Author Topic: Grammar that makes you cringe (Read 841163 times)

L CC · « **Reply #5975 on:** 25 January, 2021, 07:10:11 pm »

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Movistar Team, one of the most successful and storied teams on the UCI World Tour, need no introduction

What the fuck is storied?
I'm not sure if this is grammar, me not knowing some pro cycling term, or some marketing person just writing shite.

tatanab · « **Reply #5976 on:** 25 January, 2021, 07:23:21 pm »

Quote from: fboab on 25 January, 2021, 07:10:11 pm

What the fuck is storied?
I'm not sure if this is grammar, me not knowing some pro cycling term, or some marketing person just writing shite.

It is good old English. Admittedly not often used in these days of txt spk. Means a long or interesting history. In this case, your marketing person comment is probably near the truth.

ian · « **Reply #5977 on:** 25 January, 2021, 07:51:10 pm »

That's perfectly correct usage, assuming the Movistar team has ended a long and celebrated history as a team on the UCI World Tour.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #5978 on:** 25 January, 2021, 08:21:49 pm »

Most of the recent stories have centred on the bizarre and inexplicable behaviour of Movistar's Strategic Turing Machine, which makes HAL look normal.

Peter · « **Reply #5979 on:** 25 January, 2021, 08:30:49 pm »

Quote from: ian on 25 January, 2021, 07:51:10 pm

That's perfectly correct usage, assuming the Movistar team has ended a long and celebrated history as a team on the UCI World Tour.

It is correct usage, in a deliberately obscure Anthony Burgess-type of way, but I expect it's a typo and they meant to write "stoned".

Tim Hall · « **Reply #5980 on:** 25 January, 2021, 09:53:03 pm »

If they do it many times, will they be multi-storied?

T42 · « **Reply #5981 on:** 26 January, 2021, 08:38:44 am »

Quote from: Peter on 25 January, 2021, 08:30:49 pm

Quote from: ian on 25 January, 2021, 07:51:10 pm
That's perfectly correct usage, assuming the Movistar team has ended a long and celebrated history as a team on the UCI World Tour.

It is correct usage, in a deliberately obscure Anthony Burgess-type of way, but I expect it's a typo and they meant to write "stoned".

RI always did have that effect on me. And a while back it happened to a couple of diagonalistes riding through Montpellier.

ian · « **Reply #5982 on:** 26 January, 2021, 09:45:06 am »

Come on, we should use betterer words.

citoyen · « **Reply #5983 on:** 26 January, 2021, 09:56:58 am »

Quote from: ian on 26 January, 2021, 09:45:06 am

Come on, we should use betterer words.

The words I use are always the betterest.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #5984 on:** 04 February, 2021, 12:44:01 pm »

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The paramount objective, was to stop them doing that, to cause them to pause and think.

There's a bit of a trend to put commas between subjects and verbs whenever the subject is more than one word. It, annoys me a lot. I, am grumbling about this.

(From an interview with Wrong Hammond linked to by Mrs Pingu: https://ukandeu.ac.uk/interview-pdf/?personid=42190)

Davef · « **Reply #5985 on:** 04 February, 2021, 06:56:23 pm »

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 04 February, 2021, 12:44:01 pm

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The paramount objective, was to stop them doing that, to cause them to pause and think.
There's a bit of a trend to put commas between subjects and verbs whenever the subject is more than one word. It, annoys me a lot. I, am grumbling about this.

(From an interview with Wrong Hammond linked to by Mrs Pingu: https://ukandeu.ac.uk/interview-pdf/?personid=42190)

A comma can be used to indicate a pause, possibly for dramatic effect. I, am happy with that.

Pickled Onion · « **Reply #5986 on:** 04 February, 2021, 07:07:27 pm »

The paramount objective was to stop them doing that. To cause them to, pause, and think.

