There, Their, They're
There, Their, They're
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Ok, I know they are different, I know which to use when but, for some reason lately I keep getting it wrong. I re-read a post or email and I have the wrong one.
What's going on, have my typing fingers discovered a mind ofthere they're their own?
Anyone else have any grammar, spelling etc. faux pas they keep making even though they know it's wrong.
Anyone fixed it? Maybe make yourself write it correctly a 100 times
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What's going on, have my typing fingers discovered a mind of
Anyone else have any grammar, spelling etc. faux pas they keep making even though they know it's wrong.
Anyone fixed it? Maybe make yourself write it correctly a 100 times
KENAT, probably the least qualified checker you'll ever meet...





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Jeff Mirisola, CSWP
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"Art without engineering is dreaming; Engineering without art is calculating."
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old field guy
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Hg
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A.
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Mike McCann
McCann Engineering
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Tobalcane
"If you avoid failure, you also avoid success."
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"Art without engineering is dreaming; Engineering without art is calculating."
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JMW
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Le ver vert vers le vers sur le verre vire.
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Matt Lorono
CAD Engineer/ECN Analyst
Silicon Valley, CA
Lorono's SolidWorks Resources
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Thank you fcsuper. As for the spell check, yup the word is spelt correctly, it's just the wrong one.
And thanks to all else for responding in more or less the vain (or vein, hmm) this was intended.
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Another one is "Ratio" that always comes out as "Ration" (only when typing, not writing)
Odd.
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Dr Michael F Platten
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That's just muscle memory, there are so many words ending in "ion" that your fingers just anticipate it and do the deed before your brain can stop it.
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JMW
www.ViscoAnalyser.com
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I can never type reference either (that took two goes).
- Steve
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Zou don't realiye the problem until zou trz to tzpe anzthing sensible.
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"Art without engineering is dreaming; Engineering without art is calculating."
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I did ask him to change dialect. Teh in a different dialect is Cheang or Ch'ng - doesn't need auto correction then.
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A.
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As for Aluminium, even if you spell it right, if in the wrong country it's wrong.
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JMW
www.ViscoAnalyser.com
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I typed something like that on a bulletin board earlier today and only noticed it just now. It is superior to this bulletin board - you have an hour to correct mistakes before content is frozen. I prefer bulletin boards where you can correct your own posts as often as you like.
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Then again, since I'm getting wiser, I'm becoming errror free, wright?
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On the occasion in question, I was writing a short note with a pen and paper (old-school) and I found that instead of the word I had wanted to write, I had written the word that usually comes up first when trying to write that word using the predictive text messaging on a mobile phone (e.g. writing "riots" instead of "pints").
Is there any hope for me?
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"They're putting their coats over there."
I seem to recall this being the example sentence at school.
So far I seem to be keeping its and it's on track but how long till that goes to pot is anyone’s guess.
(Do me a favor though Gymmeh, don't use SOB. I can handle pretty much any insult to me but say something about my mum and the adrenaline starts to pump, even when I know it's in jest!)
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A.
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I assumed former, if latter then ignore my last paragraph.
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I am sobbing because I think the family of There,Their,they'er so frusterating.
I guess capital sob may not be understood as extreem sobing
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I've just had an attack of the 'yaws'.
What's yaws?
Thanks, I'll have a pint.
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Did I mention I'm dyslexic...
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Matt Lorono
CAD Engineer/ECN Analyst
Silicon Valley, CA
Lorono's SolidWorks Resources
Co-moderator of Solidworks Yahoo! Group
and Mechnical.Engineering Yahoo! Group
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MadMango: I play a recorder, and I record my recorder to see if I am "recording" well.
Mintjulip: Would that be Les Paul's "Waiting for the Sunshine"? i.e. Guitarist Les Paul, the multitrack recording pioneer.
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"... I need to get your approval of ..."
I accidentally hit the space bar after the "a" in approval. MS quietly changed the "your" to "you're" but didn't change it back when I hit the backspace key. I barely caught it before sending the email, and had to undo numerous times to figure out what had happened. Add that to the long list of MS quirks to be aware of.
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ht
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Just between you and me, I cringe whenever I hear or read the increasingly popular "Just you and I" or Just between you and I".
This link clarifies the subject vs. object use of I and me, just the way I was taught in English class.
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I am pleased to say Microsoft can't spell any better than I can. Worse, maybe.
I use English UK spelling and I dictated:
"It is now thought that sulphur emissions in the Mediterranean are lower than previously reported."
Microsoft thought for moment and then typed:
"It is now thought that sulfur emissions in the Mediterranean are lower than previously reported."
Spell checker had thoughtfully squiggly underlined "sulfur" in red to let me know that "speech to text" had gotten its spelling wrong and I then had to go and correct the spelling back to "sulphur" for it.
Duh!
JMW
www.ViscoAnalyser.com
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old field guy
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I also mix up the same 2 letters when typing my last name about half the time.
Guess the problem is called getting old.
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http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/index2.htm
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It must have taken someone all day to think up that name.
- Steve
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Yeppers! The place used to be a major producer of elemental sulfur using the Frasch process for extraction from salt domes. so the town gets named "Sulphur" and we have schools and parks named "Frasch".
Since the sulfur got depleted, the salt domes now provide brine for a major chlor-alkali facility and also for storage of petroleum and natural gas.
Fun stuff!
old field guy
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Hg
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I'm not sure this is the right thread. Anyway...
Lately I got from a message from a friend with his new electronic address as e-male rather than e-mail.
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JMW
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If you had put a there, their, or they're in there somewhere, it would have been the right thread.
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But, at least I now have an excuse.
JMW
www.ViscoAnalyser.com
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This came up on the Richard and Judy Show (a UK chat show; I was visiting my aged parents).
Two comedians (literally, one appears in the Royale Show, whatever that is, no idea what the other does).
They were driving to a gig in Wales somewhere and were stopped by the police.
The driver decided his best bet was to meet the policeman half way (good advice in the UK but possibly contra-indicated in the US where the police might just shoot you, just for the hell of it, if you so much as move your hands).
The following dialogue is between a Brit and a Welsh Policeman so you must imagone some difference in accents.
The policeman, watching his approach, said "You're staggering, sir."
"You're not bad yourself." replied the comedian somewhat off balance by this opening gambit.
The Policeman decided to ignore this and said:
"I stopped you because you were driving at 70mph in a 40mph zone."
A pause for effect then:
"What would you do, Sir, if Mr. Fog came down?"
"I put my foot on Mr. Brake." replied the comedian.
"I'll say that again Sir." said the policeman patiently, "What would you do if mist or fog came down?"
JMW
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- Steve
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You can't loose the race!!!!! For the love of God!!!
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I always say engineers should not be allowed to write. Safest that way. We should stick to drawings, numbers and smugly pointing out the obvious with pipe in our mouth, so we don't say anything stupid as well.
Me granda', a yorkshire coalminer down the pit 52 years, ooh aye taught me that.