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porkrind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-05 10:20 PM
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Do you ever type "prolly" for "probably"?
If so, please smack yourself upside the head and resolve to change your ways. Thank You.
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pres2032 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-05 10:20 PM
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1. no, i think i'll prolly keep my ways.
:evilgrin:
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porkrind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-05 10:26 PM
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9. Aha! I KNEW the guilty party would step forward!
Your conscience wouldn't let you rest until you confessed! Now you must PAY! :spank:
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pres2032 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-05 10:38 PM
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16. well, i prolly won't openly confess
and so i prolly won't have to pay.

:silly: :evilgrin:
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Cobalt Violet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-05 10:21 PM
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2. What is it with that?
I just don't get it.
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progmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-05 10:21 PM
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3. .
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porkrind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-05 10:28 PM
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10. Why, thank you. I'd love to. I thought you'd never ask.
Just let me get a little more comfy. :)
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hollywood926 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-05 10:22 PM
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4. I do! I'm from West Virginia...
that's the way we say it! So that's the way I sometimes type it. "Probably" takes too much effort. I'm tired.
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fishnfla Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-05 10:22 PM
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5. I actually use it in conversation
smack away, I think idioms are cool
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BiggJawn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-05 10:23 PM
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6. I used to.
But responses from the Spelling Gestapo like YOURS broke me of the habit.
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porkrind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-05 10:32 PM
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12. Oh, now see? You went and hurt my feelings.
:)

Actually, it's really more like the "Dept of Homeland Spelling Security", not the Gestapo. I'm here to keep you safe from 'terrists. They're everywhere. WATCH OUT BEHIND YOU! BOO!
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BiggJawn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-26-05 07:27 AM
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18. AHHH! the dreaded "I before E except after C" gang!
Never heard them coming!
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The Velveteen Ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-05 10:23 PM
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7. No.
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A-Schwarzenegger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-05 10:24 PM
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8. Probly.
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tjdee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-05 10:32 PM
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11. Yes--and should I spell out Laughing Out Loud and Oh My God too?
IMO, there are certain allowances to be made for those sorts of things.

I didn't know it irritated people until a while ago when it came up, and I think I've used it less.

It still doesn't stoop to the level of looser's.

:silly:
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porkrind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-05 10:33 PM
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13. "looser's" ???
OK, you stumped me there. Come again?
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tjdee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-05 10:36 PM
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14. Some people spell loser "looser".
And some pluralize by putting apostrophe s.

So instead of losers we get "looser's".

OH it hurts. I know that some have legitimate spelling issues, but the apostrophe s to pluralize bewilders me.
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porkrind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-05 10:39 PM
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17. Gotcha.
That one bugs me too. On the same topic, it also bugs me when people misuse "too" and "to", as in "That bugs me to."
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stupid grin Donating Member (157 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-05 10:36 PM
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15. I hate reading "prolly" as much as I loathe reading
"your such a nice person" or "their nice people".
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Magrittes Pipe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-26-05 07:36 AM
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19. No, I am not an idiot.
:P
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