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Re: English usage rant
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Re: English usage rant
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Because it makes the individual sound intellectual - Its the kind of mistake I would make coming from an education system that didn't really teach the basics of appropriate sentence construction. It's been a long hard slog, and will continue to be for quite some time.
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Re: English usage rant
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I wouldn't have even spotted that Barnacle, my educators didn't do a very good job I'm afraid. But they did tell me to never begin a sentence with 'because'
I don't think they ever explained why though?
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Re: English usage rant
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23/10/2014 13:25
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I wouldn't have even spotted that Barnacle, my educators didn't do a very good job I'm afraid. But they did tell me to never begin a sentence with 'because'
I don't think they ever explained why though? Because they didn't know why?
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Re: English usage rant
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23/10/2014 15:08
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I always emit a superior looking-down-my-nose tut when hotels mis spell accommodation.
Last edited by Gripped; 23/10/2014 18:31. Reason: Correcting my hypocritical poor spelling!
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Re: English usage rant
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Whos trainers are these shoes. *Welsh accent
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Re: English usage rant
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23/10/2014 18:03
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I always emit a superior looking-down-my-nose tut when hotels miss spell accommodation. Never mind about mis-spelling "miss spell" Tut tut indeed!
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Re: English usage rant
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23/10/2014 18:32
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I always emit a superior looking-down-my-nose tut when hotels miss spell accommodation. Never mind about mis-spelling "miss spell" Tut tut indeed! I stand corrected. But don't you feel superior now too? Everyone's a winner.
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Re: English usage rant
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23/10/2014 23:59
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Spotted today whilst on a jaunt through neighbouring towns. Should be slated for that! Our daughter now in USA (and by the way expecting a sprog in May ) always used to say "Me and Kirsty", "Me and Fiona" instead of "Kirsty and I" in spite of usually being quite correct about stuff. Think she still does I suppose that while (?whilst?) language is always evolving, punctuation perhaps doesn't.
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Re: English usage rant
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24/10/2014 00:23
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always used to say
"Me and Kirsty", "Me and Fiona" instead of "Kirsty and I" in spite of usually being quite correct about stuff. While (Whilst ) I'm not the greatest at speaking and typing the correct grammar, this really annoys me, especially when I hear it at the end of the likes of ITV's News at 10. I would expect them to speak more 'proper'.
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Re: English usage rant
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24/10/2014 07:33
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My least favourite is.
Innit
Wtf is that all about? Usage includes:
I'm off to the shop, innit. I was watching football, innit. You can't say that, Bro, innit.
As you can see it is as versatile as a full stop, or even a birds eye potato waffle!
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Re: English usage rant
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24/10/2014 09:37
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You may add 'nartamin' to that usage, BM...
I believe this could be regional, the combination of "do you know what I mean" is lesser spotted up here, but I am hearing more of the words "ask" and "you" being turned into a sneeze - axe choo.
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Re: English usage rant
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24/10/2014 09:51
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My least favourite is.
Innit
Wtf is that all about? Usage includes:
I'm off to the shop, innit. I was watching football, innit. You can't say that, Bro, innit.
As you can see it is as versatile as a full stop, or even a birds eye potato waffle! Up here you replace innit with "ken" - but heading west by the time you've reached Glasgow it's morphed into "but" or "bu' ", even "Jim" In Falkirk you are greeted with "Your oil pressure's away doon, eh ..."
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Re: English usage rant
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24/10/2014 11:23
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how about the punctuation of sentences with "like", it seems to be replacing umm or errmmm as a vocal pause for thought as well as a badly placed random word.
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Re: English usage rant
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24/10/2014 12:26
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Spotted today whilst on a jaunt through neighbouring towns. What are we supposed to be spotting here?
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Re: English usage rant
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24/10/2014 12:54
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I think the suggestion is the second s is superfluous in possession.
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Re: English usage rant
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24/10/2014 13:18
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how about the punctuation of sentences with "like", it seems to be replacing umm or errmmm as a vocal pause for thought as well as a badly placed random word. This is the one that irritates the tits off me. People who pause & use the above. Slightly different slant...adding an s to anway is another irritating thing that some do, or the shortening of words "footy" or "lippy" or no "probs" All this combined with either a raspy voice that young females nowadays go for & just as bad the nasal Americanised whine. Rant over.....
