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Old 04-02-2010, 06:59 AM
 
Location: NJ
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LOL.
Because misspellings are inconsistent and unreliable.

 
Old 04-02-2010, 09:28 AM
 
Location: NC, USA
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Yeah, I know, this one gets to me. Yeah, I do see it a lot. "motivated" is one of my pet peeves, I believe I am "motived" to act. that which encourages motive. I'm not sure why "motive" is so singled out, I am not "orderivated" to stop by the stop sign.
 
Old 04-02-2010, 10:13 AM
 
Location: Brooklyn
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I'm not sure why "motive" is so singled out, I am not "orderivated" to stop by the stop sign.
You might be...if you were better educamated.
 
Old 04-02-2010, 02:23 PM
 
Location: Portland, Oregon
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Nah, Dusty just needs to get orientated to how things are done around here.
 
Old 04-02-2010, 10:37 PM
 
Location: Brooklyn
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How about announcements for "sales" (quotation marks included)? Aren't you always suspicious that nothing is actually on sale?
 
Old 04-03-2010, 10:06 AM
 
Location: NJ
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How about announcements for "sales" (quotation marks included)? Aren't you always suspicious that nothing is actually on sale?
Everything is always FOR SALE, but not everything is available ON SALE.
 
Old 04-07-2010, 09:28 AM
 
Location: Elsewhere
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Everything is always FOR SALE, but not everything is available ON SALE.
Unless you are one of those jewelry stores where everything is always 20% off. Off of what, they never say.
 
Old 04-07-2010, 09:29 AM
 
Location: Elsewhere
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Ok how do we know misspelled words are actually in fact misspelled, what if they are in fact correctly spelled and it’s the dictionaries that are misprinted with spelling errors? Hmm
Because we've already read most of the words elsewhere, and we can recognize them!
 
Old 04-08-2010, 05:03 PM
 
Location: Brooklyn
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Everything is always FOR SALE, but not everything is available ON SALE.
I suppose I stand corrected. I ask for only a smidgen of consideration, because I'm a native-born Brooklynite. That means I was born in the borough where people stand on line, but never in line. (Computers? We don't need no stinkin' computers; we were on line before computers were invented!)
 
Old 04-08-2010, 07:02 PM
 
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Because we've already read most of the words elsewhere, and we can recognize them!

My post was a joke
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