Thread: Iggerance

OK all you literary giants, what are:

Spignats?

SPaG?

Spegnatz?

Enquiring minds need to know! Some of us had the metalshop rather than the Literature edukashun...

Well, not me - I took Latin, French and Economics... you should see the horrors I brought home from woodwork! But I left a little too soon along the qualification trail and all this industry lingo is as foreign as amo, amas, amat to me.

Do you mean spagnits? As I understand, they are fairly small mistakes of grammar, punctuation, typos, misspelling, in an otherwise competent piece of writing. Almost as if the person critiquing hates to have to mention it, but does, just in case. That is how I read the word in context.

Thanks for that... it was difficult understanding the critiques as that term (spagnits, sorry - ) keeps cropping up.

To be overly precise, its SPaG + nits. "Nits" on Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar.

sorry Zootalwas I keep reading the thread title as'' ignorance''

Is that not how you spell it? :O

oh is it? I am beggining to understand just like Zootalaws..hehe

Yep, I think youse gettin it...

'I ain't ignernt. I just don't know nothin'.' (Direct quote from one of David's cousins when they were about nine or ten. When I pulled out my notebook and pencil to write it down, the kid's mother asked me what I was doing, so I explained that I was making a note to myself to pick up eggs on the way home or David and I would have no breakfast the next day. 'Oh. I thought you was gonna make fun of sumpem Jimmy Paul done said.')

One cannot have no breakfast. ‘Have’ denotes ownership. ‘No breakfast’ is impossible to wrap up and mail to someone. It’s nearly as bad as telling little Johnny not to play in the street. What image is firmly fixed in little Johnny’s mind? ‘The street’ of course. So where does he go to play? You got it.

We’d have no breakfast, indeed. An old word-man like you, you should be ashamed.

Originally Posted by Zootalaws

Yep, I think youse gettin it...

Do I detect a hint of Downunderism in your dialect? That 'Brunei Darussalam' looks a bit sus to this old geographer.

Bugger me, mate. does it show?

Yeah, we's Kiwi's, eh bro? But with some Aussie kids - we lived in Perth for four years and I have worked off and on in Oz for decades.