HubSA Dictionary

[ASTANA]

 

a family member always says to me "n goie begryper het net n half n woord noodig" 

 

Ag nee man. "GOEIE" nie goie nie

 

my skool het my geleer noodig het net een o ....sal  my skoolgeld moet gaan terug vra

 

Hang af van waar jy kom. Pretoria praat hulle mos so "mooi" van "T?kkies" en "mooore" ' date=' so daar sal "nodig" reg wees.

Hier in die Kaap het ons die colored's en ons almal leer "djy" praat van "Noodig" - uitgespreek [Noedig'] daarom die 2 "o's"

[Brighter-Lights]

So why does MS WORD changes 'Tyres' to 'Tires', 'Colour' to 'Color' and many more...?

[Mudsimus]

 

Its mxit..not mixit.

Either way' date='
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[/quote']

 

Would a homo post a picture of boobs...no!

 

[ASTANA]

 

Okay' date=' does a bicycle have a saddle or a seat?[/quote']

 

 

 

a seat post and a saddle

 

 

 

Why then is it not called a Saddle Post ?

 

Thats where the f(*&ed up thing about languages comes in - THERE ARE ALWAYS EXCEPTIONS !!

 

I hate it. Thats why I never managed to learn more that 1 language (Half Afrikaans and half English = 1) 

 

[Dirt*girl™]

Fkit man...k sl spl nt sos k fkn wl!

Go back to mixit with that kinda language' date=' homo.
[/quote']

 

Its mxit..not mixit.

 

wtf are you using mxit for, it's for under 18's only!?

[Mrs Colonel]

So why does MS WORD changes 'Tyres' to 'Tires'' date=' 'Colour' to 'Color' and many more...? [/quote']

 

It shouldn't if you set your spelling to English UK, rather than English USA.  Those damn Yanks

[mtbN00b]

 

 

Its mxit..not mixit.

 

Either way' date='

http://www.50poundnote.net/downloads/gay_shame.jpg

[/quote']

 

Would a homo post a picture of boobs...no!

 

 

a homo will post only one pic of boobs... a real man will post some more

 

[ASTANA]

 

 

Its mxit..not mixit.

 

Either way' date='

http://www.50poundnote.net/downloads/gay_shame.jpg

[/quote']

 

Would a homo post a picture of boobs...no!

 

 

O my word!! its a transvestite !! THATS HOMO BOOBS! 

 

[TNT1]

 

So why does MS WORD changes 'Tyres' to 'Tires'' date=' 'Colour' to 'Color' and many more...? [/quote']

 

You know you can tell microsoft office what language it should use to check your spelling? Not all versions of english are the same

 

[JohnnyReggae]

 

So why does MS WORD changes 'Tyres' to 'Tires'' date=' 'Colour' to 'Color' and many more...? [/quote']

That's because the Americans don't know how to spell. They speak American and not English......

 

[mtbN00b]

 

So why does MS WORD changes 'Tyres' to 'Tires'' date=' 'Colour' to 'Color' and many more...? [/quote']\

 

ever heard of MICROSOFT?

 

[ASTANA]

 

So why does MS WORD changes 'Tyres' to 'Tires'' date=' 'Colour' to 'Color' and many more...? [/quote']

 

You know you can tell microsoft office what language it should use to check your spelling? Not all versions of english are the same

 

BRIGHTER-LIGHTS - Must be a "moerse werk" to type in MS word and copy and paste in thehubsa ... you know you can type in the box....

 

[Mrs Colonel]

haha - Brighter-Lights, I think you get the idea now?

[Slipstream Sean]

I'm feeling week this weak! LOL

[JohnnyReggae]

 

haha - Brighter-Lights' date=' I think you get the idea now? [/quote']

also using an intelligent browser that does spell checking for you while you type helps .....

 

[Robert Lofthouse]

I'm not so fussed about the termnilogy' date=' it's more a case of some really bad spelling errors - but clearly correct terminology is also an issue here.[/quote']

 

 

 

*cough*

 

 

 

Nitpicking aside, I agree wholeheartedly. Lots of counter-arguments exist stating that "this is not a job" or "I'm not writing a technical paper", etc, etc. The problem though, is that the more people use bad spelling and grammar in forums and chatrooms, the more it creeps into everyday life.

 

 

 

That becomes painfully evident and quite unacceptable when the support technician where I work raised a problem report, which gets emailed to the company's whole management structure, and it read something like "Usrs couldnt vw there documents as their wos a n/work prob". When confronted with this shoddy report, the technician in question quite honestly couldn't see anything wrong with it.

 

 

 

So, you might think that you can blabber on with your bad writing in a forum, because ... well, it's only a forum. However, if you spend a great deal of time reading and writing badly in a forum, you're going to start thinking that's the acceptable way to do it. Yes, I might be able to read and normally understand what you're trying to say, but it doesn't mean that it's acceptable, or even easy to understand.

 

 

 

Then again, maybe I'm just getting as old and crotchety as the old and crotchety folks I myself complain about ... nah, that's not it ;-)