Phil Pascoe
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No, you threw it in free.
The Grammar Thread
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No, you threw it in free.
I care, and I absolutely refuse to use text speak when I use sms or whatsapp on my phone. It does have an effect too, neither of my daughters, nor their partners, use text speak to me or on our family groups. I just nagged them until they stopped
On forums (fora?) I always proof read my post before hitting send too. It's not infallible but at least it usually makes sense. Which is more than can be said for a few posters here.
Jef
Sporky McGuffin
Light entertainer
I believe that should be "hoist with your own petard". I await being corrected.
John Brown
Freeloading Social media influenza
Dreamed and dreamt?
selectortone
Still waking up not dead in the morning
I find the way American vernacular is becoming the norm here irritating. Things like 'airplane' for aeroplane for example.
I recently emailed Cinch, the car buying company, about the ad they are running on TV.
I asked them, if it wasn’t too much trouble, to tell that bearded bloke who does their adverts that in America they say ‘Anyways’ while here in the UK we say ‘Anyway’. I got a very nice reply from Alannah from their Customer Service Team saying “Thank you very much for your email and for reaching out to cinch. I will pass on your feedback to the marketing team.”
Well, it gave my daughter a laugh
I recently emailed Cinch, the car buying company, about the ad they are running on TV.
I asked them, if it wasn’t too much trouble, to tell that bearded bloke who does their adverts that in America they say ‘Anyways’ while here in the UK we say ‘Anyway’. I got a very nice reply from Alannah from their Customer Service Team saying “Thank you very much for your email and for reaching out to cinch. I will pass on your feedback to the marketing team.”
Well, it gave my daughter a laugh
Indeed it is, from Hamlet, something like "tis sport to have the enginer hoist with his own petard".
Adam W.
A Major Clanger
Unless you're from Mendip.
RobinBHM
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So, I hate the trend for starting sentences with the word.....
RobinBHM
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when my daughter hit her head I said to her; there their they're
RobinBHM
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Sgian Dubh
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Maybe you're 'hoist with your own pedantry', ha, ha.
I await receiving my next copy of Private Eye and perusing the Letters section. Slainte.
Which I am, but it needs an Ohh to preface it then.
Stevekane
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God I am the last person to be criticising anyone for poor grammar or spelling but I do sometimes see posts where I really do have to work hard at trying to understand what the person is saying, and given that were trying to “communicate” surely thats a serious issue. Often its a lack of punctuation or any attempt at sentence structure which throws me.
Steve.
Steve.
Adam W.
A Major Clanger
My youngest was born in the Shepton clinic and delivered by Eavis's good lady.
We are probably related then
Adam W.
A Major Clanger
I wouldn't be surprised, it is Mendip after all.
Jacob
What goes around comes around.
not bovvered misself - you can tell by the context. I just happened to remember that discrete is the roughly the opposite of concrete and is spelt or was spelled the same way. But indiscreet is usually spelled 'indiscrete' - rarely used to mean 'not concrete'. Who cares anyway?
PS In Moxon things are fpelled really ftrangely.
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I think the worst Americanism (in print) is 'coworker', should be 'co-worker', which sometimes they get right. The first time I came across it unhyphenated, I wondered what a ; 'cow orker' was!
https://www.grammarly.com/blog/co-worker-vs-coworker/
It's usually in print without the hyphen here.
In the US, the only people in grammar competitions are generally liberal arts majors and attorneys. That's not always the case. I work with a former math major who could organize 400 cats and make them march in order, and he wordsmiths my stuff pretty extensively.
Well, when someone loses an argument on an internet forum, they it's not uncommon in the states to see them pivot to grammar and punctuation.
Anecdotally, I've noticed that rank and file English folks can be or are generally more rabid about grammar, but doing anything improper in German will get more instant results from Germans.
Well, when someone loses an argument on an internet forum, they it's not uncommon in the states to see them pivot to grammar and punctuation.
Anecdotally, I've noticed that rank and file English folks can be or are generally more rabid about grammar, but doing anything improper in German will get more instant results from Germans.
Jacob
What goes around comes around.
Yebbut not difficult to work out what coworker means; after all how many cow-orkers do you bump into on a daily basis?I think the worst Americanism (in print) is 'coworker', should be 'co-worker', which sometimes they get right. The first time I came across it unhyphenated, I wondered what a ; 'cow orker' was!
