Sudacafan
Bionic Poster
Agree. DD/MM/YY is a more natural and logical notation than MM/DD/YY.
How's your spilling? ;)
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stringertom
Bionic Poster
Ewer argument iz laborious, knot labourious. Next, eye will have two walk 1760 meters inn ewer shooz win eye wood prefer two walk a mile.
Tennease
Legend
I have no idea how long 1 mile is. 1760 metre is more helpful and more descriptive and less abstract
Tennis_Hands
Banned
How about 1 km? You know, the measure based on the universal standard of length: 1m.
Or one gram, based on the same measure the original of which was used and kept in Sèvres for over a hundred or so odd years and only until recently was used to define what a kilogram is? I can't even understand if I am drinking the appropriate amount of whisky when in an American bar.
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Gary Duane
Talk Tennis Guru
I wasn't asking for help. I was pointing out the lack of logic in our spelling system and the inflexibility of a system (spell checking) that tells you that one spelling or the other is wrong when both are correct.
In fact, because of wrestling with my "problem" for a very long time, I've become very good at explaining things that other people don't even understand.
From time to time you will see some extremely ignorant know-it-all in this forum correct the spelling of another poster who is using perfectly correct British English. Most people just go by rules they were taught in school and have no idea where the rules came from, and when they can be wisely ignored.
It's not just spelling:
A is different to B: UK and other places
A is different than B: US
A is different from B: standard and best to use in writing just to avoid controversy
There are hundreds of things like that, and most people do not have a clue they exist.
Gary Duane
Talk Tennis Guru
5280 feet is a mile, and it's 1760 yards, not meters. Off the top of my head I remember that's around 1600 something meters. Yup, 1609 meters. I'm all behind metrics, by the way. I'm comfortable with with kilos and meters. I hate the US system even though I was raised with it.I have no idea how long 1 mile is. 1760 metre is more helpful and more descriptive and less abstract
Tennease
Legend
Oh deer, so Stringytom was trying to mislead me!
Sentinel
Bionic Poster
Go bacque to yore ounces, inches, pounds, gallons and what not.
One thousand metres to a kilometre. How many inches or feet to a mile ?
Ow menny ounces in a gallon?
stringertom
Bionic Poster
Drink an amount of whisky equal to the amount of fingers on your @Tennis_Hands and you’ll get the desired effect.How about 1 km? You know, the measure based on the universal standard of length: 1m.
Or one gram, based on the same measure the original of which was used and kept in Sèvres for over a hundred or so odd years and only until recently was used to define what a kilogram is? I can't even understand if I am drinking the appropriate amount of whisky when in an American bar.
Sentinel
Bionic Poster
Yup, I also remember a mile as 1.6 km since I was a long distance runner reading American books.
stringertom
Bionic Poster
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Tennis_Hands
Banned
stringertom
Bionic Poster
Four “Hi, Gene!” ick porpoises, eye sujjest a whoreizontal stacque owtsighed the gla.s.s.Should I stack them horizontally or vertically?
Tennis_Hands
Banned
Whew! I was starting to think about what kind of glass I need to follow your suggestion.
Crisis averted, then. We agreed that I will be drinking my whisky with my mouth and not with my fingers.
Third Serve
Talk Tennis Guru
Does it technically count as an error if you write (or type) a word incorrectly but you realize it before actually completing the word? I do that a lot.
stringertom
Bionic Poster
Yes, wee whirr disgusting digital mezzuremint, knot cumsumpshun; inn udder whirrds, howe mini pfingers will put ewe under the table wonce thoze pfingers uv flewid r swah load.Whew! I was starting to think about what kind of glass I need to follow your suggestion.
Crisis averted, then. We agreed that I will be drinking my whisky with my mouth and not with my fingers.
I'm spelling challenged and come from a split family of spelling challenged members. Mom was a spelling champion when attending HS. She even went on to win an English scholarship for college. Dad, well, he's about as bad as they come with spelling correctly. I seem to have inherited dad's creative spelling abilities. Sister is the same as dad, I've been told. Kind of strangely, I have a stomach condition. When well to the stomach my ability to spell improves greatly. As I've been known to joke, the key to better spelling in my family is to have a healthier stomach.
Tennis_Hands
Banned
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Chadalina
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Rafa.the.Magnificent
G.O.A.T.
Spelling is the one thing I’ve always been good at, though as I get older I notice my skills are diminishing a bit. In simple math I am awful, in logic I’m completely amiss, and I am totally awful at the art of debate. Still, I’m proud of winning many a spelling bee during my time in grammar school!
