of your and you're really gets to me. LOL Also when people say something like "i couldn't of done it without u." It's "I couldn't have"!
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[Soundy]

higher-res here:

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/misspelling

Or you can just click on the picture above, since RS resizes it for display...

[seakrait]

Or you can just click on the picture above, since RS resizes it for display...

i did but even after that, the smallest fonts were all blurry.

or maybe i'm just old. :(

[Jobo]

Its annoying when some people say "Mines" instead of "Mine"
Jesus.

[Frank D'Angelo]

For all intensive purposes, if your able to understand what there trying to say than its all good.

[b0unce. [?]]

irritates the shit out of me when 3 of my buddies still use the word "iono"

[CP.AR]

do people really get these words wrong?

[Oleophobic]

Can't believe people write "loose" when they mean "lose". :facepalm:
I see this on RS a lot lol.


Here's one:
anticlimactic vs the incorrect anticlimatic

that extra c

it's the stanley cup playoffs and that word gets thrown around a lot on CDC and HFboards so I thought I'd mention it.

[Nightwalker]

Affect / effect is the thing I simply cannot get.

[ilvtofu]

One that drives me nuts is "could of"/"should of"

[urrh]

I see people using "anyways" a lot; that's not a word. Right up there with "gooder."

[TOPEC]

Affect / effect is the thing I simply cannot get.

Effect = End result of an action

[twitchyzero]

One that drives me nuts is "could of"/"should of"

yeah this one is quite annoying

I've noticed people seem to like to spell 'rediculous'

and some time during high school I started spelling weird incorrectly, I guess it's that stupid 'I before E except after C' Rule that they drilled into our heads when we were younger.

Awesome thread. To this day, I still have trouble knowing how to use semicolon, dash and hyphen properly because I have been taught so many different rules from different teachers.

[asahai69]

*shrug* there's always a lupoll to get around those spelling rules.

i was wAndering what those lupoll's were

[Sandman]

alot.

[StylinRed]

One that drives me nuts is "could of"/"should of"

i think when people say that they simply mean could've should've

but i suppose people became confused when hearing that and thought could 'of' is appropriate



i was wAndering what those lupoll's were

for some raisin I always think of nipples when i see lupoll :blush:

[Meowjin]

smth or whatever something is. I fucking hate that.

[Ronin]

I used to make an active effort to spell correctly and use proper punctuation...but now it's pretty much automatic. Even when I'm on my phone. Spelling the right way takes no longer than using all the common shortcuts people (especially Asians...) use all the damned time in texts.

[CorneringArtist]

Its annoying when some people say "Mines" instead of "Mine"
Jesus.

I went to both elementary and high school with a kid that did this. He still does it after all these years, even though he was ESL.

[TheKingdom2000]

Its annoying when some people say "Mines" instead of "Mine"
Jesus.

I'm pretty sure that is solely an asian thing. My gf says it all the time. Pisses me off. It makes her sound so stupid.

For all intensive purposes, if your able to understand what there trying to say than its all good.

Yes, most people will know what you're talking about. However, if you're not an immigrant or English isn't your first/primary language, you should not be making these simple mistakes.

Personally, it makes you look pretty dumb. I know I felt hella stupid because I thought cleant was a word. I used to say all the time, "I already cleant my room". My parents used to say cleant ALL the time. So that's where I learned it and I used it once with my friends and they all look at me like I was a retard.

[RRxtar]

I fucking hate seen/saw. Its my personal mission to correct everyone who uses them incorrectly in real life.

[flagella]

should of and should've lol

[metal]

"minus well"

[Culture_Vulture]

if RS had a penny for every time somebody misspells "definitely" on RS, !SG would be fucking rich

[Gumby]

I can't thank the OP enough. :thumbsup:

For all intensive purposes, if your able to understand what there trying to say than its all good.
Intents and purposes... :p

Edit: Oops I just red the rest of his post and its all done on porpoise.

