Who is this Marco?

Didn't you know? Marco is (for)mating with this lovely girl called Forumla!

Originally Posted by arthurbr

As you guys see, I'm from Belgium (tiny speck on the map, lots of trouble), therefore my English isn't as adequate as it should be.
So, to all you Shakespearean connoisseurs out there, I would like yo ask : Who is this Marco guy I read about all over the forum?
"I want to make a Marco" ( Dr Frankenstein as OP I suppose, or eventually a lady),"Help me with this Marco" (the gardener ?), " How do I adapt my Marco" (we'll need a shrink sooner or later), "Marco doesn't work" ( his boss will be mad), etc....

Anybody care to enlighten me?

Yours sincerely

Originally Posted by teylyn

Didn't you know? Marco is (for)mating with this lovely girl called Forumla!

You people need professional help!

Maybe we do. Thing is, if you learn a language as a second (or third or more), you tend to follow the rules, so, as an outsider, you have at least a chance to get a grip.

A lot of native English speakers will not find any fault with this, whereas people like Arthurbr, as well as me and many other non-native speakers of English, will do a double take, and need a few minutes to sort out what the subject, verb, and object of the sentence are (or are supposed to be). How else do we have a chance at deciphering the message? My husband glared at it for a full five minutes, failing (rightly) to understand the sentence, and I had to actually tell him what the common NZ'er thinks this means.

For us Germans, you simply can't smile your money. Smile does not have an object.

I've run the test in my office, showing them the image in the link above. Half the people are NZ natives, the other half from all over the globe. A quarter of the people winced when they saw the image. Of those, the majority were not brought up in NZ.

So, I guess, grammar and spelling standards pretty much depend on how high these are rated in your country and how prominently they are reflected in the educational program of your country's curriculum.

rant over.

cheers

Text messaging has a lot to answer for

then again, I often wonder how OPs expect to have a snowflake's chance in a hot place to get a forumla (or a marco) right when they cnat evne mnagae to spell thier quetsion wihtout a tpyo.

Compared to the general public, Excel and VBA are relentless. You spell it wrong, you won't get the result you expect. Excel won't correct it for you. The best you can hope for is Intellisense, but if you manage to ignore even that, then your result will most likely be an error message.

Ah, then onto Excelforum. "Help! Urgent!! My formula does not work." - "Please take a moment to read the forum rules and then amend your thread title accordingly."

Full circle. Kind of ....

It made every fill-up a painful experience.

I feel for you. I wonder how many other people even noticed something was amiss.

I'm scared to contribute to this thread as I'm bound to make a grammatical error somewhere.

Dom

Dom, no worries. Just use the MS Word Spill Chucker!

I have a spelling checker,
It came with my PC.
It plane lee marks four my revue
Miss steaks aye can knot sea.

Eye ran this poem threw it,
Your sure reel glad two no.
Its vary polished in it's weigh.
My checker tolled me sew.

A checker is a bless sing,
It freeze yew lodes of thyme.
It helps me right awl stiles two reed,
And aides me when eye rime.

Each frays come posed up on my screen
Eye trussed too bee a joule.
The checker pours o'er every word
To cheque sum spelling rule.

Bee fore a veiling checker's
Hour spelling mite decline,
And if we're lacks oar have a laps,
We wood bee maid too wine.

Butt now bee cause my spelling
Is checked with such grate flare,
Their are know fault's with in my cite,
Of nun eye am a wear.

Now spelling does knot phase me,
It does knot bring a tier.
My pay purrs awl due glad den
With wrapped word's fare as hear.

To rite with care is quite a feet
Of witch won should bee proud,
And wee mussed dew the best wee can,
Sew flaw's are knot aloud.

Sow ewe can sea why aye dew prays
Such soft wear four pea seas,
And why eye brake in two averse
Buy righting want too pleas.

A grammer mistake that drives me absolutely nuts (and I see it fairly often is when people don't close their freakin parentheses!

A grammer mistake that drives me absolutely nuts (and I see it fairly often) is when people don't close their freakin parentheses!

It's those ellipses I can't stand......

oic, so u think ur all gr8, btw?

http://www.excelforum.com/excel-prog...ac-2008-a.html

What did I won?