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#233025 - 09/30/11 06:15 PM Why Spelling and Punctuation Is Important
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#233028 - 09/30/11 07:57 PM Re: Why Spelling and Punctuation Is Important [Re: Jeanette_Isabelle]
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:lol:
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#233041 - 09/30/11 10:51 PM Re: Why Spelling and Punctuation Is Important [Re: Jeanette_Isabelle]
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Excellent.
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#233047 - 10/01/11 12:35 AM Re: Why Spelling and Punctuation Is Important [Re: Jeanette_Isabelle]
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Why spelling and punctuation ARE important...

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#233050 - 10/01/11 01:06 AM Re: Why Spelling and Punctuation Is Important [Re: Jeanette_Isabelle]
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LOL! (though a direct link would be appreciated, as context is everything when measuring credibility ...)

I have threatened for years to carry a fat permanent marker to correct public signs. "No, milord, it's not vandalism, it's a genuine public service and I should really get a different kind of citation."

UrbanDictionary has a unique take, as always. Maybe this is a plea for soil amendment?
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Drit

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#233051 - 10/01/11 01:16 AM Re: Why Spelling and Punctuation Is Important [Re: jshannon]
Jeanette_Isabelle Offline
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Originally Posted By: jshannon
Why spelling and punctuation ARE important...

Yes, grammar is important too.

Jeanette Isabelle
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#233052 - 10/01/11 01:23 AM Re: Why Spelling and Punctuation Is Important [Re: dougwalkabout]
Jeanette_Isabelle Offline
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Originally Posted By: dougwalkabout
LOL! (though a direct link would be appreciated, as context is everything when measuring credibility ...)

I don't know the story behind the picture. I included the same link I was given. The people I hang out with like to display funny pictures but this time I laughed so hard my stomach ached.

Jeanette Isabelle
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I'm not sure whose twisted idea it was to put hundreds of adolescents in underfunded schools run by people whose dreams were crushed years ago, but I admire the sadism. -- Wednesday Adams, Wednesday

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#233055 - 10/01/11 02:11 AM Re: Why Spelling and Punctuation Is Important [Re: Jeanette_Isabelle]
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I suspect all the signs were done by one person. My guess is he tried to make the "handwriting" (spraypaintwriting?) different, but there is a certain larger similarity amongst the characters from the three signs. The white poster suggests to me that this is a clever ad from a print shop, perhaps targeting a rural clientele.

Also, think about this: who would put up a sign saying "need dirt"? That's not a good way to get about getting dirt. It is, however, a good way to get your attention when you're driving down the road.

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#233058 - 10/01/11 02:38 AM Re: Why Spelling and Punctuation Is Important [Re: Jeanette_Isabelle]
Susan Offline
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VERY FUNNY! I wonder if he ever got any 'drit'?


When I lived in San Jose, CA, I had to drive under a concrete RR overpass. One day, there was a blue-painted message: "Aran Nation".

The next day or so, someone had sprayed a line of black paint through it, and written "Arian Nation, Stupid!"

It took almost a week for another person with purple paint to run a line through both previous messages and add their own: "Aryan Nation is too stupid to take seriously".

After a month or more, someone took a roller and covered it all, and adding their message: "Eddie loves Katie".

Sue

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#233068 - 10/01/11 11:46 AM Re: Why Spelling and Punctuation Is Important [Re: jshannon]
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Originally Posted By: jshannon
Why spelling and punctuation ARE important...

I thought that too - why conjugation is important!

Doug, reminds me of "Life of Brian," from Monti Python, the scene where the Romans are correcting Brian's conjugation and declination of the words.

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