Breaking Up

[PetrolTed]

It's BRAKE! Not handbreak, break fluid, break disks, hard breaking or new breaks!

[plotloss]

LOL!

Steady on there Ted, or you'll have a nervous BRAKEdown!



Matt.

[scruff400]

Chimp breaks.

Roms short Brake with misses.

Breaking distunce.

Kids eh?

[Nevin]

Well said Ted.

Isn't the education system in this country just great?

[Podie]

Can't you put in a smart-filter or summat?

(ahem)

Could one not create a smart filter to turn "break" into "brake" where appropriate?

[scruff400]

quote:
where appropriate?

Jeez, how much time d'you think Ted has!!

:Makes a brake for the door:

[135sport]

"Isn't the education system in this country just great?"

What education system?

How come kids are allowed to leave school at 16 after only taking 4 or so GCSE?

And those will not be the basics.

Most of these kids then turn out to be a burden to the rest of UK for most of their lives.

Everything seems 'soft' these days.

opps, bit of a moan!

[Podie]

I agree with his point though - granted everyone makes spelling errors and typos, but there is no excuse for getting the basics wrong!

[cockers]

quote:
Well said Ted.

Isn't the education system in this country just great?

Or is it grate? Meat, I mean mate.

[CarZee]

Be quite, Cockers

[Nevin]

Spelling errors and typos I can live with. People who clearly do not know the difference between brake/break, great/grate, meat/meet, your/you're and so on are much more annoying.

I'm sure no one is expecting PH to be a model of grammatical clarity or perfect typing, but surely an idiot-buffer is possible.

Although if you read my query about logbooks, you will see that I appear to have been a bit dim as well.

[Imelda]

Don't loose your rag Ted....

[cockers]

Can I add to the list of pet hates the use of "of" instead of "have", as in "I should of..."

I f**kin' hait it.

[cockers]

Can I add to the list of pet hates the use of "of" instead of "have", as in "I should of..."

I f**kin' hait it.

[cockers]

Can I also say I hate people who post the same thing twice.

Tossers.

[JSG]

I always get confused with Reading and reading

[M@H]

quote:
but surely an idiot-buffer is possible.

..we're all screwed then.!

[mhibbins]

My particular irritant is when someone gets a present *off* someone else rather than *from* that person. For example...
"That watch is nice"
"Yes, I got it off my wife for christmas"
...drives me bananas.

Sad eh?

Mark


>> Edited by mhibbins on Wednesday 18th September 12:47

[scruff400]

There, their, they're. Stop fusing. Do'nt get you'reselve's uppsett. I'ts bad not al.

[whatever]

[petHate]

Their, there, they're. These are different words -- do not select whichever you find easiest to type.

I can't really understand how these are wrong so often. I wonder what happends to their misuse in GCSE (A-level?) English these days? I bet consistent misuse doesn't cause an automatic failure (i.e. like the automatic ban for >100mph(-ish) on the m/way). I was listening to a student on the radio a few weeks ago, who was saying that bad grammar is no longer penalised (as I'm sure it was in my day), but that good grammar gains extra credit! I was not sure if I could believe my ears...

[petHate]