In Reply to: pfft posted by ellie_in_bali on Wednesday, 17. November 2004 at 00:09 Bali Time:
It's not that I cannot spell; it's more like I cannot type. The word "bargaining" is spelt correctly in the text.
I do realize that my post could be considered 'picky' by some thin-skin people. However, I surely did not meant it to me "nasty," especially given that, like everybody else I make mistakes (See the misspelling in the heading: this was my first mistake this year :~)). Well, maybe the second?).
As for my "Do you Speak English in Australia?" bit in the other post on the same topic, which apparently offended another forumite...relax man, it was just a tease. As they say "Some of my best friends are ...(fill in the blank)." I, personally, get teased quite often for my accent, and for sometime bringing into an English conversation a word from my mother tongue. It's all in good fun.
But I had seen this confusion between the two words so many times on this forum, each time generating a big string; I had to let off some steam.