(sp?): The Phantom Menace - Page 2 - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Estelyn Telcontar · 10-15-2002, 03:25 AM

'nuff off-topic politics here - let's stick to our own issues!

The Squatter of Amon Rûdh · 10-15-2002, 04:31 AM

Hear, hear (note spelling).

Rimbaud · 10-15-2002, 07:36 AM

Thank you for the heads-up, Vanima. In case any of you are sceptical as to my flaming trout throwing abilities I shall mention that if I see the offensive (sp?) again, I will also come to your house and burn it, with you inside. Not for nothing am I known as the Merciless Eater of Souls.

Elenna · 10-15-2002, 09:57 AM

And I'll bring my rabid squirrels!

Bêthberry · 10-20-2002, 08:49 AM

They're on to you, Rim.

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He has some kind of problem with authoreties (how the ____ is that spelled? (kings and queens)),

A Commendation of their Qualities. Post Oct. 20, 10:28.

Bb [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

The Squatter of Amon Rûdh · 10-20-2002, 08:58 AM

What I think these people need is some sort of a book, containing all of the words they're likely to use, ordered alphabetically and each one accompanied by a brief description of its meaning. Wouldn't that be a good idea? Then we wouldn't have to be unsure of our spelling ever again.

Bêthberry · 10-20-2002, 09:04 AM

Any drier and you would be a good martini, my dear Squatter.

Bethberry

Rimbaud · 10-21-2002, 07:36 AM

However, Squatter has always struck me as being stirred and not shaken.

The Squatter of Amon Rûdh · 10-21-2002, 01:00 PM

I seldom rate myself higher than methylated spirits, but you're right, Rimbaud: it isn't the done thing to shake a good bottle of Meths. It kills the aroma and causes a fire hazard, I understand.

Elenna · 10-21-2002, 04:21 PM

Question for Squatter:

Olive or onion?

The Squatter of Amon Rûdh · 10-22-2002, 03:04 AM

With Meths or Martini, Elenna?

Actually I like neither, so they will both do equally badly.

Childlike Empress · 10-26-2002, 11:33 PM

I find "phiosiphy(sp?)" to be particularly egregious.

[ October 27, 2002: Message edited by: Childlike Empress ]

Elenna · 10-27-2002, 02:21 PM

Amen. But once I saw Tolkiene(sp?). I fell off my stool in the school's computer lab, I was so shocked. For Heaven's sake, if you can't spell the man's name with some degree of accuracy, adding an (sp?) won't help. I admit, I've switched the e and the i a few times, but only through a typing mistake.

Childlike Empress · 10-27-2002, 02:29 PM

Furthermore, if they can't spell the name of the man to whom this site is created and maintained, what are they doing here?

vanwalossien · 10-27-2002, 03:59 PM

After hearing people saying things like "Oh, this thread is great fun" and so on and so forth for some time now, I finally checked it out, and it is fun! I love to complain about, and correct people's spelling

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I find it more than a little embarrassing, not to mention surreal, when an English Downer proves to be worse at speaking English than, for example, a German or a Swede. Have these would-be dyslexics no shame?

True, entirely true. When I misspell something I usually discover it long before I post my reply, and I don't just add (sp)? after it. I'm Norwegian and only started learing English three, almost four, years ago! We were supposed to have English from fifth grade, but our teachers were so bad we didn't learn anything. And I'm often much better at spelling than English Downers. Me, a child of the SMS-generation.. [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]
As for the Bush discussion, I just want to tell you this: In Norway we have a brilliant cartoon called Nemi (look at my avatar). In one of the classic Nemi cartoons Nemi comments that she thinks Douglas Adams writes Bush's speeches. Anyone that have read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy will know that that's meant as an insult... Not to Adams I mean, you might have noticed that I'm a big fan of him..

[ November 02, 2002: Message edited by: vanwalossien ]

VanimaEdhel · 11-16-2002, 03:58 PM

Do you know how many "(sp?)" signs I've seen in the past week? I decided not to post them all here...but I laughed every time and considered doing it!

HerenIstarion · 11-22-2002, 06:00 AM

a bit of fun close to the subject:

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Spellcheck Man
Newly Deceased
Posts: 2
(7/13/01 12:51:07 pm)
Re: Technical difficulties?

