Congratulations is spelled with a "T" and not a "D"!!

[Dan Zollman]

First of all, if you're defining a php variable, you need a dollar sign:

$ROTFLMAO = "Rolling On The Floor Laughing Out Loud";

And, what this whole discussion have to do with gramm<u>a</u>r? If you're talking about how things are <i>spelled</i>, then this isn't an issue of gramm<u>a</u>r!

Now I'm pretty sure I haven't made any spelling <i>or</i> grammer mistakes in this post...

[Daniel Brim]

Originally Posted by worldbringer

First of all, if you're defining a php variable, you need a dollar sign:

$ROTFLMAO = "Rolling On The Floor Laughing Out Loud";

And, what this whole discussion have to do with gramm<u>a</u>r? If you're talking about how things are <i>spelled</i>, then this isn't an issue of gramm<u>a</u>r!

Now I'm pretty sure I haven't made any spelling <i>or</i> grammer mistakes in this post...

Coding is another issue :-)

Instead of using < and > (HTML) use brackets instead (like below but without spaces
[ u ]Underline[ /u ], [ b ]Bold[ /b ], [ i ]italic[ /i ], etc.

HTH,
Daniel

[Mike]

Originally Posted by worldbringer

First of all, if you're defining a php variable, you need a dollar sign:

$ROTFLMAO = "Rolling On The Floor Laughing Out Loud";

Although that's acceptable code, it's inefficient. The quotations cause PHP to check the string for the presence of variables, where as with apostrophes PHP just outputs the text directly. That is why

$bad = '(Butt)';
$ROTFLMAO = 'Rolling On The Floor Laughing My $bad Off';
echo $ROTFLMAO;

Will show Rolling On The Floor Laughing My $bad Off

You could however, do

$bad = '(Butt)';
$ROTFLMAO = 'Rolling On The Floor Laughing My '.$bad.' Off';

echo $ROTFLMAO;

Which would show Rolling On The Floor Laughing My (Butt) Off

Where

$bad = '(Butt)';
$ROTFLMAO = "Rolling On The Floor Laughing My $bad Off";
echo $ROTFLMAO;

Will show Rolling On The Floor Laughing My (Butt) Off

My bad if I steered us horribly off topic

[KenWittlief]

Originally Posted by dlavery

"FIRST" is not a verb (yet - give us time, and we will see what happens).

it should be: Walking into a HS with no FIRST team, dlavery declares, "lets FIRST this place!"

FIRST'D: past tense. Teacher: Billy, whats gotten into you? You were such a slacker, and now you are a top notch student!"

Billy: I got FIRST'D!

Im not really good at spelling, so i usually break up the words and try to go from there. so like congratualations, i would automatically think of the word "congrats" then "ulations". so then when i look back on spelling congratulations with a "d" instead of a "t" it would sound and look funny.

-Court-

[Elgin Clock]

I was so disappointed this weekend. I walked into the Naval Academy restaurant near the hockey rink at the Annapolis regional and was amused/saddened.

On the 3rd day since I had to stand in a long line to get food I saw a huge banner hanging in the middle of the restaurant, and Congratulations was spelled with a D. It was Congratulating a General or an Admiral on an accomplishment of some kind.

I was gonna say something to someone but I don't think it's wise to question Naval officers with weapons on their belts. lol

[TubaMorg]

Originally Posted by dlavery

- And my all-time favorite: "Nuclear" is pronounced "nu kli Er." It is NOT pronounced "nu kU ler." When you use this pronunciation, no matter how smart you may actually be, you sound like an illiterate dolt (are you listening, Mr. Bush?).
-dave

