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Post by MULLEY »

Erm, because you don't write in a plain easily understood way, its quite difficult to work out what on earth you're on about. If you look at your above post, if you were speaking to someone, you wouldn't say what you've typed above, (everything seems to be in a bullet point style), so why do you post like that? We dont expect perfection, but constructed sentences do go a long way, the spelling doesn't help either.
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1990 Gti 8Valve SOLD - looks like it's been scrapped
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Post by kiwi »

jacksun1987 wrote:I dont know why. Everyones got a problem, With my spelling. Ill have to look in to this. Euro thing. If i do need a part. When i took my car in. They was waiting for a part. For the rev counter To connect to the fly wheel. The one from there normal place. In england. Lost it. He told me that he was getting the part. From france. And it would cost the same.
Lets put it this way if you use an online translator with your spelling and grammer, the chances are you could end up making even less sense in another language than you do in this language. The occasional typo is forgiven unless your native tongue is not english?

Anyways on topic

Credit Cards are what I use to get my parts from overseas, if it goes pearshaped then 99.9% of the time the transaction will be stopped at no cost to me. Actually for me it works out cheaper most of the time to order direct from overseas.
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kiwi wrote:The occasional typo is forgiven unless your native tongue is not english?
Hah! I haf kopied zis down und haf nailed it to mein office wall.

It's my "get out of jail free" kard!!! :twisted: :twisted: :wink:
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Linegeist wrote:
kiwi wrote:The occasional typo is forgiven unless your native tongue is not english?
Hah! I haf kopied zis down und haf nailed it to mein office wall.

It's my "get out of jail free" kard!!! :twisted: :twisted: :wink:
Yea bro dats the way da cuzzie say zit :lol:

This is weird, but interesting!

fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too

Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.

i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm.. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! if you can raed tihs forwrad it


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kiwi wrote: i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm.. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! if you can raed tihs forwrad it

Thats's brilliant! 8) 8)
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Post by macplaxton »

I don't give a monkeys about grammar.

I only care about correct spelling so I find the post I'm looking for later on using the search function.

It does drive me nuts that there are plenty of tools out there to help, but some stubbornly refuse to use them. (Not getting at anyone here, but I can think of some on other forums.)
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macplaxton wrote:I only care about correct spelling so I find the post I'm looking for later on using the search function.
And, on some web browsers (such as Google Chrome), they have a built in spell checker that whatever you type gets checked and highlighted in the usual red underline if it is incorrect. Some people are just lazy IMO.
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Post by macplaxton »

Lester wrote:
macplaxton wrote:I only care about correct spelling so I find the post I'm looking for later on using the search function.
And, on some web browsers (such as Google Chrome), they have a built in spell checker that whatever you type gets checked and highlighted in the usual red underline if it is incorrect. Some people are just lazy IMO.
Firefox too. (other browsers are available)
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macplaxton wrote:Firefox too. (other browsers are available)
Yes there are quite a few out there now with this tool built in.

There probably still using an ancient version of IE. :roll:
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Hmmm, anyone lend me a 1/2" talk wrench please? :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Wassrongwivdat? :D
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