Don’t worry, young Typo Girl – Spellcheck Man has compassion for all typing-challenged citizens. My true enemies are vile villains like The Abbreviator and Doctor Slang. These cretins ride roughshod over proper spelling conventions, willfully flout the rules of grammar, and do their best to propagate their noxious anti-style through every available medium of human communication. But their evil master plan has been marked by Spellcheck Man; yes, indeed, he has marked it well. His red pen is ready and he will use his fantastic powers of usage and his amazing comprehension of complex sentence structures to correct these fiends whenever and wherever he finds them!

Just call Spellcheck Man if you need assistance, Typo Girl! He’s always happy to help!

As a public service, Spellcheck Man will give you his “Tolkien Word of the Day”. Spellcheck Man thinks Professor Tolkien was a master of the English language – at least by normal human standards – and a good role model for all young citizens to imitate.

Spellcheck Man’s “Tolkien Word of the Day” is haggard, as in this sentence: “In their white faces burned keen and merciless eyes; under their mantles were long grey robes; upon their grey hairs were helms of silver; in their haggard hands were swords of steel.”

“Haggard” is used here as an adjective, and in this context it means “having a worn or emaciated appearance”. To learn more about alternate meanings and grammatical uses of Spellcheck Man’s “Tolkien Word of the Day”, follow one of his favorite links and look it up!

See there, Barrow Wight? Spellcheck Man even has an uncanny ability to stay on topic!

Remember what Spellcheck Man says: don’t let your friends or your peer group pressure you into using improper English or adopting lazy abbreviations into your own vocabulary! Always make sure your subjects and verbs agree! Remember to look both ways before you cross the street!

Edited by: Spellcheck Man at: 7/13/01 3:26:13 pm

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The Abbreviator
Newly Deceased
Posts: 2
(7/13/01 3:56:55 pm)
Re: Technical difficulties?

Pplz, dontcha listen to the seductious voice of da Spellcheck Man!
Da future is no longa what he's a-preachin. Da future is lies in da abbreviations. On da Net ya cant write nowels like da Spellshaker doez! Hes lyin just when he openuz his mouth, I tell ya. lyin, and foolish. Fer he dont even know his sourcez. He thinks all ya need is words and grammar and spellin. Fool! When ya lack da brainz to use it it is nuttin!
As a long-timey member of da Lugburz bunch, I know it betta:
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The word 'haggard', used at II, 315, implies how this happened. It was first used as a noun, to indicate a hawk caught when fully fledged; later it came to mean 'wild, untamed', and to be applied with special reference to a look in the eyes, 'afterwards to the injurious effect upon the countenance of privation, want of rest, fatigue, anxiety, terror or worry'. At this stage it was influenced by 'hag', an old word for witch, and implied also gaunt or fleshless. The Ringwraiths are fleshless and 'faded' from addiction, and privation, and from being caught by Sauron.
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See, fellaz? Da Spellchucka just wants to delude ya. I, on da other hand, am the friend of da people! I help ya! Make yer lifes easier w/ abbreviations, and I help ya w/ da meanin!

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Spellcheck Man
Newly Deceased
Posts: 4
(7/13/01 4:52:36 pm)
Re: Technical difficulties?

Zounds! Abbreviator, you've taken your ghastly disregard for aesthetics and style to new depths! I'm sorry you've had to witness this blight on your fair cyber-village, citizens of the Downs! But let this be a learning experience for us all! Abbreviations may save you a keystroke here and there -- but at what cost? The bill always comes due sooner or later, and you will have to pay it, with interest.

Don't let yourself end up like The Abbreviator! Compose each post with the loving care that you would use to write a letter to your mother on her birthday! Eat your greens! Use emoticons in moderation!
I'm Spellcheck Man!

Susan Delgado · 11-22-2002, 12:28 PM

*applause*

HerenIstarion · 05-05-2004, 12:59 AM

The European Commission have just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the EU (European Union) rather than German, which was the other possibility.
As part of the negotations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase in plan that would be known as "Euro English". In the first year,"s" will replace the soft "c"..

Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favor of the "k". This should klear up konfusion and keyboards kan have 1 less karakter.

