What is this place? A football forum or a English language school?

[NMH]

No!!!!! You are WRONG!!!! Online Grammar checker spoted 3 errors, Capitalization, Wordiness and punctuation. people should have been People, comma after language and THE.

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Deary me - if you are going to quote, use quotation marks - " 'people' should have been..." etc. NOT that 'people' ever needs to be capitalized except when beginning a sentence, or as a name - i.e. 'Mrs People was unsure about looney's command of English language (but not necessarily THE English language)'.
Furthermore, don't you think for one moment that you might have used another punctuation, perhaps a colon rather than a comma after the words "spotted 3 errors"? (Note that SPOTTED has 2 't's in my correct spelling).

My point is one I stand by. It is not required, to place the word 'the' when referring to English language, unless it is pertinent to define the whole.
I am teaching English as a language to you looney, not 'the English' as a language.

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

Ah......... never knew that. I friggin' hated that bastard with a vengence, evil s-o-b.

He sure could teach maths though. Even if was by making you afraid to fail ...

 

[severnside gull]

He sure could teach maths though. Even if was by making you afraid to fail ...

.................. regrettably the dent in my forehead from his well-aimed board rubber marked me down as one of his failures

 

[Goring Gull]

Ever heard of Tone of Voice all the big corporations are at it.

 

[Phat Baz 68]

yes they have you wobbly oaf, stop criticizing.

Oh shut up you chubby cock muncher !!!!

 

[8ace]

 

[Triggaaar]

Too many threads spoiled by the correction police recently.

I think you'll find it's "spoilt" as in current tense rather that "spoiled" as in past tense

Spoilt and spoiled are both past tense, just like burnt/burned, learnt/learned etc. You can use either, but don't mix and match.

 

[Lush]

I would imagine away fans sometimes ask themselves the same question on arriving in Brighton. "What is this place? A football town or an English language school?"

 

[Mutts Nuts]

Too many threads spoiled by the correction police recently.
That is all.

Its a place where the likes of Bens Grandad slag off our players like Brezovan for doing there best, real supporters get behind the team that we have not the team they want

 

[drew]

Its a place where the likes of Bens Grandad slag off our players like Brezovan for doing there best, real supporters get behind the team that we have not the team they want

Should be 'their' and not 'there'. Also, should have a comma between 'have' and 'not'!

 

[Mental Lental]

Is it the case that people genuinely can't spell or punctuate? Or do some on here throw in a deliberate red heron now and again to see who's awake?

 

[Notters]

Deary me - if you are going to quote, use quotation marks - " 'people' should have been..." etc. NOT that 'people' ever needs to be capitalized except when beginning a sentence, or as a name - i.e. 'Mrs People was unsure about looney's command of English language (but not necessarily THE English language)'.
Furthermore, don't you think for one moment that you might have used another punctuation, perhaps a colon rather than a comma after the words "spotted 3 errors"? (Note that SPOTTED has 2 't's in my correct spelling).

My point is one I stand by. It is not required, to place the word 'the' when referring to English language, unless it is pertinent to define the whole.
I am teaching English as a language to you looney, not 'the English' as a language.

Capitalised.

 

[looney]

Deary me - if you are going to quote, use quotation marks - " 'people' should have been..." etc. NOT that 'people' ever needs to be capitalized except when beginning a sentence, or as a name - i.e. 'Mrs People was unsure about looney's command of English language (but not necessarily THE English language)'.
Furthermore, don't you think for one moment that you might have used another punctuation, perhaps a colon rather than a comma after the words "spotted 3 errors"? (Note that SPOTTED has 2 't's in my correct spelling).

My point is one I stand by. It is not required, to place the word 'the' when referring to English language, unless it is pertinent to define the whole.
I am teaching English as a language to you looney, not 'the English' as a language.

Used a different punctuation not another punctuation.

 

[NMH]

Capitalised.

"British usage

British English using -ize is known as Oxford spelling, and is used in publications of the Oxford University Press, most notably the Oxford English Dictionary. It can be identified using the registered IANA language tag en-GB-oed. The OED lists the -ise form separately, as "a frequent spelling of -IZE", and refuses to list the -ise spellings even as alternatives in the individual entries for words such as realize.[36] It firmly deprecates usage of -ise for words of Greek origin, stating, "[T]he suffix..., whatever the element to which it is added, is in its origin the Greek -ιζειν, Latin -izāre; and, as the pronunciation is also with z, there is no reason why in English the special French spelling in -iser should be followed, in opposition to that which is at once etymological and phonetic." It maintains "... some have used the spelling -ise in English, as in French, for all these words, and some prefer -ise in words formed in French or English from Latin elements, retaining -ize for those of Greek composition."[37] Noah Webster rejected -ise for the same reasons.[38]

The Cambridge University Press, on the other hand, has long favoured -ise,[39] as do some other references, including Fowler's Modern English Usage.[39]

Perhaps as a reaction to the ascendancy of American spelling, the -ize spelling is often incorrectly viewed in Britain as an Americanism, and -ise is more commonly used in the UK mass media and newspapers,[34] including The Times, The Daily Telegraph and The Economist. Meanwhile, -ize is used in many British-based academic publications, such as Nature, the Biochemical Journal and The Times Literary Supplement."


It's mass media for you then, British academic for me.

 

[NMH]

Used a different punctuation not another punctuation.

 

[Notters]

Thank you [MENTION=192]NMH[/MENTION], that's actually quite interesting.

 

[NMH]

Thank you [MENTION=192]NMH[/MENTION], that's actually quite interesting.

This may also be worth noting, as some of these words will tempt us to chooze (ahem) the wrong consonant;

"Some verbs ending in -ize or -ise do not derive from Greek -ιζειν, and their endings are therefore not interchangeable:

Some words take the -z- form exclusively, for instance capsize, seize (except in the legal phrase to be seised of/to stand seised to), size and prize (only in the "appraise" sense)
Others take only -s-: advertise, advise, apprise, arise, circumcise, comprise, compromise, demise, despise, devise, disguise, excise, exercise, franchise, guise, improvise, incise, merchandise (noun), revise, rise, supervise, surmise, surprise, televise, and wise."

 

[Uncle C]

What always makes me cringe is the use of the verb 'to of' like this:

"must admit had hoped to of seen a couple of new players for saturdays game. Way GP been talking the last few weeks thought he would of moved swiftly."

Can see many popular songs being rewritten such as "I of a lovely bunch of coconuts."

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

I believe that the influx of American and Australian TV over the last few decades has led to a major change in the spoken word in the youth of today. The pronunciation of words correctly helps people to understand the structure of the word, so when spelling it they can have better stab at the correct spelling.

Having the ability to express ones self is so many ways as the English language allows is why it's such a rich and invigorating language. We have a far more expressive language in this country than any other English speaking country. The average American's vocabulary is only 30% of a similarly intellectual English person. Unfortunately the drift is towards the American way, not just due to TV but messaging and alike. The need to express oneself quickly and without much thought. That is a tremendous shame.

I have five children, some at university, college, school some working, I have always encouraged them to read, and by read I mean "heavy" books. If they do not understand a word, not to skip it but to work out the context it is written and then check its meaning in the dictionary. I believe this has helped them to become erudite and able to conduct themselves well in interviews.

Finally one particular word that gates with me, gotten. arrrrrrrrrrrrrrr....................

 

[Bwian]

Too many threads spoiled by the correction police recently.
That is all.

Too many threads spoiled by responses in what appears to be pidgin English. That is all.