Peter · « **Reply #5987 on:** 04 February, 2021, 07:16:31 pm »

Peddling for pedalling - as in latest CTC magazine. If it's a pun it's certainly not clear from the article; readers are just going to think they can't spell. Pace if I've missed something - it happens!

hellymedic · « **Reply #5988 on:** 04 February, 2021, 09:42:20 pm »

Quote from: Peter on 04 February, 2021, 07:16:31 pm

Peddling for pedalling - as in latest CTC magazine. If it's a pun it's certainly not clear from the article; readers are just going to think they can't spell. Pace if I've missed something - it happens!

I have whinged about this in both this, and its sister thread...

Peter · « **Reply #5989 on:** 05 February, 2021, 12:44:58 am »

Helly, it turns out it was indeed intended as a pun........ Maybe I could be forgiven for being too quick off the mark!

hellymedic · « **Reply #5990 on:** 05 February, 2021, 01:25:25 am »

I think the last Arrivée had this, where it might not have been a pun...

Thing is, it's worn so thin on me that I don't find it funny...

Looking at my posting history here, it seems to have been a BMJ obituary two weeks ago, not Arrivée.

Jaded · « **Reply #5991 on:** 27 February, 2021, 08:51:46 am »

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It's picked up since then, but now the week-on-week increase is only incremental."

From this BBC articke. To be fair to the reporter, it appears to be a quote from someone else.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/56201463

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #5992 on:** 27 February, 2021, 12:56:47 pm »

And to be fair to Jaded, “articke” is an off-by-one error

Jaded · « **Reply #5993 on:** 27 February, 2021, 04:08:20 pm »

I hate auto-cirrect and I also hate having it tuned off, but not arse much.

hubner · « **Reply #5994 on:** 27 February, 2021, 04:19:21 pm »

The problem is mobile phones with their tiny keyboards and tiny cursors.

T42 · « **Reply #5995 on:** 02 March, 2021, 09:02:03 am »

Graun headline this morning: "Khashoggi was killed in cold-blood". Ignorant-hyphen-idiots are putting gratuitous-hyphen-hyphens in everywhere these-hyphen-days.

offcumden · « **Reply #5996 on:** 02 March, 2021, 12:26:01 pm »

Quote from: T42 on 02 March, 2021, 09:02:03 am

Graun headline this morning: "Khashoggi was killed in cold-blood". Ignorant-hyphen-idiots are putting gratuitous-hyphen-hyphens in everywhere these-hyphen-days.

Pig-ignorant.

T42 · « **Reply #5997 on:** 02 March, 2021, 05:14:40 pm »

Quote from: offcumden on 02 March, 2021, 12:26:01 pm

Quote from: T42 on 02 March, 2021, 09:02:03 am
Graun headline this morning: "Khashoggi was killed in cold-blood". Ignorant-hyphen-idiots are putting gratuitous-hyphen-hyphens in everywhere these-hyphen-days.

Pig-ignorant.

Not gratuitous.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #5998 on:** 03 March, 2021, 12:03:58 am »

Quote from: offcumden on 02 March, 2021, 12:26:01 pm

Quote from: T42 on 02 March, 2021, 09:02:03 am
Graun headline this morning: "Khashoggi was killed in cold-blood". Ignorant-hyphen-idiots are putting gratuitous-hyphen-hyphens in everywhere these-hyphen-days.

Pig-ignorant.

If that's from the Graun, they were probably trying to write "pig-iron gnat".

T42 · « **Reply #5999 on:** 03 March, 2021, 08:10:36 am »

Quote from: Wowbagger on 03 March, 2021, 12:03:58 am

Quote from: offcumden on 02 March, 2021, 12:26:01 pm
Quote from: T42 on 02 March, 2021, 09:02:03 am
Graun headline this morning: "Khashoggi was killed in cold-blood". Ignorant-hyphen-idiots are putting gratuitous-hyphen-hyphens in everywhere these-hyphen-days.

Pig-ignorant.

If that's from the Graun, they were probably trying to write "pig-iron gnat".

Which might describe the stuff of some of their opinion columns.

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