Freakin Grammar Police

paddyrg

Malory wrote: »

"And?????"

"And...?"

Not joining in the bunfight at all, but thinking about this post, and reckon the multiple question marks are taking the place of an ellipsis and question mark, blurring the line between an ellipsis punctuation mark and a string of full stop punctuation marks (admittedly, they do look somewhat identical, and you type one by typing the other three times!)

Pollycat

Oliver14 wrote: »

So due to your gross inappropriate use of the comma are we to assume that you are as thick as Pigshit?;)

Let he who is without sin.....................

Just curious - where do you think fluffnutter has inappropriately used commas?

PS love the use of ellipsis (or maybe I should say 'ellipses'. :rotfl:

Pollycat

drussellh wrote: »

D punctuation n grammer on dis thread is orrible. peopl shud learn to spell properly. it s discgsting wen peopl canot spel. u all sound like foreners.

drussellh wrote: »

i agree. dis is disgusting-people know no proper grammar or puntuation dese days. peopl shud always spell currect otherwise dey shud be baned from postings here.

Do you think that's amusing?

Or have you learned everything you know from the (soon-to-be-defunct) News of The World?

ellay864

There's a couple of threads that some people might like to go visit Or should that be 'there are'? There is a couple, or there are a couple...which is grammatically correct? I shall retreat now and leave others to fight over that one!
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3131036
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3120880

Azari

ellay864 wrote: »

There's a couple of threads that some people might like to go visit Or should that be 'there are'? There is a couple, or there are a couple...which is grammatically correct?

This is a particularly interesting problem.

"A couple walked down the road, at the junction it turned left."

Sounds daft which implies that you do not think of 'a couple' as a singular entity - even though it clearly is - but

"A group walked down the road, at the junction it turned left."

Sounds perfectly correct.

Similarly, "I got in touch with the company, it said ..." does not, to most people, sound as natural as "I got in touch with the company, they said ..."

drussellh

Pollycat wrote: »

Do you think that's amusing?

Or have you learned everything you know from the (soon-to-be-defunct) News of The World?

no, it s not anusing wen peopl make 2 many mistakes. problem is 2 many immigrants in britain hence the decline in speeling.

Pollycat

drussellh wrote: »

no, it s not anusing wen peopl make 2 many mistakes. problem is 2 many immigrants in britain hence the decline in speeling.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Dave_C_2

drussellh wrote: »

no, it s not anusing wen peopl make 2 many mistakes. problem is 2 many immigrants in britain hence the decline in speeling.

The first time it was slightly amusing, but Private Eye do a slightly better job of satire.

The second time it was pushing joke the joke too far

This time you just appear thick:(

Azari

Dave_C wrote: »

This time you just appear thick:(

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck ...

Sambucus_Nigra

drussellh wrote: »

t s thick peeopl like u that give english a bad name. u must be a forener.

Stop it - my sides are splitting with the hilarity of your incredible humour.

Look - this is me right now > :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: