BrickTamland
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Seen/heard twice in the last few days, once in written form, the other spoken: ‘energy I’ve expAnded during that game’. Christ.
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[Humour] The continued drop in English language standards.
- Thread starter narly101
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schmunk
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It's being used more widely.
Garry Nelson's teacher
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Can I lob in the misuse of words like 'hero' (bloke who owns a corner-shop) and 'surreal' (such as spotting a celeb in Tesco's)? Thanks: I feel better now.
Icy Gull
Back on the rollercoaster
- Jul 5, 2003
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Awesome covers something slightly better than average.
Without having read the entire 15 pages of this debate, may I add my biggest linguistic bugbear?
The increasing use of "regular" when the speaker (or writer) really means "frequent" - the worst example of which I heard on the TV a few years ago …
"A typical Rooney goal, he regularly scores goals like that!"
So, Rooney scores goals like that at 3.25 every Saturday?
The increasing use of "regular" when the speaker (or writer) really means "frequent" - the worst example of which I heard on the TV a few years ago …
"A typical Rooney goal, he regularly scores goals like that!"
So, Rooney scores goals like that at 3.25 every Saturday?
That is surreal use of a colon.