portlock seagull
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Pray tell us where Timmy has gone wrong?
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The Argus: destroying the English language, one heading at a time
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Pray tell us where Timmy has gone wrong?
SweatyMexican
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- Mar 31, 2013
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90% of the people on NSC will read it and think "what's wrong with that?".
"help please miss, i don't get it....."
Jim Van Winkle
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RIP Bong
GT49er
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.....but not semi-colons, it would appear!
GT49er
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The Plain English Campaign has a lot to answer for, I'm afraid, particularly with their insistence on using the shortest possible sentences, thus vastly reducing the use of commas and other punctuation marks. If punctuation is under-used, people naturally become less adept at using it.
Perfidious Albion
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The teaching of English in the last 20-30 years has largely gone to the dogs. As a result, nobody seems to know or care anymore .
My last employers,a national company, produced stock letters that were grammatically incorrect. Previously well written magazines can now seem overly simple. Some speak of a language evolving but it is just dumbing down.
PS ,excuse the typos & don't expect this to be perfectly written.
My last employers,a national company, produced stock letters that were grammatically incorrect. Previously well written magazines can now seem overly simple. Some speak of a language evolving but it is just dumbing down.
PS ,excuse the typos & don't expect this to be perfectly written.
el punal
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- Jul 7, 2003
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Norman Potting
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The trouble with threads like this is that after a time it becomes impossible to tell who is posting tongue-in-cheek, who is taking the p1ss and who is just plain thick.........
GT49er
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Four (including the quote at the end) - enough, isn't it?
Their all on hear now
Hmmm.... call me a pedant but the headline may be a bit clunky, but is not ungrammatical surely, yet your apostrophe (it's) is wrong. Innit.
One that makes me laugh is 'I can't be asked'. I have seen it regularly written by a non-Brit of my acquaintance in emails, but was stunned recently to see it written by a middle class English born and bred type. Or do I mean bread? Its ARSED, innit.
My rule of thumb is that if it doesn't bother me then I don't give a toss (by definition, obviously). The verly long email rant in this thread is, in my view, hilariously parochial, given its cultural bias in the face of egregious grammatical errors. And it is TOO EFFING LONG.
And . . . à propos of nothing, the worst English I have ever seen written (coursework, decent Uni, more than 1000 students over 25 years) was written by a white English male from Croydon. Yes . . . . he was, and is, a Palace fan
AZ Gull
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"more easier"? When I grew up I was taught that the comparative/superlative form of "easy" would generally be "easier" ("more easy" would also be considered acceptable, although probably less common).
"more easier" is therefore redundant, just like the Argus proof-readers (we'll ignore the fact that the sentence doesn't even make sense).
When I read that headline it just sounded WRONG.
But perhaps I'm mistaken. Perhaps I grew up in more simpler times and the world has moved on. Maybe I even just wanted to show off my education and learning in a "my dad is more bigger than your dad" fashion.
Wrong-Direction
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