The KGB Oracle Forums General Public Discussion (PUBLIC) The Pub All right guys, time for an english lesson.

rofl

ROFL

I never done had no book learnin.

I either.

I try to watch out for homonyms, but anything that requires more keystrokes with less possibility of misinterpreted meaning is something I will never give a flying fuck about on a public forum ^_^

H@X!

L2Care, Biatch!

* tries to picture this thread during a Conan PvP session *

You're city we will burn ! My advise is to surrender !

LOL

Your English needs professional help ! Education 4tw you
retarded barbarian bastage ! DDD !

Bloodbath ensues. . . . .

My only known hangup with the list presented would be the
effect / affect issue. I loathe those damn words. They
come up as a choice far more often than I would like. :|

Yeah, whenever I come across them I have to think for a second and say to myself something stupid like "the effects of Katrina affected New Orleans."

Well Daye, it's like they say, whenever you're being out-flamed in a forum and you have no counterpoint, you can always correct the other person's grammar :P My next course of action had that WW3/Nuclear Weapons thread continued was to start capitalizing and punctuating Derid's posts or something :P

And yeah, I hear you on the alright and such, Crim. I was surprised that alright wasn't supposed to be a word, but while looking for a website with a nice comprehensive list (and a short link, I was originally led by google to a version of this site with approximately a billion characters :P) I read that ... I think it was "all right" was used in the renaissance, then disappeared for a few hundred years until the early 1900s, and about 75 years later it was shortened to "alright." At first scholars vehemently opposed it, but eventually like you said it found its way into college texts and the business environments and such, and nowadays it's pretty well-accepted.

Words like wood and would, or pretty much every word in that list (e.g. affect/effect as Daye was saying.) Words that sound alike, but mean completely different things.