I'm an old git & happy with it,most of the time
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Re: English usage rant
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24/10/2014 13:21
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It's the Americans. Trust me.
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Re: English usage rant
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24/10/2014 14:19
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I never said it was - both Dennis' and Dennis's are acceptable versions. On the like thing, I do agree it appears to be an American teenage TV thing but also the upward inflection seems to also be required by said user. I have banned my children from using the word like at all, they have to find different ways to express there agreement with something. Nice is also banned, I think it's rather drab, much over used to give compliment and doesn't really give a measure or feel for how much you appreciate something.
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Re: English usage rant
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24/10/2014 22:14
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I stand corrected, still looks wrong to me though... Even when you ignore that the owners name is Sharon. Is the other local company, Absolutely Upholstery also correct?
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Re: English usage rant
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24/10/2014 22:48
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Currently annoying me on a daily basis: People using "does that make sense?" at the end every sentence in place of "do you know what I mean?". I still find it insulting to have it suggested that I perhaps don't understand what they've just said, no matter how they put it. People using "turned round" in sentences i.e. "he turned round and said...". I rarely find myself feeling the need to spin on the spot during conversations, must be some dizzy people out there. Or maybe they're all Kylie fans?? Similar to "like", the repetitive use of "you know" in sentences i.e. "so I said, you know, you can't do that it's, you know, not right, and, you know, I'd never do it..." The use of "over" and "more than" in news reports - mainly the BBC but it seems it's not possible to be precise or at least give a close approximation, it has to be "more than 1,000" or "over 1000 people". 10,000,000 is "more than 1,000" so is that what they mean? No, clearly not, why can't they just say "1,050" or whatever the actual number is?? The icing on the cake was on BBC Radio Cambs a couple of weeks ago when the news reader said "more than 173 people" - what the fccuk?! The use of terms such as "a little bit insane", "a little bit obsessed" or "a bit of a perfectionist" - you can't be partially insane, obsessed or a perfectionist to my mind, you either are wholly or you're something else i.e. "quirky" or "interested" or have "an eye for detail". Rant over, I feel better for that
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Re: English usage rant
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25/10/2014 00:25
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Come on Neil - be sensible. "Six feet tall" means within half-an-inch of that, not half-a-foot!
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Re: English usage rant
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26/10/2014 21:18
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Nah. We dun't wanna know nuffin 'bout dat, innit!
We all need to try AND stop saying 'try and'. It's TRY TO!
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Re: English usage rant
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26/10/2014 21:24
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What about the case where a v is pronounced as an f?
To make an omelette, firstly we have to break some eggs.
But do I really haff to break them?
Why do we do that?
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Re: English usage rant
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26/10/2014 23:27
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Because we are lazy, it's a bit like french, they make words fit so they flow. Haff flows, if you're like me and from Yorkshire then you're looking at 'aff't.
your going aft' break (yes wrong spelling but right pronunciation) eggs. You try finding 'alifax ont map or an 'oss to ride there on.
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Re: English usage rant
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26/10/2014 23:29
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Why when I quote do I get going, yet it shows as going? Have we gone mad on here???
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Re: English usage rant
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Because we are lazy, it's a bit like french, they make words fit so they flow. Haff flows, if you're like me and from Yorkshire then you're looking at 'aff't.
your going aft' break (yes wrong spelling but right pronunciation) eggs. You try finding 'alifax ont map or an 'oss to ride there on. Well I'll go t'foot a stairs"
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Re: English usage rant
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26/10/2014 23:52
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Well I'll go t'foot a stairs" Surely that should be "I'll go t'foot a wor stairs" should it not?
Up yours Photobucket.
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Re: English usage rant
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At least sixty years ago!
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Re: English usage rant
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I get wound up over incorrect use of "there", "their" and "they're"
A chap I used to work for always used "their", regardless of the context. Even after I explained the three applications, he just carried on as before....
I was also glad to hear my two year old grand-daughter saying "yes please" and "thankyou, grandma" yesterday. My son is adamant that she will understand the basics of correct (and polite) language BEFORE she goes to school and picks up the rubbish from all the other kids.
And finally....
There are generally three meals in a day - breakfast, lunch and dinner - NOT, breakfast, dinner and tea.
I suspect I'm out of touch on this one though, as modern convention seems to accept that "dinner ladies" serve a meal in the middle of the day, and "tea-time" is accepted to be early evening
Thoughts?
