Author Topic: Grammar that makes you cringe  (Read 835159 times)

Zoidburg

Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #350 on: 10 August, 2009, 04:50:35 pm »
What does he know?  Edison's biggest problem was when there wasn't a proper inventor around to plagiarise ;)
"Working out the bugs" = "Fighting a patent court case"

He was a git.

clarion

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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #351 on: 10 August, 2009, 04:50:59 pm »
;D
Getting there...

Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #352 on: 10 August, 2009, 05:07:32 pm »
And two awful words, prolly and bawked.

They make me cringe so much that I ignore all the following threads
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border-rider

Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #353 on: 10 August, 2009, 05:10:45 pm »
And two awful words, prolly and bawked.

They make me cringe so much that I ignore all the following threads

It's asherly "b0rked", which has a reasonable etymology, like "teh internets"

Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #354 on: 10 August, 2009, 05:11:46 pm »
lappy

*bang*
"Yes please" said Squirrel "biscuits are our favourite things."

Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #355 on: 10 August, 2009, 05:20:42 pm »
And two awful words, prolly and bawked.

They make me cringe so much that I ignore all the following threads

It's asherly "b0rked", which has a reasonable etymology, like "teh internets"

Unless he meant the mis-spelt baulked?  I can't imagine him using or knowing b0rked.
Your Royal Charles are belong to us.

Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #356 on: 10 August, 2009, 05:49:43 pm »
No, I meant bOrked.

I have only seen it used on YACF even though I am a Member of three other English speaking Forums.
"100% PURE FREAKING AWESOME"

Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #357 on: 10 August, 2009, 05:56:35 pm »
*amazed*

OK, b0rked is perfectly fine as Mal Volio says.
Your Royal Charles are belong to us.

Martin

Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #358 on: 10 August, 2009, 05:57:05 pm »
O2 shop window today (an official O2 sign too)

Now open on Sunday's

Sunday's what?

Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #359 on: 10 August, 2009, 06:06:43 pm »
No, I meant bOrked.

I have only seen it used on YACF even though I am a Member of three other English speaking Forums.

You need to get out more. A quick google should show you how prevalent its use is.

Especially if you "spell" it correctly, the second character is a zero (0) not a capital letter o (O).

It's a corruption of the Swedish word for 'away' as used by the Swedish Chef in the Muppet Show, he used to shout "Bork! Bork! Bork!" whilst throwing kitchen implements around.

"Bork!" was corrupted as "b0rk!" and it went from there.

It's even a supported "language" on google: http://www.google.com/intl/xx-bork/
"Yes please" said Squirrel "biscuits are our favourite things."

mattc

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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #360 on: 10 August, 2009, 06:19:49 pm »
No, I meant bOrked.

I have only seen it used on YACF even though I am a Member of three other English speaking Forums.

You need to get out more. A quick google should show you how prevalent its use is.
<SNIP>

It's even a supported "language" on google: http://www.google.com/intl/xx-bork/

I think saying:
You should really know about this - look, there are entire websites about it!

...is about as robust as saying:
Of course I expect people to understand it - it's entirely grammatically correct Klingon!

(Of course, I may be missing the subtle irony in your statement
"You need to get out more". In which case - you got me :) )
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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #361 on: 10 August, 2009, 06:24:32 pm »
No Greenbank, I'll stay in if you don't mind :P

I will never use it, spell it again or try to get used to it, thank you.


Ignore it, YES! :smug:
"100% PURE FREAKING AWESOME"

rogerzilla

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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #362 on: 10 August, 2009, 06:25:00 pm »
New recruits at our place are now subject to "onboarding"  :sick:

D'you think it's anything like waterboarding?
Hard work sometimes pays off in the end, but laziness ALWAYS pays off NOW.

Andrij

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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #363 on: 10 August, 2009, 06:33:51 pm »
Tue 11 Aug 2009      09:00      BBC Radio 4

Fry's English Delight

Quote
Stephen Fry explores the highways and byways of the English language.

Stephen examines how 'wrong' English can become right English. For example, nowadays, more people use the word 'wireless' in a computer context than in a radio one. With help from a lexicographer, an educationalist, a Times sub-editor and a judge, Stephen examines the way in which usage changes language.

He applauds the council leader who claimed the services provided by her local authority should be seen as strawberry-flavoured and castigates attempts at banning government jargon like step change and synergie. Banning words is fruitless; he favours blue sky thinking, and strawberry flavouring.
;D  Andrij.  I pronounce you Complete and Utter GIT   :thumbsup:

LEE

Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #364 on: 10 August, 2009, 06:37:06 pm »
New recruits at our place are now subject to "onboarding"  :sick:

D'you think it's anything like waterboarding?

I doubt it.

Waterboarding is performed by sick, power-crazed, individuals whereas..no wait, this doesn't work.

Eccentrica Gallumbits

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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #365 on: 10 August, 2009, 07:02:36 pm »
Re control/medal, may I remind you all of the useful axiom:

There isn't a noun that can't be verbed.

As Calvin said, verbing weirds words.
My feminist marxist dialectic brings all the boys to the yard.


Zoidburg

Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #366 on: 10 August, 2009, 07:11:48 pm »
That filthy Americanism

"Do the math"

Bloody colonials.

 ::-)

Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #367 on: 10 August, 2009, 07:28:49 pm »
But I'd really like to reach out and engage around the key learnings and takeaways of this thread...

Zoidburg

Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #368 on: 10 August, 2009, 07:31:06 pm »
Onboarding of the issues no doubt...

Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #369 on: 10 August, 2009, 07:32:35 pm »
But I'd really like to reach out and engage around the key learnings and takeaways of this thread...

Fish'n'chips will do me. Who's paying?

Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #370 on: 10 August, 2009, 07:41:19 pm »
I hate misuse of its and it's.

But it takes a special skill to get the expansion (rather than the contraction) wrong:-

"Yes please" said Squirrel "biscuits are our favourite things."

HTFB

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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #371 on: 10 August, 2009, 08:21:02 pm »
That filthy Americanism

"Do the math"

Bloody colonials.
"Look, I've been harvesting all day and I'm tired, OK? You do the math."
Not especially helpful or mature

Martin

Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #372 on: 10 August, 2009, 08:29:55 pm »
New recruits at our place are now subject to "onboarding"  :sick:

D'you think it's anything like waterboarding?

naah waterboarding's reserved for those staff who don't manage to get existing customers off the BMR  ;)

Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #373 on: 10 August, 2009, 09:56:37 pm »
We've got onto software and words instead of grammar now, so we've got to give a star mention to salesmen who offer you a software "solution" when you didn't know you had a problem...

Usually it isn't even a solution, just a starting point that you can use.

Julian

  • samoture
Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #374 on: 10 August, 2009, 10:16:51 pm »
UK Border Agency

Nobody "is appeal rights exhausted."  Okay?  That is not a sentence.  You mean "he has exhausted his avenues of appeal."

"Your letter of 6 May refers."  Refers to what?  Hm?  Or did you mean "I write with reference to your letter of 6 May"?

"He was applied for a Judicial Review."  No.  He did apply for one.  He applied for one.  He was applied means something entirely different.  In context:  I (wish I) was applying the Cluestick to UKBA's semi-literate representative.

And that's just from the first page of your letter, and I'm not going to start going through the abysmal punctuation.  I will say, though, that commas are not hundreds-and-thousands, used for decorative purposes.

*scream*