Why do people say “brought” instead of “bought” and.
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Do they get there skellingtons x rayed at the hospickle?0
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Mastineo wrote:NapoleonD wrote:Do they get there skellingtons x rayed at the hospickle?
Indeed they do!!!!!And they have their chimblys swept on occasion.
aaaarrrrrgggggggghhhhhhhh
Please, I am AKSING you to stop.
(guy at work uses this, and I have to bite my lip everytime. He's a really nice chap, just a bit linguistically challenged)
"Bed is for sleepy people.
Let's get a kebab and go to a disco."
FCN = 3 - 5
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nasahapley wrote:Never mind brought/bought, you polyglot cleverclogs you, what I'd like to know is why so many people apparently 'peddle' whilst on their bikes. Unless they're cycling from place to place selling stuff, what they're doing is in fact 'pedalling'. Pedal. Not peddle, pedal. I scream inside every time I see that one, grumble grumble.
I always thought peddlers pedalling bikes usually wore berets and striped jerseys and had onions hanging from their handlebars
GeoffOld cyclists never die; they just fit smaller chainrings ... and pedal faster0 -
And color is the old English spelling.Smarter than the average bear.0
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Can't beat a re-union of the grammer spelling nazis can you ? 8)0
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Why the hyphen? Also it`s grammar.
You make it so easy. :?Smarter than the average bear.0 -
gabriel959 wrote:Still use the words “buy” and/or “buying” in the same sentence or the same paragraph?
Is it because I am Spanish that I “no comprende” why the confusion? I can understand people not being able to spell “inconsistent”, “disappointed” or “hypothesis” as that is to do with the farked up phonetics in English but “BROUGHT”??????
Why? Is it because they are as thick as some Spanish “chocolate a la taza”?
Thank you
/rant over
I know a girl, minus her Twirl, who insists that she works in the laundryette.
I stooped the difficult questions at that point. You need to be clever to know you are not, patch plenty glue.0 -
volvicspar wrote:Can't beat a re-onion of the grammer spelling nazis can you ? 8)
French influence, also what a gnat sees is not known as they don't speak up about it.0 -
The one that really irritates me is people saying "infer" when they mean "imply".
The reason it's irritating is that I'm damn sure they're saying it because they think that it sounds more clever :shock:0 -
Geoff_SS wrote:nasahapley wrote:Never mind brought/bought, you polyglot cleverclogs you, what I'd like to know is why so many people apparently 'peddle' whilst on their bikes. Unless they're cycling from place to place selling stuff, what they're doing is in fact 'pedalling'. Pedal. Not peddle, pedal. I scream inside every time I see that one, grumble grumble.
I always thought peddlers pedalling bikes usually wore berets and striped jerseys and had onions hanging from their handlebars
Geoff
Good point Geoff, maybe that's what all these peddlers are doing (hopefully with Snell B-90 compliant berets), and I'm the one that's got it wrong! Just been reminded of another linguistic abomination - a colleague assures me she 'literally died of embarrassment' at the weekend - aaaarrrggggghhhh!0 -
Argh.
Since moving south I've noticed English people cannot pronounce the diference between which and witch.
Why can't an entire nation say the wh sound?0 -
The one really griping me at the moment is people going to a bar/counter and saying....
"Can I get......."
Err, no you can't get. You can say "May I have...." or "Can I have...." and the server will GET it for you.
D1ckheads!0 -
Still use the words “buy” and/or “buying” in the same sentence or the same paragraph?
Is it because I am Spanish that I “no comprende” why the confusion? I can understand people not being able to spell “inconsistent”, “disappointed” or “hypothesis” as that is to do with the farked up phonetics in English but “BROUGHT”??????
Why? Is it because they are as thick as some Spanish “chocolate a la taza”?
Thank you
/rant over
May I complement your point by offering this compliment. It's the principal0 -
BigJimmyB wrote:The one really griping me at the moment is people going to a bar/counter and saying....
"Can I get......."
Err, no you can't get. You can say "May I have...." or "Can I have...." and the server will GET it for you.
D1ckheads!
This also annoys me intensely. Yet lots of my friends say it. Bloody Yankisms.0 -
Red John
That would be cleverer I guess, would it not?0 -
Surf-Matt wrote:BigJimmyB wrote:The one really griping me at the moment is people going to a bar/counter and saying....
"Can I get......."
Err, no you can't get. You can say "May I have...." or "Can I have...." and the server will GET it for you.
D1ckheads!
This also annoys me intensely. Yet lots of my friends say it. Bloody Yankisms.
I had a Yank in the back of my cab the other day, it was great, very pleasent but such a mess I had to finish my shift and head down Soho, true story.0 -
Actually, regarding the whole bought/brought muddle, I don't think Bring & Buy Sales [1] do anything to reduce the confusion.
David
[1] Assuming they still exist in the eBay era...."It is not enough merely to win; others must lose." - Gore Vidal0 -
Stewie Griffin wrote:Sirius631 wrote:Please go boldly, get a language of your own, and stop damaging ours.
Its evolving, as it has always done and there is nothing we can do to stop these bloody foreigners and our own teenagers :x from ruining it
1 dy no 1 wil undastan wot u spek
It's true that language should and does evolve, but I'm not sure that people mangling it is a sign of that happening.0 -
...there are so many floors that can trip you up in English. Cycling weakly0
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One that niggles me is 'kind', as in 'what kind?', when they mean type, flavour etc.
Eg.: Ordering crisps at the bar...-
Me: ...and a bag of crisps, please.
Barmaid: What kind?
Me: Potato.
A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject - Churchill0 -
One that I have seen used on this forum - and I'd hoped it would never happen this side of the pond - is "my bad", it truly incenses me.
For the love of God, please just say my mistake, it actually means something.Complicating matters since 19650 -
also, anyone who thinks that it is ok to write 'm8' - when they mean 'mate' - needs a severe beating with a dictionary.
The M8 is a motorway in Scotland, not a term of affinity....0 -
can I also say that I really hate the term 'chapeau' - whatever happened to simply saying 'nice one'........?0
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that's one that puzzled me when I first started browsing cycling forums as an alternative to work. The seemingly random selection of French terms used by some. Took me a while to work out what a bidon was. Have I made a terrible cycling faux pas by buying a water bottle instead?
Aaargh! Merde! There's another one just slipped into my last sentence! OMG WTF etc etc.0 -
The thing which annoys me most is apostrophe abuse, especially to indicate plurals, e.g. "bike's" or "pro's" AAARGGH!! These people should be forced to repeat "the apostrophe is used to indicate dropped letters or possession, not plurality" 100 times while being hit over the head with a large 'phone book on every repetition of the word "not".
There are subtle differences in grammar and punctuation as well as in spelling between U.S. and British English, and surprisingly it is often the American version which is historically more correct. In the States I would be taken to task for saying "the thing which annoys me" and "which is more historically correct" instead of "the thing that annoys me" (etc.), and for not using a comma after "e.g." (it's simply an abbreviation of "for example"). The yanks also insist on a comma after the penultimate item in a list, e.g. "I fitted new pedals, cranks, wheels, and handlebars to my new bike".Please go boldly, get a language of your own, and stop damaging ours.
Of course everyone will soon be using American spelling because it is the default option in most spell checkers...0 -
"The breaks on my bike are broken."
ARGH!!!!!!0
