Grammar - does it matter muchly?
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The Brewer
Shed Dweller
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- Wrexham
Just another way to put someone down IMHO
deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
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- Armonmy Way
When there's no problem with understanding (or professional expectations) it's often best to think of it as dialect (or idiolect, if he's the only one what speaks thussomely). It's a bit like ''the boy done well,'' or to adverbialise, ''the boy done welly.''
guitarpete247
Just about surviving
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- Leicestershire
I heard something on the radio the other day that could be understood in two very different ways.
The report was about several police forces sending out scratch and sniff cards so the members of the public could recognise the smell of cannabis farms in the urban areas.
The reporter said (insert your own punctuation for your own meaning) "Cannabis farmers say Police make bad neighbours".
As bad, I feel, as the use of "Up with this I will not put".
The report was about several police forces sending out scratch and sniff cards so the members of the public could recognise the smell of cannabis farms in the urban areas.
The reporter said (insert your own punctuation for your own meaning) "Cannabis farmers say Police make bad neighbours".
As bad, I feel, as the use of "Up with this I will not put".
Aperitif
Meme bar
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Murray Mints his words - he's off his volley...and been court, OUT.
Grammar matters. It's a bit like having food, or drink. Sometimes we might have too much and think 'oh dear' (or worse) but we do need it, however plain, however exotic. Crossword puzzles would lose there, their meaning and cryptic clues would dis-solve into the crowd of words surrounding us. There's nothing like a grammar tickle.
(I have asked the police for a stash of those scratch n sniff cards, Pete!)
Grammar matters. It's a bit like having food, or drink. Sometimes we might have too much and think 'oh dear' (or worse) but we do need it, however plain, however exotic. Crossword puzzles would lose there, their meaning and cryptic clues would dis-solve into the crowd of words surrounding us. There's nothing like a grammar tickle.
(I have asked the police for a stash of those scratch n sniff cards, Pete!)
mark st1
Plastic Manc
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- Leafy Berkshire
I'm sure his millions will make him feel better about his poor grammar. Ive always found him ace in interviews i feel alot of love for him and would like to meet him for a deuce although he seems to make a racket when he eats a banana.
Aperitif
Meme bar
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- ...I don't have much idea - really.
Don't spare the rod...he eats laver bread too.
mark st1
Plastic Manc
- Location
- Leafy Berkshire
YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS MAAAAAAAN !
ComedyPilot
Secret Lemonade Drinker
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- The Kingdom of Yorkshire
One would like to be reasonably well understood, and everyone makes mistakes.
But top of my ire list are the txt spkers n thr ttal lack ov regrd 4 ze English lagwidge.....
But top of my ire list are the txt spkers n thr ttal lack ov regrd 4 ze English lagwidge.....
Arch
Married to Night Train
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- Salford, UK
I think what grates with me is that it would be no more difficult to say it properly, and from what I remember of hearing him speak, he normally gets it right. If you've been brought up to know nothing better, it's more forgiveable. Although sometimes reverting to poor grammar is a deliberate act for emphasis.
Normally I am a bit judgmental about poor grammar*. However I saw a clip the other day from a Buckingham Palace reception for Olympic athletes. One chap said to the Queen "We loved that Bond thing you done". and for some reason I loved that - the fact that someone felt able to be entirely natural like that, talking to the Queen, By and large, I think I'd rather people spoke the way they grew up, than put on artificial airs, which often leads to other errors anyway.
*Other things too. I have a workmate who holds his fork like a shovel, fist round the handle. He's a nice middle class chap from Oxfordshire, and a graduate musician who played for exams and choirs when he's not working with us. It grates a little for me every time I see him holding a fork, although I've learned not to be bothered. I guess I'm more judgmental about people I already dislike anyway...
mark st1
Plastic Manc
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- Leafy Berkshire
lol stfu.
MossCommuter
Guru
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- Salford
To be fair to the lad, English isn't his first language.
Andrew_Culture
Internet Marketing bod
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- The People's Republic Of Suffolk.
Making oneself understood is important, but making the effort to understand others is essential.
Arch
Married to Night Train
- Location
- Salford, UK
A couple of my colleagues and I have adopted something I heard in a comedy on Radio 4, where the comedian was playing a posh Uni student character, who kept saying "Oh my G!" Make us giggle, and now makes us smile whenever we say it.
I also like a line I heard on QI - if the Amish had mobiles, they'd text AMG - Ach, Mein Gott!
