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Post by kimbahorel on Apr 2, 2018 4:54:01 GMT
I personally don't think there is any shame in asking someone how to spell something. I am quite open about the fact I can't spell a few obvious to some words and ask for help. I work in a shop and the only time I need to spell anything is searching products. I remember recently searching a product without a barcode and getting my manager over to ask in front of the customer - "Am I spelling Flamingo right?"this woman was looking me.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2018 9:09:48 GMT
I personally don't think there is any shame in asking someone how to spell something. I am quite open about the fact I can't spell a few obvious to some words and ask for help. I work in a shop and the only time I need to spell anything is searching products. I remember recently searching a product without a barcode and getting my manager over to ask in front of the customer - "Am I spelling Flamingo right?"this woman was looking me. I agree. I don't see why checking how to spell something means you can't do your job...surely it means you're trying to do it right? Putting aside my dyslexia, which is obviously a factor for me and many others, I often 'blank' on the most simple of tasks/spellings/numbers. To take another example, one of my work tasks involves inputting codes for different things. I could have put in x code 100 times in one morning and I'll have to turn to a co-worker and say 'What is code x again'. Similarly with spellings. Logically I know how to spell 'interval' to take the example, but I could write it and think 'that doesn't look right' so rather than get it wrong and look like a total nonce to my boss, I'd ask a co-worker if it was right...I struggle to see what's wrong or stupid about that. Plus English is a stupid language. |
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Post by ellie1981 on Apr 2, 2018 10:24:48 GMT
I’m usually great with spelling but I admit my vocabulary isn’t the best. On the other hand I have a very good friend in my team at work who has the widest vocabulary I know, however she can’t spell to save her life. We make a great team as she drafts the outgoing correspondence and I do the proofreading.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2018 10:43:28 GMT
The older I get, the more aphasic I get. I'm extremely good at spelling words, and I have a reasonably impressive vocabulary when I can remember the words I'm fishing for, but I swear nine times out of ten I'm just describing the word in question and hoping someone else will remember it for me. Maybe that staff member was blanking on how to spell interval, but if it had been me, I'd have been asking "you know that bit in the middle where we all clap but there's no bows yet and we can stand up if we want to but I'll probably just stay here with a book actually?".  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2018 10:45:38 GMT
The older I get, the more aphasic I get. I'm extremely good at spelling words, and I have a reasonably impressive vocabulary when I can remember the words I'm fishing for, but I swear nine times out of ten I'm just describing the word in question and hoping someone else will remember it for me. Maybe that staff member was blanking on how to spell interval, but if it had been me, I'd have been asking "you know that bit in the middle where we all clap but there's no bows yet and we can stand up if we want to but I'll probably just stay here with a book actually?". That bit where the actors stop talking and we are allowed to talk for a bit? The bit where we go and stand outside the seaty-theatre-y space for a bit (UNLESS YOU'RE IN THE YOUNG VIC AND YOUR ROW TAKES THE ENTIRE INTERVAL TO DO THAT) |
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Post by bellboard27 on Apr 2, 2018 11:46:14 GMT
You lot need spelling lessons. The spelling of interval is G-I-N-A-N-D-T-O-N-I-C
Teaching is a gift. You're welcome.
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Post by crowblack on Apr 2, 2018 13:36:32 GMT
The spelling of interval is G-I-N-A-N-D-T-O-N-I-C Not if you're female - The Inheritance being a notable exception, the only show I've been to where the queue for the Gents was longer than the Ladies. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2018 14:23:42 GMT
At a Fringe production of Les Mis, I heard an American woman say at the interval "Which one is Les?"
I went to a Thursday matinee performance of a pantomime one time and there were 2 women in the front row of the dress circle who looked like a pair of absolute disasters. They'd obviously had a few vodkas before the show and were yelling drunken abuse at the actor playing Robin Hood. Then they starting pissing themselves laughing at his tight tights.
I quite honestly felt really embarrassed for the actors.