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replased with the "f". This will make words like "fotograf" 20% shorter.

In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.

Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of the silent "e"'s in the languag is disgrasful, and they should go away.

By the 4th year, peopl wil reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v".

During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters. After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech ozer.

ZE DREM VIL FINALI KUM TRU!!

Av a nis day!

Lhunardawen · 05-05-2004, 01:31 AM

That really made me laugh, HerenIstarion. At first I thought you were serious. Then again, maybe you are.

By the way, when I first saw the (sp?) thing, I didn't know what it meant. Being the biology-inclined lady that I am, I thought they meant "species"!

Son of Númenor · 06-27-2004, 07:12 PM

I am resurrecting this topic because I am appalled at some Barrow-downers' lack of interest in doing (admittedly impossible) things like capitalizing names and the first words of sentences, and ending sentences with punctuation instead of nothing. My hope is to get an edict sent down from on high: if not banning corruption of the simplest rules of writing, at least banning things like failing to capitalize the word "I". A first offense could incur a proverbial slap on the wrist; a second, a (literal) slap on the wrist with a flambéed herring; a third, a merciless trout-thrashing; and a fourth, permanent banishment from the Barrow-downs.

Does that sound too stringent for anyone?

**The Saucepan Man** · 06-27-2004, 07:42 PM

dont now wot strngiet (sp?) meens butt i fink u r veri krool

10-15-2002, 03:25 AM	#1
Estelyn Telcontar Princess of Skwerlz Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles) Posts: 7,500	'nuff off-topic politics here - let's stick to our own issues! __________________ 'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth...'

10-15-2002, 04:31 AM	#2
The Squatter of Amon Rûdh Spectre of Decay Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Bar-en-Danwedh Posts: 2,178	Hear, hear (note spelling). __________________ Man kenuva métim' andúne?

10-15-2002, 07:36 AM	#3
Rimbaud The Perilous Poet Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Heart of the matter Posts: 1,062	Thank you for the heads-up, Vanima. In case any of you are sceptical as to my flaming trout throwing abilities I shall mention that if I see the offensive (sp?) again, I will also come to your house and burn it, with you inside. Not for nothing am I known as the Merciless Eater of Souls. __________________ And all the rest is literature

10-15-2002, 09:57 AM	#4
Elenna A Ghostly Light Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: My private bubble of innocence Posts: 563	And I'll bring my rabid squirrels! __________________ If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is "God is crying." And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is "Probably because of something you did."

10-20-2002, 08:58 AM	#6
The Squatter of Amon Rûdh Spectre of Decay Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Bar-en-Danwedh Posts: 2,178	What I think these people need is some sort of a book, containing all of the words they're likely to use, ordered alphabetically and each one accompanied by a brief description of its meaning. Wouldn't that be a good idea? Then we wouldn't have to be unsure of our spelling ever again. __________________ Man kenuva métim' andúne?

10-20-2002, 09:04 AM	#7
Bêthberry Cryptic Aura Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 6,007	Any drier and you would be a good martini, my dear Squatter. Bethberry __________________ I’ll sing his roots off. I’ll sing a wind up and blow leaf and branch away.

10-21-2002, 07:36 AM	#8
Rimbaud The Perilous Poet Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Heart of the matter Posts: 1,062	However, Squatter has always struck me as being stirred and not shaken. __________________ And all the rest is literature

10-21-2002, 01:00 PM	#9
The Squatter of Amon Rûdh Spectre of Decay Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Bar-en-Danwedh Posts: 2,178	I seldom rate myself higher than methylated spirits, but you're right, Rimbaud: it isn't the done thing to shake a good bottle of Meths. It kills the aroma and causes a fire hazard, I understand. __________________ Man kenuva métim' andúne?

10-21-2002, 04:21 PM	#10
Elenna A Ghostly Light Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: My private bubble of innocence Posts: 563	Question for Squatter: Olive or onion? __________________ If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is "God is crying." And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is "Probably because of something you did."

10-22-2002, 03:04 AM	#11
The Squatter of Amon Rûdh Spectre of Decay Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Bar-en-Danwedh Posts: 2,178	With Meths or Martini, Elenna? Actually I like neither, so they will both do equally badly. __________________ Man kenuva métim' andúne?

