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  • singlespeedexplosif
    singlespeedexplosif Posts: 1,564
    Reading will be our next station stop"

    "station" MEANS "stop".

    well...obviously you've taken into account that they're distinguishing the times that the train stops for a station, from the times that a train stops because there's some scrote piling bricks on the line, or the train's broken down again, or the driver has gone on strike again because the wrong kind of sauce was used on his bacon sandwich?
  • Parkey
    Parkey Posts: 303
    "Quad bike"

    a "quad-bi-cycle"

    Eight wheels then?!
    "A recent study has found that, at the current rate of usage, the word 'sustainable' will be worn out by the year 2015"
  • Greg T
    Greg T Posts: 3,266
    whome wrote:
    Heading a bit of track? The points in the the original post were mostly issues that can affect comprehension of the sentence.

    Ouch.

    My iron-o-meter isn't twitching.........
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  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    Alot. I could never date, employ or be friends with anyone who doesn't appreciate there are two words here.
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  • victor ludorum
    victor ludorum Posts: 310
    While I am normally among the first to cry 'Havoc!' and let slip the dogs of pedantry, I have found that minor errors in web postings don't bother me very much.

    Of course, it depends on the context. Typographic, grammatic and punctucation errors in informal and friendly threads are all grist to the mill as long as the sense of the message isn't lost. It's when a poster is giving it the big 'I am', being unpleasant, or correcting the short-comings of others that it irritates me.

    Just the sort of thing up with which I will not put...
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  • SmellTheGlove
    SmellTheGlove Posts: 697
    Coriander wrote:
    Those Frenchies, being sneaky, stick an X on the end - chapeaux - to make it plural. So unless you want to really, really congratulate or show some respect to someone use 'chapeau'.

    Ahha - I geddit.

    Bollo - bollox.
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    When I was at uni and worked at a pub in Essex it was the problem of singular vs plural that really got me...

    'Is there any bin bags upstairs?'

    Brick, anyone? :P
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  • whome
    whome Posts: 167
    Heading a bit of track?

    B*gger :oops:
    Training, highway design and increasing cycle numbers are important to safety. Helmets are just a red herring.
  • Greg T
    Greg T Posts: 3,266
    victor ludorum wrote:
    Typographic, grammatic and punctucation errors in informal and friendly threads are all grist to the mill as long as the sense of the message isn't lost. It's when a poster is giving it the big 'I am', being unpleasant, or correcting the short-comings of others that it irritates me.

    I bet it took you ages proof reading that
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  • whome
    whome Posts: 167
    Some typographic, grammatic or punctuation errors can make it harder to read though. It's those that tend to annoy me, even though it may have be accident rather than ignorance or deliberate misuse.
    Training, highway design and increasing cycle numbers are important to safety. Helmets are just a red herring.
  • STEFANOS4784
    STEFANOS4784 Posts: 4,109
    nicklouse wrote:
    Not bad. only one spelling mistake that i can see.

    But which Law is it that says whenever people start correcting the written word they include at least one error of their own?

    On a big plus side at least is is not TXT :wink:

    Oh and I do agree with you.


    lol is is not indeed! :lol:
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  • Greg T
    Greg T Posts: 3,266
    whome wrote:
    Some typographic, grammatic or punctuation errors can make it harder to read though. It's those that tend to annoy me, even though it may have be accident rather than ignorance or deliberate misuse.

    Iron-o-meter is now off the scale.......
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  • victor ludorum
    victor ludorum Posts: 310
    Greg T wrote:
    victor ludorum wrote:
    Typographic, grammatic and punctucation errors in informal and friendly threads are all grist to the mill as long as the sense of the message isn't lost. It's when a poster is giving it the big 'I am', being unpleasant, or correcting the short-comings of others that it irritates me.

    I bet it took you ages proof reading that

    Caught out.

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  • Coriander
    Coriander Posts: 1,326
    victor ludorum wrote:
    It's when a poster is giving it the big 'I am', being unpleasant, or correcting the short-comings of others that it irritates me.

    In your view, what was I doing?
  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,675
    STEFANOS4784 wrote:
    nicklouse wrote:
    Not bad. only one spelling mistake that i can see.

    But which Law is it that says whenever people start correcting the written word they include at least one error of their own?

    On a big plus side at least is is not TXT :wink:

    Oh and I do agree with you.


    lol is is not indeed! :lol:

    Like i said at least one error.
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  • Greg T
    Greg T Posts: 3,266
    nicklouse wrote:

    Like i said at least one error.

    Its true
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  • victor ludorum
    victor ludorum Posts: 310
    Coriander wrote:
    victor ludorum wrote:
    It's when a poster is giving it the big 'I am', being unpleasant, or correcting the short-comings of others that it irritates me.

    In your view, what was I doing?

    None of the above.

    You weren't picking on any one individual, just making a general comment about something which irritates you. If you can't do that on a web-forum, where can you?

