Comments on: Worshiping and Kidnapping

By: priscilla

priscilla — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:09:30 +0000

It does matter to an extent because there is no such thing as “private” language. It is because we let grammar and spelling slide that language these days are almost unrecognizable in some cases. For example, your sentence “such as books are thoughup by theirs writers…” does not make sense and will not make sense to anyone who cannot tell that you were trying to say “such as books are THOUGHT UP by THEIR writers…” Without rules, there will not be a structure to follow and people won’t be able to learn the language.

By: dont mind me

dont mind me — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:44:02 +0000

does it really matter b/c everyone has their own way of speaking, writing, and thinking and the languages and “right” ways of spelling our only set up and there… truely their is no wrong or right way to spell because everyhitng was just though up by someone eles… such as books are thoughup by theirs writers…

By: bad tim

bad tim — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:22:24 +0000

i’ve settled on the rule of thumb that i double final consonants only when the root word is monosyllabic. ‘kidnap’ is a compound word, so it makes sense to double the ‘p’. but is this rule consistent?

By: write a writing

write a writing — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:45:20 +0000

I always prefer to stick to the British version of spellings, like colour instead of color(US) and labour instead of labor (US) …it is really funny when you grow up with one set of spells and then suddenly they shows as null around..

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:21:14 +0000

One of the ‘rules’ we are taught in our early years of school in the UK is that when a vowel is followed by a consenent, a further vowel softens the first vowel.

So, by this, Worshiping, would become Wer-shipe-ing.

Not sure what the validity of this rule is, i.e. whether it was made up by teachers to make our odd rules easier to understand, but that is how I learned it anyway.