Grammar that makes you cringe

[citoyen]

Months' means "belonging to the month" doesn't it?

"Belonging to some months" if I'm being picky.

[hellymedic]

The plural of month is months, isn't it? Not months'? Months' means "belonging to the month" doesn't it? Please? Tell me I'm not going mad...

Plural of month is months.
One month's earnings is what you'll receive for working in February.
Three months' earnings is what you'll get for March, April and May combined.

HTH & HAND.

[fimm]

The plural of month is months, isn't it? Not months'? Months' means "belonging to the month" doesn't it? Please? Tell me I'm not going mad...

Plural of month is months.
One month's earnings is what you'll receive for working in February.
Three months' earnings is what you'll get for March, April and May combined.

HTH & HAND.

Thank you, all.
The first rule of criticising spelling or grammar on the internet is that the person making the criticism will themselves make a spelling or grammatical mistake...

Helly: Hope That Helps and HAND?

[hellymedic]

Hope that helps (or happy to help) and have a nice day!

[T42]

Ah, OK. No need for SHRIMP, then.

[fimm]

Yes, the penny eventually dropped while I was cycling to the station yesterday evening.

[Mr Larrington]

I actually encountered someone on Farcebok yesterday who spelled his surname "Crook's".  Options:

• An eccentric like Tom Lehrer's mate Hen3ry
• Someone trolling the Gammonariat
• An idiot

[Cudzoziemiec]

Or:

• The son of a crook

[hellymedic]

[OT] Crookes was a pharmaceutical house that was swallowed up by the Boot's empire. (I don't know if the legacy of Jesse Boot uses any apostrophe now.)

[Kim]

Barakta's in a circle of hell, and I'm currently listening to the TextRelay robot arguing with the Santander I'm-very-sorry-to-keep-you-waiting robot.  (There's presumably a bored scouser in the loop, too, but they'll be communicating by keyboard.)

There should be a law against unintelligent automated systems apologising for things, but referring to themselves as "I" in the process^[1], as if it's actually their fault, is a special level of urgh.


_{[1] I'll accept "I'll put you through now" or "I can't seem to access the database" as a cutesy anthropomorphic attempt at UI, but it's not the PBX's fault that Santander don't employ enough call-centre staff, and it shouldn't be taking the blame for it.}

[Nuncio]

Like 'Sorry I'm not in service' buses.

[ian]

Southern and Thameslink are always sorry about something. I don't actually think they are sorry, but they have developed a robot solely to apologize. I think someone posted their 'excuses' API responses a while back.

[hellymedic]

If they truly WERE 'sorry', they would go to some lengths to ensure that train delays/cancellations and predictable staff shortages would not recur. I see no evidence this is the case.

They are not 'sorry'. They a mechanised lying bastards.

[Cudzoziemiec]

"I joined the gym last week. I've had my first session and been induced on all the machines."
This inevitably led to crap jokes about having a kid called Jim.

[Kim]

"I joined the gym last week. I've had my first session and been induced on all the machines."
This inevitably led to crap jokes about having a kid called Jim.

Or calling them Eddy...

[Cudzoziemiec]

"I joined the gym last week. I've had my first session and been induced on all the machines."
This inevitably led to crap jokes about having a kid called Jim.

Or calling them Eddy...

[hellymedic]

"I joined the gym last week. I've had my first session and been induced on all the machines."
This inevitably led to crap jokes about having a kid called Jim.

Or calling them Eddy...

Electrical induction causes eddy currents.
Induction of labour causes childbirth.

Those of us exposed to the language of Physics in our formative years can pun till the sun goes down.

That's enough Faraday...

[mattc]

- Eddies in the spacetime continuum.

- Is he?

[one of my favourite Douglas Adams silly jokes]

[Cudzoziemiec]

Might have known it was some sort of electrical joke!
Doesn't induction of labour cause apples? Or at least jobs.

[Deano]

- Eddies in the spacetime continuum.

- Is he?

[one of my favourite Douglas Adams silly jokes]

Isn't that a Terry Pratchett's joke?

[mattc]

- Eddies in the spacetime continuum.

- Is he?

[one of my favourite Douglas Adams silly jokes]

Isn't that a Terry Pratchett's joke?

I think Adams would have written it around 1980-ish?? Doesn't that predate PTerry? (my memory is pretty poor on both TBH!)

Of course there is the follow-up:
- And that's his sofa, is it?
[which probably needs a bit more context to understand ... ]

[SteveC]

HHGTTG was on the radio when I was at uni (77-80). I bought the double LP in my final year.
pTerry was already published by then, but not Discworld. A housemate got hardbacks of Strata and Dark Side of the Sun from a remainders bookshop also in my final year.

But the joke sounds more Adams to me.

[pcolbeck]

Recreator - one who is engaged in the act of recreation.

[mattc]

Recreator - one who is engaged in the act of recreation.

Not recreationalist ?

[pcolbeck]

Recreator - one who is engaged in the act of recreation.

Not recreationalist ?

Not according to one of the Guardian's American stringers:

It’s also illegal for recreators to approach Glory Hole, since laws prohibit boaters from traveling near dams, such as the one next to spillway.