Author Topic: Grammar that makes you cringe (Read 856696 times)

professor palindrome · « **Reply #1875 on:** 03 January, 2012, 08:46:20 am »

I enjoy things like "Wolf snatches photo award" and "Student suspended over girl in room".

Relax. The second one wasn't recent. The first quotation has been slightly edited but not so much as to deprive the inquisitive from seeking the full sensory experience. They can also work out, if interested, whether Bence Mate or Mate Bence is the correct word order. Clue: context.

People who complain about "wiki" used as an abbreviation and say things like "From where I'm sat" are also good value.

citoyen · « **Reply #1876 on:** 03 January, 2012, 12:24:55 pm »

Quote from: rower40 on 02 January, 2012, 09:49:52 am

On Sherlock last night, he used "I" where the strict Roolz of grammar required him to use "me".

I noticed that too. I tried not to let it spoil my enjoyment of the show but it was spoilt anyway by various other faults.

d.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #1877 on:** 03 January, 2012, 07:30:20 pm »

Quote from: professor palindrome on 03 January, 2012, 08:46:20 am

I enjoy things like "Wolf snatches photo award" and "Student suspended over girl in room".

"Crash blossoms"?

I find most of them don't work for me - the intended meaning is so obvious that I have to really try to see another one, and then it's not funny. Though I do like your second one, if only for the image it conjures up.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #1878 on:** 06 January, 2012, 09:47:14 am »

When I shopped in Waitrose yesterday, I noticed that Shreddies were half-price. Normally I buy the Waitrose equivalent because they are cheaper.

Mrs. Wow pointed out this little gem from the packet:

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Whole grain goodness weaved together...

Have I been cleverly hijacked by a slick advertising campaign whose sole purpose was to bring Nestlé products to the attention of the grammar pedants of YACF?

Or is that just shockingly bad?

mattc · « **Reply #1879 on:** 06 January, 2012, 10:55:31 am »

Gold star to the Registrar who wrote to N about her planned treatment. It looks like the letter was typed by an admin person, then hand-amended by the doctor before signing+sending:

... she has ~~got~~ a lumpy tender scar ...
(and similar repeats).

Great stuff. Begone, superfluous gots!

HTFB · « **Reply #1880 on:** 06 January, 2012, 10:58:10 am »

Misbegotten gots.

citoyen · « **Reply #1881 on:** 06 January, 2012, 11:09:45 am »

Quote from: mattc on 06 January, 2012, 10:55:31 am

Begone, superfluous gots!

+1

d.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #1882 on:** 06 January, 2012, 12:07:05 pm »

Got to get rid of the gots!

pcolbeck · « **Reply #1883 on:** 13 January, 2012, 03:13:43 pm »

Waterstone's are becoming Waterstones. I'm surprised no one has mentioned this one yet. Does this mean that a till belonging to Waterstones is now Waterstones' till ?

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #1884 on:** 13 January, 2012, 04:27:19 pm »

Tesco's is a funny one. Whereas there was a Mr Sainsbury, and a partnership of Messrs Marks and Spencer, there never was a Mr Tesco whose shops we visit.

Oh, how I loved writing Messrs. Though I could have written misters as Mrs to mess with the messers! Or the blades...

Wowbagger · « **Reply #1885 on:** 13 January, 2012, 05:44:41 pm »

There were, of course, Messrs. Waite, Rose & Taylor.

why1040 · « **Reply #1886 on:** 13 January, 2012, 06:42:58 pm »

I just received an email asking me whether "I'm a women who..."

Wowbagger · « **Reply #1887 on:** 13 January, 2012, 10:50:34 pm »

Quote from: why1040 on 13 January, 2012, 06:42:58 pm

I just received an email asking me whether "I'm a women who..."

Betchooar betchooar!
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LindaG · « **Reply #1888 on:** 13 January, 2012, 11:11:48 pm »

Quote from: pcolbeck on 13 January, 2012, 03:13:43 pm

Waterstone's are becoming Waterstones. I'm surprised no one has mentioned this one yet. Does this mean that a till belonging to Waterstones is now Waterstones' till ?

It depends on whether the till belongs to a particular branch of Waterstones, or to several branches of Waterstones.

The first is Waterstones's. The second is Waterstones'.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #1889 on:** 13 January, 2012, 11:36:10 pm »

Aren't they closing lots of branches? That should turn them into Waterpebbles.

And my gloves too, please.

LindaG · « **Reply #1890 on:** 13 January, 2012, 11:37:32 pm »

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 13 January, 2012, 11:36:10 pm

Aren't they closing lots of branches? That should turn them into Waterpebbles.

Aye, they just turned my Crusty into one of them scrounging doleys.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #1891 on:** 13 January, 2012, 11:39:42 pm »

LindaG · « **Reply #1892 on:** 13 January, 2012, 11:42:04 pm »

It's okay Cudz, he's taking his ball ~~home~~ to India. He'll be reet.

And that, lads and lasses, is what we in Yorkshire call Grammar.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #1893 on:** 13 January, 2012, 11:45:21 pm »

Ah - hence the thread he started in, er, Rides & Touring, or was it The Knowledge? Anyway, no Waterstones out there but you can get cheap books (in English too!)

rower40 · « **Reply #1894 on:** 14 January, 2012, 07:39:14 am »

Quote from: Lindagordinho on 13 January, 2012, 11:42:04 pm

It's okay Cudz, he's taking his ball ~~home~~ to India. He'll be reet.

And that, lads and lasses, is what we in Yorkshire call Grammar.

Whereas, in Lancashire, Grammar is one's Mum's Mum. So I've heard.

Gandalf · « **Reply #1895 on:** 14 January, 2012, 05:44:50 pm »

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 13 January, 2012, 04:27:19 pm

Tesco's is a funny one. Whereas there was a Mr Sainsbury, and a partnership of Messrs Marks and Spencer, there never was a Mr Tesco whose shops we visit.

Oh, how I loved writing Messrs. Though I could have written misters as Mrs to mess with the messers! Or the blades...

I have always thought that 'Tesco' was derived from Tessa Cohen.

haliaetos · « **Reply #1896 on:** 14 January, 2012, 05:57:40 pm »

Quote from: Gandalf on 14 January, 2012, 05:44:50 pm

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 13 January, 2012, 04:27:19 pm
Tesco's is a funny one. Whereas there was a Mr Sainsbury, and a partnership of Messrs Marks and Spencer, there never was a Mr Tesco whose shops we visit.

Oh, how I loved writing Messrs. Though I could have written misters as Mrs to mess with the messers! Or the blades...

I have always thought that 'Tesco' was derived from Tessa Cohen.

It's a combo of T. E. Stockwell and the first two letters of Jack Cohen's surname. I learned all about this at my induction a while back.

clarion · « **Reply #1897 on:** 19 January, 2012, 10:03:51 am »

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<the Kolars> were found battered to death by their son, a serving Police Officer

The unfortunate son discovered his parents had been battered to death, but that had not been done by him, and a casual listener might get a very wrong impression.

I don't know if it is technically wrong, but the meaning is obscured for the sake of editing.

antonela · « **Reply #1898 on:** 19 January, 2012, 10:54:31 am »

Well I will now be cracking out that little fact about Tescos whereever I go.

I cannot STAND bad grammer - there/their/they're particularly makes me want to take a big pen to it, or just to the face of whoever wrote it...

Ian H · « **Reply #1899 on:** 19 January, 2012, 10:58:48 am »

Whereas...

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