Grammar Police

[Faratid]

Yes, let's all celebrate ignorance, and render all language and communication meaningless, and all thought muddled and incomprehensible.

 

[Accy cyclist]

I posted this last Friday in,or is it on? 🤔 ,the Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations? thread


I took the pic' below on the 4th of March this year in the Accrington Job Centre gents toilets,in the hope that one day i'd be able to post pics on CC to let the whole world know of such ( In my opinion) poor grammar. Now that i can i just have to get it off my chest,after six long months! Surely it should read 'please be aware of the possibility of discarded needles'. Not please be aware of possibly discarded needles?🤔

Edit...and then there's the 'Customer notice' bit. Surely people who use the job centre are clients,not customers? You aren't buying a job,which is what 'customers' do.🤔

 

[MartinQ]

I posted this last Friday in,or is it on? 🤔 ,the Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations? thread


I took the pic' below on the 4th of March this year in the Accrington Job Centre gents toilets,in the hope that one day i'd be able to post pics on CC to let the whole world know of such ( In my opinion) poor grammar. Now that i can i just have to get it off my chest,after six long months! Surely it should read 'please be aware of the possibility of discarded needles'. Not please be aware of possibly discarded needles?🤔

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Edit...and then there's the 'Customer notice' bit. Surely people who use the job centre are clients,not customers? You aren't buying a job,which is what 'customers' do.🤔

Glad to hear there was nothing dodgy about you standing around in the toilet taking photos.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Yes, let's all celebrate ignorance, and render all language and communication meaningless, and all thought muddled and incomprehensible.

It's worth bearing in mind that the dialects spoken by a large proportion of the population don't use the perfect tense and understand each other perfectly. And then we have a government that makes very few grammatical errors yet don't seem to have a clue what they're doing.

 

[MontyVeda]

Phaeton prefers it to vibrate.

Many moons ago, a friend of mine decided to try the 'vibrate' alarm function of his mobile phone... he woke at the set time to watch his phone slowly vibrate off the bedside cabinet and land in a glass of water

 

[Seevio]

I posted this last Friday in,or is it on? 🤔 ,the Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations? thread


I took the pic' below on the 4th of March this year in the Accrington Job Centre gents toilets,in the hope that one day i'd be able to post pics on CC to let the whole world know of such ( In my opinion) poor grammar. Now that i can i just have to get it off my chest,after six long months! Surely it should read 'please be aware of the possibility of discarded needles'. Not please be aware of possibly discarded needles?🤔

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Apart from the lack of full stop, there's nothing wrong with the grammar. It's just that what it means and what the writers intended might differ.

It implies that there are needles present and that one should be aware of them. The needles present may or may not have been discarded.

The deliberately placed needles are of course, ok.

 

[Salty seadog]

I don't have a telephone.

What's that next to your TV then?🧐

 

[Drago]

Yes, let's all celebrate ignorance, and render all language and communication meaningless, and all thought muddled and incomprehensible.

Much like the Guardian editorial?

 

[DRM]

She's just rung me
She's just rang me

View: https://youtu.be/vNL4hZrziUY

Paul Weller had the same problem way back in 1979 apparently

 

[Archie_tect]

She gave me a bell.

Ding- dong!

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Shez just ringing mi

 

[Archie_tect]

She's tried to give me a bell, but I told her I'd already got one.

 

[CanucksTraveller]

While we're here can we just address the worst abomination in English grammar in the last few decades?
It's "could HAVE", or "could've" if you prefer. "Would HAVE", or "would've".
It is not "could OF" or "would OF".

Jesus, half the adult population are doing it, and yet my daughter knows the difference at age 9. It's literally primary school English.

Try correcting someone however, and you're the assh0le apparently. And that's how society gets more stupid.

 

[Poacher]

While we're here can we just address the worst abomination in English grammar in the last few decades?
It's "could HAVE", or "could've" if you prefer. "Would HAVE", or "would've".
It is not "could OF" or "would OF".

Jesus, half the adult population are doing it, and yet my daughter knows the difference at age 9. It's literally primary school English.

Try correcting someone however, and you're the assh0le apparently. And that's how society gets more stupid.

Karm doun, deer!

 

[Poacher]

While we're here can we just address the worst abomination in English grammar in the last few decades?
It's "could HAVE", or "could've" if you prefer. "Would HAVE", or "would've".
It is not "could OF" or "would OF".

Jesus, half the adult population are doing it, and yet my daughter knows the difference at age 9. It's literally primary school English.

Try correcting someone however, and you're the assh0le apparently. And that's how society gets more stupid.

Another one that which gets my goat is using "refute" in place of "deny".
The primary meaning of to refute is to disprove, yet it's frequently used to deny an accusation without any hint of evidence to disprove the accusation. Today's misuse is from Dildo Harding:
“I strongly refute that the system is failing,” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...-to-three-times-uk-capacity-says-dido-harding