Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Fala Chen's Manuscript 011909

To dear FalaChen.cn,

法拉城的朋友, 大家好!

It has been quiet a busy year for me, & I'm sure it was for all of you, doing your work & living your life, AND keep this website running. :D

Thanks for such a great site, I love it. It's so update & beautiful. Happy 2nd anniversary!

陳法拉

Personal Note: Fala's 'quiet' and 'update' remind me of Aimee Chan spelling "you're" wrong in the phrase "your under arrest" Ha ha....

*Credits to www.falachen.org

8 comments:

  1. Is there actually another way of spelling it or did they spell quiet wrong? 'Cos I know someone who spells like it's the "wrong" way and writes quiet instead...:P

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  2. Now I'm doing it! *quiet

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  3. I think Fala spells all of her "quite" as "quiet". :)

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  4. Haha, happens to even the best of us. I'm fluent in English, but I misspell all the time. Whenever you're not double-checking, it happens. I also know some people like to switch around the letters not on purpose), maybe Fala's one of them?

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  5. To Advo:

    Fala has written "quiet" instead of "quite" on a number of occasions. I can see how you would mess up when you're typing, but it is very difficult to mess up while you're actually writing it on paper.

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  6. ^No, I think it's pretty common when people are writing too. A lot of people switch around some letters in some words, e.g. like believe and receive. It's because it sounds similar. Personally, I'm very visual in my spelling so I can see when it's wrong - though I do make mistakes if I'm typing - but not everyone have it the same way. Others are more auditory.

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  7. To Advo:

    However, Fala always writes it the same way, so it is quite evident that she doesn't know how to spell it correctly.

    It is not common to switch letters around when you been accustomed to spelling it a certain way. The reason why people would misspell (e.g., "believe" and "receive") is because they either do not know how to spell it in the first place or they haven't made a strong enough connection with regards to whatever is the correct spelling.

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  8. I guess, if you say so. I only know from own experience that I quite often mix quite and quiet and only realises it afterwards because I can see that it's wrong.

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