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  • annie_mial
    annie_mial Member Posts: 5,614
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I guess one good thing about getting older is that I've loosened my grip on the English language as she is spoke. Aberrant apostrophes would drive me demented and I have been known to correct them as I passed by, but I can now avert my eyes from banana's and cauliflower's and their kin. However, cabbage's still brings on the odd tantrum.

    The one thing I have never been able to do during my working life is type verbatim statements.......it was always something I delegated or just plain passed on to someone else as I invariably found my fingers typing them correctly - my brain simply wouldn't cope with the y'knows, mean t'says, they was, I does, etc. etc.

    It isn't something that I've deliberately set out to do. I was conditioned/brainwashed early in life and for which I have no responsibility!

    Annie
  • tjt6768
    tjt6768 Member Posts: 12,170
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    rehab44 wrote:
    tjt6768 wrote:
    I think grammar should be one of the most important things taught in school...

    Tony
    I disagree! If I write or say something to you and you understand does it matter whether it is grammaticlly incorrect (like this post)


    Yes.... Lol

    :)

    Now what did you say again?
    Haha :mrgreen:
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  • tonesp
    tonesp Member Posts: 844
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    God have I stirred up a hornets nest here I wouldn't care but I am regarded as the family Phillistine having done my degree in Physics and Chemistry.The rest of the family are all literary and musically minded .Possibly it is my scientific training that thinks language should be like Scotty says the "Laws of Physics" However some more things make me mad When I was teaching some phrases brought out the Norman Bates in me.
    Viz... Pie in the Sky Grass Roots Jam Tomorrow.
    Having said that (s**t another one!!!) Hope everybody has enjoyed this thread.Mind I am sure anything I post now will be watched like a hawk for errors :lol::lol::lol:
  • annie_mial
    annie_mial Member Posts: 5,614
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Wot abaht y'r 'ighly eddicated crims, then?

    Annie
  • tonesp
    tonesp Member Posts: 844
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Oh come on does any body believe that all those bu%%ers in white coats in the adverts are real scientists Ever worked out the percentages in those adverts There are a lot of part women trying their products.I'd rather trust Ronald Macdonald than men in white coats :o:o:o:o:o:o:o
  • valval
    valval Member Posts: 14,911
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    do not belive a word men in white coats tell me and why are the products always improving if you belive everything you hear on the telly you need your head examining val
    val
  • tonesp
    tonesp Member Posts: 844
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I won't be watching anybody's grammar or punctuation.I don't claim to be any expert in the written word. It's just that these phrases just drive me crackers 8)
  • livinglegend
    livinglegend Member Posts: 1,425
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    tonesp wrote:
    God have I stirred up a hornets nest here I wouldn't care but I am regarded as the family Phillistine having done my degree in Physics and Chemistry.The rest of the family are all literary and musically minded .Possibly it is my scientific training that thinks language should be like Scotty says the "Laws of Physics" However some more things make me mad When I was teaching some phrases brought out the Norman Bates in me.
    Viz... Pie in the Sky Grass Roots Jam Tomorrow.
    Having said that (s**t another one!!!) Hope everybody has enjoyed this thread.Mind I am sure anything I post now will be watched like a hawk for errors :lol::lol::lol:
    And will we find them? Plenty in the above posting; I make it more than 20 faults.

    Lucky I'm not pedantic.

    Joseph 8)
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  • tonesp
    tonesp Member Posts: 844
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    As I said before Grammar and punctuation are not my bag.It's just the misuse of words and annoying phrases that bug me.I also say "Thank God for the word processor".With my handwriting I should have been a doctor. How's that Gramma? :?:
  • wooly-monkey
    wooly-monkey Member Posts: 115
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    It's the news readers/presenters that drive me crazy. Surely, in their positions, correctly spoken English is a must.
    I scream at the TV when they make so many blood curdling mistakes. It really hurts my eardrums sometimes.
    Wooly M
  • c4thyg
    c4thyg Member Posts: 542
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    dreamdaisy wrote:
    I am a hare's breath away from agreeing with you . . .

    Another thing is tautology: reduce down, combine together, raise up, sink down etc etc etc as opposed to what? Reducing up? Combining separately? Raising down? Sinking up? NO. Reduce, combine, raise and sink. One word is enough. DD

    Totally with you both. I do a bit of work as a copy-editor and you'd be amazed at what I have to correct!! :roll:

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