Another corruption of the English langauge

[+The Brat Pack]

I have just come across the following phrase on the Groundspeak website - "Users Who Favorited This Cache"

 

Ugh! Why can they not use our language properly!

[+keehotee]

I have just come across the following phrase on the Groundspeak website - "Users Who Favorited This Cache"

 

Ugh! Why can they not use our language properly!

 

Seems to be in at least one dictionary already

–verb

simple past tense and past participle of favorite.

 

Personally - as the English language has spent the past thousand years (at least) in a state of flux and constant evolution - I'd be more concerned with the use of upper case at the beginning of each word....but that's not a language issue

[+agentmancuso]

I think favo(u)rited is a reasonable enough neologism. The verbal concept of "marking something a a favo(u)rite" is new, so an accompanying evolution of language is only to be expected.

[+JeremyR]

One thing is for sure, if Groundspeak went with 'favourite' there would be much more angst over it from our American chums than there will be over 'favorite' from the Brits

 

Maybe Groundspeak should add English (UK) to their available localisations (and fix that blummin' MM/DD/YYYY date issue at the same time )

[+jon.hemlock.Chantal]

I have just come across the following phrase on the Groundspeak website - "Users Who Favorited This Cache"

 

Ugh! Why can they not use our language properly!

 

This is rather ironic, considering that the title of your thread has the word "langauge" in it, instead of language

[+The Brat Pack]

I have just come across the following phrase on the Groundspeak website - "Users Who Favorited This Cache"

 

Ugh! Why can they not use our language properly!

 

This is rather ironic, considering that the title of your thread has the word "langauge" in it, instead of language

 

It is amazing how many Google hits this spelling error picks up!

[+jon.hemlock.Chantal]

Yup!

[+dfx]

now with this much bickering going on, i'm sure you haven't been friended by a lot of people. :lol: :laughing:

[+The Blorenges]

As I said on t'other topic, what's wrong with simply using "favoured"?

 

MrsB

[+Pharisee]

As I said on t'other topic, what's wrong with simply using "favoured"?

 

MrsB

Absolutely nothing at all

[+Pieman]

I think that using "favorite" as a verb is just full of awesomeness.

[+JeremyR]

Borrowing/paraphrasing from another forum in a thread on this very matter:

 

I've never met a noun that couldn't be verbed.

 

[+keehotee]

As I said on t'other topic, what's wrong with simply using "favoured"?

 

MrsB

 

...or even "added to my favourites list"?

 

We've all got the time and energy to root around in bushes for boxes for hours - why do we even need to come up with new words to save typing?

[+jon.hemlock.Chantal]

As I said on t'other topic, what's wrong with simply using "favoured"?

 

MrsB

 

How 'bout "flavoured" ?

[+The Blorenges]

As I said on t'other topic, what's wrong with simply using "favoured"?

 

MrsB

 

How 'bout "flavoured" ?

 

Yeah... but, no... but... yeah, but...

 

then we'd have to favour our favourite flavours of caches and it could get complicated.

 

(Ours would be have to be "Orange Crush" I think.)

 

MrsB

[+GAZ]

Hmmm....words in the English language....to be honest, it doesn't bother me the differences between the US and the UK ways of spelling, what REALLY annoys me is the amount of "text speak" that still goes on, on the likes of Facebook etc, not so much on cache logs, thankfully. Also punctuation.......another bug-bear of mine. This day and age, with "qwerty" keyboards on mobiles, there is really no excuse for not using punctuation.

 

Just a short story to make you smile:-

 

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae.

The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm.

Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

 

Amzanig huh?

 

Gaz

[+MartyBartfast]

 

...or even "added to my favourites list"?

 

We've all got the time and energy to root around in bushes for boxes for hours - why do we even need to come up with new words to save typing?

 

What we need is an acronym , and I think you've hit the nail on the head;

 

ATMFL

 

to go with

TNLN

TFTC

 

Bingo.

[+John Stead]

Hmmm....words in the English language....to be honest, it doesn't bother me the differences between the US and the UK ways of spelling, what REALLY annoys me is the amount of "text speak" that still goes on, on the likes of Facebook etc, not so much on cache logs, thankfully. Also punctuation.......another bug-bear of mine. This day and age, with "qwerty" keyboards on mobiles, there is really no excuse for not using punctuation.

 

Gaz

 

Amen to that - but then I think Gaz and I are from a similar generation, in Geocaching years at least!

[+Phil100]

It is amazing how many Google hits this spelling error picks up!

Apparently, you can get some really good bargains on eBay by searching using "spelling mistakes"!

[team tisri]

I have just come across the following phrase on the Groundspeak website - "Users Who Favorited This Cache"

 

Ugh! Why can they not use our language properly!

 

Seems to be in at least one dictionary already

–verb

simple past tense and past participle of favorite.

 

Personally - as the English language has spent the past thousand years (at least) in a state of flux and constant evolution - I'd be more concerned with the use of upper case at the beginning of each word....but that's not a language issue

 

It could be a language issue. It's said that capitalisation makes the difference between helping your uncle Jack off a horse, and helping your uncle jack off a horse.

[+keehotee]

I have just come across the following phrase on the Groundspeak website - "Users Who Favorited This Cache"

 

Ugh! Why can they not use our language properly!

 

Seems to be in at least one dictionary already

–verb

simple past tense and past participle of favorite.

 

Personally - as the English language has spent the past thousand years (at least) in a state of flux and constant evolution - I'd be more concerned with the use of upper case at the beginning of each word....but that's not a language issue

 

It could be a language issue. It's said that capitalisation makes the difference between helping your uncle Jack off a horse, and helping your uncle jack off a horse.

:laughing:

[+agentmancuso]

It could be a language issue. It's said that capitalisation makes the difference between helping your uncle Jack off a horse, and helping your uncle jack off a horse.

 

[+jon.hemlock.Chantal]

[+CnJnA]

Is that the guy that eats, shoots and leaves, or the other chap who eats shoots and leaves?....

[+currykev]

It could be a language issue. It's said that capitalisation makes the difference between helping your uncle Jack off a horse, and helping your uncle jack off a horse.

 

 

I got tossed off a horse once!

But that's another story.

[+geohatter]

Right, I think it's time to close this thread as it's gone way off topic.

 

If anyone wants to carry it on please feel free to use the Off Topic forum.