Grammar that makes you cringe

[pcolbeck]

Learn me on "subject X"
School me on "subject X"

This seems to be particularly prevalent amongst our American cousins. Why they can't use "teach me about" or "educate me about" I do not know.

[red marley]

There are some corkers in this push poll from our favourite tiny-handed orange man-child:

https://action.donaldjtrump.com/mainstream-media-accountability-survey/

The questions are embarrassingly clumsy attempts to manipulate as well as challenging to parse. I especially like this question:

Do you believe that contrary to what the media says, raising taxes does not create jobs?

[] Yes
[] No

[Ruthie]

http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/15096982.Update__Girl_who_collapsed_in_market_town_remains_critical_as_3_quizzed_by_police/?ref=ebmpn

"Girl remains critical".

She's lying in her hospital bed criticising everyone and everything, and there's nothing they can do to stop her.

Unless she's critically ill, which is something else.

[Julian]

"I am applying to [your chambers] as it would provide me with an opportunity to engage further in drugs supply and gang crime."

[Pichy]

My pet hate...

the "10 items or less" signs in my local Sainsbury's.   

I've been known to carry a marker pen around and correct them... 

May I direct you to this? http://bbc.in/2cVOlR5


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[drossall]

I can't get used to all the things that are being appealed these days.

In this country, you appeal against things.

[Wowbagger]

You protest against them as well.

[drossall]

+1

[T42]

"With a soap-bar-like design, models within the RX100 line have long been slated for their lacklustre handling, to the extent that many have chosen to lop on third-party grips."

- DigitalRev

OK, they're from Honkers, it's not their first language.

[Bledlow]

"I am applying to [your chambers] as it would provide me with an opportunity to engage further in drugs supply and gang crime."

[T42]

In the trailer of 13 Minutes, about a 1939 attempt to kill Hitler:

"Wir grüßen unseren Führer mit einem dreifachen Sieg Heil - Sieg Heil - Sieg Heil"

translated in subtitles as

"We welcome the Führer with three cheers".

[Andrij]

Hehehe.  Reminds me of some documentary about Russia back in the early 90s.  A woman was asked where she came from.  She replied 'vagina' (well, a less polite term).  The dubbed translation was "I come from my mother".

[meddyg]

Fenland Council fails the dating game test as FOUR times Chatteris firm planning incentivised switch to Alconbury snubs corporate director Gary Garford

Clearly this arrived as a telegram and recipient has to add punctuation STOP

[Tim Hall]

Fenland Council fails the dating game test as FOUR times Chatteris firm planning incentivised switch to Alconbury snubs corporate director Gary Garford

I have read this headline several times now and I don't have a bloody clue what they're on about. It has however, completely disincentivised me from clicking on the link and reading the story.

http://www.elystandard.co.uk/news/fenland_council_fails_the_dating_game_test_as_four_times_chatteris_firm_planning_incentivised_switch_to_alconbury_snubs_corporate_director_gary_garford_1_4888686

I think it could be summed up as "For what is Chatteris without you in it?". Thusly

[hellymedic]

Just had this in my Twitterfeed.
Site of collision is around 400 metres from here.
I fear violent traffic signals!

A5 Burnt Oak Broadway / Stag Lane - Reports of a road traffic collision in which traffic signals also struck.

[Pickled Onion]

Weatherperson this morning used the word "hardly" as the opposite of "softly". As in "... it will be raining hardly" 
English is quite complicated, isn't it?

[Mr Larrington]

I expect they were being post-modern and ironic in aping the SCROTUS' apparent use of "bigly".

[meddyg]

I didn't deserve this - we were innocently cycling by on Route 4 between Llanelli and Burry Port
Pwll Rugby Club is next to the cafe when we called for urgent re-caffeination.....

[Mr Larrington]

The idiots responsible for the Jesusphone 7 advertising-announcement ITV have just screened have committed the #1 Romeo & Juliet-related language crime viz. taken "wherefore" to be a long-winded way of saying "where".  i diskard them.

[hellymedic]

Ignorance is piss!

[T42]

Suggested change of title

[Andrij]

Suggested change of title

Drop the 's' from makes.

[T42]

Or...

[hellymedic]

Someone in the local Freegle group is offering a sewing machine that 'can only do one stitch'.

[ElyDave]

The idiots responsible for the Jesusphone 7 advertising-announcement ITV have just screened have committed the #1 Romeo & Juliet-related language crime viz. taken "wherefore" to be a long-winded way of saying "where".  i diskard them.

Ha!

I once went though an entire report I was editing for someone and corrected every instance of "outwith" not realising at that time that it was a real Scottish word.  The company was in Fife.  My excuse is I was still young.