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.
That's perfectly correct usage, assuming the Movistar team has ended a long and celebrated history as a team on the UCI World Tour.
Quote from: ian on 25 January, 2021, 07:51:10 pmThat'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".
Come on, we should use betterer words.
The paramount objective, was to stop them doing that, to cause them to pause and think.
Quote 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)
that's not science, it's semantics.
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!
It's picked up since then, but now the week-on-week increase is only incremental."
Graun headline this morning: "Khashoggi was killed in cold-blood". Ignorant-hyphen-idiots are putting gratuitous-hyphen-hyphens in everywhere these-hyphen-days.
Quote from: T42 on 02 March, 2021, 09:02:03 amGraun headline this morning: "Khashoggi was killed in cold-blood". Ignorant-hyphen-idiots are putting gratuitous-hyphen-hyphens in everywhere these-hyphen-days. Pig-ignorant.
It doesn’t matter where you start. Just start.
Quote from: offcumden on 02 March, 2021, 12:26:01 pmQuote from: T42 on 02 March, 2021, 09:02:03 amGraun 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".