Spellingtard

In my line of work there is little which amuses more than the failed Spellingtard. Especially if the Spellingtard in question is one of our obnoxious US cousins:

“YOU DON’T SPELL AX WITH AN ‘E’! THAT’S PRE- Preepr- prepostroose.”

So when the “error” is:

a) Correct in the only version of English that matters
b) Accompanied by a glaring error of one’s own
c) Posted by an American
d) Already a subject less than ten threads from the top of the forum it is posted in

It makes me do a little sex-wee. This was too much of an opportunity to miss:

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Delicious, isn’t it? It’s like people who are bad at fighting starting fights, or fat people challenging Olympians to a race, or France starting a war (sorry), or German comedians, or… the stereotypes are endless.

Don’t start a Spelling Bee if you’re too stupid to spell your own words right. This could only have been better in one other way:

Racist joke fail

How many languages can you speak? Just one. English. And I see/hear so many versions of English bastardised by different people; even within the UK, that it’s fun to poke fun at the variations; English, Scottish, Chav (How many people spotted the comma between Scottish and Chav?), Welsh, Punjabi-call-centre-English, Urdu-call-centre-English… The list goes on:

Ohh… That’s where I was going wrong thinking that all of the things listed above were languages. Well aren’t I the thicko? They’re accents (actually they’re dialects, but let’s not nitpick).

I’ll clarify, since my racist joke has failed. Maybe I wasn’t obvious enough. Maybe I needed to add a “LOL” or a to make it very clear what I was aiming at. Maybe I’m just really, really shit at jokes.

It’s still English. Okay, okay, you got me. I was trying and failing to be funny. I’ll just go stand in the corner and bemoan the butchering of The Queen’s English both by our cousins over the Atlantic and the ppl hoo use txt al da tym in dis cuntry.

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“Fuckin’ sheepshaggers….”

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Because sometimes, being the resident Grammar/Spelling Nazi is too much fun.