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Yeah someone mention the proper usage of these words (They're, there, their ) to Morris. He has never once gotten it right, and yes sometimes it irks me ;-).
anthonyderekjackson said:
They're, there, their . . .
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Good spelling is a great way of expressing what you have to say.

I think everybody agrees on this.

What doesn't help is the very base of this forum where you can't correct a simple typo. Of course, I could go back and read words by words what I did put in the text zone but even there, it might go thru still.

The other perspective to keep in mind is the international aspect where English might not be the first language (like in my case it is 3rd).

I am a little more tolerant because of this aspect I guess but I like to keep improving. When politely suggested, I don't think it is a big deal to try and do better next time.
saskalex said:
Dear fellow posters, allow me to remind you of some spelling rules:

LENS
The singular is "lens", not "lense" or "len".
The plural is "lenses", not "lense's".

PHOTO
The plural is "photos", not "photo's".

IT
The genitive is "its" (as in "its beauty").
"It's" is short for "it is" (as in "it's beautiful").

Regards to all from a D200 user.
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As one who tries, but doesn't always succeed, at spelling well, and finds the various misspellings and punctuation errors more annoying than they should be, I say this:

1. non-native English speakers: you're doing great. It's usually pretty clear that English isn't your first language and few would quibble with someone who's trying;

2. English speakers (or others writing in their native tongue): if you choose not to be careful in how you write about something, for me at least, whatever it is that you are trying to say loses credence.

On the other hand, what's a typooo between friends?

Steve
 
LilKnytt said:
In Swedish schools they drill us in grammar in every language we
take. Spelling as well. Being that I'm dyslectic school was not fun
for me. But I've attacked that just as I am my photography, I
practice, practice, practice - - all in order to achieve perfection
(at least try) & to not give up.

Thanks for being so kind.

Lil
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Yeah, somehow grammar never really stuck with me, I used to read Math text books for fun, carried a slide rule in the 4th grade, took my computer courses in college backwards - senior electives first to freshman courses last - but English grammar, oh well! I'm still the king of run-on sentences, and where and when to use punctuation is still hit an miss.

Had a College English Professor that would take off 2 points for each grammatical error in a paper - first paper I turned in was 4 pages long lost 38 points to grammar errors. The next paper I turned in was 1 page long, lost 10 points. After that, the rest of the papers I tuned in were 1 page or less in length. I passed with a 3.6 :-)

Hmmm... being dyslectic in photography, does that mean people in group shots change places on you? ;-)
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Chifley said:
The word "lense" went out with chamber pots and the Black Plague.
Some posters are clutching at straws claiming the spelling was used
at one time. Next we'll be seeing posts resembling the writings of
Geoffrey Chaucer.
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Chamber pots? Those who I speak with on a daily basis that were around when most of these references were first published, might take issue with such an "ageist" presumption. They actually did have indoor plumbing, electricity, even shoes for going to church on Sunday!

While archaic, and clearly on the decline, the variant spelling of lense is still cited in numerous dictionary references. A quick Google search turned up close to a million pages containing that spelling. If this particular variant is no longer to be used, there does seem to be quite a number of people still living among us that never got the memo.

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Actually in Europe I believe the correct spelling is lense

I'd like to add

definitely not definately

Rich
 
Neil McKenzie said:
Lense

noun
a transparent optical device used to converge or diverge
transmitted light and to form images [syn: lens]

WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary - Cite This Source

Main Entry: lens
Variant: also lense 'lenz
Function: noun
1 : a curved piece of glass or plastic used singly or combined in
eyeglasses or an optical instrument (as a microscope) for forming
an image
2 : a device for directing or focusing radiation other than light
(as sound waves, radio microwaves, or electrons)
3 : a highly transparent biconvex lens-shaped or nearly spherical
body in the eye that focuses light rays entering the eye typically
onto the retina, lies immediately behind the pupil, is made up of
slender curved rod-shaped ectodermal cells in concentric lamellae
surrounded by a tenuous mesoblastic capsule, and alters its focal
length by becoming more or less spherical in response to the action
of the ciliary muscle on a peripheral suspensory ligament —lensed
adjective —lens·less adjective
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.

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Nicely done, Neil. I was always suspicious of the so-called comprehensiveness of the OED. Those Brits muck everything up!
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guyatdepreview said:
If you correct me, you don't hurt me, you'll only make me stronger, but > unfortunately not everyone sees it that way.
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Your liberal use of commas has created a run-on sentence! May I suggest that you use a semi-colon after "you don't hurt me" to break up the two parts of your sentence?

Yes, of course we can get nit-picky and annoying about spelling and grammar on this forum, but who cares? This is a chatroom-type message board, not an English essay.

I can find an error in almost every single post on this thread, and I'm sure that somebody can find an error in my post as well. Do we really want to waste all of this forum's space on these types of posts? This is just too funny. Cheers! -Joe
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sfisher said:
Hmmm... being dyslectic in photography, does that mean people in
group shots change places on you? ;-)
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LOL

Steve, that's the beauty of art in all it's forms.... No numbers nor letters to transpose. ;-) But at times I make snap judgments which at second look may have been wrong.

Lil
 
Where in Europe would that be, or better is Europe a country with one language.
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Looking at grammar and spelling is only useful when an expert language member grades the message.

Consequence: one may only post again if he/she has corrected all mistakes in his/her previous posts or a banner is attached to the poster saying: this poster can cause serious harm to educational standards.
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tyoung said:
Chifley said:
The word "lense" went out with chamber pots and the Black Plague.
Some posters are clutching at straws claiming the spelling was used
at one time. Next we'll be seeing posts resembling the writings of
Geoffrey Chaucer.
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Chamber pots? Those who I speak with on a daily basis that were
around when most of these references were first published, might
take issue with such an "ageist" presumption. They actually did
have indoor plumbing, electricity, even shoes for going to church
on Sunday!

While archaic, and clearly on the decline, the variant spelling of
lense is still cited in numerous dictionary references. A quick
Google search turned up close to a million pages containing that
spelling. If this particular variant is no longer to be used, there
does seem to be quite a number of people still living among us that
never got the memo.

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'Here, look at the monkey. Look at the silly monkey!'

Tom Young
http://www.pbase.com/tyoung/
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http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/lense.html

Regards
Peter
 
Have you, by any chance, read Simon Winchester's book, The Professor and the Madman?

http://www.amazon.com/Professor-Madman-Simon-Winchester/dp/0060175966

Essentially, it's the history of the compilation of the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. A fascinating story, really.

It's been about seven years since I read it, but as I remember, for a word to be included in the OED, it only had to have been used at least three times (and cited in print) by someone well known - even if the word had never been used by anyone before.

Ever since reading it, I've developed a much more liberal approach to the inexorable, evolutionary, and creative flow of language. And.... I've decided that I'm as entitled as any author to create my own words. :-)

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