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Fan Area => The Hydlaa Plaza => Topic started by: Merdarion on February 10, 2005, 09:11:57 pm

Title: Grammatical Errors
Post by: Merdarion on February 10, 2005, 09:11:57 pm

Well I know that this thread is weak, but I will ask you anyways.

Could you possibly correct any grammatical and in matter of typing right,

It may seem ridiculus to you, but well I think that it would really help me with my english (Well for I am a 14 year old austrian who has english as a must-to-learn thingy)

See it as call for assistance.

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Post by: Harkin on February 10, 2005, 10:15:38 pm

Hello good sir,

I guess I can type in proper english, if it helps you. Since I am American I should have no problem. I just hope my little contribution will help.

Have a good day. :)

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Post by: Merdarion on February 10, 2005, 10:21:36 pm

Thank you very much, its pretty important for me to know when i make an mistake.

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Post by: faldrok on February 11, 2005, 03:22:25 am

What do you mean? Correct the errors that you make or what? Does it include spelling also? I read your first post really fast because that color hurts my eyes. X(

By the way, I can help with stuff if you want me to. If you wanted us to correct mistakes that you make in posts are something then, *ridiculous. ;) And for not being a native speaker, you speak (or at least type it) very well.

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Post by: Monketh on February 11, 2005, 03:54:06 am

You\'re inviting grammar nazis to dinner?
I think I\'ll join in on this.
Most people will be happy to help someone learn english.

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Post by: Couatl on February 11, 2005, 06:24:23 am

I will be more than happy to help you. :D

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Post by: Hatchnet on February 11, 2005, 07:23:09 am

If this is just you wanting help with your English then I will be glad to help; otherwise complaining about other peoples? spelling and grammar is a good way to start a fight.



(Note: A before consonants and an before vowels)

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Post by: Merdarion on February 11, 2005, 07:42:45 am

No no, I wasnt complaining about anyone else, just requestin help with my english.

Thank you all!

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Post by: davo on February 11, 2005, 12:26:46 pm

actually your english is very good, i wouldent have noticed a problem with it.

to tell you the truth....i didnt know how to spell english...i thought it was spelt englesh or enlgish...?

and im from australia (not austria) with an education lol

englesh (english)  help is need by all of us.

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Post by: JellyWerker on February 12, 2005, 03:21:12 am

You have unleashed me :D ... My first correction: capitalize your \"I\"\'s. I know most people online don\'t do it (including me on occasion :) ), but it is proper English.

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Post by: Icefalcon on February 12, 2005, 04:56:07 am

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Originally posted by davo
actually your english is very good, i wouldent have noticed a problem with it.

to tell you the truth....i didnt know how to spell english...i thought it was spelt englesh or enlgish...?

and im from australia (not austria) with an education lol

englesh (english)  help is need by all of us.

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Should have been posted by davo
Actually your English is very good, I wouldn\'t have noticed a problem with it.

To tell you the truth, I didn\'t know how to spell \"English.\" I thought it was spelt \"englesh\" or \"enlgish.\"

I\'m from Australia (not Austria) with an education.

Englesh (english)  help is need by all of us.

Ok, I\'m not even sure about this phrase...

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Actually your English is very good

Yes, I know I\'m correcting davo and not Merdarion. :rolleyes:

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Post by: faldrok on February 12, 2005, 06:08:03 am

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Originally posted by Icefalcon

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Should have been posted by davo

To tell you the truth, I didn\'t know how to spell \"English.\" I thought it was spelt \"englesh\" or \"enlgish.\"

I\'m from Australia (not Austria) with an education.

Englesh (english)  help is need by all of us.

\"Spelled\" is more commonly used than \"spelt\" is. I think it is preffered by most English Teachers/Professors/Majors. \"Spelt\" is kind of like a slang term for \"spelled\" - what you should use in a formal letter.

And \"need\" should be \"needed\" because it is a past participle. (I think that is the term for it. If it isn\'t then correct me please. I just know it has to be \"needed\" and not \"need\") and \"need\" is not a past participle.

EDIT: I never knew \") made a winking smiley. Also, before you say it doesn\'t, it is because I disabled smileys for this post so hah!

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Post by: JellyWerker on February 12, 2005, 07:38:03 am

If you had looked at your post, you would have seen that it obviously doesn\'t on these boards :D

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Post by: Merdarion on February 12, 2005, 07:43:28 am

thanks Jelly Werker I often forgot to write \"I\" as \"I\"

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Post by: Phinehas on February 12, 2005, 04:07:56 pm

*Scrolls up.*

Wow, I wonder if Sirvion expected all those answers when he wrote this. Anyway... to the business at hand...

