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bowood14 - 6/9/11 at 12:12 PM

vw transporter lwb high roof 2.5 130 bhp auto 2005 | eBay


Gas git!

speedyxjs - 6/9/11 at 12:18 PM

Grammer lesson too! One full stop in the whole ad and its not even at the end!

Litemoth - 6/9/11 at 12:23 PM

quote:
Originally posted by speedyxjs
Grammer lesson too! One full stop in the whole ad and its not even at the end!


That's 'Grammar' not 'Grammer'.....

Daddylonglegs - 6/9/11 at 12:26 PM

I thought Pikeys only had white vans?

balidey - 6/9/11 at 12:33 PM

thats the sort of person who doesn't know how to spell VW

speedyxjs - 6/9/11 at 12:34 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Litemoth
quote:
Originally posted by speedyxjs
Grammer lesson too! One full stop in the whole ad and its not even at the end!


That's 'Grammar' not 'Grammer'.....


Haha, knew there was a reason i got a C for GCSE lol

MikeCapon - 6/9/11 at 12:47 PM

Watch out you lot.

You'll have Mr Henderson back on here.

Ninehigh - 6/9/11 at 12:56 PM

It's readable... I've seen some on there that have given me a headache, so I sent them a question:
"Hi, could you please translate your advertisement from Crap to English so I can read it and then maybe bid please?"


You'd think ebay would mention this in their guide... You know to read it, take your time and spell it right..

[Edited on 6/9/11 by Ninehigh]

OX - 6/9/11 at 03:58 PM

This forum doesn't change ,your still a bunch of old women who will moan at just about anything .

MikeRJ - 6/9/11 at 04:39 PM

quote:
Originally posted by OX
This forum doesn't change ,your still a bunch of old women who will moan at just about anything .


It costs nothing to spell, punctuate and provide a bit of structure. Everyone makes a few typos occasionally, but these adverts hardly do the seller any favours, unless they actually want to attract negative attention. If you are truly dyslexic (rather than one of the many that claim to be, but are simply illiterate) then you get someone to proof read it.

EDIT: just to prove this I auto-corrected a misspelling of occasionally and managed to get "locationally" which I didn't even know was a word. Learning through mistakes

[Edited on 6/9/11 by MikeRJ]

Litemoth - 6/9/11 at 04:44 PM

quote:
Originally posted by OX
This forum doesn't change ,your still a bunch of old women who will moan at just about anything .



Is one moaning about the moaning?

It should be "you're still a bunch of old women" not "your"

Ninehigh - 6/9/11 at 05:35 PM

quote:
Originally posted by MikeRJ
quote:
Originally posted by OX
This forum doesn't change ,your still a bunch of old women who will moan at just about anything .


It costs nothing to spell, punctuate and provide a bit of structure. Everyone makes a few typos locationally, but these adverts hardly do the seller any favours, unless they actually want to attract negative attention. If you are truly dyslexic (rather than one of the many that claim to be, but are simply illiterate) then you get someone to proof read it.


True, it's easy to say "teh" when just responding to a post, or like my missus, always puts "properly" when she means "probably" but when you're selling something you really should take a minute and have a check...

http://www.cracked.com/blog/8-words-internet-loves-to-confuse-with-other-words/

[Edited on 6/9/11 by Ninehigh]

morcus - 6/9/11 at 07:43 PM

could be worse, he could have intentionally written it as a serious of numbers and letters that make no sense what so ever, I saw an add for a golf either on Gum tree or auto trader written is text speak.

JoelP - 6/9/11 at 09:59 PM

could be a lot worse than that, spelling wise!