10-26-2002, 11:33 PM	#12
Childlike Empress Wight Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Fantasia Posts: 109	I find "phiosiphy(sp?)" to be particularly egregious. [ October 27, 2002: Message edited by: Childlike Empress ] __________________ Fantasia is with you in your heart. It is the story of which we are a part. Take my hand, come with me, join in my Neverending Story.

10-27-2002, 02:21 PM	#13
Elenna A Ghostly Light Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: My private bubble of innocence Posts: 563	Amen. But once I saw Tolkiene(sp?). I fell off my stool in the school's computer lab, I was so shocked. For Heaven's sake, if you can't spell the man's name with some degree of accuracy, adding an (sp?) won't help. I admit, I've switched the e and the i a few times, but only through a typing mistake. __________________ If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is "God is crying." And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is "Probably because of something you did."

10-27-2002, 02:29 PM	#14
Childlike Empress Wight Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Fantasia Posts: 109	Furthermore, if they can't spell the name of the man to whom this site is created and maintained, what are they doing here? __________________ Fantasia is with you in your heart. It is the story of which we are a part. Take my hand, come with me, join in my Neverending Story.

11-16-2002, 03:58 PM	#16
VanimaEdhel Etheral Enchantress Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Wellesley College! Posts: 1,461	Do you know how many "(sp?)" signs I've seen in the past week? I decided not to post them all here...but I laughed every time and considered doing it! __________________ "I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each others dreams, we can be together all the time." - Hobbes of Calvin and Hobbes

11-22-2002, 12:28 PM	#18
Susan Delgado The Perished Flame Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: behind my eyes Posts: 1,096	applause __________________ "Man as a whole, Man pitted against the universe, have we seen him at all 'til we see that he is like a hero in a fairy tale?"

05-05-2004, 12:59 AM	#19
HerenIstarion Deadnight Chanter Join Date: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,244	Rivolushn The European Commission have just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the EU (European Union) rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase in plan that would be known as "Euro English". In the first year,"s" will replace the soft "c".. Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favor of the "k". This should klear up konfusion and keyboards kan have 1 less karakter. There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replased with the "f". This will make words like "fotograf" 20% shorter. In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of the silent "e"'s in the languag is disgrasful, and they should go away. By the 4th year, peopl wil reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v". During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters. After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech ozer. ZE DREM VIL FINALI KUM TRU!! Av a nis day! __________________ Egroeg Ihkhsal - Would you believe in the love at first sight? - Yes I'm certain that it happens all the time! Last edited by HerenIstarion; 05-05-2004 at 01:06 AM.

05-05-2004, 01:31 AM	#20
Lhunardawen Hauntress of the Havens Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: IN it, but not OF it Posts: 2,538	That really made me laugh, HerenIstarion. At first I thought you were serious. Then again, maybe you are. By the way, when I first saw the (sp?) thing, I didn't know what it meant. Being the biology-inclined lady that I am, I thought they meant "species"! Last edited by Lhunardawen; 05-05-2004 at 01:35 AM. Reason: oops

06-27-2004, 07:12 PM	#21
Son of Númenor A Shade of Westernesse Join Date: May 2004 Location: The last wave over Atalantë Posts: 515	I am resurrecting this topic because I am appalled at some Barrow-downers' lack of interest in doing (admittedly impossible) things like capitalizing names and the first words of sentences, and ending sentences with punctuation instead of nothing. My hope is to get an edict sent down from on high: if not banning corruption of the simplest rules of writing, at least banning things like failing to capitalize the word "I". A first offense could incur a proverbial slap on the wrist; a second, a (literal) slap on the wrist with a flambéed herring; a third, a merciless trout-thrashing; and a fourth, permanent banishment from the Barrow-downs. Does that sound too stringent for anyone? __________________ "This miserable drizzling afternoon I have been reading up old military lecture-notes again:- and getting bored with them after an hour and a half. I have done some touches to my nonsense fairy language - to its improvement."

06-27-2004, 07:42 PM	#22
The Saucepan Man Corpus Cacophonous Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: A green and pleasant land Posts: 8,390	dont now wot strngiet (sp?) meens butt i fink u r veri krool __________________ Do you mind? I'm busy doing the fishstick. It's a very delicate state of mind!