I can't take it anymore. (sentence, British, money, quote)
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I wanted one so bad when I was ten. I begged my parents. It took them five years before they got me one. I was a happy teen.
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Originally Posted by Copanut
Ah, Typing 101, best class I ever took in Junior High.
I took it as a jr in high school. I got an "incomplete" as a grade because I missed one assignment. I did make it up and got a "C".
My teacher would be proud of me: I can actually type without looking at the keyboard now.
Ah, Typing 101, best class I ever took in Junior High.
Me too. Only course I took that actually helped me in adult life. Now I can type 100 words per minute without looking at the keyboard, but also with 100 mistakes a minute. I can probably type about 50 wpm, plain English, but I have to look to type numbers, and I don't know why they have to put the semicolon in standard finger location, but apostrophe out on right field, which is used about a thousand times as often as the semicolon.
Me too. Only course I took that actually helped me in adult life. Now I can type 100 words per minute without looking at the keyboard, but also with 100 mistakes a minute. I can probably type about 50 wpm, plain English, but I have to look to type numbers, and I don't know why they have to put the semicolon in standard finger location, but apostrophe out on right field, which is used about a thousand times as often as the semicolon.
Why, it"s simple: the semicolon is half as arresting as a colon; the apostrophe is the poor man's half of a "quotation mark".
I am a terrible speller. I love spellcheck for that reason.
Confession here - I could NOT spell the words "question" and "answer" until I was in 7th grade. Every test in grade school just had Q and A. I actually thought that was how the words were spelled.
Now that's funny!
I remember being a kid and reading a story about a guy in Mexico who was trying to sleep and was being bothered by a mosquito.
I couldn't figure out what a "moss quitto" was. Then I realized it must just be some Spanish word so I wasn't going to be able to look it up.
Here's one I just spotted in the Relationships forum. "My now-girlfriend and I's first date was supposed to be . . .." (Italics added.)
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I remember being a kid and reading a story about a guy in Mexico who was trying to sleep and was being bothered by a mosquito.
I couldn't figure out what a "moss quitto" was. Then I realized it must just be some Spanish word so I wasn't going to be able to look it up.
I'm sure we all had run-ins with words like "epitome" or "segue" or "debut" when we realized that the version in our heads was not a thing.
I remember realing a book when I was a kid that had a character named "Aloysius." I had no idea how to pronounce that one at all.
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