Take my advise or your going to make the same mistakes to

cyclingfury

Do you think there has been a conspiracy within Britain’s education system to teach crap grammar over the last 30 years? I think there must have been, otherwise how else are we to account for so many people (users of this site included) getting the following wrong on a regular basis:

Using “TO” instead of “TOO”
Using “ADVISE” instead of “ADVICE”
Using “YOUR” instead of “YOU’RE”

Can't help wincing everytime I read them.
Rant over. I'll get my coat..........

Limburger

Like you have done in the title of this post!

I will give you the benefit of the doubt that you reached the character limit. :evil:

Edit: You got me well n' good.

sturmey

Speaking of WHICH, it gets tedious seeing the sheer number of people posting on here with threads that start:

'What wheels?' or 'What pedals? ' and so on.

For info of those concerned,the grammatically correct version is to ask : WHICH wheels?

etc. :roll:

Mike67

Grammer?? Wots that?

Cleat Eastwood

Ha ha, that subject made me smile. But as you know language and its structure are mutable and infinitely changing social constructs with no fixed meaning; given that they mere expressions of human consciousness. So you'll just have to keep making subject lines that swoosh over forumers heads.

I once told an illiterate that there was no such thing as a double positive. He said "Yeah, right".

BTW my pet peeve if "of" instead of "have" eg I could of bought a car.

Incidently, what do you feed a pet peeve: A: Arrghh Nuts!!

jimmcdonnell

sturmey wrote:

Speaking of WHICH, it gets tedious seeing the sheer number of people posting on here with threads that start:

'What wheels?' or 'What pedals? ' and so on.

For info of those concerned,the grammatically correct version is to ask : WHICH wheels?

etc. :roll:

Q: Who led the Pedants' Revolt?

A: Which Tyler.




I'll get me coat.

Splottboy

So, it's not Ours, it's 60 minutes then?

Or 1/24th. of a day?

crumbschief

Mike67 wrote:

Grammer?? Wots that?

She's that woman Grandad moans about.

Splottboy

Written Language is surley just an interpretation of the "sounds" we make.

There are no real words, just the one's Humans have made-up, to try to make a Universal understanding of the sounds being uttered.

So, we can have a "conversation" with someone of another culture, country etc, without speaking or understanding their language.

Otherwise, how would Brit's cope abroad.
OH, of course, speak S-L-O-W-L-Y, loudly and wave your hand's around...a lot!

tebbit

Splottboy that is not how the Englishman abroad speaks to Johnny Foreigner, one looks at the local rapscallion, fixing him firmly in one's gaze and one speaks slowly and clearly, one never waves one's arms you know.

bicyclepirate

Im and engrneer
I is an engeeneer
I'm an enerneer

never mind eh,

i am good at math!

Mike67

Cleat Eastwood wrote:

BTW my pet peeve if "of" instead of "have" eg I could of bought a car.

Or even 'I could of brought a car'

Nuggs

crumbschief wrote:

Mike67 wrote:

Grammer?? Wots that?

She's that woman Grandad moans about.

What's small, pink and wrinkly and hangs out Granddad's trousers?








Grandma

meanredspider

What about the "greengrocer's apostrophe"?

Carrot's and cabbage's

My pet hate is lose & loose ie "I win, you loose"

PBo

jimmcdonnell wrote:

sturmey wrote:

Speaking of WHICH, it gets tedious seeing the sheer number of people posting on here with threads that start:

'What wheels?' or 'What pedals? ' and so on.

For info of those concerned,the grammatically correct version is to ask : WHICH wheels?

etc. :roll:

Q: Who led the Pedants' Revolt?

A: Which Tyler.




I'll get me coat.

Bl00dy hell, get off these boards, intellectual







great gag tho'

PBo

meanredspider wrote:

What about the "greengrocer's apostrophe"?

Carrot's and cabbage's

My pet hate is lose & loose ie "I win, you loose"

for double irritation effect, it should be the "greengrocers apostrophe"?

i had a friend who used to say - "I won him at tennis" instead of "beat". my mum (or "me mum" as she's known - eat that grammar pedants!) would ask whether he was now being displayed on the mantlepiece....

