The level of literacy on NSC...

[Yorkie]

Shop signs are, more often than not, deliberately grammatically incorrect.

This draws attention to them and produces the desired effect on the public.

 

[CHAPPERS]

Shop signs are, more often than not, deliberately grammatically incorrect.

This draws attention to them and produces the desired effect on the public.

Weird.

 

[Brixtaan]

This is a great thread.

 

[34064 Fighter Command]

What's starting to annoy me is the use of ' @ ' instead of the letter ' a ', or other such net 'isms which have crept in.

For instance :- ' dot.com or .com '. What, sorry but what word in the English language allows punctuation half way ( or should that be halfway or half-way ) through ( or should that be thru ) it's spelling ?

Hmmmmm ? ( Rhetorically speaking ).

 

[The Large One]

What's starting to annoy me is the use of ' @ ' instead of the letter ' a ', or other such net 'isms which have crept in.

For instance :- ' dot.com or .com '. What, sorry but what word in the English language allows punctuation half way ( or should that be halfway or half-way ) through ( or should that be thru ) it's spelling ?

Hmmmmm ? ( Rhetorically speaking ).

Quite right full stop It apostrophe s a load of old bollocks comma really exclamation mark [vernacular: dog's cock]

 

[Le Premier Cru]

I can't believe that I haven't posted on this thread already. It's a subject close to my heart.

I've tried to give up playing the grammar, etc., police rôle though. Such a losing battle just gives you ulcers.

I guess that I've just been working properly today.

 

[Giant Seagull]

dunno wot u lot r on bout
nuthin wron wit me spellin

 

[Lush]

My personal bugbear is cliches, which I think you should avoid like the plague.

And don't use no double negatives.

 

[Theatre of Trees]

You've hit the nail on the head with that one Lush.

 

[Juan Albion]

My grammar is unimpeachable.

Your grandad is/was married to Bill Clinton?

 

[JEM]

You've hit the nail on the head with that one Lush.

Absolutely. At the end of the day, it's just wrong.

Your grandad is/was married to Bill Clinton?

I wondered why my gramps cigars had a peculiar after taste.

 

[Sigull]

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[NMH]

Eloquence of expression being a worthy forte , I wish to introduce the following expression into this forum (delivered with alactrity);
"what a load of old bollocks" .

Thankyou for the opportunity

p.s. I also feel that an inordinate use of commas was displayed in the original post. Please desist from this practise, and acknowledge that use of English transmogrifies with the times .

Personally I'd rather lethargically lapse into a languid lout than live a loborious life laden as a linguistic luddite .

 

[BUTTERBALL]

Large Al?

 

[Herne Hill Seagull]

Personally I'd rather lethargically lapse into a languid lout than live a loborious life laden as a linguistic luddite .

That much is clear from your spelling of the words 'alacrity' and 'laborious', Mr. H.

 

[Brixtaan]

My gripe is with Aussies and dumb-ass London marketing types (mainly girls) that end sentences with a raised tone and a question.Not sure what this is called but it says alot about a person (normally that they're dislikeable)

 

[looney]

Bollox.
I'm dyslexic....................but I'm not using that as an excuse I just dont give a shit about grammer nazi's etc. As long as its understood its ok by me.

Now Fark orf!!!

 

[looney]

Things dat piss me of.

Double negatives
Americanisms like persons instead of people
Managment speak
Politically correct Jibber Jabber


Stop it you naughty bastards

 

[Titanic]

Managment speak

Looney, I'm so glad you've run that one up the flag pole - let's see who salutes!

 

[The Large One]

Large Al?

Yes, Butterball? What are you doing harking the merest soupçon of my personal appellation for me at 7.51am?

NMH: There were not too many commas in the original message. And if you read the other threads, you will see that I have acknowledged the evolution of the English language. So there.

I might also expand on a wider point, namely my dislike of the 'Americanisation' of English. True, many words are now become so common that to resist usage is futile, but please people, when turning a noun into an verb, spell the suffix 'ise', not 'ize'.