Help me - I bought a £4000 pc!
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I did when I was 13...
tlarkin
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Thats not true, I always tested in the top 2% of my age group nation wide in English and Math. Too bad I hated school and never really pursued any type of degree in either field. Maybe I'd be better off with my life, but probably not. I was always reading/writing at levels beyond my age.
When I was in grade school I knew kids who were reading and writing at a 18 year old level (SR in high school level) and today in my late twenties I know adults who can't write or spell for crap. One of my friends little brothers was in college level math when he was in Middle School.
You can't generalize about anything, especially on the interwebs. Obviously the guy isn't running a business and is also 13 years old. My advice on the internet is just assume everyone is joking or lying when it comes to their age or sex, that way you don't speculate things like this. I mean being a minor you can't even legally own a business. In fact being under 18 you don't have lots of rights in this country, your parents have the rights until you turn 18. Things may be different over in the UK, assuming that is where the OP is from.
My advice is, hire somebody who knows what they are doing it will be better in the end.
treddstone
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Hmm. You may be right. Perhaps I forgot how to categorize adolescent grammatical capabilities. In any case, he hasn't posted since the accusation...so, presumably, he's been uncovered and doesn't want to defend his story.
Oh well.
Oh well.
tlarkin
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Plus I know adults who have horrid spelling, sentence structure and grammar. I mean even intelligent people speak wrong because it sounds cooler.
examples:
"If I leave my house unattended it will not clean itself."
"If I don't clean this crap up, it ain't going to clean itself."
Even though we all know which is the obvious correct way to say that sentence, but at the same time we all know which one aesthetically sounds better. I mean no one wants to sound like an up tight robot when they speak. So a lot of us develop bad habits and carry them on later in life. I mean MS word actually is bad for your spelling and grammar. Why learn how to spell and write proper sentences when a program will just do it for you? I can't tell you how often I do not capitalize letters anymore when typing because I got so used to MS word auto correcting it for me, and it saved me the .02 seconds it takes to hit the shift key. Multiply that by the on average, 650 capital letters in my average writing and I have saved a total of 13 seconds, or perhaps I am just lazy.
Language is a very interesting thing, at least it is to me.
examples:
"If I leave my house unattended it will not clean itself."
"If I don't clean this crap up, it ain't going to clean itself."
Even though we all know which is the obvious correct way to say that sentence, but at the same time we all know which one aesthetically sounds better. I mean no one wants to sound like an up tight robot when they speak. So a lot of us develop bad habits and carry them on later in life. I mean MS word actually is bad for your spelling and grammar. Why learn how to spell and write proper sentences when a program will just do it for you? I can't tell you how often I do not capitalize letters anymore when typing because I got so used to MS word auto correcting it for me, and it saved me the .02 seconds it takes to hit the shift key. Multiply that by the on average, 650 capital letters in my average writing and I have saved a total of 13 seconds, or perhaps I am just lazy.
Language is a very interesting thing, at least it is to me.
Froztblade
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If were gonna get into sentence structure
Actually the equivalent phrase would be
If I don't clean the house, the house isn't going to clean itself
treddstone
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I completely agree. And you're right about the Word part. Being in college, I see that all the time. I try my hardest to write grammatically correct all the time, but plenty of classmates simply write the most awful structured things and just click the correct button. And this is at Vanderbilt, a supposedly "highly ranked" school.
Its actually a bit funny to see the things people will do to create shortcuts for themselves. If you go to the "search" option in Word and highlight all, and only, periods (yes "." <just these), and make them 14 or 16 font from the normal twelve, a standard 5 page paper will then become half a page longer or more, depending on how many periods you used. A ten pager will immediately transform into 11 or 12 pages. Its virtually impossible to tell the difference from a normal paper. The things students come up with are just hilarious.
I guess anyone'll do what they can to make life simpler, huh? Lucky for me I'm an economics major.
Its actually a bit funny to see the things people will do to create shortcuts for themselves. If you go to the "search" option in Word and highlight all, and only, periods (yes "." <just these), and make them 14 or 16 font from the normal twelve, a standard 5 page paper will then become half a page longer or more, depending on how many periods you used. A ten pager will immediately transform into 11 or 12 pages. Its virtually impossible to tell the difference from a normal paper. The things students come up with are just hilarious.
I guess anyone'll do what they can to make life simpler, huh? Lucky for me I'm an economics major.