Author Topic: Grammar that makes you cringe (Read 856703 times)

citoyen · « **Reply #2150 on:** 18 May, 2012, 01:25:11 pm »

Quote from: hellymedic on 17 May, 2012, 04:24:30 pm

Last Sunday of every month?

That works. "Every last" is more emphasis than restriction - cf "Every last man was prepared to die for his country."

d.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2151 on:** 18 May, 2012, 05:14:48 pm »

I've just received an email with the subject line "Letter's". I wouldn't mind so much but it's from my son's school.

Arch · « **Reply #2152 on:** 27 May, 2012, 08:07:01 pm »

Spotted today at the Yorkshire Air Museum, which is on an old WWII airbase:

DSCN3139 by Panticle, on Flickr

Men fought and died so that we could have that standard of punctuation....

Wendy · « **Reply #2153 on:** 27 May, 2012, 08:26:17 pm »

NAFI means something quite different to me. (No Ambition, F'k all Interest).

Arch · « **Reply #2154 on:** 27 May, 2012, 09:17:16 pm »

2 As in NAAFI.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navy,_Army_and_Air_Force_Institutes

Wendy · « **Reply #2155 on:** 27 May, 2012, 09:29:34 pm »

Really? OMG!!!!!!!!11

I did actually spot that.

Arch · « **Reply #2156 on:** 27 May, 2012, 09:34:26 pm »

Given the quality of the rest of the notice, you might have thought the 2 As were a misprint....

Wendy · « **Reply #2157 on:** 27 May, 2012, 09:58:46 pm »

Yeah, you've got me there.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #2158 on:** 28 May, 2012, 12:16:54 am »

Not just the apostrophe problems, but the bland assumption that women don't drink beer and men don't drink pimm's or champagne.

This was at the White Hart, Margaretting Tye, where the WARTY partook of late afternoon refreshments.

bobb · « **Reply #2159 on:** 30 May, 2012, 04:14:31 pm »

A beauty...

clarion · « **Reply #2160 on:** 30 May, 2012, 04:19:43 pm »

That is appalling.

They missed out the apostrophes on both "sandwiche's" and "filling's"

pcolbeck · « **Reply #2161 on:** 30 May, 2012, 04:29:44 pm »

It's also redundant as panini is Italian for sandwiches so it says "sandwiches, chips, sandwiches".

mike · « **Reply #2162 on:** 30 May, 2012, 04:41:42 pm »

Our local is called the Red Cow. It was taken over a couple of years ago by a couple who'd never run a pub before and they've had a tough time, but they're happily paying someone to help them with marketing and promotion stuff and it's driving me absolutely mental.

As an example of the evidence I'll use in court after I've burnt the place to the ground, they're having a music festival this weekend - lovely - except it's not a music festival, it's a 'moosic' festival, with 'incredi-bull' bands under one 'hoof', for people feeling 'socia-bull' who want an 'udderly' special day. They dont have a weekly pub quiz, it's 'moo-niversity challenge', they dont do a newsletter it's a 'moosletter' and you can follow them heifery day on facebook or twitter.

Swear to god, I'm going to torch the place.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2163 on:** 30 May, 2012, 04:43:18 pm »

Quote from: bobb on 30 May, 2012, 04:14:31 pm

A beauty...

Fillings? Who wants little bits of shaved metal in their paganini?

clarion · « **Reply #2164 on:** 30 May, 2012, 04:44:26 pm »

Quote from: mike on 30 May, 2012, 04:41:42 pm

Our local is called the Red Cow. It was taken over a couple of years ago by a couple who'd never run a pub before and they've had a tough time, but they're happily paying someone to help them with marketing and promotion stuff and it's driving me absolutely mental.

As an example of the evidence I'll use in court after I've burnt the place to the ground, they're having a music festival this weekend - lovely - except it's not a music festival, it's a 'moosic' festival, with 'incredi-bull' bands under one 'hoof', for people feeling 'socia-bull' who want an 'udderly' special day. They dont have a weekly pub quiz, it's 'moo-niversity challenge', they dont do a newsletter it's a 'moosletter' and you can follow them heifery day on facebook or twitter.

