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Noticed today that some people seem to spell Rubens as Rubins :confused:
I mean seriously wtf? Is this some kind of lame joke that I don't get because I don't visit the F1 that much or do people really not know how to spell the name of one of the best drivers of our era? :confused:
Oh dear, go and put yer anorak back in the cupboard.... :dozey:Quote:
Originally Posted by Daniel
And are you SURE THAT MR BARRICHELLO SPELLS HIS FIRST NAME ALL IN CAPITALS?? ;)
I have no idea whether this one is meant to be funny, but I must say I have never found any of the deliberate mis-spellings of drivers' names used on these forums in the slightest bit amusing. When someone comes up with a genuinely clever one, I will laugh, but not before.
Your right, langauge is the currency we deal with here on forums, people should know how to use a spellchecker for the unfortunate affliction of dyslexia or simple research copy and paste in the event of spelling someones name correctly. I've known the correct spelling is Rubbens, for years...
Why is that such a difficult word to spell? Is someone having a larf?Quote:
Originally Posted by Zico
A dyslexic man goes skiing. At the top of the slope, not sure what to do, he asks the man next to him - "excuse me, do we zig zag or zag zig?"
"Don't ask me" says the man, "I'm a tobaggonist"
"Oh" says the dyslexic, "In that case I'll have 20 Marlboro lights!"
It's been years that some people can't spell several drivers names correctly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Daniel
Heck there are lots who can't even spell correctly usual words in English.
It just proves that:
1. They don't think much while typing a post
2. Never read their post after they posted it
3. They simply aren't as much into knowing F1 as they are fanboys of a certain driver who's name they happen to know how to spell
or
4. they just can't spell an type correctly.
I gave up on being surprised by some enormous mistakes I see almost every day around here.
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Originally Posted by ioan
Sorry, but it had to be done...Quote:
Originally Posted by ioan
Was just checking if you are alert! :p :Quote:
Originally Posted by BDunnell
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Originally Posted by tamburello
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Originally Posted by BDunnell
There are those who concern theirselves with form and those who concern themselves with substance, but ain't nobody around here doing both.
In any event, we seem to have those properly identified as to where they fit.
And anybody who says i ain't in neither one, i shall forgive them for their ignorance, for they know not what they do
Happens all the time on rallying side of the forum. I've read Tommi Mäkinen's name in about dozen different ways not to mention Harri Rovanperä which seemed to be too much for some of the members.Quote:
Originally Posted by BDunnell
Personally, I think it's disrespectful not to bother to check the correct namespelling. What comes to written english I don't care since I'm not a native speaker and make lot of mistakes myself.
I find this forum okay, even the people who don't use English as their first language mostly get on fine. There are 2 other forums which I use regularly (one for my football team and the owners club for my car) where there are some shocking errors which make it hard to read a lot of the time. One post I read the other day had the usual there/their/they're cock up, only they'd done it twice. I think that they were trying to say "they're" but had used both "there" and "their" at different points.
I also saw something on facebook where the person had written using a mixture of abrevs ;) numbers in place of words and poor grammar before noting something along the lines of "to all you grammar freaks out their I know it's wrong but grammar is boring get over it lol". Now I know that grammar is boring but I actually couldn't understand the point that she was trying to make because it didn't make sense.
So when someone puts Rubins in place of Rubens I don't really mind, it could be so much worse.
@ A.F.F: If I was to check the correct spelling for every Finnish driver that I wasn't sure about, it would take a very long time :D
I know what you mean but I do it with every foreign driver.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr Jan Yeo
Then again, every second of all top drivers are Finns :p :
How about Bunsen? Are we laughing yet?Quote:
Originally Posted by BDunnell
Sorry, but it had to be done.Quote:
Originally Posted by BDunnell
An ellipses should only be used to indicate a trail off into silence, an unfinished thought or an omission of text. Your remark came to a full stop and should have ended with a full stop or a sarcasm mark.
(A sarcasm mark looks like this: ¡)
nag, nag, nag!!Quote:
Originally Posted by BDunnell
Better if he just forgot to post it :p :Quote:
Originally Posted by Rollo
I use to spell it Rubins all the time because that how I pronnouned it
I double check now apart from last night were I was (and still am btw) angry
I did until he took the pole...................Quote:
Originally Posted by Valve Bounce
I never understood if this was a joke or just a mistake, so many people here call him rubins..
but I make mistakes with foreign names to...
