blueglass
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yawn
Anyone like to proof read this Broker's advertisement?
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jamesjermain
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Seventeen or eighteen basic mistakes plus another four or five instances of clumsy English. About par for modern youf English
myquest
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Why is "eighty's" acceptable to those what decided to itmize them errers?
chewi
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Marmalade
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yep 19 reading it through
AntarcticPilot
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Ah there lies the reason why, Rigger Mortice has tracked down the advert, the reason why the basic grammar is so bad is that the author comes from Norfolk. Where is that anyway, anybody famous come from Norfolk. Hmmm
Nelson??
Amulet
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Oh dear, if we are being pedants we have to get it rite. Or even get "its" right.
farmerdan79
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Reminds me of an email that once did the rounds:
fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too
Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.
i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht
I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch
at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod
are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm.
Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!
fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too
Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.
i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht
I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch
at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod
are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm.
Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!