Just letting off steam!

[Berlin-Bob]

When the computers went down and we had to add up and take away manually, I often went into a coma due to fright.

Su, I think you will like this one .....

[Su]

They don't come any simpler G 

Bob, Love it ... LOL. 

Su

[duckcharm]

PS Life's too short to spell check - my real motto...

Pam - that's very similar to my own motto:

Life's too short to spell czechoslovakia

 

I was directed to this thread from another... and needed to give it a bump... just to tell Paul E: "Beer hurts when snorting through your nose!"

Seriously... I love being able to type: wanna, canna, dunna. I love smilies and Blimey, LOL... yada. I understand that I may have to ask my kids (20ish) to interpret the lingo, but, I gotta move with the times.

Certainly there are times to respect proper English. (Gosh! I won an English award from high school when I graduated!) But, I often forget about the 'proper' language (on the Internet) and tend to drift to the easier style of typing. Please forgive.

Sincerely, Donna

[peterpiper]

on one of my visits to America, I was in a bar with some friends, a brummie,geordie and a Scot (with my Yorkshire accent  it was quite a mixture),
an american gentleman who must have been listening came to our table and said something like this, "Wotsamarrer chuguys doncha speak english ?".
Hey Ho
peter

[Paul E]

Or, as the Geordie later told the tale, peter...

On one of me visits te America, ah wez in a bor wi some marras, a brummie, a yorkshireman an a Scot (wi me Geordie accent it wez quite a mixture).

An american gentleman whee must hev been listening cyame te wor tyebble an sez summat leik this: "Wotsamarrer chuguys doncha speak english ?"

Translation courtesy of http://www.geordie.org.uk/index.htm

And as for YOU Duckcharm ... as a child I bet you used to delight in getting your friends to re-open old wounds to settle old scores!

cheers

Paul

[peterpiper]

Way aye hen 
peter

[Flipster]

Referring back to spelling, I spell-checked one of my daughter's GCSE modules and, though the spelling was ok, the grammar was appalling - words in the wrong order and hardly any apostrophes, commas or semi-colons. Apparently, this isn't a priority for the teachers so they fail to correct the children, thereby leading to the deterioration of  written English over recent times. 

My work colleagues laugh at my emails and text messages as I tend to write everything in full, and with grammar and spelling checked. 

I can't help it - it's the way I was brung up!!

[cardiff Irish]

If we all started using Gendocs, Old maps, Googling, Subscribed to censuses etc. There wouldn't be any need for sites like this.As for Grammar and punctuation.......... if your happy with yours then why worry about someone else? Personally I'm horrified that most of mine in Eng. & Wales were illiterate in the 1800's! CI

[peterpiper]

Flipster,
It's the same with maths, I once asked one of my sons teachers why they were allowed to use calculators, his reply!
"In this day and age people don't have to work in their mind or on paper, so we think it is more important that they learn to use an implement which they will come into contact with in every day situations"
I said nowt!
peter