I know this is petty but... it's BOUGHT not BROUGHT!

rodent

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I'm not sure, to be honest. But it's not a specialist context for me - I'm a barrister, my OH is a barrister, my Dad is - so "an advice" is something I hear / read / write all the time.

Noooooooooooo....In a former life one of MTG's "forum tag partners" was a barrister, please tell me you don't ride motorbikes, you are not 46, and a secret agent ?

There is a Parallel world ...let me out

greenface

Grammar and how many people passed it by----In my local Tesco extra, large sign above the coffee saying spesial purchase, I pointed it out to a manager and she just said they were all idiots in here. I told her she had been standing underneath the sign too. Could not imagine how it managed to reach shop floor. I have a photo from my mobile somewhere.

neverdespairgirl

rodent wrote: »

Noooooooooooo....In a former life one of MTG's "forum tag partners" was a barrister, please tell me you don't ride motorbikes, you are not 46, and a secret agent ?

There is a Parallel world ...let me out

I can reassure you. I've never been near a motorbike, I'm 33, and I'm not a secret agent (-:

Mind_the_Gap

PasturesNew wrote: »

In that case, how come you can have an advice note? Surely that's a note of an advice....

:)Yes it is, but surely in that case the indefinite article 'a[n]' belongs to the note, not the advice, does it not?

Mind_the_Gap

greenface wrote: »

Grammar and how many people passed it by----In my local Tesco extra, large sign above the coffee saying spesial purchase, I pointed it out to a manager and she just said they were all idiots in here. I told her she had been standing underneath the sign too. Could not imagine how it managed to reach shop floor. I have a photo from my mobile somewhere.

Much as I hate to be pedantic (I've seen what it can do to some people!), I am compelled to point out that 'spesial' is in fact spelling error, not a grammatical one.

Sorry.

Mind_the_Gap

KiKi wrote: »

There's definitely only one of me.

But here's something spooky: I used to work at London Underground, and did an eight week stint on an Underground station as part of the management training. So I spent much of January and February one year saying 'mind the gap'.

When I left the company I was presented with a roundel with my name in the middle. Apparently I - and the Queen - are the only ones to have personalised roundels. I was dead pleased.

KiKi

:cool:Wow! That's impressive. (Even though I'm Republican).

And now you have 'met' me at last!

rxbishop

Broken Britain.

VJ_

BornAtTheRightTime wrote: »

Oh delicious irony...

Not really, I've been arguing that typos etc. don't matter much on teh ineterwebs & that people should relax about them.
So where's the irony?

KiKi wrote: »

But I hate that it's treated as a word in it's own right:

"Can't believe she said that lol!"

KiKi

Sorry - as I said earlier, the OED now lists it as an interjection in it's own right, like it or not, it's a real word, spoken or written.
http://www.oed.com/viewdictionaryentry/Entry/291168

tellmeitsfriday

VJ_ wrote: »

Not really, I've been arguing that typos etc. don't matter much on teh ineterwebs & that people should relax about them.
So where's the irony?



Sorry - as I said earlier, the OED now lists it as an interjection in it's own right, like it or not, it's a real word, spoken or written.
http://www.oed.com/viewdictionaryentry/Entry/291168

I use it in colloquial emails, web chat and occasionally in forums, but I would never use it in spoken English. That would be a little bizarre IMHO (I wonder when that will be used in spoken English!)

How would you pronounce it... "el-oh-el", or as one syllable... "lol"?

VJ_

tellmeitsfriday wrote: »

I use it in colloquial emails, web chat and occasionally in forums, but I would never use it in spoken English. That would be a little bizarre IMHO (I wonder when that will be used in spoken English!)

How would you pronounce it... "el-oh-el", or as one syllable... "lol"?

I don't use it myself, but know people who do - usually ironically. They usually pronounce it as one syllable, although stretching it to three syllables ("el-oh-el") is occasionally done to add sarcasm into the mix.

I can't believe I'm explaining the mechanics of a spoken 'lol' am I sad or what...