Half of Britons struggle with the apostrophe

Spike · Post by **Spike** » 12th Nov, '08, 09:04

canuck wrote:it seems to be used ad nauseum in singapore

I took a tour round the History Nauseum once but got sick of it.

baloo · Post by **baloo** » 12th Nov, '08, 09:46

Spike wrote:
canuck wrote:it seems to be used ad nauseum in singapore
I took a tour round the History Nauseum once but got sick of it.

I can understand that. I'd get sick of it too if everything I saw was a case of "been there, done that".

BFG · Post by **BFG** » 12th Nov, '08, 11:01

Split infinitives are anathema to purists, but the idea that splitting infinitives is wrong comes from Latin grammar, not English.

As Burb says, clarity is all...

Aliya · Post by **Aliya** » 12th Nov, '08, 15:38

Fec, checking a document for legal issues to find THIS little gem: "Share the learning’s of this incident" .

Any replacement suggestions?

Lady Uppercrust · Post by **Lady Uppercrust** » 12th Nov, '08, 16:03

Yeah, replace the person who wrote it, with someone who has a clue.

cromasaig · Post by **cromasaig** » 12th Nov, '08, 16:17

Aliya wrote: "Share the learning’s of this incident" .

Aargh! Aargh! Aargh! It's back!

That was the pet nonsense phrase of my last firm. I got to the point where I once stood up in a meeting and yelled "WTF is a 'learning'?" Happily they were a tolerant, if illiterate, bunch.

You could suggest to them that they share the lessons of the incident. And a dictionary.

Aliya · Post by **Aliya** » 12th Nov, '08, 16:20

The worst thing is that the guy was Australian

canuck · Post by **canuck** » 12th Nov, '08, 16:28

you all whinge about archaic behaviour when people get stoned to death, so I say let's stone poor apostrophe users and archaic English speakers

Spike · Post by **Spike** » 12th Nov, '08, 16:46

canuck wrote:you all whinge about archaic behaviour when people get stoned to death, so I say let's stone poor apostrophe users and archaic English speakers

Speaking of archaic language, don't you just love it when the Straits Times uses Dickensian English along the lines of (and you have to say this with a loud, baritone and dramatic voice), "He had already been convicted THRICE of the same offence".

BFG · Post by **BFG** » 12th Nov, '08, 17:15

canuck wrote:you all whinge about archaic behaviour when people get stoned to death, so I say let's stone poor apostrophe users and archaic English speakers

That's fine, but let's not pretend we were told to do it by an Invisible Friend...

cromasaig · Post by **cromasaig** » 12th Nov, '08, 17:31

I'm all for the apostrophe stoning, but I quite fancy the idea of us all speaking Dickensian English. There's not enough use of the words thrice and hence, if you ask me.

However, if we could try to eradicate the all-pervasive tweeness from Singaporean English, that would be good. Every article in Today reads like it was written by a 12 year-old girl. Wearing pink. The next time I read something about 'yummy indulgences' I may not be accountable for my actions.

BFG · Post by **BFG** » 12th Nov, '08, 17:37

cromasaig wrote:I'm all for the apostrophe stoning, but I quite fancy the idea of us all speaking Dickensian English. There's not enough use of the words thrice and hence, if you ask me.

However, if we could try to eradicate the all-pervasive tweeness from Singaporean English, that would be good. Every article in Today reads like it was written by a 12 year-old girl. Wearing pink. The next time I read something about 'yummy indulgences' I may not be accountable for my actions.

Hear, hear!! And why do 20-something year old women think it's attractive to giggle like a 6 year old?

Gits...

He'll be here in 43 days!!!

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Aliya · Post by **Aliya** » 12th Nov, '08, 17:50

Our counsel in the Philippines just informed me by email that in Court today "We manifested that XXXX is not entitled to any separation pay..." How does one manifest information? Oh and Crom he also said "hence, our view is ....".

Hence is very common in IndYa as is etc.

slinky · Post by **slinky** » 12th Nov, '08, 19:53

cromasaig wrote:I'm all for the apostrophe stoning, but I quite fancy the idea of us all speaking Dickensian English. There's not enough use of the words thrice and hence, if you ask me.

Hmmmmm, I'm not sure how well Dickensian English would play with an American accent

cromasaig wrote:Every article in Today reads like it was written by a 12 year-old girl. Wearing pink. The next time I read something about 'yummy indulgences' I may not be accountable for my actions.

Get 'em, Crom! [goteam.gif]

Fat Bob · Post by **Fat Bob** » 12th Nov, '08, 22:57

BFG wrote: Hear, hear!! And why do 20-something year old women think it's attractive to giggle like a 6 year old?

But if you get 25-year old girls giggling, and acting, and dressing like 16-year olds.....

canuck · Post by **canuck** » 13th Nov, '08, 08:26

FB: I think you should be on a watch list (thrice)

Tas · Post by **Tas** » 13th Nov, '08, 08:32

"And why do 20-something year old women think it's attractive to giggle like a 6 year old?"

Well, where do we start in certain parts of Asia as to why they might think it's attractive, it seems to work...

Spike · Post by **Spike** » 13th Nov, '08, 09:04

BFG wrote:

I know you're just doing that to annoy me

Burbage · Post by **Burbage** » 13th Nov, '08, 09:10

BFG wrote:

It looks like the smiley is trying to shag the sled.

daffodil · Post by **daffodil** » 13th Nov, '08, 11:22

And enjoying it, too!

BFG · Post by **BFG** » 13th Nov, '08, 13:01

Spike wrote:
BFG wrote:

I know you're just doing that to annoy me

Moi?

PS -

Tee hee....

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