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   From: rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com   
      
   "Commander Kinsey"  wrote in message   
   news:op.z1funfnkwdg98l@desktop-ga2mpl8.lan...   
   > On Tue, 07 May 2019 02:49:54 +0100, Rod Speed    
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   >> "Commander Kinsey"  wrote in message   
   >> news:op.z1d7h3x1wdg98l@desktop-ga2mpl8.lan...   
   >>> On Mon, 06 May 2019 20:44:56 +0100, Rod Speed    
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   >>>> "Commander Kinsey"  wrote in message   
   >>>> news:op.z1dt8mopwdg98l@desktop-ga2mpl8.lan...   
   >>>>> On Mon, 06 May 2019 20:00:11 +0100, Rod Speed   
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   >>>>>> "Commander Kinsey"  wrote in message   
   >>>>>> news:op.z1dsdawawdg98l@desktop-ga2mpl8.lan...   
   >>>>>>> On Mon, 06 May 2019 00:35:54 +0100, Rod Speed   
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   >>>>>>>> "Commander Kinsey"  wrote in message   
   >>>>>>>> news:op.z1b04czrwdg98l@desktop-ga2mpl8.lan...   
   >>>>>>>>> On Sun, 05 May 2019 19:08:24 +0100, Rod Speed   
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   >>>>>>>>>> "Commander Kinsey"  wrote in message   
   >>>>>>>>>> news:op.z1buwkkiwdg98l@desktop-ga2mpl8.lan...   
   >>>>>>>>>>> Why copy a yank instead of a Brit?   
   >>>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>> I don't copy anyone. I do what makes sense.   
   >>>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>> That's why I don't fart around with ies and use ys instead.   
   >>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>> I am logical with some words.  I say and write pronounciation,   
   >>>>>>>>> because   
   >>>>>>>>> it   
   >>>>>>>>> comes from pronounce, not pronunce.   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> I couldn't care less where it comes from.   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> What matters is whether the individual reading it knows what I   
   >>>>>>>> am referring to, and they do when I spell it tire, from the   
   >>>>>>>> context.   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> They also think you're a fucking idiot.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Only a few fools like you.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> No, most people laugh at those who can't spell.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Try facebook and twitter sometime.   
   >>   
   >>> A quick note to somebody I can excuse.   
   >>   
   >> IMO its mad to be wasting lots of time teaching   
   >> kids how to spell correctly with a language which   
   >> has stolen so many words from all sorts of foreign   
   >> languages. What matters is whether the meaning is   
   >> clear, not if every word is spelt correctly, particularly   
   >> with the more obscure stuff like its and it's etc.   
      
   > I agree on its and it's.  In fact I often deliberately write it's if   
   > something belongs to it.   
      
   > Oh and spelt instead of spelled too.  Why have more than one past tense?   
      
   Because of english having so many stolen words in it.   
      
   Same with fora/forums etc too.   
      
   >>> But if you type whole sentences in an email or newsgroup post, I expect   
   >>> something more adult.   
      
   >> More fool you. Doesn't matter if a facebook   
   >> post is telling a chest of drawers or says draws.   
      
   > Every so often you get ambiguousness.   
      
   Not often enough to matter so it makes no sense   
   to be spending countless hours making kids spell   
   stuff so there can be no ambiguity.   
      
   >> In spades when the bulk of the english speaking world   
   >> uses tires instead of tyres or color instead of colour.   
   >   
   > No, only the stoopid yanks.   
      
   Wrong, as always.   
      
   >>> Mind you I've recently closed my Facebook account,   
   >>   
   >> More fool you. It still be best place to find cheap   
   >> or free stuff local people are getting rid of etc.   
   >   
   > No, I get free and cheap local big stuff on freecycle, freegle, and   
   > gumtree.   
      
   The facebook buy swap sell groups leave those for dead.   
      
   The gumtree UI is fucked in comparison.   
      
   > Smaller things I get on Ebay.   
      
   You get fuck all free stuff on ebay and no fee is   
   involved with facebook buy swap sell groups.   
      
   > Facebook just isn't designed for selling,   
      
   Wrong, as always.   
      
   > it's a chatroom.   
      
   Wrong, as always.   
      
   >>> all it was full of is friends of friends of friends I've never heard of   
   >>> posting photos of their MacDonalds meal.   
   >>   
   >> Only one of my friends ever does that and facebook   
   >> is a convenient way to keep track of what those who   
   >> have moved away from this town are currently up to.   
   >   
   > Can't you communicate with them directly?   
      
   Corse I can, but its much more convenient for them   
   to list what they have been up to and have all of   
   their friends see that and respond if they want to.   
      
   > I talk to my friends by email and phone.   
      
   I do too, and using facebook and messenger as well.   
      
   >>> Waste of fucking time.  Anyone I actually want to know, I phone, email,   
   >>> or speak to in person.   
      
   >> Plenty use messenger just as effectively   
   >> and plenty don't have an email.   
   >   
   > Everybody has email, apart from those not on the internet at all.   
      
   Even sillier and more pig ignorant than you usually manage.   
      
   Mate of mine does everything on his phone, has no fixed net service at all.   
      
   >>> As for twitter, shitty designed rubbish, no threads or anything, just   
   >>> "tweets" which aren't related to any conversation.   
   >>   
   >> The real world is about more than just conversations;   
   >   
   > What's the point in a tweet without a reply?   
      
   With plenty its just like a blog, done differently.   
      
   And with plenty they tweet news that they have   
   observed personally like when they have just   
   been personally involved in a terrorist incident.   
      
   The christchurch arsehole broadcast   
   his atrocity live on facebook.   
      
   >> I don't personally use twitter because   
   >> I think the character limit is stupid.   
   >   
   > Agreed on that.   
   >   
   >>>>>>> Did you run out of energy when changing the wheel?   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> My energy doesn't have a tread or wear on just one side either.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Why should I have to work out which word you mean from context?   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Its automatic for anyone who isnt brain dead.   
   >>>   
   >>> Now make every word have two possibilities.   
   >>   
   >> But its normally obvious from the context which is intended.   
   >   
   > All of what you've written in this thread is perfectly intelligible.   
      
   Their ads on facebook for draws etc are too.   
      
   > You're not making an arse of your spelling like most Facebook users do.   
      
   Only you OCDs obsess about about spelling.   
      
   >>>>> Just use the right one in the first place.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> There is no right one. FAR more use tire instead of tyre.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> You get to like that or lump it.   
   >>>   
   >>> Only yanks use the wrong one.   
   >>   
   >> Wrong, as always. Most whose   
   >> first language isnt english do too.   
   >>   
   >> They have a lower IQ, look up the stats.   
   >>   
   >> So do you hairy legged cross dressing haggis gorgers.   
   >   
   > Only if you include Glasgow.   
      
   Bullshit.   
      
   > Someone please bomb it.   
      
   As Connelly pointed out, it would make no difference.   
      
      
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