How's your spelling?

[Wild Dingo]

Where, oh where, is Shane when a subject which is right up his alley rears its' pedantic head?

Just found it Chris

Now my spelin is shockin whil me grama is uptashat as fo syntax I gets taxed enuf to not botha wif anuva... neva lernded to red cept wen I went ta bed id red a dikshunari to lern me words but neva culd lern tha meenins

Actually... when I learnt to read and write I had a fairly good teacher in an old shearer fella named Jim Durey who gave me a dictionary for a present one payday an a pencil an he took the time to "learnd me me numbas"... true fact! he couldnt speak clear for shyte but by god he was good with his numbas! cought the boss out cheating my pay cause I couldnt read or write

I got smarter over the years and ended up passing English in the mature age entrace top of the group for that year in the state... I can spell!!! Whacko!! and write? well I havent stopped since and refuse to be stopped... words are fascinating things!

Trouble is Ive no sence of grammar or syntax (and I still have no idea what that is) and paragraphs I put where ever I need a breath same with commas and full stops... he taught me my words the books I read tought me the rest (those old tuppenny cowboy books where my world for a long time on the station "larry and stretch" in particular) but I did improve and am still improving

I remember getting my first typewriter one of those ball top things from my granddad banging away like some demented arab on heat then the missus got stick of seeing the huge pile of paper with ONE mistake on the page thrown in the corner and got one of those fancy smansy brother electronic ones with an internal erasor!! MAN was I in heaven!! Id type the word and look at the little screen see a mistake hit the back button and whalla type again!! then I got technophile and got a computer... slow low memory but whahoooo Word Perfect was amazing!! and so I got bedderer

Now im gooder

me I just love words amazing things words brilliant astounding increadible things are words.

Trouble is I think when you come from the background I have come from with regards to reading and writing... writing in particular you either go silent and say very little for fear of making a mistake and being ridiculed just like you were before you could write... or you go absolutely TROPPO with it and never shut up!!

sigh me Im the silent quiet retirin type of fella... thats why yous mob rarely hear from me

[wheelinround]

I suggest you look it up too--misspelled.

I did checked it out on word web but hey it is US based spelling after all and that word drove teachers NUTS

[wheelinround]

whyyer bugga hinney... ivry whair y seem t gan y bumpinta a geordie...
s whairaboots didja yoosta kickya byuts off wen y waas a bairn?
cheers
Jedo
( a Mackem...)

Now even tho I chat each week to cousin in Dipton/Delevs Lane we use proper english

But when she comes here I revert a little when my Uncle came out in the mid 80's (past on) I had to translate heaps for everyone.

Now lets see if I an do it


Why you bugger Honey? everywhere you seem to go you bump into a Geordie.

So where abouts did you Kick your boots off when you were/was a baby.

Jedo howd I do??? pass or what

Born Stanley lived Brunopfeild, went to Geenfields school, Southsheilds one set of grand parents Dipton the other Relos at Pikeside, Anfeild Plain, Highgate.

Wha bout ur sel wer hail from

brought tears to my eyes remembering my gandmothers cooking can even smell it after 40+ yrs fresh baked blackberry pies, cornedbeef pies, pasties, sausage rolls, minced tarts. this time of year she would be flat out preparing making christmas cakes and puds with generous amounts of alchohol.

[munruben]

Now my spelin is shockin whil me grama is uptashat as fo syntax I gets taxed enuf to not botha wif anuva... neva lernded to red cept wen I went ta bed id red a dikshunari to lern me words but neva culd lern tha meenins

Now yor torkin my langwich.

sigh me Im the silent quiet retirin type of fella... thats why yous mob rarely hear from me

Yeah and so shy

[silentC]

Bloody hell, the forum is being overrun by northern English gits. Bring back the seppos!

[wheelinround]

Just found it Chris

Now my spelin is shockin whil me grama is uptashat as fo syntax I gets taxed enuf to not botha wif anuva... neva lernded to red cept wen I went ta bed id red a dikshunari to lern me words but neva culd lern tha meenins

Actually... when I learnt to read and write I had a fairly good teacher in an old shearer fella named Jim Durey who gave me a dictionary for a present one payday an a pencil an he took the time to "learnd me me numbas"... true fact! he couldnt speak clear for shyte but by god he was good with his numbas! cought the boss out cheating my pay cause I couldnt read or write

I got smarter over the years and ended up passing English in the mature age entrace top of the group for that year in the state... I can spell!!! Whacko!! and write? well I havent stopped since and refuse to be stopped... words are fascinating things!

