Character creation

I already mentioned this close to two months ago in this thread.

USE THE FUCKING SEARCH BEFORE YOU POST, ASSWIPE, AND STOP CLUTTERING THE FORUM WITH REDUNDANT INFORMATION!!! :x

(Anyway, I'm more inclined to place the blame on the admin who gave Shadygrove the title.)

 

The dogs are coming Chalupa Chode, just as I promised.

 

I never SAID I didn't use the search function. Either way, I wish your dogs luck in finding my testicles, Demo. And besides, Canis, you DID ask him to forget all about it.

 

Actually, technically, hyphens aren't a part of any English derived language and are grammatically incorrect. They are mainly used by people who don't know how to phrase sentences properly or just don't know the proper symbol for such events.

Please note, that it is also an Americanism, that has unfortunately started to spread due to the use of the internet.

 

First the pollution of the Earth now English.
tsk tsk.

 

Don't even get me STARTED on pollution. America produces over 80% of the total world pollution now, and they're still increasing. Infact, I believe they are the ONLY developed country in the world to still be increasing. Not to mention the fact that the first thing Bush did when he entered office was to cancel all of the Environmental programs that Clinton had put into operation.

Someone restrain me.

 

Even more saddening is that my cousins living in America are also Chinese like me and they make jokes about chinese customs, culture etc.
Now pollution of the mind.
tsk. tsk.

 

I can't remember exactly what the figure is, but collectively religion and America are responsible for something like 95% of all the world's problems. But then, that might just be because almost all of the population of America is religious in some fashion or other.

 

My cousins can't tell if they're Protestant or Roman Catholic.
Now pollution of religon.
tsk. tsk.

 

Hm, Beware of the "False Prophet". There will be more and more of them, raising strange cult from nothing but themselves. They spread no Lord's word but their lies.

People are really getting more and more strange thinking. Even a cult that "worship" the Jedi master in Starwar can be a religion. Yes, a pollution of regligion, blinding people from the truth.

And America is where most of the problem comes, demons should really thanks this strange land to give so much weird ideas. And Geroge Bush is a very "suitable" leader for this mob. Now I understand why some people call him the third "anti-Christ", after Hilter and...... I forget :razz: . (Yet those who say this are also Amercian)

If he continue to fund those warlord in South Amercia and Africa to burn the forest and murder the animals, I would start a new term : "The pollution of Amercia funding"![/quote]

 

1, Having taught myself to read at 5 or so, I am prone to a lot of spelling misteaks*. They are common to those of us who have done that.

2, There is no spell checker on this board. One of the good things about the offical Arcanum board is the spell checker.

3, I assumed that the T-A staff would correct my spelling is it were off. Never assume.

Interestingly enough, the rapid corection of the spell checkers is teaching me, rather late in life, to spell. But as my typing speed increases, my typo rate goes up, so I am making little headway in weaning myself from the spell checkers.

Now Mr. Buritto Supreme, what is your excuse for being such a flaming A-hole? There, a hyphen, happy? If everyone searches for the answers to the early questions, how do the old hands get to look smart?

(I go away for a few weeks & you just let all kinds of rif-raf post here. I swear. :roll: )

*That one was on porpoise**.

**That one too. :lol:

 

Hey, Ferret, don't blame US. You Brits allegedly INVENTED the language. Long before America was colonized your pox-ridden, saw-toothed, slack-jawed, bad-food-eating, near-sighted, flat-footed, slope-shouldered, varicose-veined, trouble-making nation was making full use of the hyphen. I don't even see how you can make such a preposterous claim unless it is to bolster your almost-depleted stores of self esteem. Now, I won't deny some of America's less savory traits but do NOT heap hyphens on us, too.

Shadygrove, do not fret that your spelling is not perfect like mine. I believe that spelling is a genetically inherited trait and I just happened to get a better deal on this one than yourself. Yet, keep these words of The Master in mind: "Make faithfulness and truth thy masters: have no friends unlike thyself: be not ashamed to mend thy faults."

 

Now pollution of this topic.
tsk. tsk.

 

I'm sure you're aware of course, that most Americans are of that same pox-ridden, saw-toothed, slack-jawed, bad-food-eating, near-sighted, flat-footed, slope-shouldered, varicose-veined, trouble-making stock. :roll:

And I can't believe an AMERICAN of all things has the nerve to call us bad food eating. Oh, that's a good one, Mr Fat Nation. :lol:

Actually, the hyphen has only seen recent use. Shakespear was responsible for making most of these things everyday events, but then that took place AFTER colonisation, by quite a bit, and in addition, he was illiterate. He invented a whole host of new words just because he didn't know the proper ones. He may have been one hell of a writer, but he sure did screw up the language. :/

However, the hyphen's popular use was made so by Americans, who took the hyphen as a part of the English language.

And please don't take these things personally. Just because someone, somewhere in your country in the past made a mistake doesn't make it a personal insult to you. There have been plenty of stupid Britons responsible for the most horrible things, but it's not a personal insult to me.

Another one of your theories? Tell me then, how do you propose that a known learned behaviour is actually genetic in nature? I assume you yourself just SUDDENLY knew how to spell at the age of 5 yes? No learning involved whatsoever? :lol:

 

Intelligence is a gene spelling is not .
Supidity is a gene unfortunatly that cannot be cured unless there is a way to alter genes.

 

Admittedly, literacy is a learned trait. Still, I have known several very intelligent people who were some of the worst spellers I have ever known. Dyslexia is just one of the the inherited stumbling blocks that can affect one's spelling or grammar. I believe that some people are predisposed to spelling well in just the same way that some people aren't, regardless of their other characteristics. From the time that I learned to read I have had something of a precognition for the correct spelling of words that I had only heard spoken before.

 

If you know the pronounciation of each letter in English. Then when these letters are grouped together forming a word. By dividing the syllables of the word then concluding which letter combinations sound like that. You can already guess how to spell the letter.

 

In theory, that's how it should work. Many people are able to practice similar lines of reasoning in other areas but it is when it comes to spelling that they falter. I am not one of those people. Heh.

 

Fish can be spelled ghoti in normal english pronunciation. The "gh" comes from enough. Tell me where the o, t, & i come from. The pronuncation in english is not at all a relibale guide to spelling. Some constanents have 7 different ways they can be pronunced. Vowels vary widely by regon. Say mary, marry, merry. In the nothwest they all come out merry, in the southeast they all come out marry. Our language is a germanic fusion language. It is based on old anglo-saxon with celtic, latin, french, & latin again mixed in. We have loan words from spanish, yiddish, modern german, norwegan, & now japanese. Canyon, onion, where is the logic or consistancy?

But at least there is no government board that change the rules of spelling. The Dutch & Germans both did that recently.

The people who learn spelling the easiest have very visual memories. I suspect that my lack of spelling skills comes from being impatent as much as anything. A friend who used to correct my copy said that she had had a grade school buddy who had also taught herself to read & who made many of the same spelling mistakes I do. That is why I believe that teaching yourself to read is bad for future spelling skills.

I don't fret about my lack of spelling skills, at least not since spell checkers were invented.

 

Perhaps you are onto something, Shadygrove, but I like to think that teaching is something one can only do for oneself. Teachers can point you in the right direction, but I think it is oneself that provides the motivation and understanding. I don't think that teaching oneself to read at an early age has much to do with spelling as the youth are ever more adaptable than the aged and much quicker learners, too.