[Jegz]

Spelling effects RS that bad eh :troll:

[Ronin]

I can't thank the OP enough. :thumbsup:


Intents and purposes... :p

You don't know what he meant! He could've been saying that those purposes were intense. :troll:

[woob]

For all intensive porpoises

[Ronin]

For all intensive porpoises

You from New Joysie?

[kazuki]

wonder/wander

http://www.revscene.net/forums/its-wa-not-t260269.html?t=260269&highlight=wander

[vanciity]

They're/their/there are by far the worst case of misspelling in my experience haha

[woob]

You from New Joysie?

Actually, yes haha.

[CorneringArtist]

"All of the sudden" :fullofwin:

Mixing of their/they're/there bugs the hell out of me too.

[Vansterdam]

good stuff :fullofwin:

[hk20000]

Its annoying when some people say "Mines" instead of "Mine"
Jesus.
Those people are true fans of the Mine(')s R34 GTR

http://memimage.cardomain.com/ride_images/2/3401/4181/21002090092_large.jpg

[CRS]

yeah this one is quite annoying

I've noticed people seem to like to spell 'rediculous'

and some time during high school I started spelling weird incorrectly, I guess it's that stupid 'I before E except after C' Rule that they drilled into our heads when we were younger.

Awesome thread. To this day, I still have trouble knowing how to use semicolon, dash and hyphen properly because I have been taught so many different rules from different teachers.

I think people often misspell it because they try to sound it out with the all the arbitrary rules of the english language. Because ridiculous isn't a word that some people use all the time, they simply try to associate with another word that sounds like it. Take for example, REPLY, it isn't RIPLY so when they think RIDICULOUS, they spell it REDICULOUS.

Ridiculous, isn't it?

[woob]

Actually.. The "I" before "E" except after "C" thing is for words where the letters are next to each other rather than spaced apart.

No shit.

I think twitchyzero was talking about the word "weird" and not "ridiculous."

[CRS]

No shit.

I think twitchyzero was talking about the word "weird" and not "ridiculous."

:lol

You're right. I totally misread that.

[mmmmmic]

neceesary
nessesary
neccesary
necessary

[Soundy]

yeah this one is quite annoying

I've noticed people seem to like to spell 'rediculous'

and some time during high school I started spelling weird incorrectly, I guess it's that stupid 'I before E except after C' Rule that they drilled into our heads when we were younger.

Awesome thread. To this day, I still have trouble knowing how to use semicolon, dash and hyphen properly because I have been taught so many different rules from different teachers.

English is one of the hardest languages to learn, because it's a language built on exceptions, whereas almost all others are built on rules, and while some of the rules can be complex or seem odd to us, they do tend to be fairly strict. English, on the other hand, tends to be very accepting of "evolution".

...or to invoke a famous internet quote: "The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."

[The7even]

What pisses me off is that people fucking tolerate the god damn red lines underneath their words. Every single fucking forum and/or social networking site has a spellchecker, if you misspell a word, it will be marked with that annoying and embarrassing red line. I don't understand how some people can be fucking lazy enough to be able to tolerate that shit.

It's also there for a reason. Use it to your advantage. I mean, I just misspelled 'embarrassing' once but I went back and corrected my mistake. Now my fucking paragraph looks much nicer and I don't sound like a complete fucking moron... not counting all the vulgarity, of course.

English is not my first, nor even my second language.. it's my third. It's odd that my vocabulary is of higher quality than some native english speaking a-holes.

The thing that bothers me the most is the misspelling of 'Your' and 'You're', though.
I also hate it when the first letter of a sentence is not capitalized.

...

"Your a idiot"

Oh yeah? I hope you fucking get cancer!

Sorry, I have rage issues.

[Oleophobic]

English is one of the hardest languages to learn, because it's a language built on exceptions, whereas almost all others are built on rules, and while some of the rules can be complex or seem odd to us, they do tend to be fairly strict. English, on the other hand, tends to be very accepting of "evolution".


