Grammar Pedants...

[swansonj]

Er, no they don't. The 30MPH limit doesn't exist to enable identification of those travelling at 40, it exists to restrict drivers' speeds to 30MPH or below.

On the other hand, I would take some persuading that the rule that you pass the port to the left has any great function beyond allowing those who know the rule to feel superior to those who don't. One could give other examples ... which might well include quite a lot of rules of grammar that go beyond what is necessary for functionally effective communication.

 

[swee'pea99]

Dos and don'ts.

Really? Maybe it's my roots in the days of steam-driven computers, but when I see 'Dos', I hear a word that rhymes with Ross, as in MS-Dos. Do's & don'ts makes much better sense to me.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

 

[Tin Pot]

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I think we can forgive a primary school pupil.

Though the judges might need detention.

 

[midlife]

Forgivable I guess as it's a primary school pupil's work . Now shuddering at the thought of those two bits of grammar.

Shaun

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

I think we can forgive a primary school pupil.

Though the judges might need detention.

Ok. How about this

 

[Tin Pot]

Ok. How about this

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Face, meet Palm.

 

[Tin Pot]

 

[Profpointy]

yebbutt he might be the man on the Black Death cart... as in "bring out your dead"

 

[John the Monkey]

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Those Morans though. Dreadful people. New money, I heard.

 

[Tim Hall]

For the same reason that there is no direct train between Iver and Ore.

It tickles me when the announcer reels off the list of stations: "Calling at St Leonards Warrior Square, Hastings and Ore"

Further research shows that the Boolean express could also call at Andesrton (AND), Normanton, (NOR) and Nottingham (NOT)

 

[vernon]

And for, e.g., people's names that end in 's' the vowel goes in whether written or spoken: 'I am going to visit the Williamses.'

Everyday's a schoolday.

 

[Tin Pot]

Those Morans though. Dreadful people. New money, I heard.

Yeah, I'm wondering whether that sign is wrong at all.

 

[vernon]

 

[vernon]