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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #5275 on: 05 April, 2019, 03:53:27 pm »
HM Gov. The wrong your[sic] in a Brexit Webinar.


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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #5276 on: 05 April, 2019, 04:31:21 pm »
HM Gov. The wrong your[sic] in a Brexit Webinar.


IT IS THE END TIMES
Not eu're?
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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #5277 on: 05 April, 2019, 11:31:48 pm »

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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #5278 on: 06 April, 2019, 12:50:19 pm »
Eu were...
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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #5279 on: 06 April, 2019, 12:59:09 pm »
"Dr. Johanna Rhodes, an infectious disease expert at Imperial College London. "We are driving this with the use of antifungicides on crops," she said of drug-resistant germs."

Wie bitte?

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/06/health/drug-resistant-candida-auris.html
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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #5280 on: 08 April, 2019, 06:13:31 pm »
HM Gov. The wrong your[sic] in a Brexit Webinar.


IT IS THE END TIMES

We knew that just from the use of the foul term "Webinar".
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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #5281 on: 08 April, 2019, 06:27:04 pm »
HM Gov. The wrong your[sic] in a Brexit Webinar.


IT IS THE END TIMES

We knew that just from the use of the foul term "Webinar".
We knew that from the foul term "Brexit"

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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #5282 on: 08 April, 2019, 06:34:14 pm »
That too.
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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #5283 on: 15 April, 2019, 11:26:19 am »
English is one of the weirdest languages in the world!
Some of the comments are even weirder.
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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #5284 on: 17 April, 2019, 12:15:54 pm »
https://corplinguistics.wordpress.com/2013/06/21/the-weirdest-languages/

And the weirdest, by their methods, is 'Chalcatongo Mixtec' spoken by around 6,000 people in Oaxaca, Mexico. And to get to that point it is
- tonal, which marks it as slightly weird (very approx 40% of languages)
- verb-initial (very approx 8%)
- Yes/no question sentences are not distinguished from statements either by word order, use of a 'question participle' somewhere in the sentence, change of intonation, or, indeed anything (1 out of the 954 languages in the study). 'I am the only person on this forum unable to my head round this'.
- Something odd with 'proniminal subjects' combining the, eg, Spanish/Italian method (subject markers modifying the verb), and the, eg, English/German method ('he','it', 'they'), but in the latter the pronoun does not appear in the same position as the full noun phrase would appear (again Chalcatongo Mixtec is the only one).

Whereas Basque, a language isolate, is 10th least weird. Weird.

Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #5285 on: 24 April, 2019, 08:14:58 am »
from a public "blotter" posting of law enforcement activity:

"5000 S Regal, officers responding for a reported domestic violence incident between a father and 7 year old, who argued over eating vegetables and a cell phone. -CS"

that's how the tooth marks appear on cell phones, it seems

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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #5286 on: 24 April, 2019, 01:15:58 pm »
That's silly.  Cell phones are obviously a fruit.

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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #5287 on: 24 April, 2019, 01:46:10 pm »
Only iPhones, shirley?
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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #5288 on: 24 April, 2019, 04:30:05 pm »
And Blackberrys?
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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #5289 on: 24 April, 2019, 04:44:56 pm »
This one was on the BBC News website.  I'll paraphrase because the context is distracting:  Her and her husband took their children somewhere.
I expected better.  Thankfully it's been fixed now.

Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #5290 on: 25 April, 2019, 09:20:03 pm »
I know that moaning about misplaced apostrophes is old hat, but I did particular cringe recently when I saw a form where the bloke had also completed his wife's details, giving her the title Mr's

Not what the paperwork concerned, but they were in the process of getting divorced.  Good grounds I'd say.

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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #5291 on: 25 April, 2019, 09:30:15 pm »
giving her the title Mr's

That's not the etymology, is it?

*googles*

Thank fuck.

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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #5292 on: 02 May, 2019, 03:10:55 pm »
Elsewhere someone has posted a photo of a railway timetable from 1952. On the front cover, to indicate that it was given to passengers without charge, is the word "gratuitous". I love the way words shift in meaning.  :thumbsup:

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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #5293 on: 02 May, 2019, 05:52:22 pm »
Elsewhere someone has posted a photo of a railway timetable from 1952. On the front cover, to indicate that it was given to passengers without charge, is the word "gratuitous". I love the way words shift in meaning.  :thumbsup:

My wife certainly feels that the timetable information I pass on to her for any given rail journey is gratuitous.

(In fairness, since I discovered Realtime Trains, she's got a point.)

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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #5294 on: 03 May, 2019, 08:27:03 am »
giving her the title Mr's

That's not the etymology, is it?

*googles*

Thank fuck.

Etymologically you could say that it's a contracted mistress, if you wanted to invite strangulation.
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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #5295 on: 03 May, 2019, 08:32:42 am »
Elsewhere someone has posted a photo of a railway timetable from 1952. On the front cover, to indicate that it was given to passengers without charge, is the word "gratuitous". I love the way words shift in meaning.  :thumbsup:

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Yeah. Derive* derives from the French word for drift.

*   which my fingers this morning want to type as Dervie, which sounds like a station on the Glasgow-Stranraer line**.
** Tut, two whiches in the same sentence. One more and we can do Macbeth.
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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #5296 on: 08 May, 2019, 11:00:39 am »
Creeping vernacular, Batmanperson! Latter-day definitions requested for:

DM: Graun headline: Creepy men slide into women's DMs all the time, but they can be shut down.  Doc Martens? Drogerie Markt?  Diuretic Marmalade???

Crombie: Friend of missus's used it to refer to an old copy of a book, and when queried replied "but everyone uses it" without elaborating. The only crombie I know of takes a capital and is a coat.  Can someone please explain?

Ta.
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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #5297 on: 08 May, 2019, 11:18:42 am »
DM: Graun headline: Creepy men slide into women's DMs all the time, but they can be shut down.  Doc Martens? Drogerie Markt?  Diuretic Marmalade???

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Crombie: Friend of missus's used it to refer to an old copy of a book, and when queried replied "but everyone uses it" without elaborating. The only crombie I know of takes a capital and is a coat.  Can someone please explain?

A synonym for hesh.  ;)

I believe it comes from Abercrombie & Fitch - a clothing brand that is popular among today's youth.
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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #5298 on: 08 May, 2019, 12:53:53 pm »
The OED says it's from
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J. & J. Crombie Ltd., a Scottish firm of cloth-makers
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et avec John, excellent lecteur de road-book, on s'en est sortis sans erreur

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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #5299 on: 08 May, 2019, 01:01:30 pm »
Ta, but she spoke of the old copy of the book as being her "crombie".  Had it been a copy of the Times and she lived under a bridge I could understand the vestimentary reference, but I gather she doesn't. Could a crombie also mean a vademecum or a staff to be relied on, like Bradshaw's or the OS 1-inch series?
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