Sorry, but it needs saying

Parkey

Always Tyred wrote:

Parkey wrote:

"Quad bike"

a "quad-bi-cycle"

Eight wheels then?!

By the same reasoning "unicycle" is a bicycle.

Yes. It's a bicycle used by those in higher education.

victor ludorum

Always Tyred wrote:

Parkey wrote:

"Quad bike"

a "quad-bi-cycle"

Eight wheels then?!

By the same reasoning "unicycle" is a bicycle.

Bicycle - from 'Bi' - meaning two and 'κύκλος' (kuklos) meaning circle or wheel.

Bicycle = 2 x wheel = 2

Quad bike 4 x 2 x wheel = 8

Unicycle = 1 x wheel = 1

Tricycle = 3 x wheel = 3

girv73

marchant wrote:

Click

I so want to do that.

robbarker wrote:

Always Tyred wrote:

Very unique.

Repetition! Well, nearly.

Brought to you by the Department Of Redundancy Department.

urban-commuter

Grammar vigilantes relax, there are some far worse forums on the web for spelling and punctuation! this forum isn't too bad at all.

Surf-Matt

"Can I GET a coffee/beer/whatever"

Loads of my friends say this and it drives me mad - they are not actually GETTING a beer, they are asking for one.

"Can I HAVE a beer"

nicklouse

Surf-Matt
you ask for a beer! i just go to the bar and make a statement. Beer.

ride_whenever

victor ludorum wrote:

Bicycle - from 'Bi' - meaning two and 'κύκλος' (kuklos) meaning circle or wheel.

Bicycle = 2 x wheel = 2

Quad bike 4 x 2 x wheel = 8

Unicycle = 1 x wheel = 1

Tricycle = 3 x wheel = 3

Indeed, so a quad bike would have 4 x 2 wheels = 8

technically it should be called a quadcycle, just like a car.

biondino

A quad unicycle, obviously.

I think "get" can mean more than "fetch" - in this usage it's closer to "acquire". Having said that I'm not crazy about it myself and am only a little defensive because after 5 years dating an American I say it too :?

lost_in_thought

ride_whenever wrote:

victor ludorum wrote:

Bicycle - from 'Bi' - meaning two and 'κύκλος' (kuklos) meaning circle or wheel.

Bicycle = 2 x wheel = 2

Quad bike 4 x 2 x wheel = 8

Unicycle = 1 x wheel = 1

Tricycle = 3 x wheel = 3

Indeed, so a quad bike would have 4 x 2 wheels = 8

technically it should be called a quadcycle, just like a car.

I thought the quad bike thing was a lazy contraction of quadricycle... as opposed to, say, quike... actually I quite like quike...

Surf-Matt

Not forgetting that a quad is also a very vital muscle for cycling!
Short for quadracep of course.

I'm sure the quad bikes I see whizzing around here usually only have four wheels, not eight!

Coriander

For those that are interested...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_a ... 743182.ece

tailwindhome

Incorrect use of the word literally, though very common and accepted really gets on my nerves.

As in:

"Rooney literally delivered that pass on plate"

No he didn't.

msw

My wincemaker: "lead" (rhymes with "bed") is a heavy metal. If someone has been leading, they have led.

But if we're really ramping up the pedantry past the redline of quixotic pointlessness, "quad" as in muscle is short for "quadriceps", which is singular (as is "biceps"). There's no such word as "bicep" in Latin. Of course, we speak English, so that's neither here nor there...

Crapaud

WheezyMcChubby wrote:

Incorrect use of the word literally, though very common and accepted really gets on my nerves.

As in:

"Rooney literally delivered that pass on plate"

No he didn't.

Might he have been going through security on 'It's a Knockout' ?

I'm not sure I'd have chosen this thread to make my debut on the forum, but welcome Mr /Mrs / Miss / Ms Wheezy.

I was going to paste in my attempt at the Times' literacy test, but it's stripped out all of the formatting making it pointless. However, here's a summary:

A spirited attempt, but must try harder.
7/10I did a similar test a few years ago - the result was shocking! My grammar, in particular, has gotten better, but there's still room for improvement.

Mike Healey

Less teachers means fewer education

tailwindhome

Crapaud wrote:

WheezyMcChubby wrote:

Incorrect use of the word literally, though very common and accepted really gets on my nerves.

As in:

"Rooney literally delivered that pass on plate"

No he didn't.

Might he have been going through security on 'It's a Knockout' ?

I'm not sure I'd have chosen this thread to make my debut on the forum, but welcome Mr /Mrs / Miss / Ms Wheezy.