I am as much a grammar and spelling freak as anyone here, but I prefer to get straight to the heart of the matter.

*Phinehas\' eyes light up with inner fire as he pulls out a flaming dagger.*

We will purge the ignorance from your very soul!!!

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Post by: Kiva on February 12, 2005, 05:53:41 pm

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Originally posted by Hatchnet
If this is just you wanting help with your English then I will be glad to help; otherwise complaining about other peoples? spelling and grammar is a good way to start a fight.

(Note: A before consonants and an before vowels)

Oh, now this is something I\'m good at. Let\'s see...

\" peoples? \"... That looks wrong. Let\'s change that to \"people\'s\" instead, because you can\'t have more peoples, and you can\'t have those peoples having things, so it\'s \"people\'s stuff\", not peoples\' (peopless... Just look how stupid that is). You can\'t bend people anyway. It\'s always people in multi...pli...laris...something. You can\'t have only one people, so you don\'t put s on it when having more of them.

If that made any sense, press 1 now. :)

Anyway, \" (Note: A before consonants and an before vowels) \". That only goes for the sounds. It\'s still called A Yellow Book, simply because yellow sounds like it is spelled with a J, not a Y, same with An Hour. You can\'t hear the H, so it sounds like it starts with Our, thus being An Hour.

I\'m not trying to pick a fight, I\'m simply helping Merdarion understand how the English language works, and since you so gladly contributed a few errors, then... Yeah.

But anyway. Generally the English language doesn\'t have so many things that need to be understood, they just need to be learned and used in the right way. Trying to figure out how the grammar actually works will just make you far more confused than a giraffe on Mt. Everest, and you don\'t want that. Instead just try to accept how things are, and learn to put them together in the right way. It saves you lots of brain capacity too, anyway.

Besides, just be glad you\'re not learning Danish. It\'s probably the language that has the most nonsense-ish grammar in the entire galaxy, but that\'s because people try to learn the grammar. They don\'t do as I say and simply learn how to put sentences together. So silly... :)

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Post by: JellyWerker on February 14, 2005, 05:18:34 am

oooh! The grammar police! :) Also, I noticed the error in my last post :)

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Post by: Myrgus on March 04, 2005, 03:11:48 pm

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Originally posted by Gronomist

Besides, just be glad you\'re not learning Danish. It\'s probably the language that has the most nonsense-ish grammar in the entire galaxy, but that\'s because people try to learn the grammar. They don\'t do as I say and simply learn how to put sentences together. So silly... :)

And I\'m pretty sure Dutch is the most difficult language to learn for any foreigner... It\'s my native language but I probably make less mistakes in English than in Dutch!! I can\'t think of a single dutch grammar-rule with at least a dozen exceptions :(

Any dutchies in here to confirm?? or to disagree of course

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Post by: Phinehas on March 04, 2005, 03:37:51 pm

@ Gronomist: Actually \"peoples\" is a word, as in \"The various peoples of London\". Generally it means a people group. I know that you were just helping him spell \"people\'s\" right, but I just had to point this out.

I don\'t have anything to add about grammar or spelling, but I can add a few things about good writing. For instance, don\'t make your sentences too long, and learn to word things simply unless you\'re trying to be confusing. This means, not using complex nouns or verbs and when simple ones will do, and it also means making sure you\'re using the correct word. I could grab a couple of examples out of Grono\'s post, but that\'d just be mean.

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Post by: Jazeera on March 04, 2005, 04:01:37 pm

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Besides, just be glad you\'re not learning Danish. It\'s probably the language that has the most nonsense-ish grammar in the entire galaxy, but that\'s because people try to learn the grammar. They don\'t do as I say and simply learn how to put sentences together. So silly...

 
Or maybe it\'s because kids in Denmark just doesn\'t want to learn the language ;)
and say how can you put sentences together, without the grammar?

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And I\'m pretty sure Dutch is the most difficult language to learn for any foreigner... It\'s my native language but I probably make less mistakes in English than in Dutch!! I can\'t think of a single dutch grammar-rule with at least a dozen exceptions

Well just because you aren\'t as good with English as with Dutch, doesn\'t make it the hardest language now does it?

lol, try to learn Chinese, I heard they have 4000 letters in their alphabet 8o

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Post by: Merdarion on March 04, 2005, 07:03:57 pm

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Originally posted by Jazeera
lol, try to learn Chinese, I heard they have 4000 letters in their alphabet 8o

learning chinese is much work, but if you got all those vocabularies, you have it easy for they dont have grammar at all.

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Post by: Phinehas on March 04, 2005, 07:15:47 pm

I can honestly say that Russian is a hard language to learn, as is Ukrainian.