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09-26-2004, 01:33 PM
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ˇ #1 | | NamePros Regular Name: Michal Pleban Location: Poland Join Date: Sep 2004
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Hi!
I've seen on this forum, and on many other forums as well, that people write "there" instead of "their" and "your" instead of "you're". Why do you do that? Is it a kind of forum slang, a new trend in Internet communication, or something like that?
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09-26-2004, 01:36 PM
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ˇ #2 | | Senior Member Name: Mike Location: Ontario, Canada Join Date: Aug 2004
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| It is common for people to use the wrong word. I say who cares. They know what they mean and so do you. | |
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09-26-2004, 01:40 PM
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ˇ #3 | | NamePros Regular Name: Michal Pleban Location: Poland Join Date: Sep 2004
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| Well, I oftentimes don't know. I'm not native English so when people write this way I get confused sometimes, what did they reaally mean? | |
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09-26-2004, 03:14 PM
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ˇ #4 | | Senior Member Location: Tacoma, WA Join Date: Sep 2003
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| "Their" shows possession like:
their car or you should go to their home.
"There" would be like go over there or he went over there or my brother was there-
Make sense?
I think most people just type spontaneously and dont look back.
I know sometimes I forget a word in a sentence.. o- well. I can't fix every
reply i respond to or start. | |
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09-26-2004, 03:48 PM
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ˇ #5 | | Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2003
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| well, they sound exactly the same, and when you read it in your mind, you read the same word, so it doesnt really matter, and you can just replace the type you mean in your mind so many peolpe just type it out however they want | |
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09-26-2004, 04:23 PM
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ˇ #6 | | Account Closed Name: Wesley Location: MD Join Date: Mar 2004
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| I think it's annoying. But whatever. Some forums (like any I run) will have filters. So that "ur" turns into you're, and stuff. You know, chat speak filters =P | |
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09-26-2004, 04:55 PM
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ˇ #7 | | Senior MemberŠ Name: Dan Location: ANForum Join Date: Oct 2003
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| Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by itslef but the wrod as a wlohe. | |
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09-26-2004, 05:15 PM
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ˇ #8 | | NamePros Member Join Date: Sep 2004
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I sometime make this mistakes when I type too fast and not thinking 
where -> were
than -> then
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