What's up with people spelling "through" this way? How can you just nuke a whole word like that?
I am willing to forgive color, honor and other such words, but thru? Learn to spell, idiots.
Posted by raventh1 (Member # 3750) on :
Could be idiots, could be less characters to type. Oh, it is in the web dictionaries. thefreedictionary.com and dictionary.com
[ May 30, 2004, 06:14 PM: Message edited by: raventh1 ]
Posted by jebus202 (Member # 2524) on :
Oh sure fine, go ahead. Spell "because" as "cuz"; Spell "why" as just "y"; spell "laugh" as "laf". But don't come crying to me when you've destroyed the english language, and your president is a moron (ZING!), because it'll be too late then.
[Edit not due to a spelling error, I swear...]
[ May 30, 2004, 06:21 PM: Message edited by: jebus202 ]
Posted by jebus202 (Member # 2524) on :
I don't care if it's in the dictionary! Masterbation is in the dictionary, but that doesn't make *it* right!
Posted by Richard Berg (Member # 133) on :
No it's not.
Posted by punwit (Member # 6388) on :
Just out of curiosity, what do you have against masturbation? I just can't seem to get a hand le on your negative reaction. I will offer my services in an effort to see you thru this negativity.
[ May 30, 2004, 06:26 PM: Message edited by: punwit ]
Posted by raventh1 (Member # 3750) on :
U buddy, spell it right please. oh and I found a solution use a smaller word that you know Posted by raventh1 (Member # 3750) on :
quote:I don't care if it's in the dictionary! Masterbation is in the dictionary, but that doesn't make *it* right!
Posted by Lalo (Member # 3772) on :
Yeesh, relax, dude. Have a donut.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Would you like a lite beer with that?
Posted by jebus202 (Member # 2524) on :
[girly voice] B-b-b-but you spelled masturbation wrong!! Boohoohoo![/voice]
I have no problem with small spelling errors, let's not get anal here. "Thru" is an example of pure laziness!
Posted by raventh1 (Member # 3750) on :
Just lmbo.
Posted by MidnightBlue (Member # 6146) on :
What about on those street signs that say "No thru trucks"? I've always wondered about those.
Posted by Dragon (Member # 3670) on :
it gets really funny when people start using the short-hand way of spelling things when they talk. A bunch of the kids at my school actually say not only "omg" and "lol" but "sci" instead of "science" and "abbrev" instead of "abbreviation"
Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :
I saw "IANAL" on another thread. I'm sorry, but I don't know what this could possibly mean. I just keep thinking of that line in Annie Hall: "That's a polite word for what you are."
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
I have nothing against colloquial spellings of words.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
IANAL = I Am Not A Lawyer
Posted by JonnyNotSoBravo (Member # 5715) on :
Wut r u trying 2 say? That im lazy? U prolly dont no how 2 spel haf as well as i do wen i try 2.
Their r limits to wut u can say an get away with. 4 exampl, saying "Learn how to spell, idiots." and then misspelling mastUrbation is sumthin u culdnt get away with.
Posted by jebus202 (Member # 2524) on :
Darn.
Posted by HollowEarth (Member # 2586) on :
Wow so our resident english expert isn't going to tell us all about 'thru' and 'through'?
Posted by Richard Berg (Member # 133) on :
You know English orthography is really messed up when people don't consider "thru" an improvement.
Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :
There's really not much to say about it.
quote:Thru was on the first list of reformed spellings issued by the American Philological Association in 1876 and on the list issued by the National Education Association in 1898, as well as on the lists published by the Simplified Spelling Board in the early 20th century. It was also one of the reformed psellings used by the Chicago Tribune from 1935 to 1975. In the heyday of the reformed spelling movement thru was widely used in newspapers and magazines. . . .
As the organized interest in spelling reform waned, however, the use of thru in publications also shrank . . . .
Thru is a simplified form that did not fight its way into respectable usage from below, like alright, but was imposed from above by educators, reformers, and philologists. It has never been less than standard, but it remains a distant second choice in print. (Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage [Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster, 1994], s.v. "Thru.")
Posted by HollowEarth (Member # 2586) on :
I was really just joking, but thanks.
Posted by Alucard... (Member # 4924) on :
Due to the severely limited space on a prescription label, I will sometimes use "thru" instead of through, but only if space warrants such a disgusting truncation of a pure and innocent word of the English language. Plus, the majority of my patients read thru more easily than through, and might mistake it for though, which only confuses them more, which leads to more medication, which leads to humanity using up all the fossil fuels and the destruction of bowling alleys as we know them.
Posted by Polio (Member # 6479) on :
quote:Their r limits to wut u can say an get away with. 4 exampl, saying "Learn how to spell, idiots." and then misspelling mastUrbation is sumthin u culdnt get away with.
Wouldn't it be "there"? Or is "their" the abbreviation?
In my school, the jocks have a "dec lang", which is their own language in which they shorten words ("eng" is english, for example) and things have names like "Oswald". I still don't know what that one means, though. I'll get back to you on that one.
And agreed, they are idiots. The world's just full of them these days...
Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
And it only took 3 posts for this thread to become corrupted...
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