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Post by kimbahorel on Apr 2, 2018 14:41:59 GMT
I personally don't think there is any shame in asking someone how to spell something. I am quite open about the fact I can't spell a few obvious to some words and ask for help. I work in a shop and the only time I need to spell anything is searching products. I remember recently searching a product without a barcode and getting my manager over to ask in front of the customer - "Am I spelling Flamingo right?"this woman was looking me. I agree. I don't see why checking how to spell something means you can't do your job...surely it means you're trying to do it right? Putting aside my dyslexia, which is obviously a factor for me and many others, I often 'blank' on the most simple of tasks/spellings/numbers. To take another example, one of my work tasks involves inputting codes for different things. I could have put in x code 100 times in one morning and I'll have to turn to a co-worker and say 'What is code x again'. Similarly with spellings. Logically I know how to spell 'interval' to take the example, but I could write it and think 'that doesn't look right' so rather than get it wrong and look like a total nonce to my boss, I'd ask a co-worker if it was right...I struggle to see what's wrong or stupid about that. Plus English is a stupid language. I had one day I could not for the life of me spell "sure" I was writing shore and shaw... thinking this is not how you spell it. |
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Post by 49thand8th on Apr 2, 2018 16:51:17 GMT
Honest question from a non-religious American: Why were many of you prefacing your posts with "because it's Easter..."?
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Post by bellboard27 on Apr 2, 2018 17:07:30 GMT
Honest question from a non-religious American: Why were many of you prefacing your posts with "because it's Easter..."? I suspect it was simply theatreboard members warning us that they were high on chocolate and, therefore, their postings might not be free of cognitive impairment. |
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Post by 49thand8th on Apr 2, 2018 17:29:24 GMT
LOL!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2018 18:04:31 GMT
You lot need spelling lessons. The spelling of interval is G-I-N-A-N-D-T-O-N-I-C Teaching is a gift. You're welcome. For me, it would be I-C-E-C-R-E-A-M but good effort. |
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Post by showgirl on Apr 3, 2018 3:35:50 GMT
Or more realistically, Q-U-E-U-E-F-O-R-T-H-E-L-O-O...
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Post by richey on Apr 3, 2018 8:05:05 GMT
Leaving the theatre after Miss Saigon last night, I had a woman behind me who droned on for a good few minutes telling her partner every detail about the furore surrounding the casting of Jonathan Pryce in the original production.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2018 7:27:07 GMT
Or more realistically, Q-U-E-U-E-F-O-R-T-H-E-L-O-O... Yes, that too. There was even a queue for the gents last night at the Apollo Victoria! |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2018 23:29:47 GMT
At Fat Friends on Tuesday night - lots of she was off that talent show, she was in that soap, she was in that band, he was in Corrie, he used to be a top Cricketer but can hold a tune etc.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2018 20:42:22 GMT
Or more realistically, Q-U-E-U-E-F-O-R-T-H-E-L-O-O... Yes, that too. There was even a queue for the gents last night at the Apollo Victoria! And to make matters worse, they ran out of paper towels at the interval! |
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Post by LaLuPone on Apr 7, 2018 13:23:06 GMT
At Book of Mormon just now:
Woman: “So, what’s it about?”
Other Woman: “Mormons.”
Well thank you very much for that enlightening explanation.
Also I’m worried the person behind is in for a bit of a shock if she’s come into this completely blind 😬
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Post by bellboard27 on Apr 7, 2018 17:23:29 GMT
“I’m going to take a picture of the toilets, cos they are so great”.
Anyone want to guess which London theatre this was said at?
I’ll post the answer after the show tonight.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2018 17:40:44 GMT
The Bridge?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2018 20:18:55 GMT
“It’s a shame they didn’t get this Panto at Christmas though”
Lady behind me at Matthew Bourne’s Cinderella...I mean I appreciate making that mistake in just seeing a poster perhaps, but to make it all the way to your seat...
....oh yes they were also in the wrong seats. After much fuss this was established.
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Post by bellboard27 on Apr 7, 2018 22:09:12 GMT
Sorry no. The answer is The Barbican. |
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Post by lynette on Apr 7, 2018 22:18:52 GMT
What? Have they done a major refurb ? Nothing special about the Barbican loos, surely?
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Post by bellboard27 on Apr 7, 2018 22:20:48 GMT
What? Have they done a major refurb ? Nothing special about the Barbican loos, surely? There has definitely not been anything done to them. Hence the comment caught my attention! |
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