Author Topic: Grammar that makes you cringe (Read 856686 times)

nicknack · « **Reply #2125 on:** 15 April, 2012, 04:55:03 pm »

Quote from: fboab on 15 April, 2012, 03:25:37 pm

Even aside from the irony of marketing Adnams as local to BSE, home of Greene King...

Yebbut Greene King don't brew any beer (worth drinking).

L CC · « **Reply #2126 on:** 16 April, 2012, 09:27:31 am »

It's amazing how much they sell, given how rubbish beer snobs claim it is....

I don't know how Adnams do it, given their industrial process and equally voracious pub buying appetite, but they still manage to fool people into thinking they're a sweet local operator in comparison to the all consuming monster Greene King.

Biased? Job seeking? Me?

Wowbagger · « **Reply #2127 on:** 16 April, 2012, 09:30:24 am »

When we were in Scotland a couple of weeks ago the most common ale in the pubs we visited was Old Speckled Hen.

nicknack · « **Reply #2128 on:** 16 April, 2012, 10:13:45 am »

Quote from: fboab on 16 April, 2012, 09:27:31 am

It's amazing how much they sell, given how rubbish beer snobs claim it is....

Quite right. Most of the public appear to want beer that tastes of nothing. I believe Fosters also sell a lot of "beer".

L CC · « **Reply #2129 on:** 16 April, 2012, 10:34:49 am »

Quote from: Wowbagger on 16 April, 2012, 09:30:24 am

When we were in Scotland a couple of weeks ago the most common ale in the pubs we visited was Old Speckled Hen.

I suspect that's because Greene King ate Belhaven...

Greene King are in the business of keeping pubs open. You'd think that'd be popular with beer drinkers of all varieties. Yet it seems you'd rather curse their greedy ways and horrible beverages. I don't drink beer, but I'm hardly likely to slate one of the biggest employers locally, who use locally grown produce to manufacture an internationally successful range of stuff. None of which I'm likely to buy .

citoyen · « **Reply #2130 on:** 16 April, 2012, 10:59:13 am »

Quote from: fboab on 16 April, 2012, 09:27:31 am

It's amazing how much they sell, given how rubbish beer snobs claim it is....

Greene King IPA won champion beer at the Great British Beer Festival a few years ago. In a blind tasting. You can imagine how upset the beer snobs were.

It's not such a bad beer when it's well kept - light and refreshing. Not really an IPA though. The real problem is its ubiquity, which means it's more likely to be stocked by pubs that don't look after their beer so well, which means a much greater likelihood of encountering it in less than perfect condition.

The voracious expansionism of Greene King doesn't help their cause. I know what you mean about Adnams but they get away with it by making some Very Good beer. I've had a good few duff pints of Adnams in my time though.

d.

Nuncio · « **Reply #2131 on:** 19 April, 2012, 12:31:05 pm »

Caption beneath photo in today's Times:

Quote

Rebels in Tai Rifaat have to make their own grenades, and have only small arms

It ran on ', courage and prayer to rely on in battles against the regime's tanks, gunships and military mercenaries, who are blamed for destroying the home of "El Hajj" and his still tearful mother, above right', which is OK as far as the grammar is concerned - if a little long - but it still caused me to splutter.

mattc · « **Reply #2132 on:** 19 April, 2012, 12:59:31 pm »

Superb!

Quote from: Nuncio on 19 April, 2012, 12:31:05 pm

Caption beneath photo in today's Times:
Quote
Rebels in Tai Rifaat have to make their own grenades, and have only small arms

On the plus side, they can make the grenades to a spec that suits their small arms; mass-produced ones might not be as suitable.

Nuncio · « **Reply #2133 on:** 19 April, 2012, 01:03:18 pm »

Perhaps they had longer arms before they started making their own grenades.

hellymedic · « **Reply #2134 on:** 19 April, 2012, 11:00:29 pm »

Ambiguous headline on Beeb website:
"Lightning strike disrupts trains in and out of London"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-17777918

Would that be the weather or industrial unrest, then?

(click to show/hide)

clarion · « **Reply #2135 on:** 29 April, 2012, 03:26:05 pm »

OK, it's not grammar, it's maths, but Johnnie Walker has just introduced a segment by saying,

'...Billy Bragg was born in Barking in 1957 and was a teenager throughout the seventies...'

clarion · « **Reply #2136 on:** 29 April, 2012, 03:27:32 pm »

One from the train stations yesterday:

'Due to the current inclement weather, please take care...'

hellymedic · « **Reply #2137 on:** 29 April, 2012, 03:33:26 pm »

Quote from: clarion on 29 April, 2012, 03:26:05 pm

OK, it's not grammar, it's maths, but Johnnie Walker has just introduced a segment by saying,

'...Billy Bragg was born in Barking in 1957 and was a teenager throughout the seventies...'

The cringeworthy arithmetic that gets me is the advertisement on the BT webmail offering life insurance from 0.17p per dday.
£5 per month is about 17p per day.
Out by a factor 100...

mattc · « **Reply #2138 on:** 17 May, 2012, 07:57:12 am »

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Chris L · « **Reply #2139 on:** 17 May, 2012, 10:19:28 am »

On a sample photograph of the class brought home from school: Group Proof Photograph. Which is OK. Just. More randomly, "Each photograph supplied with a mount," which if it's true will delight my daughter, but be a bit of a headache for us.

L CC · « **Reply #2140 on:** 17 May, 2012, 01:23:11 pm »

I can't decide if this is wrong, or just jarring:

why1040 · « **Reply #2141 on:** 17 May, 2012, 01:24:26 pm »

Definitely somewhat jarring, but I think technically correct...at least I can't think of a better way to put it!

pcolbeck · « **Reply #2142 on:** 17 May, 2012, 01:29:50 pm »

Well "nite" is incorrect in British English ...

mattc · « **Reply #2143 on:** 17 May, 2012, 02:47:48 pm »

The only valid usage is:
"Ye Olde Charity Quiz Nite"

Actually, what makes me cringe is those bloody ellipsis-es (plural sp?!?); but as boab put the "nite" sign in the foreground, I assume that was the 'subject' of the piccie.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2144 on:** 17 May, 2012, 02:52:40 pm »

Quote from: why1040 on 17 May, 2012, 01:24:26 pm

Definitely somewhat jarring, but I think technically correct...at least I can't think of a better way to put it!

Last Sunday of every month
?

But it doesn't look wrong as it is, to me.

hellymedic · « **Reply #2145 on:** 17 May, 2012, 04:24:30 pm »

Quote from: why1040 on 17 May, 2012, 01:24:26 pm

Definitely somewhat jarring, but I think technically correct...at least I can't think of a better way to put it!

Last Sunday of every month?

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2146 on:** 17 May, 2012, 05:43:44 pm »

Thank you, Helly.

clarion · « **Reply #2147 on:** 18 May, 2012, 12:28:26 pm »

If I Was by Midge Ure. I've just used it in Tune Association, and realised it still grates.

citoyen · « **Reply #2148 on:** 18 May, 2012, 01:22:37 pm »

Quote from: mattc on 17 May, 2012, 07:57:12 am

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I got that email too. I'd hardly finished reading the subject line before I'd hit the delete button.

d.

mattc · « **Reply #2149 on:** 18 May, 2012, 01:24:06 pm »

Quote from: clarion on 18 May, 2012, 12:28:26 pm

If I Was by Midge Ure. I've just used it in Tune Association, and realised it still grates.

(If lyrics are fair game, we're gonna need a bigger thread! )