Linguistic pedantry

[Guest Bert Fill]

On 20/05/2021 at 13:15, Dunge said:

There once was a chap from Japan

Whose poetry never did scan

When asked why this was

He said “It’s because

I always try to fit as many words into the last line as I possibly can.”

There once was a man from Peru

Whose limericks stopped at line two.

[Guest Bert Fill]

On 18/05/2021 at 09:50, Dunge said:

“I could care less” in America when they mean the exact opposite.

Maybe it’s ironic.

Which would be ironic.

[Guest Bert Fill]

On 18/05/2021 at 11:56, Izzy said:

Here's a serious question.

 

I was one told that you shouldn't put a comma before the word 'but' in a sentence.

 

I assume that's bollocks seeing as you just did it (and you never make mistakes)

 

 

 

Some people do say you shouldn’t have a comma before but, but they’re wrong.

[Guest Bert Fill]

On 19/05/2021 at 00:05, tom27111 said:

Double negatives really piss me off.

 

"I ain't got none." "I'm not going nowhere."

 

So you do have some and you're going somewhere? 

Ah, but I have a problem with this from the other angle. This being ‘wrong’ is all part of how real people actually speak being determined as ‘incorrect’ - basically by posh twats in Victorian times.

But then my grammarian tendencies are more towards the decriptivist than the prescriptivist.

 

(Just found this thread by the way, and it’s my thread from heaven, so apologies if I clutter it up at first with my overenthusiasm...)

[RonnieTodger]

"We was"

 

Cockneys are particular offenders 

[pleatout]

The creeping over use of the sound sh.

 

Shhhhhh-treet.  It's St-reet

 

The Football A-show-she-ay-shun  - it's A-so-see-ay-shun

[FoxesDeb]

5 hours ago, RonnieTodger said:

"We was"

 

Cockneys are particular offenders 

Often goes hand in hand with "I done it", 'free', rather than 'three', and 'nothink' rather than nothing. My husband talks like this and it drives me insane,

very slowly, every single day. 

[HighPeakFox]

1 hour ago, FoxesDeb said:

Often goes hand in hand with "I done it", 'free', rather than 'three', and 'nothink' rather than nothing. My husband talks like this and it drives me insane,

very slowly, every single day. 

I'm concerned you might have got married without talking to him first... 

[HighPeakFox]

Apparently 'The Spurs fans have literally imploded'.

 

It shouldn't annoy me anymore, but the patent ignorance of it (and, I think, the fact that it just gets tacitly accepted as correct) just does a job on me.

 

 

[ozleicester]

On 21/05/2021 at 18:28, String fellow said:

There are plenty of young girl from Uttoxeter limericks, but here's one for us locals, written with this morning's wet weather in mind.

There once was a fellow from Leicester,
Who frequently wore a sou'wester.
But it didn't much rain
And so he became
A Leicester sou'wester divestor.
 

Still haven't recovered from the disdain and howls of laughter generated by my pronunciation of  "Uh toe Exeter"

[Guest Bert Fill]

1 hour ago, HighPeakFox said:

Apparently 'The Spurs fans have literally imploded'.

 

It shouldn't annoy me anymore, but the patent ignorance of it (and, I think, the fact that it just gets tacitly accepted as correct) just does a job on me.

 

 

This sounds like a good excuse for a joke to me...

 

Do you know who’s the best ever English king?

Arthur. Literally a legend.

[Mythyaar]

Should/Could "of" instead of "have" or " 've"

[String fellow]

2 hours ago, Mythyaar said:

Should/Could "of" instead of "have" or " 've"

On 18/05/2021 at 16:03, String fellow said:

Actresses being referred to as actors, and 'of' instead of 'have' as in 'I should of gone home'.

Snap!

[HighPeakFox]

Inferring/implying.

[Guest Bert Fill]

2 hours ago, HighPeakFox said:

Inferring/implying.

What - are you inferring that people get them the wrong way round?

[Guest Bert Fill]

Likely instead of probably.

[Guest Bert Fill]

Pronouncing ‘ate’ as eight when it should be ett.

[SouthStandUpperTier]

People using 'are' in place of 'our'. See it quite a bit on FoxesTalk.

 

e.g. Tielemans has been are best player this season.

[HighPeakFox]

11 minutes ago, Bert Fill said:

What - are you inferring that people get them the wrong way round?

I'm stating with confidence that people do not know the difference between drawing an inference and making an implication 

[Bert]

People that call spaghetti bolognese “spag bowl” 

[Bert]

Oh and defiantly instead of definitely 

[Guest Bert Fill]

39 minutes ago, HighPeakFox said:

I'm stating with confidence that people do not know the difference between drawing an inference and making an implication 

Yeah, I kind of implied that from what you said.

[HighPeakFox]

3 minutes ago, Bert said:

Oh and defiantly instead of definitely 

Agreed, although that's just laziness with auto-correct.

[Guest Bert Fill]

On 18/05/2021 at 16:03, String fellow said:

Actresses being referred to as actors

Completely disagree with you on this one.

[Guest Bert Fill]

On 18/05/2021 at 16:03, String fellow said:

'of' instead of 'have'

Completely agree with you on this one.