Swear to god, I'm going to torch the place.

What's your beef? I think it's veally good. If you had a steak in the business, you'd milk it for all it was worth.

mike · « **Reply #2165 on:** 30 May, 2012, 05:01:49 pm »

Quote from: clarion on 30 May, 2012, 04:44:26 pm

Quote from: mike on 30 May, 2012, 04:41:42 pm
Our local is called the Red Cow. It was taken over a couple of years ago by a couple who'd never run a pub before and they've had a tough time, but they're happily paying someone to help them with marketing and promotion stuff and it's driving me absolutely mental.

As an example of the evidence I'll use in court after I've burnt the place to the ground, they're having a music festival this weekend - lovely - except it's not a music festival, it's a 'moosic' festival, with 'incredi-bull' bands under one 'hoof', for people feeling 'socia-bull' who want an 'udderly' special day. They dont have a weekly pub quiz, it's 'moo-niversity challenge', they dont do a newsletter it's a 'moosletter' and you can follow them heifery day on facebook or twitter.

Swear to god, I'm going to torch the place.

What's your beef? I think it's veally good. If you had a steak in the business, you'd milk it for all it was worth.

You!! Outside! Now! (i bloody knew someone would, and had my suspicions about who it might be..)

Auntie Helen · « **Reply #2166 on:** 30 May, 2012, 05:04:01 pm »

Just typing up the blurb on a new book. Who writes this copy - it was littered with mistakes and badly written all round. I had to correct it.

I loved this line:

Quote

Half a mile under Mont St Michel, Normandy, Adrian De Vere’s biological scientists and Lucifer’s dark Cabal Wizards release a weaponised toxin to decimate over a third of the earth’s population.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2167 on:** 30 May, 2012, 05:08:06 pm »

The rest are still using shillings.

clarion · « **Reply #2168 on:** 30 May, 2012, 05:20:33 pm »

Quote from: mike on 30 May, 2012, 05:01:49 pm

Quote from: clarion on 30 May, 2012, 04:44:26 pm
Quote from: mike on 30 May, 2012, 04:41:42 pm
Our local is called the Red Cow. It was taken over a couple of years ago by a couple who'd never run a pub before and they've had a tough time, but they're happily paying someone to help them with marketing and promotion stuff and it's driving me absolutely mental.

As an example of the evidence I'll use in court after I've burnt the place to the ground, they're having a music festival this weekend - lovely - except it's not a music festival, it's a 'moosic' festival, with 'incredi-bull' bands under one 'hoof', for people feeling 'socia-bull' who want an 'udderly' special day. They dont have a weekly pub quiz, it's 'moo-niversity challenge', they dont do a newsletter it's a 'moosletter' and you can follow them heifery day on facebook or twitter.

Swear to god, I'm going to torch the place.

What's your beef? I think it's veally good. If you had a steak in the business, you'd milk it for all it was worth.

You!! Outside! Now! (i bloody knew someone would, and had my suspicions about who it might be..)

Zipperhead · « **Reply #2169 on:** 30 May, 2012, 06:51:54 pm »

jogler · « **Reply #2170 on:** 30 May, 2012, 09:15:08 pm »

drive normally

hubner · « **Reply #2171 on:** 30 May, 2012, 09:36:47 pm »

American usage of "through" seen on a sign in the road in front of Buckingham Palace.

clarion · « **Reply #2172 on:** 30 May, 2012, 10:31:02 pm »

Should be 'while'

nicknack · « **Reply #2173 on:** 30 May, 2012, 10:55:34 pm »

Quote from: clarion on 30 May, 2012, 10:31:02 pm

Should be 'while'

Bloody northerners. What's wrong with until?

contango · « **Reply #2174 on:** 31 May, 2012, 09:55:04 am »

One of my pet peeves