It is Euskaltel

[Arnout]

Sorry for this maybe stupid thread.

I really cannot stand it that more than half of cycling fans on this board and some professional journalists of cyclingnews as well are still always saying Euskatel.

It is Euskaltel, for those who don't know.

And its not that it is a new team. They've been around sinds 1994 and with the apparently difficult Euskaltel name since 1998. Come on

Just saying.

 

[erader]

Sorry for this maybe stupid thread.

I really cannot stand it that more than half of cycling fans on this board and some professional journalists of cyclingnews as well are still always saying Euskatel.

It is Euskaltel, for those who don't know.

And its not that it is a new team. They've been around sinds 1994 and with the apparently difficult Euskaltel name since 1998. Come on

Just saying.

it's vulnerable, not vunerable. yet i hear even very educated folks saying vunerable.

my conclusion: BFD.

erader

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

just saying.

 

[DAOTEC]

hola

 

[Libertine Seguros]

What's with the whole grammar nazi thing? That ****es me off.

When George W. Bush mangled the English language, everybody thought it was a great laugh to mock him for it. And yet, when it's written, not spoken, you're only a douche if you correct things? It's funny when somebody famous makes a mistake, but because you post on an internet forum you're above the laws of grammar, and anybody who dares correct you is the one in the wrong?

I can't help but think this is funny to sell to the company though. "Yes, everybody knows of our product. But none of them actually knows what it's called!"

 

[Mambo95]

It's a shame Salvodelli never rode for Euskatel

 

[The Hitch]

Also, adding to this Grammar Nazi thing, doesnt it break Goodwins law. I myself have no love for this moronic rule but apparently if you mention National Socialism or any of its icons on the internet, you automaticaly become an idiot and all your arguments are rendered wrong

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

What's with the whole grammar nazi thing? That ****es me off.

When George W. Bush mangled the English language, everybody thought it was a great laugh to mock him for it. And yet, when it's written, not spoken, you're only a douche if you correct things? It's funny when somebody famous makes a mistake, but because you post on an internet forum you're above the laws of grammar, and anybody who dares correct you is the one in the wrong?

I can't help but think this is funny to sell to the company though. "Yes, everybody knows of our product. But none of them actually knows what it's called!"

no one intentionally mispells, and i get pi**ed off when people correct others and bilittle other posters. Many times, people just write a typo. Another user replying just to correct another's mistake is pathetic imo. I cannot understand why someone would care if another mispells.

 

[The Hitch]

no one intentionally mispells, and i get pi**ed off when people correct others and bilittle other posters. Many times, people just write a typo. Another user replying just to correct another's mistake is pathetic imo. I cannot understand why someone would care if another mispells.

Im surprised that you didnt post this when you got called out for calling Szmyd Szymd. That was grammar nazism if i ever saw it.

 

[DAOTEC]

hola

 

[nvpacchi]

Sorry for this maybe stupid thread.

I really cannot stand it that more than half of cycling fans on this board and some professional journalists of cyclingnews as well are still always saying Euskatel.

It is Euskaltel, for those who don't know.

And its not that it is a new team. They've been around sinds 1994 and with the apparently difficult Euskaltel name since 1998. Come on

Just saying.

Arnout, you speak for me with this post.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

no one intentionally mispells, and i get pi**ed off when people correct others and bilittle other posters. Many times, people just write a typo. Another user replying just to correct another's mistake is pathetic imo. I cannot understand why someone would care if another mispells.

How about when ACF used "would of" four times in a three sentence post - detailing why Australians are "more superior" of intellect?

That's not a mis-spelling or a typo. That's just blatantly wrong. Yes, correcting mistakes and doing nothing else is finicky and pedantic, but sometimes things become virtually unreadable, and demonising those that complain about that is counterproductive. All it does is say "I defend my right to be stupid". It's like the Calvin and Hobbes one, "why waste time learning when ignorance is spontaneous?"

Being picky about the odd typo here or there derails discourse by taking it off-topic. Unreadable or undesirably poor spelling and grammar derails discourse by rendering it incomprehensible.

 

[DAOTEC]

hola

http://www.cyclechat.net/topic/orbea-euskeltel-criterium-frame/

 

[Spare Tyre]

How about when ACF used "would of" four times in a three sentence post - detailing why Australians are "more superior" of intellect?

That's not a mis-spelling or a typo. That's just blatantly wrong. Yes, correcting mistakes and doing nothing else is finicky and pedantic, but sometimes things become virtually unreadable, and demonising those that complain about that is counterproductive. All it does is say "I defend my right to be stupid". It's like the Calvin and Hobbes one, "why waste time learning when ignorance is spontaneous?"

