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Geek Culture / Common Errors in English - great reference for those of us who write stories, articles, or forum posts :-)

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Jeku
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Posted: 17th Aug 2005 22:28
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Common Errors in English

This is a great reference guide for anyone who posts here or other forums and wants to sound the least bit intelligent. I would be hard pressed to find anyone who doesn't make at least a few of the mistakes listed

http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html


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Raven
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Posted: 17th Aug 2005 22:42
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I make a HUGE number of them, but provided people understand I guess it does no harm. After all that's what the languages are there for, no?

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Dave J
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Posted: 18th Aug 2005 11:12
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Yeah, I've used that site a couple times before and now I always notice a very large proportion of people spell definitely as definately, who knows why, but I know I used to as well.


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Megaton Cat
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Posted: 18th Aug 2005 14:08
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I remember the UK people used to wail at me because I was using an American spell checker...


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