As you get older

4 Dec 2009

Do you find yourself checking up the spelling of words more and more? book

Or is it just my mind doing strange things to me? Maybe I'm going prematurely senile at 40.

4 Dec 2009

Yes, and grammar, use of articles, possesives, subordinate clauses, etc etc. Drives me crazy. I also mentally correct spelling, grammar and syntax when reading other people's work, knowing full well that my own is not prefect. perfict. Profict. Oh hell, whatever, lol.

drunken

4 Dec 2009

Maybe it's because we're perfectionists gypsymoth?

4 Dec 2009

Add another 12 or so years to that 40 years you spoke of ,,, and your spelling probably won't really matter much to you.

4 Dec 2009

I keep spelling words in very odd ways at the moment. My daughter is really bad at spelling, she writes words how she hears them, man I tell you after reading her work, it makes me confused cussing

4 Dec 2009

@ shameless.

Words I double checked this morning:

believable
raspberries
craziness

Some words just look odd if you stare at them too long.

4 Dec 2009

At my age....I didn't have the option of spell checking until I was about 40 (1996)...so...can't really say (I did use the dictionary a lot when I was younger...never could spell very well...)

4 Dec 2009

Phe! Thank heavens I'm not the only one who's noticed a certain lack of tolerence to grammar & incorrect spelling smile

Not only that, at the ripe age of 31 I got highly annoyed by this youth stood behind me as I queued in Sainsburys! He had his headphones in, music waaaay too loud tut tut! God it's happening isn't it?!..... crybaby

4 Dec 2009

Yep, there's no return LadyMinx happy8

5 Dec 2009

Hummmm..... where did I put my keys? Oh! Right! In the toy chest. What on god's orange earth are they doing there?

Firefox. Automatic spell checker. It has been a blessing and now that I actually use it, I have noticed my spelling gets better as I age!!! I failed every spelling bee in school. And now I give them!!!

Living life and enjoying life are two different things... just need to figure out how to do both at the same time to live it right!

Woman... GO FLY A KITE!!!!! Take a slideshow walk with me on a walk through the parks of Inner Mongolia, China. Then enjoy the tale of a very traditional day in the life of a white Woman in China.

5 Dec 2009

Its all good, I have never been good at it, so I won't miss it (or notice) when it starts to go.

In order to know virtue, you must first become acquainted with vice.
- Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade
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En vis mann slår aldri en hund i klubben med en stokk, fordi hunden vil vende rundt og biter mannens ballene av.

5 Dec 2009

I am one who cannot stand it when I see something written like this:

"i is not cumin over, mama gots stuff i gots to do. tlk to u ltr."

I HATE THIS!

Ling

5 Dec 2009

Fo shizzle ma nizzle, u goz gurl, wurd!

In order to know virtue, you must first become acquainted with vice.
- Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade
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En vis mann slår aldri en hund i klubben med en stokk, fordi hunden vil vende rundt og biter mannens ballene av.

5 Dec 2009

Yeah, that texting crap makes me wanna shaking

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5 Dec 2009

Quote by nicola
@ shameless.

Words I double checked this morning:

believable
raspberries
craziness

Some words just look odd if you stare at them too long.

Tell me about it!
I have sat there and looked at the word piece for 20 minutes, thinking it was wrong, then I'd change it to peice, realize it was originally right, and wonder if Alzheimer's is in my future. That word has done that to me dozens of times, it's like my own personal spelling hell.

"A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere." - Groucho Marx

5 Dec 2009

I'm the opposite of moderate
Immaculately polished
With the spirit of a hustler
And the swagger of a college kid

Allergic to the counterfeit
Impartial to the politics
Articulate, but still'll
Grab a nigga by the collar quick

5 Dec 2009

Quote by nicola
Maybe it's because we're perfectionists gypsymoth?

That could very well be. Of course, reading the following on a message board only aggravated the condition:

"I have this friend who is one of those guys, you know the ones that is just vulgar and always talking about sex. well we ended up hook up the other night, and i didnt think it was going to be good at all, but it was amazing. He was just so sentential and it was differently not what i expected."

That last sentence really made my day, especially "sentential" being "differently not what i expected". How on earth could it have been anything but?

sentential
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sen·tence (sntns)
n.
1. A grammatical unit that is syntactically independent and has a subject that is expressed or, as in imperative sentences, understood and a predicate that contains at least one finite verb.
2. Law
a. A court judgment, especially a judicial decision of the punishment to be inflicted on one adjudged guilty.
b. The penalty meted out.
3. Archaic A maxim.
4. Obsolete An opinion, especially one given formally after deliberation.
tr.v. sen·tenced, sen·tenc·ing, sen·tenc·es Law
To pronounce sentence upon (one adjudged guilty). See Synonyms at condemn.
[Middle English, opinion, from Old French, from Latin sententia, from sentins, sentient-, present participle of sentre, to feel; see sent- in Indo-European roots.]
sen·tential (sn-tnshl) adj.
sen·tential·ly adv.

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