Yes, but UG misspelled "Philippines" twice in the same post, and did it two different ways. That's what Clodfobble pointed out. He still doesn't get it "[a]fter puzzling over [it] for a while" and is succeeding at confusing you too.

No, I'm not confused, but it IS true that 'Filipino' is a word. However, this has little to do with the fact that he misspelled Philippines twice. So I conceeded that he got one thing right.

Conceeded? Conceited?
 

From Merriam-Webster Online: "conceeded The word you've entered isn't in the dictionary. Click on a spelling suggestion below or try again using the search box to the right."

*mirth*

Glatt, as near as I can recall, I wrote two different words: Philippines with too many Ls, and "Filipino."

When your ego no longer calls for you to make such remarks, Ibbie, it will be a sign to you that you have become an adult. You're a teenager; I was one of those once. I'll make allowances, as it is a prolonged, if not necessarily intensely, awkward phase. Condescending, I know, but that's how I treat people who talk a bunch of ill-considered shit, see? Shit's mostly useful for helping roses grow, later.

I might as well assume "conceeded" was a typo. "Loose" for "lose" could be in that category too.

I can't believe I'm continuing on this trivial point, but here goes:

The correct spelling is: Philippines.
You misspelled it as both "Phillipines" and "Phillippines".

Clodfobble pointed that out. Somehow you thought she was saying that you also misspelled "Filipino." Ibram also picked up on "Filipino." Nobody ever said that "Filipino" is wrong.

I don't care much about spelling. I don't make much of an effort to police my own. The only reason I even pointed it out is because you said you spent a while trying to figure out what Clodfobble was talking about, but you still got it wrong, and then turned around and tried to tell Clodfobble that she was wrong.

Okay, I generally don't like to get into the whole 'spelling' debate. It really doesn't bother me if someone doesn't spell a word correctly, nor does it concern me overly if someone misses a typo. I'm interested in the content of their posts and generally speaking, their intent is not obscured by spelling mistakes. I have spelling errors in my post. I don't always correct them. The same can be said for most people who use these boards.

That said.......

UG, this isn't a dig. I can't say as I care how you have spelled Philippines. However in order to clear up your confusion: The two mis-spellings of that word were 'Phillippines' and 'Phillipines'.

I regularly mis-spell that word. It's one of those words, I can never remember when it comes to it. Spelling is something I don't often have trouble with (though typos are) yet that word routinely trips me up.



And now, UG I am getting at you. You have spewed some fairly ill-considered shite on this board recently and are therefore deserving of condescension, see?

No, I don't see, as I reject the premise that it's either ill-considered or shite.

Thanks for explaining it, glatt. :) DanaC, I generally don't care if other people misspell words (okay, not true, I do care, because I'm a neurotic perfectionist when it comes to spelling, but I am not rude enough to correct them,) but in this case I was poking UG about it because he very frequently corrects other Dwellars, and goes so far as to loudly draw false conclusions about their intelligence based on their typos.

How many Ls in philistine?

(snicker)

Officially it´s The Republic of the Philippines (or Pilipinas in Tagalog, or Islas de Filipinas in Spanish named after King Philip II of Spain), or ROP. Americans used to call it PI or Philippines Islands.

Colloquially, Filipinos may refer to themselves as Pinoy (feminine: Pinay)

Ingat Ka.

DanaC: Illegitimi Non Carborundum... ;)

Fair enough :) I daresay Ibram would say the same.

*grins* thanks for the timely reminder.....EGO reputo vir est per dementis

You almost got it right, ClodF: I draw conclusions about their intelligence based not on their typos, but on their posts. How could you have missed that? Is there not a great deal of unwisdom put forth here at least weekly if not daily?

Nor do I overdo my concern about spelling -- just understand that it is as everpresent as yours. These people are enjoying a stroke of luck and are trying some middle-school piling on. Such breaks will be few, and far between. I can be patient.