Trouble is Ive no sence of grammar or syntax (and I still have no idea what that is) and paragraphs I put where ever I need a breath same with commas and full stops... he taught me my words the books I read tought me the rest (those old tuppenny cowboy books where my world for a long time on the station "larry and stretch" in particular) but I did improve and am still improving

I remember getting my first typewriter one of those ball top things from my granddad banging away like some demented arab on heat then the missus got stick of seeing the huge pile of paper with ONE mistake on the page thrown in the corner and got one of those fancy smansy brother electronic ones with an internal erasor!! MAN was I in heaven!! Id type the word and look at the little screen see a mistake hit the back button and whalla type again!! then I got technophile and got a computer... slow low memory but whahoooo Word Perfect was amazing!! and so I got bedderer

Now im gooder

me I just love words amazing things words brilliant astounding increadible things are words.

Trouble is I think when you come from the background I have come from with regards to reading and writing... writing in particular you either go silent and say very little for fear of making a mistake and being ridiculed just like you were before you could write... or you go absolutely TROPPO with it and never shut up!!

sigh me Im the silent quiet retirin type of fella... thats why yous mob rarely hear from me

I had just this morning read your post on hinges which you reveal your past and leaning period. Hail the shearer who taught Ding/Shane for without out him here we would have nothing to aspire too. no offense.

Shane you must have been part Geordie northern Englishman they have their own dielect no wonder I can read and enjoy eveything you post. when growing up in OZ I had many a freind who was full 1/2 & 1/4 cast one became an Ozzy boxer Johnny Famishone (now that I can't recall how to spell) was his brother 1/2 brother. Got away from me that did so speaking pidgeon english I learned early in my years in Oz.

Funny how we recall things just thought when at primary school teacher hated stepped on got deep in to young johnny's brother over a week or so till one kid said hey Mr Teach you do realise who's brother your pickin on don'tchatya. Now teach was male and right into boxing matches ( he used to have the radio on in class listening to the fights) he said dont care if he's related to the Queen. Kid said well if the Queen can hit like Johhny fam then you'd better think twice Teacher near died.


Education comes in many ways ever listend to what a mute has to say or spoketo a deaf person.

[wheelinround]

Bloody hell, the forum is being overrun by northern English gits. Bring back the seppos!

To which this nothern English git replied First American president was one also.

[silentC]

George Washington? He was born in America! Might have been a git, but not a northern English one

[SPIRIT]

l think im the bestest speller on this forum

[munruben]

Now lets see if I an do it

Why you bugger Honey? everywhere you seem to go you bump into a Geordie.
So where abouts did you Kick your boots off when you were/was a baby.
Jedo howd I do??? pass or what

Wheelin' I think you are close but actually there could be two interpretations of the first line.

1. Where you bugger been? everywhere I seem to go I bump into a person from Newcastle upon Tyne. (Geordie being a person from Newcastle upon Tyne, England}

2. Where you bugger been? everywhere I seem to go I bump into a guinea (Scottish word for a guinea meaning a formerly used British gold coin worth one pound and five pence; a guinea)

Although # 1 above is probably closer to the meaning of the original sentence, the # 2 option would actually be more correct in real terms if we were to take it literally.

[silentC]

It's been said before, it's not how well you write, it's how well you get your message across. Spelling doesn't really matter that much I suppose, although I'd like to see standards improve a bit at school, I think you should learn the rules before you're allowed to forget them.

However, I do find some posters a bit hard to follow. Some people are probably much better oral communicators than they are authors and it shows in what they say, despite the spelling and punctuation. The problem is that forums like this are 99% about words. Yes a picture speaks a thousand words, but without words this forum would just be a photo album.

I think most people get their message across and you would be silly to dismiss people's advice or opinions just because their spelling sucks.

But by jeez some people are hard to follow!

[wheelinround]

George Washington? He was born in America! Might have been a git, but not a northern English one

Not quite he was born and partly raised Nth UK this has been revieled in a number of shows I have seen of late and checked it up on the web.

[silentC]

John, those translations make no more sense than the original. And all the time I thought it only sounded like they were talking gibberish!

[silentC]

Not quite he was born and partly raised Nth UK this has been revieled in a number of shows I have seen of late and checked it up on the web.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington

George Washington was born on February 22, 1732 (February 11, 1731, O.S.),[2] the first son of Augustine Washington and his second wife, Mary Ball Washington, on the family's Pope's Creek Estate near present-day Colonial Beach in Westmoreland County, Virginia.

So was his father and his grandfather. His great-grandfather was born in Essex.

[munruben]

George Washington? He was born in America! Might have been a git, but not a northern English one

Mary Ball Washington was born in Lancaster County, Virginia, in 1708 to Joseph Ball and Mary Montague Johnson Ball. Each of her parents had been previously married and had children by their previous marriages. The family home was Epping Forest. Her grandfather, William Ball, had been born in England and had immigrated to Virginia around 1650.

Thought you might be interested in this silent.