...or to invoke a famous internet quote: "The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."


Yeah the amount of exceptions is amazing. Bet most people can't read the following without making a bunch of mistakes.

It has been said that English is one of the hardest languages to learn to speak and spell correctly. Read this poem by Dr. Gerald Nolst Trenite (1870-1946), and you might begin to see what a strange collection of rules and exceptions (mostly exceptions) is the English language! You'll certainly wonder how you ever learned to read!

The Chaos

Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.

Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it's written.)
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque and ague.
But be careful how you speak:
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;
Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.

Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,
Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,
Exiles, similes, and reviles;
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war and far;
One, anemone, Balmoral,
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;
Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
Scene, Melpomene, mankind.

Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would.
Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward.
And your pronunciation's OK
When you correctly say croquet,
Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live.

Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
And enamour rhyme with hammer.
River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
Doll and roll and some and home.
Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangour.
Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,
Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,
Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
And then singer, ginger, linger,
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.

Query does not rhyme with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury.
Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.
Though the differences seem little,
We say actual but victual.
Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
Feoffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Mint, pint, senate and sedate;
Dull, bull, and George ate late.
Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific.

Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
Mark the differences, moreover,
Between mover, cover, clover;
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice;
Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label.

Petal, panel, and canal,
Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
Senator, spectator, mayor.
Tour, but our and succour, four.
Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
Sea, idea, Korea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.
Doctrine, turpentine, marine.

Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion and battalion.
Sally with ally, yea, ye,
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.
Say aver, but ever, fever,
Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.
Heron, granary, canary.
Crevice and device and aerie.
Face, but preface, not efface.
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.
Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.
Ear, but earn and wear and tear
Do not rhyme with here but ere.
Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.

Pronunciation -- think of Psyche!
Is a paling stout and spikey?
Won't it make you lose your wits,
Writing groats and saying grits?
It's a dark abyss or tunnel:
Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,
Islington and Isle of Wight,
Housewife, verdict and indict.

Finally, which rhymes with enough --
Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
Hiccough has the sound of cup.
My advice is to give up!!!

Dr. Gerald Nolst Trenite (1870-1946),
a Dutch observer of English.


http://www.worsleyschool.net/socialarts/strange/strange.html

[turb0triX]

Ed Rondthaler on English spelling on Vimeo

[!LittleDragon]

Mine or mind as well... instead of may or might as well

[AzNightmare]

They should add disappoint, desert/dessert believe, retrieve to that list.

The mistake of your and you're really gets to me. LOL Also when people say something like "i couldn't of done it without u." It's "I couldn't have"!
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One that drives me nuts is "could of"/"should of"

I actually used to make this mistake, but Revscene members corrected me, and I eventually started writing "could have" instead of "could of".

I improved my English by using Revscene! :fullofwin: (and I think this was during a fightclub thread too)

[Amuse]

quite and quiet

[Teh Doucher]

I blame that damned rap music.

[KuSouL]

i don't have a problem with any of those ... but one huge problem I STILL have is when I spell counselor, for some reason it always looks wrong to me

[hotjoint]

that list is so true :lol

[InvisibleSoul]

Its annoying when some people say "Mines" instead of "Mine"
Jesus.

I'm pretty sure that is solely an asian thing. My gf says it all the time. Pisses me off. It makes her sound so stupid.
LoL, my wife does this too.

[Jsunu]

it's and its

[Spidey]

my biggest peeve is your and you're, and rediculous. I don't care if certain words are not that common, but those are words that are used common enough that you should know how to spell it. If you're unsure, then look it up. I always dictionary.com words I am unsure about. And for fuck sakes, everything has spell checker these days!

[Spidey]

*shrug* there's always a lupoll to get around those spelling rules.

wow really? please define lupoll.

[EFifty3]

For all intensive purposes, if your able to understand what there trying to say than its all good.