(and my english is bad)
His name , in cheers from the crowd , is Rubinho .
I try to spell correctly , and wouldn't think of using a spell check feature . I'm old school , man . It's dictionary city for me .
Damn new fangled button things just don't have the feel of the page .
I get a good laugh out of some of the spelling and grammatical errors here , but I won't chide anyone for language .
As long as the post can get the point across , I don't really see a problem .
I'll tell you what irks me .
It's the damned announcers that can't seem to say Robert Kubica's name correctly .
In fact , I don't think I've ever heard his name spoken correctly by any announcer yet .
I certainly don't think it's worth getting all mad about .
I wouldn't spend my capitol letters on it . They cost more , don't they ?
Of course , I could be completely wrong here , as maybe spelling Rubens with an "i" is really , really insulting in Brazil(or is that Brasil?) .
We have too many people here who care more about spelling than having a nice, friendly and often humorous chat in the forum, I zuppoze :(Quote:
Originally Posted by HenryM
I remember posting a similar thread about MacLaren / McClaren / McLeran / Maclaren.
It's not difficult, is it?
It should be the case that at the start of the year, the drivers teach the commentators how to pronounce their name. Then have a "swear box" of sorts for everytime we get a Koo-bik-a.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bagwan
Getting names wrong is a pet hate of mine though, the amount of times a company has sent me a letter with my surname spelt wrongly is just annoying :mad: . Just read what I put on the damn form! :p
Or really bad keyboard bounce... :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Rollo
I dislike that Rubins thing too.....more so when commentators get names wrong during F1 races, don't these guys actually do any sort of prep work?
It happens all the time in Football too(especially with sh*t channels like Ten Sports over here)
Yeah!! they should learn how to pronounce bunsen.Quote:
Originally Posted by Storm
His name is Rubens, just one b.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zico
With reference to spellcheckers, When Christian Klien signed for Jaguar in 2004 a lot of people, including some of the major F1 related websites were calling him Christian Klein, the reason, MS Word's spellchecker listed Klien as a misspelled word and suggested Klein as an alternative.
In the theme of misspelled names and words, Kimi's last name (using an English keyboard) is Raikkonen not Raikonnen
Also its sponsor not sponser, in fact wasn't sponser a censored word in this forum?
Who cares, Walter!! Who cares!!
We Finns do speak foreign languages better than most Europeans, it's down to that.Quote:
Originally Posted by A.F.F.
I used to work with Danes - they spoke English very well.Quote:
Originally Posted by DexDexter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubens_BarrichelloQuote:
Originally Posted by Bagwan
Both his father and paternal grandfather are also named Rubens, and Barrichello shares his father's birthday: May 23. Therefore, Rubens Barrichello was known as Rubinho (Portuguese for "little Rubens"), which has become his nickname.
I work with a bunch of English people, most of them seem to struggle with the language :D
You do ? :confused: I must have been unlucky then :p : I agree about the Danes though, and as for the Italians...never mind :s ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by DexDexter
So, the one guy you worked with who was a real 'diamond geezer', was he a 'Great Dane'? ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Valve Bounce
WFT Denial :?: Sorme orf ous catn splel fro hsit :p :Quote:
Originally Posted by Daniel
I like to think I know bit about the subject through my work :) , lets say younger Finns. One of the fashinating things about Italy for me is the lack of foreign language skills, one really has to learn some words of Italian to survive outside the Colosseum etc..... Talking about pronunciation, Jarno Trulli is actually an interesting case, I wonder how many Italians actually know how to pronounce his Finnish first name, coming from Jarno Saarinen.Quote:
Originally Posted by pino
Rubinho is his nickname not his name, it's the Portuguese diminutive for Rubens.Quote:
Originally Posted by henners88
In that case you must be one of those who are not best at English. :p :Quote:
Originally Posted by DexDexter
Seriously, there are many countries in Europe where young people speak several languages, it is not a Finnish exclusivity.
It's not only announcers. Alex Wurz who's been commentating for the Austrian television last season and is doing it this season too, has constantly called him Kubika.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bagwan