Just some of the things I need to get off my chest.
Things to consider before you post.
Published on January 28, 2008 By mschleisner In Community
Don't post till you check your spelling. I know it might be difficult but why look like someone with a second grade education when you know you can do better. I think most just post and never look back to read what they have written first. Maybe you look after you post and think "oh no" did I really do that? Most miss-spelled words are just that, the person couldn't spell it, some are just silly as in the word wallpapers or problem, those look like someone who is frustrated but I think just re-reading your work is a must before you post. No one here might say anything but we do think it. There is no spell check for the posts here and I have been at other sites that have them and people seem to think they are too smart to use them.  I would say to that, so sorry but your post didn't make the cut because you didn't spell check. Here there isn't that option so you must proof read your post first and if you are not sure of the spelling please look up the word first to make sure you look like someone took a little time to read before you post. I do this for my own sanity. I try very hard to make sure I at least try to spell it right before I post. I might not be the brightest bulb in the box but I don't want to look like the broken bulb either. Please just check before you post and save the people here from looking at these mistakes and try to use "Caps" where needed. Couldn't hurt. Thanks from someone who goes crazy when she views posts like this. 
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on Feb 25, 2008
I say we should be keel-haulin' master Zubaz. Tis' shameful tha way 'e be treatin' tha King's English. Or per'aps we should be makin' fine master Zubaz listen ta tha entire Backstreet Boys collectshun...

At'll teach 'im a lesson or two.....
on Feb 25, 2008
Arrr, kissin' the gunner's daughter be the same as keelhaulin', ye scurvy bilge rat. Be ye sure ye be a real pirate?
on Feb 25, 2008
All ye scurvy spellers be walkin't plank soon enough arrr.
An' wots wiv all this 'ere speeling stuff... anybody wot knows tha king's english should orta know 'ow t' spell proper like.
Arrr, Cap'n, but what ta do wit dat there Zubaz blaggard? Is spellin be crook an no mistake - it not be the King's English.
He be kissin' the gunner's daughter soon enough, methinks. Arrrrr.
I say we should be keel-haulin' master Zubaz. Tis' shameful tha way 'e be treatin' tha King's English. Or per'aps we should be makin' fine master Zubaz listen ta tha entire Backstreet Boys collectshun...


What.
The
Hell?

How did this become about good ol' Zub?

Guys. . . c'maon . .  I was just kidding.   Put down those cutlasses . . please . . c'mon . . you're not real pirates . .  not really.

ZubaZ runs like a bat outta Hell!!!
on Feb 25, 2008
Arr, lucky I brought me blunderbuss. [click!] Arrrr, me powder be wet.
on Feb 25, 2008
walk the plank, walk the plank!!!!
on Feb 25, 2008

Zubaz runs like a bat outta Hell!!!

Arrr, Zube matey, Davey Jones already be 'avin your name, arrr. There be no where t' hide 'cept at the Earth's end arrr

on Feb 26, 2008
Thar'll be no keel'aulin' o' Master Zub's aboard this 'ere vessel. It's not like 'e does it d'liberate. like... all 'is typos n' speeling mistakes be an accident of 'e's berth.


***note to self... put a dickshunary in Zubs cabin***

He be kissin' the gunner's daughter soon enough


Don' fink so.... 'ave ye see'd 'er?? Gawd, I 'ave, 'n yer'd 'ave ter be blind t' pucker up t' that thar wench... bein' 'er 'aves lips like a manatee wiv mumps.

on Feb 26, 2008
Cap'n, wiv' 'at moustache of 'ers, I though she wuz tha gunner's youngest lad....  
on Feb 26, 2008
I see some good points in this thread, but I also see that some people like myself find spelling is harder than some, and if you are not a good reader then what good is a dictonary? I do try my best at what I do, I had a learning problem and if I don't know how to spell a word I often ask starkers and with his help I get what I need to get done. Ok so my punctuation is always in the wrong spots, I do try (
on Feb 26, 2008
Don't pay any attention to the grammar nazis (Godwin's Law Alert!), Mrs. Starkers. As far as I'm concerned, as long as communication is clear, errors aren't important. Now, if you were writing for me, it'd be a different matter, but internet forums shouldn't be held to as high a standard.

Oh, and arrrrrr, I be willing to bet that I be the only one here with proper piratical mutton chops. The rest o' ye be but pretend play pirate-types, arrrr.
on Feb 27, 2008
Don't pay any attention to the grammar nazis (Godwin's Law Alert!)


Thank you DonDodds, I thought that I may have to stop coming into these forums , I did not want to do that as they are so much fun, and I have made so many friends here arrrrr shiver me timbers arrrr
on Feb 27, 2008
I thought that I may have to stop coming into these forums


I don't think this thread was intended to be about the occasional spelling error or Zubism, nor about the slightly off grammar I and quite a few others use.

This was more about the "cool" people that write the "plz hlp me, got trble"-posts. I doubt that mrs starkers is one of them (not that I have ever noticed?).

grammar nazis


It seems to be an universal law, that anyone who behaves in a lazy and inconsiderate way is considered "cool" and "tolerant", while everyone who points that bad behaviour out is "a nazi".

Now, have we decided yet whether Zubaz has to walk the plank or is getting dragged behind the ship?

on Feb 27, 2008
I be willing to bet that I be the only one here with proper piratical mutton chops. The rest o' ye be but pretend play pirate-types, arrrr.


'Ere, I'll 'ave ye know that I be frum a long lineage o' pirates frum England's West Country (th' 'ome of piracy an' yer Francis Drake 'eself... thar be no pretendin' 'ere me bucko.

Yep, that be right, Francis Drake wur a scoundrel pirate 'til Lizzy I knighted tha blaggard n' got 'im rescuin' booty fer 'er frum tha Spanish... tha Froggies too, anybody wot sailed inta e's spyglass view.

Oh, n' does ye 'ave tha proper pirate talk when ye jaws, like? Aarrggghh, that's wot be tha diff'rence b'tween tha pirate pretenders n' tha genuine article.

Yer 'riginal cap'n starkers...arrrr!!!
on Feb 27, 2008

arrr what be 'e Natzi arrr, be that like a rev'nue man from't East India Co? arrr To Davy Jones wit em...

getting dragged behind the ship?

Behind? arrr, don't ye mean under from't front t'back? What kind a pirate wench be e? Cap'n, me thinks we have a stowaway on board. Arrr, a real pirate wench be 'avin a huge bust - oi volunteers to check the stowaway's pirate wench credentials arrr....

If not, we be slappin 'er in irons an' castin her in't dungeon next 't bones of miss Jennifer....

on Feb 27, 2008

It seems to be an universal law, that anyone who behaves in a lazy and inconsiderate way is considered "cool" and "tolerant", while everyone who points that bad behaviour out is "a nazi".

Yes, that's what it's really about....though somehow it got belayed [no...that's not a typo]...

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