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Re: carrowcrin
I think you're right Gordon.
I had English grammar shoved down me at school...I think I've forgotten most of it now after 50 odd years.
You wouldn't correct someone's speech in conversation so why do it when written.
As long as you can understand it that's fine.
I don't count text speak in this,it should never have been invented and I find it unintelligible.
I had English grammar shoved down me at school...I think I've forgotten most of it now after 50 odd years.
You wouldn't correct someone's speech in conversation so why do it when written.
As long as you can understand it that's fine.
I don't count text speak in this,it should never have been invented and I find it unintelligible.
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Re: carrowcrin
"Text speak" is probably just the next stage of evolution in our language. Subsequent generations will not even be aware that it once didn't exist. There and their now seem to be totally interchangeable, even among youngsters who have completed their (there) formal education. Infuriates me, but that's the new standard it seems. I for one can't understand a word of Shakespeare, but a few generations ago I suppose that nonsense was the norm!
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Re: carrowcrin
It does seem a bit harsh pulling ordinary forum dwellers up on grammar/spelling etc., especially when highly paid editors and proof readers allow glaring errors to be published in Newspapers, magazines and other literature. It does seem to be getting worse on that front and they DO deserve to be pulled up about it.
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Re: carrowcrin
The their/there mistake is quite easy to do if you are on an I pad or phone, due to predictive text and you don't check before you send or submit. The "Should of" one is probably down to the way some people pronounce "should've".Miro wrote: "Text speak" is probably just the next stage of evolution in our language. Subsequent generations will not even be aware that it once didn't exist. There and their now seem to be totally interchangeable, even among youngsters who have completed their (there) formal education. Infuriates me, but that's the new standard it seems. I for one can't understand a word of Shakespeare, but a few generations ago I suppose that nonsense was the norm!
I find text speak a little off putting but I'd agree that it's a part of the evolution of language and I like the way language evolves,
I repeat though. that even though I love talking and debating English, I'm firmly behind Gordons's point of view.
I would like to think I would be the first but more likely I'm the second.Miro wrote: Grammar: the difference between knowing your $hit, and knowing you're $hit.
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What winds me up is when professionals (solicitors, accountants etc.) send emails without checking them first. So many times there are typos. mis-spellings & dodgy grammar - it looks so unprofessional...
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Hearing interviewees on the radio who cannot speak properly puts me off completely. I am always waiting for their next grammatical error (or how many times they say 'absolutely') rather than listening to what they have to say.
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Re: carrowcrin
I'm in the "sin bin" again though i must admit to using a seriously bad word. It originally got censored but i edited it to make it look better and then the whole post was deleted.
This time however i got no empty email or private message advising me of my "non politically correct" posting.
I was a bit wary of using the word myself but considering i did make the same quote a couple of years ago and expected to get blasted but people thought it was funny and one person mentioned the bad word but they were immediately told by the next post that it was obvious "tongue in cheek comment"
On the basis of this i thought it might get through but there is obviously a better class person minding the goals at the moment.
Will i ever learn?
This time however i got no empty email or private message advising me of my "non politically correct" posting.
I was a bit wary of using the word myself but considering i did make the same quote a couple of years ago and expected to get blasted but people thought it was funny and one person mentioned the bad word but they were immediately told by the next post that it was obvious "tongue in cheek comment"
On the basis of this i thought it might get through but there is obviously a better class person minding the goals at the moment.
Will i ever learn?
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Re: carrowcrin
Probably not, but the swear filter is there for a reason. Attempts to circumvent it will not work as the post will still get deleted.carrowcrin wrote:
Will i ever learn?
Unfortunately the filter picks up all sorts of fairly innocuous words, but the one you attempted to use is totally unacceptable.
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Re: carrowcrin
Isn't it funny that a topic regarding the use of the English language should end with one of its contributors having to resort to the use of unnecessary bad language. Must be a synonym he could have used!?
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Re: carrowcrin
It was surprisingly easy to read.
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True, a word I would avoid in most circumstances.El Cid wrote:
Unfortunately the filter picks up all sorts of fairly innocuous words, but the one you attempted to use is totally unacceptable.
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A little ironic though, that the same word in Spanish is soft and can be heard being used by everybody.
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Re: carrowcrin
luckyjim wrote:Isn't it funny that a topic regarding the use of the English language should end with one of its contributors having to resort to the use of unnecessary bad language. Must be a synonym he could have used!?
It won't happen again.
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