PBo

Mike67 wrote:

Cleat Eastwood wrote:

BTW my pet peeve if "of" instead of "have" eg I could of bought a car.

Or even 'I could of brought a car'

original is better

i.e. "I could of bought a car but i spent all my money on carbon instead"

Ben6899

Poor gramma/use of the English language brings out the humourless pedant in me!

To name a few examples which "get my goat":

your/you're
there/their/they're
bought/brought
"should of" instead of "should have"

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EDIT: good to see the forum gramma checker correcting this one!

"So I was thinkin what wheels too by. I seen these eastons and thought there alright. I should of brought em."

F*** off and come back when you've been to school.

Frank the tank

I think we all have pet hates but, it's not until you reach grumpy old man status that you should go on about them. Otherwise you just fall into whinging g1t catagory.

balthazar

Ben6899 wrote:

"should have" instead of "should have"

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EDIT: good to see the forum gramma checker correcting this one!

That's pretty impressive! I thought everybody must have picked up on the have/-'ve/of confusion, because I hadn't noticed it lately. Well done whichever mod tweaked the grammar file.

It's becoming a pet hate of mine that giving a damn about clear expression is apparently something to be ashamed of (the self-deprecation in this thread – "I'm just a grammar pedant, ignore me", etc, testifies to that). We all communicate more than ever through writing, thanks to Mr Internet – why not make it a shared enterprise to write as clearly as we can?!

snailracer

Splottboy wrote:

Written Language is surley just an interpretation of the "sounds" we make.

There are no real words, just the one's Humans have made-up, to try to make a Universal understanding of the sounds being uttered.

So, we can have a "conversation" with someone of another culture, country etc, without speaking or understanding their language.

Otherwise, how would Brit's cope abroad.
OH, of course, speak S-L-O-W-L-Y, loudly and wave your hand's around...a lot!

In some languages, Arabic springs to mind, written and spoken language are almost mutually unintelligible.

sturmey

You thought the spelling on here was bad.
Take a look at this guy's :

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/RIBBLE-/120599649 ... 1c144c9eb5

Holy cow...

STEFANOS4784

What's the problem if you can understand what is trying to be said?
If you can't understand anything other than perfect spelling and grammar then that's something you need to work on, don't just sit there whinging about how perfect you are and what a bunch of idiots people who may not be lucky enough to have your level of perfection with the English language are.

Westerberg

yer, so long uz peeple cun unnerstand wot u iz writin den oo carez 'bout stndrz of grammer, iz yr problem if you can spell, I neva lissened at school and u iz square, no wot I meen? lolz!!! :shock: :? :oops: :roll: :evil:

STEFANOS4784

Thought you were banned, would seem not, un-fortunately :evil:

STEFANOS4784

sturmey

What's the problem if you can understand what is trying to be said?
If you can't understand anything other than perfect spelling and grammar then that's something you need to work on, don't just sit there whinging about how perfect you are and what a bunch of idiots people who may not be lucky enough to have your level of perfection with the English language are

Obviously no sense of humour there.

But hey, if you wish to befriend all the f**kwits of this world , people who have the IQ of a carrot, you go ahead.
The rest of us couldn't care less.

Oh,nearly forgot:

Cleat Eastwood

I'm sure you all must have seen this, a display of how little information we need fo rthe brain to make sense of it:

if yuo can raed tihs, you hvae a sgtrane mnid, too.
Can you raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.

i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! if you can raed tihs forwrad it

Westerberg

bimley y'ouer crroect. I culod psot reud worsd liek cnut, fcuk, bllookcs, haiyr aersohles, moehtr fckuer, hgue pneises, stniky asre garvy, sitthy bttufcuk and teh mdoeraotrs cna't do aynhtnig!

bearfraser

And whot aboot the mizuze off:

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"FUN"

Stick8267

This is like such a well good thread! Innit!