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[Rowan]

You and me Tabbycat 

[CLKD]

Yep 

[Tabbycat]

And ironically, I just had to correct the post where I said I corrected posts with mistakes.

[CLKD]

…….  I wasn't going to mention it 

[Judith57]

Me too, I have just corrected one of my posts. Some of the mistakes caused by predictive text messaging are very funny. I sent a jokey reply to a friend of mine once who had sent me a text telling me about the great day he had had at the races. The message I sent was 'You Jimmy Mustard'. I'll leave you to guess what I meant to say...

[Joyce]

  Love it!

[Hattie]

 

[ariadne]

Oh that reminds me of when hubby asked me to type him a list of some CDs and Artist names. When I'd finished,  Word ran a spellcheck. It wasn't until I gave it to hubby that we noticed the following artists

Urethra Franklin and Al Diarrhoea!   (Aretha Franklin and Al Jarreau)

Ariadne xx

[Tabbycat]

 

[CLKD]

 

[Judith57]

Oh that's lovely Ariadne. On one of my posts on here last night I was just about to press 'post' when I noticed 'suggestions' had come up as 'ugliest icons'. I had obviously typed a wrong letter somewhere 

[Dulciana]

I know this topic is a bit out-of-date but someone on TV has just said, "The thing-is, is that......"   Will someone please explain to me what a "thing-is" is???   Why can't people just say, "The thing is that such-and-such........"

[CLKD]

Oh don't get me started on the media  …….. mix-quotes, laziness with descriptions …...

[Dulciana]

The thing is, CLKD ( !) - it's not just the media that say this and it really annoys me!   

I had a colleague once, who came to work by bus.  On one such journey, there was a couple of 20-somethings on the seat in front of her.  She said they talked a lot, fine, but that it went mainly along the lines of "I was like.......this", "I was like.........that", "I was like............really?", "I was like..............that's right!", "I was like............did he?", "I was like...........I know!"  and on and on.   My poor colleague just looked so, so puzzled and asked us all, "But what does it all mean?"   
I sympathised.     

[CLKD]

We understand the rationale though?  I often wonder why we say so many words when 1 or 2 will do  and why do things have more than one 'name' - would make crosswords boring though ……….