    My position is that I find it less irritating than, perhaps, I might. I tend to toss my postings off (Gnurk...) fairly quickly in the moments between the intrusive and inconsiderate demands of actual paid work. I don't expect a particularly high standard of composition (except in the Silly Commuter Racing thread which contains some of the finest passages ever composed in written English) and am only occasionally left bemused by a spectacularly bad one.

    Possibly this stems from the fact that, although accustomed to expressing myself easily, I know that my application of punctuation is more than a little hit-and-miss at times.
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  • the_hundredth_idiot
    the_hundredth_idiot Posts: 813
    dafruk wrote:
    You're post has some merit. However I feel there is no need to loose your head over a few spelling/gramatical errors. I believe that generally your post would have significant issues with myself.

    Da dum cha.

    Is that Mr Lukes? Mr Martin Lukes? And another beloved by Mr Lukes, football coaches the world over and other people who struggle with basic numeracy is, "... 120% committed ...".

    No! Do such people not realise the grimace that induces in (oxy-moron alert) pedantic mathematicians? You can't be 120% committed. Really, no matter how hard you work, you can't be more than 100% committed. It's nonsense. And please don't tell me that I'm 150% wrong on that - you're just makng it worse. :evil:
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  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    victor ludorum wrote:
    [(except in the Silly Commuter Racing thread which contains some of the finest passages ever composed in written English)

    Word.
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  • girv73
    girv73 Posts: 842
    @Coriander Chapeau, I'm with you! It's so bad, I take pictures of badly written signs on shops etc. Misuse of apostrophes is my personal high-horse.

    @Crapaud :lol:
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  • Crapaud
    Crapaud Posts: 2,483
    tomfoolery wrote:
    An apostrophe is not required when simply pluralising a noun.

    This is another of the common mistake's I see on here. (See Murphys law above).
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  • marchant
    marchant Posts: 362
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  • always_tyred
    always_tyred Posts: 4,965
    The Hundredth Idiot wrote:
    dafruk wrote:
    You're post has some merit. However I feel there is no need to loose your head over a few spelling/gramatical errors. I believe that generally your post would have significant issues with myself.

    Da dum cha.

    Is that Mr Lukes? Mr Martin Lukes? And another beloved by Mr Lukes, football coaches the world over and other people who struggle with basic numeracy is, "... 120% committed ...".

    No! Do such people not realise the grimace that induces in (oxy-moron alert) pedantic mathematicians? You can't be 120% committed. Really, no matter how hard you work, you can't be more than 100% committed. It's nonsense. And please don't tell me that I'm 150% wrong on that - you're just makng it worse. :evil:

    You are 100% wrong on that. % is simply a means of expressing a ratio. Thus, one can be 120% committed, following a rollocking by Alex Ferguson, in comparison to your previous level of commitment. That is why his nose is so red.

    Personal peeves - tautologies:

    For example;
    6 a.m. in the morning.
    ATM machine.
    DAB digital radio.
    Very unique.
    Forward planning

    Almost all other usage of "unique" is oxymoronic. "Fairly unique"? "Quite unique"? If you check futher into the U's in the dictionary, there's this word "unusual" which I find helpful in expressing when something is not terribly common.

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  • Peasoup
    Peasoup Posts: 63
    Greg T wrote:
    nicklouse wrote:

    Like i said at least one error.

    Its true
  • Peasoup
    Peasoup Posts: 63
    Greg T wrote:
    Its true

    It's true - back at yer :wink:
  • Greg T
    Greg T Posts: 3,266
    Peasoup wrote:
    Greg T wrote:
    nicklouse wrote:

    Like i said at least one error.

    Its true

    That took ages......

    I think your iron-o-meter needs bore-sighting
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  • always_tyred
    always_tyred Posts: 4,965
    Parkey wrote:
    "Quad bike"

    a "quad-bi-cycle"

    Eight wheels then?!

    By the same reasoning "unicycle" is a bicycle.

    Do you have a degree in maths? I once spoke to a maths graduate who assured me that it was possible to prove that 1 = 0 without making any errors and that, indeed, he'd been submitted to an entire lecture course on why 1 = 1. You will note that I didn't speak to him twice (or once, depending on how many times twice actually is).
  • victor ludorum
    victor ludorum Posts: 310
    Greg T wrote:
    Peasoup wrote:
    Greg T wrote:
    nicklouse wrote:

    Like i said at least one error.

    Its true

    That took ages......

    I think your iron-o-meter needs bore-sighting

    Sighting a bore? Here? Shurely shome mishtake?
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  • Peasoup
    Peasoup Posts: 63
    Greg T wrote:

    That took ages......

    I think your iron-o-meter needs bore-sighting



    super pedant grade bore sight equipped iron-o-meter loaded and ready to go...

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  • robbarker
    robbarker Posts: 1,367
    edited August 2008
    Always Tyred wrote:
    Very unique.

    Repetition! Well, nearly.

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