I was going to paste in my attempt at the Times' literacy test, but it's stripped out all of the formatting making it pointless. However, here's a summary:

A spirited attempt, but must try harder.
7/10I did a similar test a few years ago - the result was shocking! My grammar, in particular, has gotten better, but there's still room for improvement.

Possibly a strange thread to debut on. Got a rush of enthusiasm having seen that others are as easily annoyed by stupid and pointless pedantry. Variations on the 'very unique' theme a particular pet hate

Hoping to join in other threads in the coming weeks and months

Just bought a bike after 16 years on non cycling smoking (Wheezy) and drinking (Chubby). It seems to be a bit of a Rain Maker - having rained constantly since the purchase 10 days ago.

Aiming now to build up the mileage in trial runs at the weekend to achieve a 12.5 mile each way commute several days a week.

For now the bike is a great cloths hanger in the back hall

The other half is amused - for now

biondino

For now the bike is a great cloths hanger in the back hall

I normally keep my cloths in a drawer or cupboard along with my sponges and dusters

Hi Wheezy! What bike have you got? You won't regret it whatever it might be.

KitsuneAndy

Scuba Gear annoys me.

Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus Gear.

Also, 'near miss'. You mean it hit you, but only just?

biondino

Not sure why the latter. After the event, a miss is a miss, so I suppose it's semantically a tautology, but Match of the Day would have a hell of a lot less to show if saves and crossbar-hitting shots and the like were disregarded as mere non-goals. And an asteroid which misses us by 30,000km instead of wiping out humanity may not actually matter once it's gone past but you can be damn certain it does when they haven't yet figured out it's not going to hit us...

schminke

Sorry, but is it only me who thinks ususally is usually spelled usually

KitsuneAndy

biondino wrote:

Not sure why the latter. After the event, a miss is a miss, so I suppose it's semantically a tautology, but Match of the Day would have a hell of a lot less to show if saves and crossbar-hitting shots and the like were disregarded as mere non-goals. And an asteroid which misses us by 30,000km instead of wiping out humanity may not actually matter once it's gone past but you can be damn certain it does when they haven't yet figured out it's not going to hit us...

But what I mean is that a near miss (as in, nearly a miss) is a hit. So something that just misses would be a 'near hit'.

Kyrotek

Anyone else noticed the proliferation of the word "prolly" in place of probably? I believe there are others of a similar nature in that they shorten a word to the point of, well, pointlessness.

Is this the "yoof" of today bringing TXT into the everyday language?

always_tyred

Historical.

Distinguished from historic how exactly? Or was someone somewhere (in America probably) not quite sure how to get there from historically?

Its 9:20 am in the morning so I'd better get on with my job of work.

always_tyred

And there's more....

"I don't know if I know." An unknown unknown then, presumably.

Bugly

Surf-Matt wrote:

"Can I GET a coffee/beer/whatever"

Loads of my friends say this and it drives me mad - they are not actually GETTING a beer, they are asking for one.

"Can I HAVE a beer"

Actually if they are asking for permission to take a beer the correct grammer is "May I have a beer".

Can you have a beer ? Sure thing, but not one of mine.

ChrisLS

...oh that CAN I GET phrase drives me mad and the lack of please even more so :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: ...it's PLEASE MAY I HAVE...and again, PLEASE MAY I HAVE...

Littigator

KitsuneAndy wrote:

biondino wrote:

Not sure why the latter. After the event, a miss is a miss, so I suppose it's semantically a tautology, but Match of the Day would have a hell of a lot less to show if saves and crossbar-hitting shots and the like were disregarded as mere non-goals. And an asteroid which misses us by 30,000km instead of wiping out humanity may not actually matter once it's gone past but you can be damn certain it does when they haven't yet figured out it's not going to hit us...

But what I mean is that a near miss (as in, nearly a miss) is a hit. So something that just misses would be a 'near hit'.

As we are being pedantic here, there is a difference Kitsune Andy between 'near' and 'nearly'.

Nearly means something almost happened, so yes the 'miss' almost happened and therefore is a hit.

The use of 'near' and 'miss' can properly constitute the intended description on being a close miss and it does not automatically assume that the use of 'near' means the object was 'near' to a 'miss' and so a hit, but that the 'miss' was 'near' to the object on the description. The object in the football context being to achieve a hit.

d'U SEE?

biondino

Litts, it's called a "goal".

Littigator

Sorry BD, I don't have much familiarity with games played by the proletariat

attica

Right, who said that?

Grammar grammar, it's bl00dy well spelt grammar.
definitely.
calendar.
and not forgetting
Millar.

...and where does the phrase, "can't be ar$ed", come from? What does that actually mean?