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learning english from a dutchie :P

I can speak english very well but not so snel maar dat komt nog wel !!

Quoted from Smofo

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I don’t actually care you get sick of people typing/writing bad english well tough luck I get sick of little nerds like you whining about everything all the time!

As I said, you’re missing the point. I’m not whining at all. Also I’m not a little nerd. I’m quite full grown.

I am fairly amused (yet at the same time not completely surprised) by the number of individuals who are so quick to take offence to the OP. Using good spelling, punctuation and grammar is simply a common courtesy to your audience (ironically a courtesy that seems less ‘common’ these days). As far as I’m concerned it takes very little additional time or effort to maintain the habit of making what you want to say perfectly clear, so there is no reason not to do so. I don’t think anyone expects perfection in every sentence they read on the internet, but when you have to pause and spend a few seconds trying to decipher what another person is actually trying to say in a post where they have merged a paragraph’s worth of text into one sentence, it is hard not to get a little irate.

As a dual US/British citizen I still, on occasion, have mind lapses and revert to using American spellings or punctuation rules. I would argue, however, that in most cases the American version of the written language makes more sense phonetically (e.g. criticize rather than criticise).

I’d also find it amusing to canvass for opinion on the pluralisation of acronyms and initialisms, since the posters in this thread appear to be very opinionated individuals. So… multiple compact discs: CDs, CD’s, C.D.s or C.D.’s?

Quoted from Sheridyn

I am fairly amused (yet at the same time not completely surprised) by the number of individuals who are so quick to take offence to the OP. Using good spelling, punctuation and grammar is simply a common courtesy to your audience (ironically a courtesy that seems less ‘common’ these days). As far as I’m concerned it takes very little additional time or effort to maintain the habit of making what you want to say perfectly clear, so there is no reason not to do so.

Yeah true, but you have 0 idea about the people who type on these forums. For example, people with learning difficulties (dyslexia) or whatever, surely you can’t say.. “oh how ignorant you chose the wrong word” etc etc

i speek exccellent, englsih

I speak good English. I learn it from a book.

Quoted from skeej

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So how do you construct a possesive pluralised acronym? CD’s’ ?

No, just CD’s. They are mutually exclusive.