Pedantic spelling rant of the year

[Deleted member 2719]

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Quick, inform the CPS!!!

Christ i better get to work before i get myself into more trouble!

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Not a spelling thing, I know ... but related.

It's pronounced DAY VECKEY.

Not DUR VETCHIE.

Even Roz gets it wrong.

 

[The Great Cornholio]

Not a spelling thing, I know ... but related.

It's pronounced DAY VECKEY.

Not DUR VETCHIE.

Even Roz gets it wrong.

As does the District Auditor as I spoke to him about the Roz situation yesterday.

 

[Yorkie]

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QED

Status Quo.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

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Status Quo.

Def Leppard

 

[The Large One]

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So my grammars shit and i can't spell.


But i can punch.

It really ought to be...

'So my grammar's shit, and I can't spell, but I can punch.'

OK?

 

[Hampden Park]

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Def Leppard

tiger hard of hearing

 

[Lord Bracknell]

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It really ought to be...

'So my grammar's shit, and I can't spell, but I can punch.'

OK?

I'm not convinced about the comma after "shit". I was taught not to use a comma before "and", unless it were appropriate to clarify a list.



Did you spot the subjunctive that I slipped in?

 

[Seagull's Return]

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It really ought to be...

'So my grammar's shit, and I can't spell, but I can punch.'

OK?

That's a very constricted view of punctuation, if I may say so, which doesn't take into account the undoubted literary impact of the positioning of that conjunction "but".

But you knew that.

 

[Ned]

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So my grammars shit and i can't spell.


l:

Your poor spelling is obvious but do we really need to know about your aged relative's excrement's illiteracy?

 

[Yorkie]

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But you knew that.

I was always taught never to start a sentence with but.

 

[The Large One]

I put the comma in a pause which was entirely legitimate. Conversely, if I didn't put that comma in, it could be read as "So my grammar's shit and I...", which sounds like a scatalogical porn version of a dodgy Yul Brynner musical.

 

[Seagull's Return]

Would that we were all as comfortable with the subjunctive as yourself, LB. Lovely bit of language, feel the quality.

 

[Seagull's Return]

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I was always taught never to start a sentence with but.

But I was making a point.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

scatalogical porn version of a dodgy Yul Brynner musical.

At last!

This thread is going somewhere.

 

[Yorkie]

At last!

This thread is going somewhere.

 

[Curious Orange]

I put the comma in a pause which was entirely legitimate. Conversely, if I didn't put that comma in, it could be read as "So my grammar's shit and I...", which sounds like a scatalogical porn version of a dodgy Yul Brynner musical.

Westworld?

 

[Yorkie]

Eats shoots and leaves.

 

[The Great Cornholio]

Good God - I've created a monstor (sic).

 

[The Large One]

No, we don't have enough English language rants on here. BRING 'EM ON.