Being picky about the odd typo here or there derails discourse by taking it off-topic. Unreadable or undesirably poor spelling and grammar derails discourse by rendering it incomprehensible.

About 2-3 decades ago Australian educators made a policy decision to privilege the expression of ideas over spelling and grammar. Fewer corrections and suggestions were to be made. In consequence a significantly larger proportion of our population don't understand the basics, and think they are unimportant. We have gone too far in our efforts to get away from the overly pedantic and now many of us don't understand that grammar and spelling are the facilitators of communication. We often come across as uneducated idiots and as sloppy. It's a trend which will be difficult to reverse.

 

[DAOTEC]

Naranja news

About 2-3 decades ago Australian educators

http://domanda auskaltel.html

miércoles, 15 de septiembre de 2010
Igor Gonzalez de Galdeano wants to do the Giro d'Italia in 2011 with Igor Anton, and thus return to the Italian race, after two years of absence.

"It's my option," says the manager Orange the brigade, before making a final decision I have to adjust the planning, cause I will only have 23 riders for three Grand Tours, Giro, Tour and Vuelta, and knowing Anton raced it already in 2005. and has good feelings about the Giro.

The Basque team was last time in Giro d'Italia of 2008.
Euskaltel-Euskadi has ensured their participation in the three major tours by finishing in the top 17 teams ranking of the world, which supposed to give automatic access to the Giro, Tour and Vuelta in 2011, whether they will obtain a ProTour license for next year, de Galdeano could not tell. "Not being in the ProTour would not be a drama".

Read more: http://www.biciciclismo.com/cas/site/noticias-ficha.asp?id=30535

(? I hope for de Galdeano he is right about that grand tour 17 slot access cap for 2011.)

 

[Spare Tyre]

http://domanda auskaltel.html

Euskaltel, Auskaltel

Euskaltel, Euskatel

Australia, Eustralia

 

[auscyclefan94]

How about when ACF used "would of" four times in a three sentence post - detailing why Australians are "more superior" of intellect?

That's not a mis-spelling or a typo. That's just blatantly wrong. Yes, correcting mistakes and doing nothing else is finicky and pedantic, but sometimes things become virtually unreadable, and demonising those that complain about that is counterproductive. All it does is say "I defend my right to be stupid". It's like the Calvin and Hobbes one, "why waste time learning when ignorance is spontaneous?"

Being picky about the odd typo here or there derails discourse by taking it off-topic. Unreadable or undesirably poor spelling and grammar derails discourse by rendering it incomprehensible.

So what are you saying? It is alright to correct people if you can't comprehend what they are saying but not right to belittle people who make 1 spelling error?
Can you quote that post???

 

[Archibald]

lets just call them the "Bleeding Carrots" and be done with it!


as for the rest, the biggest frustration of any language teacher is having students who don't even know their own language...
I learnt more about English when I started studying another language
Unfortunately, English teachers don't teach English Language

 

[cromagnon]

Can't believe people still get Euskaltel Euskaldi wrong I mean seriously.

(yes I know, that was the joke)

 

[taiwan]

I heard Sean Kelly pronounce "Kreuziger" yesterday. Gah!

 

[ingsve]

I heard Sean Kelly pronounce "Kreuziger" yesterday. Gah!

Ya, some of the british commentators don't even seem to be trying some times.

I would like to see a pro cyclist with a click in his name. I wonder how commentators would handle that.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

So what are you saying? It is alright to correct people if you can't comprehend what they are saying but not right to belittle people who make 1 spelling error?
Can you quote that post???

I make an exception for you. Not that you normally only make 1 spelling error.

Frankly, the non-Anglophones have the best standard of English on the board much of the time. It's fairly predictable though, because you don't have to learn the basics of English grammar at school as a new system when you're already old enough to comprehend it - it's something you learn naturally and is then taken as read later in life, whether you successfully learnt it or not.

 

[DAOTEC]

@ Libertine Seguros

 

[craig1985]

I make an exception for you. Not that you normally only make 1 spelling error.

Frankly, the non-Anglophones have the best standard of English on the board much of the time. It's fairly predictable though, because you don't have to learn the basics of English grammar at school as a new system when you're already old enough to comprehend it - it's something you learn naturally and is then taken as read later in life, whether you successfully learnt it or not.

Like I've said, many of the Dutch posters on this site have a better command of the English language then many native English speakers. I must admit I was really slack with regards to grammar as a kid, until my mum got wind of an assignment I was going to hand in and made me fix everything up.

 

[The Hitch]

Like I've said, many of the Dutch posters on this site have a better command of the English language then many native English speakers. I must admit I was really slack with regards to grammar as a kid, until my mum got wind of an assignment I was going to hand in and made me fix everything up.

Thats a great road to damascus moment right there.