In message , Frank Erskine
writes
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:51:06 GMT, Harry Bloomfield
wrote:

TGH explained :

"TheOldFellow" wrote in message
...
I note an exasperating trend on this list, and on t'internet in general,
to personal reinvention of English spelling and grammar. For
instance: the Whitworth spellings for the various flavours of 'your and
you're' (as opposed to the UNF or Metric, of course) are as follows:

'You're' means 'you are', 'your' never ever means that.
'Your' is a possessive pronoun, and can only be used when you mean that
something belongs to 'you'.

Do try and get it right folks, as the grating sounds of the
crossed-threads in my brain are getting irritating.

Another one that is really winding me up is the use of "teh" instead of
"the", why do it?

I do that, a matter of brain working faster than fingers and finger not
pushing the keys in the right order.

Another annoying one is 'ect' instead of 'etc' (et cetera).
And of course there's 'asterix' instead of 'asterisk'.

does it Gaul you ?


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geoff