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Re: English usage rant
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27/10/2014 11:23
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Abbreviations and slang really wind me up, il list a few
Abbreviations.
"sorry" Sorry
"Init" Isn't it
"An all" As well
"Totes" Totally
Slang.
Sick: Very good
Bad: Good
"Safe" How are you? (I think)
"What you say'n" what are you upto?
Last edited by Carlscott; 27/10/2014 11:24. Reason: S.O.Z!!
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Re: English usage rant
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I'm looking to loose my text spk & literally get my ducks in a row, before I take them over the wall and manage the client interface.
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Re: English usage rant
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27/10/2014 12:03
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Now that's the kind of blue sky thinking that we need more of around here. Someone who's prepared to get all the heavy lifting done.
Up yours Photobucket.
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Re: English usage rant
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Re: English usage rant
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27/10/2014 13:01
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Also used in Leicestershire, where majority of my co-workers are from.
I often find myself correcting them.
Which reminds me of one particular worker who has said numerous times "that'll learn you"
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad
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Re: English usage rant
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Is the other local company, Absolutely Upholstery also correct?
No, I'll give you that one! Absolutely sh1te
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Re: English usage rant
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29/10/2014 18:08
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I say breakfast, dinner and tea T'further north you go this is the norm. In Edinburgh....."You'll have had your tea?" Thank god the "Not three bad" died a death
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Re: English usage rant
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29/10/2014 21:21
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I always tell my pupils this assimilation is important, becuase so many English do it.
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And every day, in every way, the English languages loses just a little more redundancy. I remember the arguments inside the BBC when, in the mid-80s, a policy change was made to encourage local dialects and accents in on-air presentation. Which was fine... until it started to become a badge of pride to *not* know how to speak or write intelligible English.
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Re: English usage rant
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30/10/2014 10:17
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But sooner or later we arrive at the point at which people are unable to read the research in which it is shown that spelling and punctuation *does* matter.
The classic papers aren't even related to spelling except in passing; they're by Shannon (Shannon, C. (1948). A Mathematical Theory of Communication. The Bell System Technical Journal, 27:623-656 and Shannon, C. (1949). Communication In The Presence Of Noise. Proceedings of the IRE, 37(1):10-21) and they discuss redundancy of information in the context of noisy transmission paths - which is what written text with spelling or grammatical errors is.
The conclusion is that if something has sufficient redundancy, it can be reconstructed *exactly* if what is removed does not exceed that redundancy. You'll probably have seen the example where a sentence has all the words displayed as anagrams, but with the first and last letters maintained correctly - it's readable, but it's not unambiguous, and it's difficult... because it's approached and in some cases passed the limit of the redundancy.
Most Latin and Germanic languages contain extra in-built redundancy in that not only is there a standardised spelling, as in English, but there is much more required agreement within the parts of the sentence: case and gender must also agree as well as multiplicity. In English, only the multiplicity is required - because English has stolen bits from so many different languages that it can't maintain the grammatical rules in which they evolved.
So when you take English and get rid of the consistent spelling, ignore punctuation rules, forget the grammar... you're getting close to the limit where what you write is ambiguous at best, unintelligible at worst, and too much like hard work to be bothered transcoding.
If you want to be understood, make it *easy* for the reader. Good authors break the rules, but they know which to break and when to break them!
Here's something from seven hundred years ago; see how things change. But say it out loud, and it's easy, bar a couple of words:
“His coat-armure was of clooth of Tars, Couched with perles whyte and rounde and grete. His sadel was of brend gold newe y-bete, A mantelet upon his shuldre hanginge Bret-ful of rubies rede, as fyr sparklinge.”
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Re: English usage rant
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I think the emoticons are quite useful when communicating, or attempting to, online. The reader is unable to see your face, doesn`t know you and may be of a very different disposition. A gives an indicator as to whether one is attempting to be humorous or not.
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Re: English usage rant
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30/10/2014 11:13
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I have seen one today on a paper billboard:
Is the correct word hanged or hung, in the context of:
A farther hanged himself after killing his family.
It was headlined as above, yet hung sounds more correct?
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Re: English usage rant
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30/10/2014 11:27
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Hanged.
“Hung” is correct except when capital punishment is being imposed or someone commits suicide.
Last edited by PeteP; 30/10/2014 11:30. Reason: explanation.
