Your so right ... me tograhamf72 wrote:With so much lose grammar, I am starting to loose my marbles.
For the pedants amongst us ...
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I have CDO. It's like OCD, but the letters are in the correct order.MtnLioness wrote: **OCD kickes in**
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Have a look at this recently published cache - GC27GCV. Cringe. I was going to add a note to it suggesting in future they use a spell checker, pay more attention at school & have someone responsible proof read the description but made a cup of tea instead & added the cache to my Ignore List.
Someone else can ask the obvious question though as I am much more circumspect nowadays.
Someone else can ask the obvious question though as I am much more circumspect nowadays.
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I'd like to think that the hider(s) are taking the piss ... but it's more an indictment of the education systemTuena wrote:Have a look at this recently published cache - GC27GCV. Cringe. I was going to add a note to it suggesting in future they use a spell checker, pay more attention at school & have someone responsible proof read the description but made a cup of tea instead & added the cache to my Ignore List.
Someone else can ask the obvious question though as I am much more circumspect nowadays.
I considered posting an SBA for unintelligibility but I've had a wee dram of scotch (or two) ce soir so am feeling rather mellow
I never knew there were so many ways of spelling Vietnam
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Good lord, that's a doozy.
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I personally hope that the spelling mistakes are there for a reason, and that riblit queried them before publishing. I would hope the reviewers are kind enough to point out obvious errors.
Without knowing the area very well at all (have driven through it) I have no idea if the typos may be significant.
Without knowing the area very well at all (have driven through it) I have no idea if the typos may be significant.
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cheery, cherry, Vitenam, Vietname, Vetrans, Vairly, Memrobilia, aprox, ...richary wrote:I personally hope that the spelling mistakes are there for a reason, and that riblit queried them before publishing. I would hope the reviewers are kind enough to point out obvious errors.
Without knowing the area very well at all (have driven through it) I have no idea if the typos may be significant.
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GC27BJ9
GC23NWN
And I guess I'm a pedant because in addition to excessive apostrophes, poor spelling, poor sentence construction and poor punctuation, I really don't like all caps either.
Only a game... it is only a game....
GC23NWN
And I guess I'm a pedant because in addition to excessive apostrophes, poor spelling, poor sentence construction and poor punctuation, I really don't like all caps either.
Only a game... it is only a game....
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You'll see where theUMP's increasingly unsubtle hints were eventually taken on board by this one. OK, now there's almost no capitalisation at all, but it's a start!Team Wibble wrote:And I guess I'm a pedant because in addition to excessive apostrophes, poor spelling, poor sentence construction and poor punctuation, I really don't like all caps either.
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Never mind that! There's an FTF going begging!Tuena wrote:Have a look at this recently published cache - GC27GCV. Cringe. I was going to add a note to it suggesting in future they use a spell checker, pay more attention at school & have someone responsible proof read the description but made a cup of tea instead & added the cache to my Ignore List.
Someone else can ask the obvious question though as I am much more circumspect nowadays.
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Aaarrrgghh!! My eyes! They burn!Team Wibble wrote:GC27BJ9
GC23NWN
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winterdragon wrote:Aaarrrgghh!! My eyes! They burn!Team Wibble wrote:GC27BJ9
GC23NWN
Tuena wrote:Have a look at this recently published cache - GC27GCV. Cringe. I was going to add a note to it suggesting in future they use a spell checker, pay more attention at school & have someone responsible proof read the description but made a cup of tea instead & added the cache to my Ignore List.
Someone else can ask the obvious question though as I am much more circumspect nowadays.
Those ^ hurt me like this does....
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Theres a disturbing resemblance of that pic to an avatar on this page....................