Chuck my spooling
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Right, I've bit my tongue for long enough 
How many times have I seen the same dull grammatical errors time and time again. No wonder the UK is going down the pan as we're becoming a bunch of illiterate monkeys.
Two things:
Lose and loose.
You do not loose the front end - you lose it (frequently round Donington).
You do not let the ponies lose - you let them loose (unless you're racing them and feeling kind).
Brake and break
You brake for a corner - you don't break for a corner (although you may break something after getting said corner wrong)
You break someone's legs - you don't brake them (especially if they continue to spell so appaulingly).
Rant over
How many times have I seen the same dull grammatical errors time and time again. No wonder the UK is going down the pan as we're becoming a bunch of illiterate monkeys.
Two things:
Lose and loose.
You do not loose the front end - you lose it (frequently round Donington).
You do not let the ponies lose - you let them loose (unless you're racing them and feeling kind).
Brake and break
You brake for a corner - you don't break for a corner (although you may break something after getting said corner wrong)
You break someone's legs - you don't brake them (especially if they continue to spell so appaulingly).
Rant over
Ahhhh. Sir. You have a case of red-pen-itis. My sister (an English Teacher) first described it to me. You wander the country looking at signs, notes, documents, newspapers and magazines and long to circle the errors with your red marker pen.
I'm afraid it comes with having had instruction in grammar and spelling from an English master who could inspire fear and terror at a range of on hundred and fifty yards.
There is no cure.
Just make sure you use a water soluble pen as cleaning it off the screen otherwise is such a pain.
I'm afraid it comes with having had instruction in grammar and spelling from an English master who could inspire fear and terror at a range of on hundred and fifty yards.
There is no cure.
Just make sure you use a water soluble pen as cleaning it off the screen otherwise is such a pain.
And another thing. Apostrophes.
Plurals?
Correct: No apostrophe. Even for acronyms. TVRs.
Wrong: The fabled Grocer's Apostrophe, as in Apple's 30p.
Possessives? OK. TVR's wing mirrors. fine. Plural possessives? TVRs' windscreens.
It's? Only case is abbreviation of 'it is'. The posessive has no apostrophe.
Thank you. And homework is due tomorrow.
Plurals?
Correct: No apostrophe. Even for acronyms. TVRs.
Wrong: The fabled Grocer's Apostrophe, as in Apple's 30p.
Possessives? OK. TVR's wing mirrors. fine. Plural possessives? TVRs' windscreens.
It's? Only case is abbreviation of 'it is'. The posessive has no apostrophe.
Thank you. And homework is due tomorrow.
Dazren said:
Dazren also said:
The youth of today eh Stig? (But in, "Right, I've bit my tongue for long enough" shouldn't "bit" read "bitten" and "enough" have a full stop after it?
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(Don't criticise any mistakes I've made by the way, I already know my spelling and grammar is poor!)
quote:The capitaliation of "Huh" is clearly inappropriate.
Loosing your rag Huh?
Dazren also said:
quote:Capitalisation is again an issue.
DAZ
The youth of today eh Stig? (But in, "Right, I've bit my tongue for long enough" shouldn't "bit" read "bitten" and "enough" have a full stop after it?
) (Don't criticise any mistakes I've made by the way, I already know my spelling and grammar is poor!)
"There" is a pronoun, a noun, an adjective or an adverb. It does not indicate possession.
i.e. "He crashed over there", "There is something wrong with my TVR", "That there Subaru is broken"
Their is the possessive form of they.
i.e. "Their car has crashed" or "Their pigs don't fly"
Easy really.
After the masses have grasped this fairly simple concept we'll move on to the use of the apostrophe. ooooh.
i.e. "He crashed over there", "There is something wrong with my TVR", "That there Subaru is broken"
Their is the possessive form of they.
i.e. "Their car has crashed" or "Their pigs don't fly"
Easy really.
After the masses have grasped this fairly simple concept we'll move on to the use of the apostrophe. ooooh.
quote:
Surely that should have been one hundred and fifty yards!
Indeed it should. I stand corrected. You can use Tippex to correct up my error if you like.
Small print: I should like to point out that use of any strange concoction on the surface of your screen is highly likely to lose you the admiration and respect of your colleagues if not your job.
quote:Actually, dry wipe (whiteboard) markers are best.. permanent are also okay provided you have a can of isopropanol handy.
Just make sure you use a water soluble pen as cleaning it off the screen otherwise is such a pain.
YOu might have gathereed that I frequently dawb my screen with marker pens..
I just like the smell of the solvent in dry-wipe pens quote:Anachronism?
TVR is not an acronym.
My personal hatred....
(i) Misuse of less and fewer. If I torch your garage there will be fewer cars but those remaining will be no less cars than they were before.
(2) Decimate. To reduce by one tenth, a practice used by the Roman Army to punish a whole cahort by making an example of a few. Commonly used to describe a much larger reduction.
Very good Gnomesmith - decimate's an interesting one - when you consider the etymology, it's obvious what it means, but it's so frequently misapplied that it creeps into defacto usage in the incorrect sense.
On that note, for the benefit of listeners who've just joined us, coverage of my pet linguistic hate can be found here:
Overtaking on the inside? It's not undertaking!!!
My admonishment seems to have worked well
On that note, for the benefit of listeners who've just joined us, coverage of my pet linguistic hate can be found here:
Overtaking on the inside? It's not undertaking!!!
My admonishment seems to have worked well
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