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The perfect grammar thread |
richy240
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No, I was kidding.
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scotsboyuk
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@switchbitch
Well done my loyal lieutenent (pronounced correctly as leftenent), you have taken up the mantle of instilling a respect and, dare l say it, love for the Queen's English.
@everyone
I would like to expand this crusade to include the concept of dressing correctly. Too many people today believe a 'track suit' is acceptable attire when rambling, quite frankly it isn't.
Whatever happened to dressing for dinner or plus fours for croquet? Make a stand at my side friends.
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Jowi
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How about French?it has a capital P
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BobaFett
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I do respect ppl coming here with bad grammar and dare to ask for help. We are not in school. Just to remember, i see this question from MY point of view.
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prodjsxb
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As spoken by Ali G
"So wot yous is sayin is, dat people should learn to bang da lingo betta if dey is goin to bang english at all, right? Obviously people who is not from english natterin countries will ave aggro natterin da lingo, can dey be excused? Is dey allowed to make some mistakes at least? Ell i know if I type too fast i can mis-spell alot of lingo too!"
 Hope you liked that!
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switchbitch
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The Oxford English Dictionary is the authoritative on this subject. Its purpose is to provide a definition of every word in the English language, and since new words are constantly evolving, it has to be updated to accommodate this. So generally speaking, if it's not there, it's not official, but that doesn't mean it wont be.... In any case, "arse" is there!
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scotsboyuk
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Ali G, how terribley witty!
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daveg
Joined: Mar 27, 2004
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"terribley"? |
scotsboyuk
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Ears.
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Morba
Joined: Mar 07, 2004
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sigh, if you want perfect grammar then go mark some BSc Hons English Papers or something. this is a forum, where lots of ppl shorthand stuff.
if you have a problem with that then maybe you need to change, not every1 else.
Many many things make a difference to the way ppl post, from their origin, to their own knowledge of the language, to how much alcohol they have consumed.
especially on this forum where ppl maybe accessin from WAP or GPRS and gettin charged for the priviledge!
infact, how about you americans go get your own language instead of bastardizing (haha at inclusion of Z instead of S) ours.
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Fritz24
Joined: Jul 25, 2003
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What an excellent thread! My personal favourite example of bad grammar was on a sign in a cafe window near to my house. The sign read 'Only food brought on the premises may be consumed here.'
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*Jojo*
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Will these images do ?
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mmsman
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well i don't think you can say that a forum has bad grammar:
you can have
A: an international forum such as esato, most people are from other countries.......
B: it's a mobile forum and i bet that 50% of people are writing from their mobile phones and grammar errors are at the very least 90% more possible than errors while handwriting.....
C: if a person makes a mistake he is not going to correct it because it's forum for crying out loud, it's not an essay or a letter, people are here from fun, they are not going to wet their panties because they made a mistake....
D:and of course some people use "internet language" (like boba  )
E: if a person is a fast typer, he or she often makes a mistake, like for instance: ad-and, grammatucal- grammatical, encyclopwdiia- encyclopedia
a little to much mistakes maybe, but you see the point.....
anyway forums are not grammatical and they are not going to be...
though i see your point in terms of "offical" or "public" grammar errors..... |
imanuk
Joined: Mar 05, 2004
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Very well put mmsman.
Also I add; does english have to be set in stone? Surely it is sensible that it should be alowed to evolve. Especially if evolution is done in way that increases productivity and makes the language more intuitive.
Much like, the evolution of mobile phones that we discuss here.
Obviously much like the computing industry we must also respect legecy, make all posts understandable regardless of spelling and puctuation.
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Froddan
Joined: Jan 18, 2002
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Now this is a very interesting topic. I've just recently moved to the UK from Sweden (I was born in Finland), and at times I find it hard to understand the English spoken here. I'm not all that good at it myself, but I try to stick to the "proper" English, both in writing and speaking, it just makes things easier for both parties of a conversation if you can understand each other fully without having to guess half of what the other part is saying.
As English isn't my native language, I also struggle with the differences of UK English vs. US English, since the US English is what I have learnt by listening to music and watching movies. |
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Posted: 2004-03-30 00:56