I have to say, this thread is cracking me up. Especially the above post by Dave, because I am a HUGE offender. I tend to take the position, however, that since I worked for 8.5 years on Naval nuclear propulsion plants, I can say it any way I please. There are many words in the English language that acquire regional pronunciations: wash vs. warsh, roof vs. ruff, car vs. cah, to name just a few. For some reason nuclear seems to draw the most criticism. One could argue that the dictionary only offers one pronunciation option for nuclear (actually there's two, but the alternate isn't germane), but the same argument is true for the other examples I presented. Believe it or not, different parts of the country pronounce different words differently (my redundant statement of the obvious). Without exaggerating, it has been my experience that the people that tend to get the most upset about how certain words are pronounced hail from the part of the country where eating "mahs bahs" in their "cah" is perfectly acceptable. In my younger Navy years, while stationed in Connecticut, some locals actually wanted to FIGHT because I said "Hey! How are y'all doin?" Response: "Y'all? Y'all? Where the <bleeeepin> <bleep> <bleep> are you from?" It STILL blows my mind!

So a polite request: Please don't criticize pronunciations that are regionally derived.

Now the issue of spelling/grammar/punctuation is a different matter. It would be nice if we all spent a little time to organize our thoughts before we post and present them in a legible manner. Sometimes I read a post and have absolutely no idea what the poster is trying to say. If you are going to take the time to express an idea by posting, then at least take the time to consider what it looks like to someone else who is reading it!

Chatspeak/abbreviations/LOLs/etc. I'm not sure, but I presume all of these little acronyms came about during the not so distant past when bandwidth and storage was fairly costly. I remember my first e-mail account I ever had charged by the kilobyte! The same thing was true for Usenet groups (the original forums). Thus people adopted shortcuts to save money. Through the years these habits have carried on and been expanded, even though gigabyte storage is cheap and nearly everyone has access to broadband internet. So while the "chatisms" are no longer necessary, they are understandable.

Y'all have a good day!

[Chris Fultz]

I thought this was an engineering forum.

Why are y'all so worried about grammar, spelling and such!

It's all about the math!

(just be sure to spell your equations correctly - K?)

[Jay5780]

"Congratulations is spelled with a "T" and not a "D"!!"


Just for the record congratulations is splet with TWO T's....

[dez250]

Originally Posted by Jay5780

"Congratulations is spelled with a "T" and not a "D"!!"


Just for the record congratulations is splet with TWO T's....

And Spell Check is your friend!

[Katie Reynolds]

Actually, "spelt" is perfectly acceptable... "spelt"* the British past tense of "to spell", whereas the American past tense of "to spell" is "spelled"

Same with "learnt" vs. "learned"

* = spelt is also defined as "a hardy wheat grown in europe for livestock feed"

EDIT:Ermm, of course, "splet" isn't really a word at all ... more like a sound (see Dave's (disturbing) note below )

[dlavery]

Originally Posted by Jay5780

"Congratulations is spelled with a "T" and not a "D"!!"

Just for the record congratulations is splet with TWO T's....

I think that you mean "spelt," not "splet."

"Spelt" may be an acceptable alternate form of "spelled," depending on the country of origin (see Katie's note above), and pertains to the construction of a word through the use of specific letters in a predefined order.

"Splet" is the sound a frog makes when it hits pavement at 187 feet per second. Don't ask me how I know.

-dave

[Eugenia Gabrielov]

Can I ask for an extension of the mason-dixon line thing? I happen to be from Indiana, and having completed my learning of the English language here, y'all has been pushed into my vocabulary.



So either south of the Mason-Dixon line, or in Indiana. Is that reasonable?

[MissInformation]

One of the best books written about punctuation is Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss. The hall of shame on this site is funny, yet disturbing.

Heidi

[JoeXIII'007]

Elgin, you've provided an excellent opportunity for a reminder to everyone to SPEAK ENGLISH on this and any other online forum, chat room, etc. I can't stand acronyms and short versions of words being thrown at me at random when I'm involved in such discussions, it literally messes with my head and gives me a head ache. However, in the case that acronyms and other twisted English words hit your eyes online, there is the acronym finder for some aid. If anyone else knows of any other 'interpreters' online for other words of twisted English, please share them here. Thanks.

-Joe