Linguistic pedantry

[David Hankey]

I would just like to thank HighPeakFox for introducing this non-footballing topic on what is essentially a forum for football. 

 

It has been an interesting read and often highlights problems the ill-educated encounter.

[Jattdogg]

4 hours ago, HighPeakFox said:

Thought so, always best to check. 

 

Interesting quotes! 

To be fair only part of the quotes were from that video.

 

I do post some childish comments at times but in real life am very mature and polite. Internet forum gangster!

 

Anyhow, back to pedantry. I will bugger off will my ill-educated Mathematical and Computer science degree! Apologies for hijacking the thread.

Edited 22 June 2021 by Jattdogg

[Phil Bowman]

Boubakary Soumaré, the new summer signing from Lille, adorns the Club's 2021/22 adidas third kit.

 

This is on the actual club’s actual website.

’Adorns’ ffs. Is it too much to ask that someone at an outfit the size of LCFC knows what words mean?

[HighPeakFox]

@Phil Bowman, I knew we'd get on  

[Phil Bowman]

That’s a rhetorical question by the way! Clearly it is indeed too much to ask.

[DANGEROUS TIGER]

On 18/05/2021 at 09:44, HighPeakFox said:

This seems a much better place to vent about this and avoiding irking people talking about football. So for starters....

 

Since when did the word 'biased' get replaced by the word 'bias'?

Our language has been butchered during my lifetime.

[FoxesDeb]

I'm seeing more and more people writing alot and abit, when they mean a lot and a bit. 

 

Aloud instead of allowed is everywhere now, and I'm sure I see defiantly more than definitely 

[HighPeakFox]

2 minutes ago, FoxesDeb said:

I'm seeing more and more people writing alot and abit, when they mean a lot and a bit. 

 

Aloud instead of allowed is everywhere now, and I'm sure I see defiantly more than definitely 

Defiantly is simply auto correct and people not checking what they write. I cannot decide if that's worse or not.

[Phil Bowman]

4 minutes ago, HighPeakFox said:

Defiantly is simply auto correct and people not checking what they write. I cannot decide if that's worse or not.

It defiantly isn’t worse. But it is more than abit annoying.

[HighPeakFox]

1 minute ago, Phil Bowman said:

It defiantly isn’t worse. But it is more than abit annoying.

GET OUT.

[Phil Bowman]

1 minute ago, HighPeakFox said:

GET OUT.

Jokes not aloud here then?

[HighPeakFox]

2 minutes ago, Phil Bowman said:

Jokes not aloud here then?

know, their knot.

[HighPeakFox]

Anchoring/hankering - never thought I'd see that.

[Phil Bowman]

1 minute ago, HighPeakFox said:

Anchoring/hankering - never thought I'd see that.

Took me a minute to work out what they meant!

[davieG]

2 minutes ago, HighPeakFox said:

Anchoring/hankering - never thought I'd see that.

That ship has sailed.

[Itsthejoeker]

For all intensive purposes.

[Kilworthfox]

Something that seems to have become common especially in TV commentary is the over use of the word "good", when they really mean well.

 

I watch a lot of MotoGP, and to me this over use started when the Texan former rider Colin Edwards used the term "he's going real good", rather than "he's going very well"... however (even though Edwards has now left) the English commentators have adopted the "going good" term, which baffles and urks me at the same time!  

[davieG]

13 minutes ago, Kilworthfox said:

Something that seems to have become common especially in TV commentary is the over use of the word "good", when they really mean well.

 

I watch a lot of MotoGP, and to me this over use started when the Texan former rider Colin Edwards used the term "he's going real good", rather than "he's going very well"... however (even though Edwards has now left) the English commentators have adopted the "going good" term, which baffles and urks me at the same time!  

Perhaps they used to commentate on Horse Racing.

[Kilworthfox]

7 minutes ago, davieG said:

Perhaps they used to commentate on Horse Racing.

 

They are in the main former riders from the UK, but I see what you did there 

[The Fox Covert]

I make my living from writing technical manuals to a detailed internationally-agreed set of rules. I think a lot of people would, if they saw them, describe these rules as linguistic pedantry.

You have to have them in the narrow niche in which I work, because the text is intended to have a clear and unambiguous meaning to people whose first language is not English.

So I have to write 'Install' instead of 'Fit', because to an Italian 'Fit' means an epileptic fit rather than 'fit one part onto another'.

But at the end of the day I shut down my twin 24 inch screens, shut down all the security c**p and revert to normal, dirty and constantly-evolving street English. With humour, obfuscation, misunderstanding, idiomatic grammar, the occasional profanity and all the other things that make human communication meaningful and interesting. Or is this all too deep for Foxestalk. I clicked on to see what folks think about Vestergaard!

 

[Oxfordfox83]

On 22/06/2021 at 12:51, HighPeakFox said:

Thought so, always best to check. 

 

Interesting quotes! 

It’s quotations isn’t it? 😛

 

Similar principle: does anyone else hate invite as a noun (rather than invitation) as much as I do?

[Smudge]

On 12/08/2021 at 10:28, Kilworthfox said:

Something that seems to have become common especially in TV commentary is the over use of the word "good", when they really mean well.

 

I watch a lot of MotoGP, and to me this over use started when the Texan former rider Colin Edwards used the term "he's going real good", rather than "he's going very well"... however (even though Edwards has now left) the English commentators have adopted the "going good" term, which baffles and urks me at the same time!  

Be afraid, be very afraid of the pedant 

[Smudge]

On 12/08/2021 at 07:26, DANGEROUS TIGER said:

Our language has been butchered during my lifetime.

In which case you have a lot to answer for.

Edited 16 August 2021 by Smudge

[Oxfordfox83]

On 18/05/2021 at 09:44, HighPeakFox said:

 

Since when did the word 'biased' get replaced by the word 'bias'?

Read this the other day, and thought “never seen this, must be HPF overstating something he saw once.”
 

Now, everywhere I look, FT is riddled with it. I won’t forgive you for giving me another twitch…

[HighPeakFox]

1 hour ago, Oxfordfox83 said:

Read this the other day, and thought “never seen this, must be HPF overstating something he saw once.”
 

Now, everywhere I look, FT is riddled with it. I won’t forgive you for giving me another twitch…

A positive reinforcement is always appreciated. It's amazing what we tune out if we're not careful.