You may not consciously judge people on a particular facet, but you do judge them. You can't help it. It's very noble to try not to judge people but it is done. In the distant past I've had to whittle down application forms for jobs when trying out prospective new employees. Now I can either interview the whole 200 to 400 or so applicants, or use a judgement filter dependent upon the written word. You see, it becomes difficult not to judge people. I would say I try not to judge people on their ignorance or intelligence. I much, much prefer a nicer, honest person. Intelligence or ignorance is no filter for that.
As I said, I never knock it as there is always a reason - I think you'll find I hardly ever pick up on it either here on a forum. At work I may, but I agree an informal internet forum is not the place to knock people's (note it is not peoples' as people is plural so the 's' is to add ownership to it not to make it more than one person ) spelling or grammar
Yep but for those of us who don't have these conditions, we need to try and not make these mistakes otherwise they become more and more common. We will lose the English language to text language otherwise. The "loose" "lose" thing is so irritating! I'm probably a bit of a hypocrite as I don't usually capitalise and use correct grammar on here but that's mainly because I cant be bothered! I do try and use correct words/spellings though as I know it annoys people.
Exactly. As long as people make a bit of an effort, I'm not going to complain. My own problem is that I leave out entire words in texts or posts. I discover this when I read back stuff I've already posted. In my head I've written the word down, but it hasn't transferred through my fingers onto the screen. It must confuse the living daylights out of people, and for that I do apologise.
Something like " I dont want to loose any mates by moving two a big club like Liverpool. There to good an opportunity two turn down. I hope you all can here me"
Had much the same experience earlier in the year after minipie mk2 arrived. The company put me on a thing assessing new applicants for First Officer training. They all had the same experience (except the guy who applied with a drink driving conviction on his record. We put that one was straight in the bin)
There you go, exactly. It's not nice, but you have to do your job. You're not an employer and counsellor too.
The only thing I'm a little disappointed about is the fee. I think if we had held out for at least 15m we would have gotten it. But I can also understand Koeman wanting to move on quickly. Have to trust him and Reed on this one.
Oh boy, don't get onto Americanisms now, or I shall begin to froth at the mouth. Occasionally, I will do 1950-60's English-isms, like crikey, and ain't, on purpose. Just to counteract the Americanisms. PS. I think ISIRTP has just written one on purpose. Either that, or it's just perfect timing.
Yes, I'm interested to see how Morgan does when he leaves though, Clyne I am not massively fussed about as I am sure he will be very good wherever he goes. He is nowhere near as easy to replace as people make out
The thing that is annoying me most about this whole transfer saga is turning on SSN and hearing the extremely annoying voice of JimWhite declaring that the deal is imminent. I don't really care if Cyne goes to Liverpool or if spider goes anywhere both are replaceable. Onwards and upwards.
The English language, or any language for that matter, is an organic thing which is in a constant changing process. It has never been, and never will be, set in stone, so to speak. People will try, with dictionaries and grammar rules etc, but eventually even these will burn out. We use English differently to how people 100 years ago used it, and so it will be a hundred years from now. I don't quite understand why people are so fearful of this. It's as though people believe that those folk who made Stonehenge were like, "Hello squire, just going to lay a few jolly old rocks about the place. Freshen it up and whatnot!!" And regarding the Americans, they've arguably added far more to the English language in the past one hundred years than the British have. We use Americanisms all day, every day, without realising that they are Americanisms. It's only certain more noticeable ones that stand out and which we can use as examples to justify our xenophobia of the US. The way Americans speak used to annoy me to, but since hanging around with a lot of them over the last few years, I have actually grown to like it. Why would anyone want every country's dialects and lexicons to be exactly the same anyway?
I can ignore the rest, the lose/loose thing raises my blood pressure until I feel like im going to have a heart attack.
I felt Clyne was reliable defensively and worked hard going forward, but when he got to the byline his grammar let him down.