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Re: English usage rant
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You and I share a distaste for emoticons, yet many people rely on them to convey additional meaning not evident from the way they use written language.
I fear you are right; a language capable of incredibly fine shadings of meaning is gradually demolished by people who can't be bothered to learn how to use it. Presumably there are only a dozen emotions required in this wonderful world. Long live the illiterati!
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Re: English usage rant
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30/10/2014 13:06
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You and I share a distaste for emoticons, yet many people rely on them to convey additional meaning not evident from the way they use written language.
I fear you are right; a language capable of incredibly fine shadings of meaning is gradually demolished by people who can't be bothered to learn how to use it. Presumably there are only a dozen emotions required in this wonderful world. Long live the illiterati! Well, I had this discussion with AndrewR - not someone you could accuse of slovenly language use or membership of the illiterati - and he both used and saw the point of emoticons. I just hate them.
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Which, when the order is reversed, replays the world's shortest written exchange, started by Victor Hugo, to his publisher, asking how his new publication "Les Miserables" was doing /useless fact of the day
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I think that is fact of the day Nigel.
It was so awesome the forum crashed it seems!
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I think that is fact of the day Nigel.
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Re: Emoticon usage rant
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And the subject title has changed along the way as well
Your car is Usain Bolt with wellies
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Yes, I did that. Apologies.
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And the subject title has changed along the way as well Yes, I did that. Apologies. ??
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Re: Emoticon usage rant
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If you mean - am I really being apologetic, no. If you mean - how did I do that, I have unique skills.
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If you mean - am I really being apologetic, no. If you mean - how did I do that, I have unique skills. ???
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Re: German usage rant
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I didn`t know one could do that till yesterday as i`m not an inveterate button twiddler.
I`m making up for lost time.
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Re: Useless English Rant?
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Habst ich nicht Deutsche gesprechen?
But Neil, do your special skills run to finding out who crashed the server? I think it was the post Nigel made, caused some kind of meltdown.
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Ich habst nicht Deutsche gesprechen? I believe it should be "Ich habe Deutsch nicht gesprochen"
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I've got it! I've got the answer!!
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My German friend thinks her language should be very easy to learn compared to learning English. I disagree with her. Google disagrees with me, she disagrees with Google. I agree to disagree.
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Once upon a time, on a forum far far away......
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It's simple. You put them on the wheel-nuts and then you can see whether the nuts have come loose!
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But I've got to get the truth out!! People need to know!
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But I've got to get the truth out!! People need to know!
Due to the censorship none if this makes any sense. Can I at least have a clue ?
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But I've got to get the truth out!! People need to know!
Due to the censorship none if this makes any sense. Can I at least have a clue ? If you're lucky you'll be pointed in the right direction.
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Re: English usage rant
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Ho ho.
Still none the wiser. This must be wheely driving you nuts.
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Re: English usage rant
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Seen on the back of a plumber's van this morning, verbatim: As seen on CH4's "Help! My house is infested with Sarah Beeny"
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English usage rant??
Are we a bit off-topic here?
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Re: English usage rant
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Yes. There are no Hazelnuts.
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Which was a risky gambit, if you think about it.
What constitutes a bite?
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07/11/2014 23:19
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And back on topic, people who spell bite when they mean byte!
Up yours Photobucket.
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Re: English usage rant
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Also loose instead of lose. Don't start me off again!
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Also, "would of" and "could of" instead of "have"
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You seen what I done? You is more cleverer than what I is, bro, innit!
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Re: English usage rant
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I'm fearful that this thread is being neglected. Ongoing vigilance must be maintained!
What about the (presumably American) trend of writing 'then' when the word being searched for is 'than'? It seems to be everywhere now. How difficult must that be?
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Yes, I'd forgotten that one.
I can only assume it stems from a pretty basic illiteracy. Americans say "then", so that's how they spell it.
In the absence of the appropriate education, I suppose, there but for fortune, and all that.
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I done good. Yeah, innit.
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Probably ruined the effect by using capitalisation and a full stop though...
Last edited by Wishy; 30/11/2014 19:09.
Up yours Photobucket.
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Re: English usage rant
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I done good. Yeah, innit. You're prize for pointing it out is an app as trophy.
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Re: English usage rant
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That's like wicked.
Where does I put this app as trophy?
Careful!!
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