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| If such sloppiness come from native speakers, who is the genuine reference to back to? |
Are you aware of the word "dialect", Sultano?
Would you say there's a lot of sloppiness in this piece of text?
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| Actually, we aren't angels;evrybody makes mistakes ,but to insist on doing that is sloppiness or laziness. I agree with Torsten.If such sloppiness come from native speakers, who is the genuine reference to back to? |
Believe me, even Torsten writes in a sloppy way at times. And, when you point it out to him, he doesn't go back and edit his posts. Would you consider that a lazy act? |
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| #18 (permalink) Wed Jun 11, 2008 15:59 pm lets vs let's |
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yeah, we can be informal in here -- no big deal to me. heck, I write things like "gonna" and probably make all sorts of typos when I post in here.
We should all try to be good and proper in the context of formal writing though (imo).
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| #19 (permalink) Wed Jun 11, 2008 19:57 pm lets vs let's |
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yeah, we can be informal in here -- no big deal to me. heck, I write things like "gonna" and probably make all sorts of typos when I post in here.
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gonna and wanna are fine, so long as everyone understands them (and I'm sure everyone really does), and I think that legitimating them in English grammar is in order.
What's more important is the articles :)
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| #20 (permalink) Thu Jun 12, 2008 13:34 pm lets vs let's |
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i'm seeing a lot of this again (unbelievably) -- not in here, but at work:
"Customer wants to disconnect it's service"
"Its Friday -- welcome to employee appreciation day!"
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Hi Tom,
That's exactly what I meant when I started this thread. I'm sure most native speakers can tell the difference between let's and lets and it's and its. Distinguishing between those words can be confusing to learners of English so why make it harder for them here on the forum? I've noticed that English native speakers living in Germany seem to have a hard time using the apostrophe and I think the reason for that is the German keyboard which requires you to press a rather awkward key combination. If you type a text in English you need the apostrophe much more often than in German. So typing an English text with a German keyboard is more difficult than with an English keyboard.
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| #21 (permalink) Thu Jun 12, 2008 13:57 pm lets vs let's |
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| I've noticed that English native speakers living in Germany seem to have a hard time using the apostrophe and I think the reason for that is the German keyboard which requires you to press a rather awkward key combination. If you type a text in English you need the apostrophe much more often than in German. So typing an English text with a German keyboard is more difficult than with an English keyboard. |
I"ve had the opposite problem. :lol: Although I no longer have a German keyboard, my finger still sometimes aims automatically for the shift key when I want to type an apostrophe.
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| i'm seeing a lot of this again (unbelievably) |
Do you advocate the use of the lower case or the upper case for the word "I"? :wink: :lol:
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| #23 (permalink) Thu Jun 12, 2008 22:25 pm lets vs let's |
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yeah
(nice answer, huh? lol)
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| #24 (permalink) Mon Sep 08, 2008 1:47 am Do people know the difference |
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It is one thing to be sloppy, or use dialectic. Though the burning question I have, do people who make that mistake know the difference? Furthermore, if they did know the difference, were they that lazy to make it? Grammar rules exist to make mainly the written language more easily understood... So careless grammar mistakes, though they don't always make a sentence hard to understand, they certainly do detract from readability.
On an internet forum, relatively informal, I believe it can be forgiven if a person makes such a mistake. Not so much could be said in my opinion if a person simply did not know the difference and simply does not know grammar. At work I'm seeing a lot of mistakes in English coming from a manager of mine, spells signature, "signiture," and a whole slew of other mistakes - it just feels unprofessional. It is argument that grammatical sloppiness on the internet is habit forming and therefore should be avoided. In general, grammar and spelling errors just make a text harder to read. |
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| #25 (permalink) Tue Sep 09, 2008 6:28 am lets vs let's |
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| I've noticed that quite a few native speakers write "lets" when they mean "let's" in forum discussions. Is this due to sloppiness or are they not aware of the difference between "lets" and "let's"? |
I suppose some are done out of laziness and some are out of error. When I was in high school, about half of the kids had trouble differentiating between its and it's, lets and let's, a lot and alot. |
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| #26 (permalink) Sun Sep 14, 2008 4:46 am lets vs let's |
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| diverhank, alot is not a word! Did you mean allot? |
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| #27 (permalink) Sun Sep 14, 2008 9:12 am lets vs let's |
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| Instead of "a lot", many native kids write "alot" instead. |
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| #28 (permalink) Tue Sep 16, 2008 3:22 am lets vs let's |
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Hi guys
I think the issue is if the person recognises the mistakes and then redresses them, donīt you?
Everybody makes mistakes, most try to learn from them.
I have a typing issue with from and form at the moment ; )
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