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RE: Gone to the dogs

in Anything that's not Eriba-related. Thu Nov 03, 2016 8:27 pm
by Eribanut | 2.026 Posts

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RE: Gone to the dogs

in Anything that's not Eriba-related. Fri Nov 04, 2016 1:53 pm
by gattim (deleted)
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There are a minimum of three things that I cannot understand about our language being misunderstood


1) Why so few understand that it is always 'different FROM'. Not 'different TO', not different 'THAN' - simple rule, different FROM
2) Why so many insist on writing meaningless 'sounds like' phrases especially 'could of' or 'should of'
3) Possessive pronouns and plurals and the use of apostrophe s incorrectly

I am getting old and therefore increasingly intolerant of such grammatical abuses


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RE: Gone to the dogs

in Anything that's not Eriba-related. Fri Nov 04, 2016 2:02 pm
by Bryn | 1.027 Posts

if things don't change they can stop as they are, you wanna try it ere in France, they all speak strange


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RE: Gone to the dogs

in Anything that's not Eriba-related. Fri Nov 04, 2016 4:46 pm
by Aaron Calder | 3.834 Posts

Quote: gattim wrote in post #17
3) Possessive pronouns and plurals and the use of apostrophe s incorrectly
You might have added that annoying habit that some people have of inserting a space between the end letter of a word and an s when making plurals.


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RE: Gone to the dogs

in Anything that's not Eriba-related. Fri Nov 04, 2016 5:25 pm
by highmiler | 367 Posts

Yes, they all have attended the "Stanley Unwin School of Speech and Dramold"


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RE: Gone to the dogs

in Anything that's not Eriba-related. Fri Nov 04, 2016 5:54 pm
by Pepé Le Pew | 2.752 Posts

Quote: gattim wrote in post #17
There are a minimum of three things...
Without wishing to add insult to the grievous injury already inflicted by that wicked Mr Cauldron a couple of posts above, the first part of your first sentence should read:

There is a minimum of three things, not there are a minimum.

A minimum is singular, not plural.

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#22

RE: Gone to the dogs

in Anything that's not Eriba-related. Fri Nov 04, 2016 6:44 pm
by Frantone (deleted)
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A couple of missing full stops as well. 😱

Post #17 #18


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RE: Gone to the dogs

in Anything that's not Eriba-related. Fri Nov 04, 2016 7:36 pm
by gattim (deleted)
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The use of the apostrophe s then, not the use of apostrophes, otherwise I would not have left a gap


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RE: Gone to the dogs

in Anything that's not Eriba-related. Fri Nov 04, 2016 7:37 pm
by gattim (deleted)
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Indeed, the mistaking of singulars for plurals is luckily not one of my beefs


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RE: Gone to the dogs

in Anything that's not Eriba-related. Fri Nov 04, 2016 8:13 pm
by Pepé Le Pew | 2.752 Posts

Quote: gattim wrote in post #24
Indeed, the mistaking of singulars for plurals is luckily not one of my beefs
Clearly, a list of beefs would have been helpful.

A kind of foreword, if you like.

We wouldn't want to attempt to take you to task over a beef that wasn't a beef. As it is, I think we've had a bum steer.

No bull.

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RE: Gone to the dogs

in Anything that's not Eriba-related. Fri Nov 04, 2016 8:20 pm
by Aaron Calder | 3.834 Posts

Nobody said that being a pedant was easy.


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#27

RE: Gone to the dogs

in Anything that's not Eriba-related. Sun Nov 06, 2016 6:28 pm
by gattim (deleted)
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Your right of course, I should of made that definately clear with all my post's.


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#28

RE: Gone to the dogs

in Anything that's not Eriba-related. Sun Nov 06, 2016 6:45 pm
by Bryn | 1.027 Posts

bloody glad my school was approved, seems like there were a lot of badder schools years ago


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#29

RE: Gone to the dogs

in Anything that's not Eriba-related. Sun Nov 06, 2016 7:19 pm
by hob (deleted)
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No not badder wussa,


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#30

RE: Gone to the dogs

in Anything that's not Eriba-related. Sun Nov 06, 2016 7:46 pm
by Aaron Calder | 3.834 Posts

I defiantly agree.


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