The common mistakes when people write.
@JamieHenriques (200)
August 4, 2010 2:46am CST
These are some mistake you will fins made everywhere when writing these days. I get so damn frustrated when people make these mistakes. Have you seen them before.
People Spelling What they mean.
Check Cheque
Rite Right
Loosing Losing
loose lose
Please add to this list if add observe any.
PS: Many of them are splashed all over mylot
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@allyoftherain (7208)
• United States
4 Aug 10
Spelling mistakes don't bother me nearly as much as text speak. I hate seeing text speak, even when it's in an actual text message on my phone. "i gt 2 go c da mv w/ mi BFF an den im gn go 2 gt da mlk 4 u lol" This is a desecration of the English language! One of my teachers says she has students actually turning in their research papers this way! At COLLEGE! It's a disaster!
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@louisefrank (356)
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4 Aug 10
There are lots of people on MyLot whose first language is not English so we shouldn't expect their language skills to be perfect. Then there are lots of differences between American English and UK English, for example favorite/favourite, color/colour and, yes, check/cheque. Mistakes that grate on me include confusing its and it's, you're and your, and there and their. English in all its forms is a wonderful language - very expressive, rich and varied.
@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
7 Aug 10
Jamie how about fins. should that not be find, and why not edit
your own discussion before pointing fingers at the rest of us?
Some cultures do write check as cheque, but rite and right are two
words that have different meanings so why use them interchangeably?May
I remind you that a lot of these words you are griping about may be
used as we have many people here who are just learning English as a
second language. We are told by mylot admins not to berate or make fun of their errors but be helpful not hateful. Think about this, if you were in a different country and were trying to write a discussion in a language you were not conversant in you might do even worse than our mylot friends from other countries? It is so easy to run down people for errors here
but I do not think it will make our friends from other lands very happy to read that.
@JamieHenriques (200)
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7 Aug 10
thanks for pinting out the fins instead of find it was a careless mistake had the habit of not not proof reading at school and I guess it has carried on lol. But I am not mocking other at the way they spell FYI English isn't my first language either but I do make the effort to ensure my errors are minimal. And I dont have an issue with mispellings it is words like "check" and "cheque" or the thr right / rite that annoys me. They have different meanings and it confuses me what the are trying to say. I wasnt talking about mylotters about other topics as well many people make errors in fact I only realised yesterday "millennium" had two "n's"
And when I point out to peoples mistake the problem is time and time again they continue to make the errors despite the correction.
@JamieHenriques (200)
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7 Aug 10
oh and another thing i fail yet again to proof read and I mean "pointing" and not "pinting" and i did not intend on typing "not" twice
@ip5217 (1655)
• Philippines
4 Aug 10
Yes, I've seen them several times. I hope those are just typos. If those words are seen several times in an article with the wrong spelling then I can say that he really doesn't know how to spell the said word. However, if it's just once then I can say that it's just a typo.
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@oldchem1 (8132)
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4 Aug 10
The thing that annoys me the most ( and my normally clever and very literate daughter ALWAYS makes this mistake) is
BEEN, BEING, BEAN
She uses the word BEEN for every use( except the food type)
For example she will write:
" you are BEEN very silly" instead of BEING