For all intents and purposes....?

[Soundy]

wow really? please define lupoll.

I wAnder why you don't know this is the RS spelling of "loophole"?

[MG1]

For all intents and purposes....?

He's doing it on purpose, along with the four other errors in the same sentence - crafty fellow that he is.

[woob]

For all intents and purposes....?

whooooooooooosh

He made five errors in that one sentence. I'm pretty sure it was a joke.

EDIT: crap beaten by 6 minutes? I gotta stop opening so many tabs at once and leaving them....

[Spidey]

whooooooooooosh

He made five errors in that one sentence. I'm pretty sure it was a joke.

EDIT: crap beaten by 6 minutes? I gotta stop opening so many tabs at once and leaving them....

ya close, "pornhub", "youporn", "jizzhut", and "tube8

[woob]

^ If that was the case, I would only have been beaten by 2 minutes xD

[EFifty3]

He's doing it on purpose, along with the four other errors in the same sentence - crafty fellow that he is.


ahhhh...lol I get it...I guess I'm so used to assuming that everyone uses correct grammar/spelling that I overlook obvious mistakes..

crafty indeed:bigthumb:

[fliptuner]

thou /= though

It's a big one for me cause they're totally unrelated and only done by people who completely fail at English. Hell, even if someone used "tho" it wouldn't be that annoying.

[dai3yuen]

I hate when people say 'bumber'! WTF is a bumber???

[Gumby]

I hate when people say 'bumber'! WTF is a bumber???
And what about labtop?

[TRDood]

gipped/jipped

I still don't know.

[MWR34]

my biggest peeve is your and you're, and rediculous. I don't care if certain words are not that common, but those are words that are used common enough that you should know how to spell it. If you're unsure, then look it up. I always dictionary.com words I am unsure about. And for fuck sakes, everything has spell checker these days!

i know the feeling..

http://www.dairyqueen.com/images/logo_sgir.gif

[InvisibleSoul]

gipped/jipped

I still don't know.

Gipped or gypped.

[mmmk]

I always thought Philippine was spelled "Phillipine" LOL...

[ToneCapone]

and some time during high school I started spelling weird incorrectly, I guess it's that stupid 'I before E except after C' Rule that they drilled into our heads when we were younger.

lol yeah I blame that on one episode of Arthur I saw when I was a kid. Even now when I was looking at the pic I was like ...wait did they spell "weird" wrong? while trying to refer back to the episode.

[freelunch]

Breaks - I can't stand it when people talk about their cars brakes and spell it as "breaks"
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[phunky.FOB]

I need to go back to school....reason why I only passed english 12 with a 54% percent! cause I suck at grammar and english !!!

[Oleophobic]

I always thought Philippine was spelled "Phillipine" LOL...

lol I know some people who spell "Filipino" as "Phillippino" or something like that.

[minoru_tanaka]

Nobody hates the hypercorrections?

I
"He will sell the tickets to Mike and I"
It's "Mike and me". Simple way to figure it out is to try the sentence without the other person. You wouldn't say, " He will sell the tickets to I"

Myself
"If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask Dave or myself"
You ask yourself. I ask myself. You ask me. I ask you.
Don't just choose longer words cause you think it makes you seem smarterer.

Unique
"That coin is very unique"
Nothing is very unique or so unique etc. There are no degrees of uniqueness. Something is unique or it's not. Substitute "one of a kind" into your sentence to check.
"That coin is very one of a kind"

[fliptuner]

^^^Let's get past spelling first, then work on grammAr. Baby steps, man, baby steps.

[Soundy]

Another pet peeve: "could care less" when you really mean "COULDN'T care less".

[RFlush]

hanged out and hung out

[Ronin]

...people say hanged out? That just sounds so awkward.

[OTG-ZR2]

When people say: "Got my hair did"

[k3mps]

when did you useD it?

did you useD it?

