Speeling Error?
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Alex01tib @ Nov 2 2006, 01:56 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>My favorite was when the title "I need an LSD!!"
was unfortunatly mistyped as "I need LSD!!"
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^^^LMAO
should still be "I need a LSD" not an fing02.gif
was unfortunatly mistyped as "I need LSD!!"
lmao.gif lmao.gif</div>
^^^LMAO
should still be "I need a LSD" not an fing02.gif
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Only if the phrase was "I need a Limited Slip Differential"
but since you spell out the word when you say it you say "L" phonetically "EL"
and since it has a vowel sound you use an.
Straight from an English website
"The choice of article is actually based upon the phonetic (sound) quality of the first letter in a word, not on the orthographic (written) representation of the letter. If the first letter makes a vowel-type sound, you use "an"; if the first letter would makes a consonant-type sound, you use "a."
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But thats a little off topic on a topic thats pretty beat in the first place...
but since you spell out the word when you say it you say "L" phonetically "EL"
and since it has a vowel sound you use an.
Straight from an English website
"The choice of article is actually based upon the phonetic (sound) quality of the first letter in a word, not on the orthographic (written) representation of the letter. If the first letter makes a vowel-type sound, you use "an"; if the first letter would makes a consonant-type sound, you use "a."
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But thats a little off topic on a topic thats pretty beat in the first place...
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Alex01tib @ Dec 1 2006, 12:03 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Only if the phrase was "I need a Limited Slip Differential"
but since you spell out the word when you say it you say "L" phonetically "EL"
and since it has a vowel sound you use an.
Straight from an English website
"The choice of article is actually based upon the phonetic (sound) quality of the first letter in a word, not on the orthographic (written) representation of the letter. If the first letter makes a vowel-type sound, you use "an"; if the first letter would makes a consonant-type sound, you use "a."
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But thats a little off topic on a topic thats pretty beat in the first place...</div>
The fact you took the time to look that up....you just owned.gif yourself as well nana.gif
thanks for the correction haha
but since you spell out the word when you say it you say "L" phonetically "EL"
and since it has a vowel sound you use an.
Straight from an English website
"The choice of article is actually based upon the phonetic (sound) quality of the first letter in a word, not on the orthographic (written) representation of the letter. If the first letter makes a vowel-type sound, you use "an"; if the first letter would makes a consonant-type sound, you use "a."
owned.gif
But thats a little off topic on a topic thats pretty beat in the first place...</div>
The fact you took the time to look that up....you just owned.gif yourself as well nana.gif
thanks for the correction haha
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^^^
What is funny is that I usually doesn't make that mush mistakes in English AND I don't know any English grammar rules, I learned in listening TV shows ... my native language is French and I do a lot more errors in French (that's quite a complicated language, I know that all the teachers I had made a grammar error at some point).
What is funny is that I usually doesn't make that mush mistakes in English AND I don't know any English grammar rules, I learned in listening TV shows ... my native language is French and I do a lot more errors in French (that's quite a complicated language, I know that all the teachers I had made a grammar error at some point).
