[Football] Arsenal’s Ben White

[Solid at the back]

Hard to realise the market value of a player when the club has just been relegated.

Edit: just saw you wrote 'we'd of got'.

I'm out.

I bet you hate it when colleagues and family text you. You must hate all abbreviations or the shortening of words.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I bet you hate it when colleagues and family text you. You must hate all abbreviations or the shortening of words.

Nobody txts me unless it's in English. They know me too well

 

[GT49er]

I bet you hate it when colleagues and family text you. You must hate all abbreviations or the shortening of words.

It wasn't the abbreviation that was the problem. It was the incorrect word which immediately followed it. Just so you'll know next time, like.

 

[Bakero]

I bet you hate it when colleagues and family text you. You must hate all abbreviations or the shortening of words.

Of is not an abbreviation or shortening of have.

Its popularity as a substitute may well see it become legitimate eventually but for the time being it's just wrong. No matter how many times its wrongness gets points out, people still love a dabble.

 

[SeagullinExile]

Nobody txts me unless it's in English. They know me too well

You mean text surely.

 

[KZNSeagull]

Of is not an abbreviation or shortening of have.

Its popularity as a substitute may well see it become legitimate eventually but for the time being it's just wrong. No matter how many times its wrongness gets points out, people still love a dabble.

I sincerely hope not

 

[Solid at the back]

It wasn't the abbreviation that was the problem. It was the incorrect word which immediately followed it. Just so you'll know next time, like.

Oh, I know exactly what words bother him. He picks me up on them enough times. Of/ve, then/than, tomato/tomaytoe

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

You mean text surely.

No, though. No.

 

[Bakero]

I sincerely hope not

Don't worry. We'll be dead by the time it happens.

 

[Solid at the back]

Of is not an abbreviation or shortening of have.

Its popularity as a substitute may well see it become legitimate eventually but for the time being it's just wrong. No matter how many times its wrongness gets points out, people still love a dabble.

I know what an abbreviation is, thanks. I wasn't suggesting of is an abbreviation of have. Just saying he must hate it generally, for what it's worth I couldn't care less how people spell on an Internet forum. Fml

 

[GT49er]

You mean text surely.

Shirley! It's shirley, obvs.

 

[GT49er]

I sincerely hope not

Sadly, I think it's probably inevitable. It's something that people seem determined not to learn for some half-arsed reason.

English evolved and flourished over the years, from Magna Carta (unrecognisable!), through Chaucer (slightly more recognisable, but still bloody hard work for 'A' level students!) and Shakespeare (at times, beautiful) to the splendid poetry and literature of the 19th. and 20th. centuries. Now it appears to have entered the phase of decline and dumbing down, aided and abetted in no small measure by the execrable 'Plain English Campaign'.

 

[Sid in the Sharknado]

Sadly, I think it's probably inevitable. It's something that people seem determined not to learn for some half-arsed reason.

English evolved and flourished over the years, from Magna Carta (unrecognisable!), through Chaucer (slightly more recognisable, but still bloody hard work for 'A' level students!) and Shakespeare (at times, beautiful) to the splendid poetry and literature of the 19th. and 20th. centuries. Now it appears to have entered the phase of decline and dumbing down, aided and abetted in no small measure by the execrable 'Plain English Campaign'.

Wasn't Magna Carta written in Latin, which probably contributes to it being unrecognisable as English?

Personally I think "shit 'Plain English Campaign'" gets the point across much more succinctly.

 

[GT49er]

Wasn't Magna Carta written in Latin, which probably contributes to it being unrecognisable as English?

Yes, fair point.

Personally I think "shit 'Plain English Campaign'" gets the point across much more succinctly.

No disagreement with that - but I believe even they have balked at 'should of' - so far anyway.

 

[BadFish]

Sadly, I think it's probably inevitable. It's something that people seem determined not to learn for some half-arsed reason.

English evolved and flourished over the years, from Magna Carta (unrecognisable!), through Chaucer (slightly more recognisable, but still bloody hard work for 'A' level students!) and Shakespeare (at times, beautiful) to the splendid poetry and literature of the 19th. and 20th. centuries. Now it appears to have entered the phase of decline and dumbing down, aided and abetted in no small measure by the execrable 'Plain English Campaign'.

My kids were telling me yesterday that I shouldn't add full stops to the end of my text messages. Inbetween sentences is apparently okay but a full stop at the end denotes that I am angry (not as angry as an exclamation mark).

Language is continuing to evolve. Although as I mostly only text other middle-aged people I think I will continue as I am.

 

[RexCathedra]

I teach secondary Latin and Greek, (and German) and for years I had a classroom in the English wing.

When visitors asked me why I wasn't upstairs with French and Spanish, I used to tell them "High level administrative decision, They thought it make sense to have all the dead languages together in one place."

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

Ben Whites £50 million transfer fee is higher than every transfer fee Albion have received in total in their 116 year history .

How would they know when so many of our transactions are "undisclosed"?

 

[gmabel830]

Arsenal’s Ben White


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[herecomesaregular]

Hard to realise the market value of a player when the club has just been relegated.

Edit: just saw you wrote 'we'd of got'.

I'm out.

Give it a rest mate, jeez. It's a virtual pub where sometimes people bang out a quick opinion, sometimes on a dodgy keyboard or a phone that changes the text, it's not a bleedin' dissertation.

 

[wellquickwoody]

But others haven't come in. We will have a weaker squad when he leaves.

Things ebb and flow, and there is about a month until the season starts. Will you be bleating until new players are recruited?