[twitchyzero]

lol I know some people who spell "Filipino" as "Phillippino" or something like that.

I did that once...it makes sense though. Where did the F come from if their home country is Philippines.

[minoru_tanaka]

I did that once...it makes sense though. Where did the F come from if their home country is Philippines.

Neither makes sense cause tagalog doesn't have the F sound.

[fliptuner]

Neither makes sense cause tagalog doesn't have the F sound.

That's because it's not Tagalog. Filipino is Spanish, in reference to people from the Philippines. Filipino's refer to themselves as Pinoy in their native tongue, just as Japanese call themselves Nihon ji desu (or something close, iirc).

[minoru_tanaka]

That's because it's not Tagalog. Filipino is Spanish, in reference to people from the Philippines. Filipino's refer to themselves as Pinoy in their native tongue, just as Japanese call themselves Nihon ji desu (or something close, iirc).

"yea let's give these guys a name they can't pronounce so when people ask them where they are from, they won't be able to say it. It will be hilarious."

[fliptuner]

The country is named for King Philip II of Spain, discovered by Ferdinand Magellan.

[Oleophobic]

That's because it's not Tagalog. Filipino is Spanish, in reference to people from the Philippines. Filipino's refer to themselves as Pinoy in their native tongue, just as Japanese call themselves Nihon ji desu (or something close, iirc).

I know I used to pronounce 'tagalog' with the stress on 'tag' instead of 'ga' many years back. Good thing a filipino coworker corrected me. That was pretty fail.

[Phil@rise]

Peoples and Persons
When I was taught English these were not words
People is already plural or multiple individuals. So why the hell pluralize a plural? Persons WTF we have people to cover that!
I blame the Americans.

[Senna4ever]

Spotted at 16th & Quebec.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/Senna4ever/photos/PICT7936.jpg

[snowball]

Peoples and Persons
When I was taught English these were not words
People is already plural or multiple individuals. So why the hell pluralize a plural? Persons WTF we have people to cover that!
I blame the Americans.

Peoples and persons were always words. Your teachers just told you that they weren't so you wouldn't get into the habit of using them incorrectly at a young age.

[Gumby]

Spotted at 16th & Quebec.
Oh man I'm gonna wrip out my hare.

[Phil@rise]

Peoples and persons were always words. Your teachers just told you that they weren't so you wouldn't get into the habit of using them incorrectly at a young age.

Perhaps I'm much older then you.
But in Canada we spell with British English (or did) as such Peoples and Persons are not words instead they are part of American English.
Color is American, Colour is Canadian but when you type Colour into your computer, spell check attempts to correct it.

:fuckyea: I'm too old

[darkfroggy]

The Metis and the French peoples need to unite in order to preserve their respective cultures.

^ Peoples sounds "correct" in this context, please correct me if mistaken.

[urrh]

^ no

[snowball]

^

It's right, people derives from the latin word populum (group of people) Peoples = two+ distinct groups of people mentioned in one sentence.

Person derives from latin persona, an individual, persons is multiple individuals.

Nowadays people just accept that person = singular, and people = plural of person but the origins of person/persons and people/peoples are distinct and if you look at old legal text you will see that more than one person = persons

[minoru_tanaka]

^

It's right, people derives from the latin word populum (group of people) Peoples = two+ distinct groups of people mentioned in one sentence.

Person derives from latin persona, an individual, persons is multiple individuals.

Nowadays people just accept that person = singular, and people = plural of person but the origins of person/persons and people/peoples are distinct and if you look at old legal text you will see that more than one person = persons

eg APTN = Aboriginal Peoples Television Network

[PDA_86]

I notice usually in some DIY threads whenever the OP warn members that he is not responsible if you "brick" this thing instead of "break" this thing.

[RevYouUp]

when people spell to instead of too

[flagella]

I've seen a lot of ppl spelling congratulations congradulations.