English

[Davidc]

Yes I find it irritating.

No I don't complain.

This is a cycling forum not a linguistic one.

It irritates me because I learnt grammar and spelling at school with severe enough penalties for errors that it got engrained. That doesn't apply to everyone here. Some of those it doesn't apply to ride bikes.

On one scientific forum and one very specialised engineering forum I also sometimes frequent the members are hot on spelling and grammar, which in those cases is reasonable. It does make me more careful.

One or two things on here do irritate very badly though. Breaks in place of brakes is serious and there are others. Some American spellings are particularly evil, notably tires instead of tyres. I forgive N American members for those though!

 

[snorri]

No I don't complain.

Neither do I, I just read and hope to learn.

 

[Moodyman]

Yebutt dis is a cycling forum and not everyone has a univarcity degree in Inglish. So just chat and enjoy each others company.

 

[TVC]

Yebutt dis is a cycling forum and not everyone has a univarcity degree in Inglish. So just chat and enjoy each others company.

Respec

 

[Peteaud]

Innit

Is the worst of the lot for me.

 

[The Jogger]

This thread is not for me..................

 

[mickle]

I can't shout too loudly, my grammar and spelling leave little to be desired but if there is on thing that really makes my teeth itch is 'text' speak, please people there really is no need for it and it really does come across as immature. Leave it where it belongs, in the playground for pre-pubescent school girls to gossip about boys via bookface or whatever.

Lol!

 

[mickle]

Innit

Is the worst of the lot for me.

But innit is wikkid!

 

[Peteaud]

But innit is wikkid!

oooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhh thats lush

 

[Maz]

For me, it's punctation.

What about spelling?

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

What about spelling?

like I said - make it up as you go along...

 

[vernon]

what really annoys is when spoken , " th" is replaced with "f ",as in fing ,baff and teef etc . dont know why but it really boils my p!ss

Then don't sit on hot radiators when engaged in conversation.

Simples.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

English as a third language for me too: once somebody on here "accused" me of trolling because they did not agree with an opinion I was expressing and because apparently my written English is too good to be by a "real" foreigner.
Never laughed so much in my life!
Thank you spellchecker - shame I now need a spell check in my native language as I've forgotten loads

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Yes
I done, we done, he done, they done.
We was
I could go on... but I won't

This one intrigues me more than it irritates. It's so widespread throughout English dialects that I think it might have a claim to being just as English as the received ''correct'' version. There's a good deal of truth in what the linguist (there are different attributions so I don't know who said it first) said:

''A language is a dialect with an army.''

 

[gambatte]

Spoken English.
Why do so many people fail to understand the word 'controversy'. It's one word. Controversy, with an 'O'.
Yet it's constantly pronounced as two. Contra, versy. Contra, with an 'a'.