Author Topic: Grammar that makes you cringe  (Read 839412 times)

Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #6750 on: 07 April, 2024, 09:08:33 pm »
Meter Macs website. Other than being slower than the legendary sloff on mogadon, it informs me:

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You have now been arrived to: Islington Caledonian, Caledonian P1, 102 for Electricity
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that's not science, it's semantics.

T42

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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #6751 on: 10 April, 2024, 02:14:15 pm »
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

cygnet

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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #6752 on: Yesterday at 08:44:01 pm »
I had to do a training course for the new work time booking system.
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Have you encountered <<software>>  before?
Answer
A) Yes, or
B) Nope
Nope? Are you flipping kidding me?
I Said, I've Got A Big Stick

T42

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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #6753 on: Today at 08:44:44 am »
History Today's offering via FB today states that

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Richard Dimbleby’s account of what he witnessed at Bergen-Belsen in April 1945 has become infamous in Britain.

An account of something infamous is not an infamous account unless the account itself does something infamous.  Don't peeple get eddicated any more?
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

Kim

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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #6754 on: Today at 11:58:10 am »
I had to do a training course for the new work time booking system.
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Have you encountered <<software>>  before?
Answer
A) Yes, or
B) Nope
Nope? Are you flipping kidding me?

In a software context, I'd read that as "Encountered it?  I'm still traumatised..."