P;ease use proper English on this forum.
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I have noted a recent rash of bad English on this forum. Most of it seems to stem from text message style. This isn't a text message forum so please use proper English here.
All glory is fleeting.
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All that and I make a mistake in the title. Maybe this is a message to me to proofread!
Only if you say P;ease
He who knows he has enough is rich.
Can you say "losing battle"? Not only do many folks not know proper English, they also can't spell. As a longtime editor and proofreader (50+ years, including 12 for Heritage Auctions), I have to just restrain myself. Many don't know (or maybe care) that "it's" is a contraction for "it is" and not the correct possessive (and can "her's" and "hi's" be far behind?). Folks hereabouts and elsewhere don't know that the plural of "coin" is "coins" and not "coin's" (oh, that one just makes me want to gnash my teeth). These errors have even spread to the national media where one used to never see a typo ... now they are legion.
And thus concludeth my little rant.
Kind regards (or regard's),
George
P;ease B wid U
"Got a flaming heart, can't get my fill"
How do you spell "LOL"
Si
What gets me is nickle on a coin forum.
DPOTD-3
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It appears most of the pap written here is in the American dialect, not English. Those tea destroying, unwashed colonists, who can't tell the boot from the bonnet, butchered the Queen's Lexicon.
Drinking early, are we??
Most people don't use proper English in their daily life - why expect it here?
Perhaps, some members on CU were not American and English is a second language.
My handle outta tell ye something. Peasants walk ye streets.
I had a sixth grade teacher that had an ain't pot. Everytime she caught you saying ain't she would make you put a penny in it! She probably encouraged me to use the word!
I ain't gonna put no penny in the ain't pot!
I ain't gonna put no penny in the ain't pot!
I ain't I ain't I ain't I ain't I ain't!
Wish I could put the music to the song I created!
Or you have the people who don't use any punctuation marks at all. Not even a period at the end of their post.
We need smoe better spelling around here.
Here's a warning parable for coin collectors...
It's pervasive in daily life, not just this forum. Even business emails which are meant to be more professional are short, full of misspellings and grammatical errors. The old days of professional letter writing and communications are gone.
A hugh problem. Their are so many illiterates here! To many to count!!!
mbogoman
https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/classic-issues-colonials-through-1964/zambezi-collection-trade-dollars/7345Asesabi Lutho
We tend to think of the failure of the schools as affecting only those who don't learn to read and write.
The reality is that it affects the 97% of students who aren't self motivated so almost all of us don't speak as goodly as we otherwise might. Of course, in a world where college education is awarded to those with money what does the poor man need with motivation?
This failure of the schools is beginning to show up everywhere. Sometimes I have my doubts about the competency of young doctors. Why should coins and chatboards be exempt?
Thanyou for pointin this out we want to make yur sperience hear better.
I agree, George. It never ceases to amaze me that so many adults do not know some of the most basic rules of grammar.
In college, I minored in linguistics. So-called "Proper English," was synonymous with the "Queen's English." Linguistically speaking, if the party you are speaking with can understand you, then you are using linguistically proper English.
That is one of our likerty's
im guilty of all ...... typo, grammar, no tis no dat ..... missing coma no punctuation ! and too many face
I blame mango .... and his no fruit
kk?
Looks like All glory is fleeting
The trolls use bad English as a tool to deceive us. The trolls think we will turn our defenses down if they pretend to be stupid or if they pretend to be foreigners or minorities or whatever.
My latest pet peeve is "could of" or "would of" as a replacement for "could have" or "would have."
"I could of bought the coin" is wrong!
Also remember that this forum is international and not all of us are from the USA. Not everybody is a native English speaker, but that does not mean that somebody cannot contribute.
When I see a longer post that is not in standard English, I usually just skip over them. I'm not going to waste my time trying to decipher them.
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
You may be deceiving yourself about the numbers participating in this forum. Like many things in coins, I believe that the number of persons posting here has slipped.
K
P;ease provide some detailed examples.
Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value. Zero. Voltaire. Ebay coinbowlllc
Tin foil hats work well to repel them.
I took the Evelyn Wood sped riddin corse......
It helped!
Pete
Facts, opinions, and thoughts matter. Content and context matter.
I could care less about grammar and punctuation.
*couldn't
Exactly. I guess Grammarly did not pick that up
All I am saying, is give P;ease a chance.
My wife hates the things and won't let them in the house.
The consistency with which language related posts on a coin forum contain typographical errors, contractions and sentences ending with prepositions confirms to me the abundance of both karma and boxed wine.
The word "then" relates to time. The word "than" is used to introduce a comparison.
I remember as a young man after just buying our first house we decided to remodel the kitchen. I was having a rough time attacking the new copier tubing from the source to the sink. I kept crimping the ne2 feeder tube. On about the fourth trip to the hardware store an elderly man who had been sitting there the entire day offered advice in a manner that would make any English major cringe. I didn’t care that he had butchered the kings English I only cared that it worked!
Judge not a man for his English but for the content of his contributions.
A: The year they spend more on their library than their coin collection.
A numismatist is judged more on the content of their library than the content of their cabinet.
WTH (what the heck) you talking bout’ Willis?
Did you ever have a chance to check that pot for wheat cents?
English, with its cascading incursions of celtic, germanic and latinate words, "vowel shifts" and regional phonetic spellings, is a ghastly mess from a spelling point of view. Consonants, letter combinations and endings from bygone eras remain, yet are not pronounced or have some idiosyncratic pronunciation. Consider the ten different pronunciations of the "ough" combination in the following sentence:
"The wind was rough along the lough as the ploughman fought through the slough and snow, and though he hiccoughed and he coughed, he thought only of his work, determined to be thorough."
Yikes. It's why spelling bees are such a challenge in English, and are essentially unknown in languages that have reasonable phonetic spelling patterns.
Thanks to God I'm not a foreigner trying to learning how to read and write in this language!
Here's a warning parable for coin collectors...
I'll take this thought a bit further. p'cl uvapjlk aoha hwwlhsz av wyvwly nyhtthy hyl tvza wyvihisf qbza yhjpza yhuapunz. The way people talk has little to no predictive value of what they have to say.
This isn't a gentleman's club. You can't force people to look, talk, and think like you. It is a collaborative site where we all draw value from each other. We are better together.
Minor Variety Trade dollar's with chop marks set:
More Than It's Chopped Up To Be
wlyohwz dl zovbsk hss zahya ahsrpun pu jhlzhy jpwolyz?
Minor Variety Trade dollar's with chop marks set:
More Than It's Chopped Up To Be
Just be thankful that @Insider2 doesn't post in his emoji language here. Took me a while but I'm fluent now!
P;ease porridge hot
P;ease porridge col'
P;ease porridge in da pot
Nine dayc ol'
As the lady who ran the oriental lunch buffet at NAVSEA used to say when you left:
"P;ease and tan ku"
I bet you drive the speed limit in the passing lane. We don’t need any more self appointed mods for these boards, seems we have a few already. If it’s that painful for you, try ATS.