Author Topic: The moaning old git thread (Read 534139 times)

MartinW · « **Reply #2001 on:** August 11, 2017, 19:38:08 »

Quote from: Fat Rat on August 11, 2017, 08:33:45

..... Why can't people see that 'your' and 'you're' are two very different words .....

Absolutely

Brockett · « **Reply #2002 on:** August 11, 2017, 19:43:26 »

Brockett · « **Reply #2003 on:** August 11, 2017, 19:45:41 »

Are they the same people who use "of" instead of "have"?
As in I should 'of' ( done this or that etc).

Joe Rocket · « **Reply #2004 on:** August 11, 2017, 21:13:14 »

I heard 'specialty' on R4 yesterday. That's US laziness, English has an I in it: speciality.

And what's this with 'become' (got)...........

TLPower · « **Reply #2005 on:** August 12, 2017, 06:00:24 »

There is always a better word to use than got. So said my english teacher.

Rusty Nuts · « **Reply #2006 on:** August 12, 2017, 08:26:05 »

Mr Power, English is a proper noun and requires a capital E if you please. I'd of fought you'da got that in school.

TLPower · « **Reply #2007 on:** August 12, 2017, 13:07:03 »

I did wonder if it needed a capital. That would've required me to press the upper case key, which would have required an amount of effort.

There, I've said it, I'm lazy.

MartinW · « **Reply #2008 on:** August 12, 2017, 14:35:22 »

To be fair Mr Rusty, the school that Mr Power went to was a Nunnery.

TLPower · « **Reply #2009 on:** August 12, 2017, 15:42:46 »

Actually it was a very good school.

It was approved.

jmee54 · « **Reply #2010 on:** August 31, 2017, 11:31:13 »

As a newbie I don't know if this has been mentioned yet and I can't be arsed to look!
After the onsaught of the word "like" which drives me insane. All of a sudden everyone started answering a question with "so" as a prefix. This is not just the proles, this seems to be universal - even presenters and educated people on Radio 4 - even professors!! (SHOCK HORROR) Bloody Americans! Bloody stupid British, having to copy every sodding thing they do.

Brockett · « **Reply #2011 on:** August 31, 2017, 13:05:08 »

However, without the over used "F" word this would be an amusing vest.

TLPower · « **Reply #2012 on:** August 31, 2017, 16:41:59 »

That's because you're retired Dave

. It's essential in the workplace apparently.

Rusty Nuts · « **Reply #2013 on:** August 31, 2017, 17:08:52 »

( and no. 6 could also be it effing has - e.g. it's been a hard day's effing night" )

Brockett · « **Reply #2014 on:** August 31, 2017, 19:57:55 »

Music, ( Mu-sick)...
Imagine every time you got into a conversation, you and whoever you are talking to have to whip out a music player and turn it on and up so your words are only just audible. Would that be annoying? It is for me!
That is what it's like now with every product demonstration video that I have looked at recently. So what's so wrong with silence that between the bits of essential speech we must be subjected to banging bass and drums.

Joe Rocket · « **Reply #2015 on:** September 09, 2017, 19:02:03 »

Quote from: jmee54 on August 31, 2017, 11:31:13

All of a sudden everyone started answering a question with "so" as a prefix. This is not just the proles, this seems to be universal - even presenters and educated people on Radio 4 - even professors!

.

John Humphries hates it!

If you take 'so' off the beginning of the sentence it all makes sense so (correct use of so) why waste effort to use it in the first place?

jmee54 · « **Reply #2016 on:** September 09, 2017, 21:28:54 »

Exactly!

TLPower · « **Reply #2017 on:** September 10, 2017, 05:42:39 »

Rusty Nuts · « **Reply #2018 on:** September 10, 2017, 06:50:49 »

"Quad bike".

No. It's a quad, not a bike, which by definition has two wheels.

Tusker · « **Reply #2019 on:** September 10, 2017, 09:24:10 »

Hmm but Bike is an abbreviation of BICYCLE the BI indicating two,,, two wheels of course. and then there is TRICYCLE which is a three wheeled machine. So perhaps the correct name should be a QUADCYCLE ..... or more correctly a MOTOR QUADCYCLE......