The media and poor grammar

Daytona_nev

Yep, i defo agree i do, the way potato's is spelt n' stuff. I wish the teacher's would learn the kids better in school.

Anwen_2

Expresso is WRONG, WRONG, WRONG. It has been pressed = espresso. Expresso implies that it is fast. Another one that bugs me is panini's. Firstly, argh at the apostrophe. Secondly, panini is already plural! And thirdly, actually, panino just means bread roll or sandwich, it isn't a type of bread.

katy2

Not only grammar, does anyone else get frustrated at the poor pronunciation broadcasters use?

A couple that really annoy me, instead of us ,uzz. Particularly at the end of the news, 'that's all from uzz'.

Also instead of going to be, gunnabee.

Jay-Jay_4

well per'aps if some-body would borrow me a gramma book I wouldnt' have to lend one from the library. and if some-body could learn me the basic rools of gramma I wouldn't spell things rong all the time :mad:


My other half's Mum says lend/borrow and learn/teach the wrong way around. She firmly believes that it is her dialect, refuses to listen to reason, and often confuses our 5 year old. At least she laughs about it when we take the p!ss

I wish that my punctuation and spelling were up to scratch, unfortunately I spent my school days shopping in Manchester and so missed out on quite a lot of english lessons. I'm quite embarrassed if I get something wrong and I've tried to teach myself how to correctly use punctuation but at least I don't write for a job..... so most of the time I can get away with it.

What really bugz me is txt spk wen u cant tell wt the othr persn is tryin to say bcoz they use words like cul8tz

pickle

Quite right but [/B]I think that a quick note on the internet is not quite the same as writing for a newspaper. I didn't know that in the last ten years that it had become acceptable to write poorly, obviously at the age of 38 I'm well past it and should be put out to pasture. I'm not claiming to be perfect with my grammar but I do expect that professional writers would have the basics covered. I, on the other hand, am not paid to write for a living.

pickle

Don't know what happened with all the bold type?!

Sofa_Sogood

IvanOpinion wrote:

So far I have spotted 9 grammatical and/or spelling mistakes in the responses on this thread (including the OP).

On the other hand you only have to look at the pile of hacks that write for most of the rags we are expected to read to find that many are barely literate and don't speak proper english like wot I does.

Ivan

By the way Ivan, 9 should be typed as nine

IvanOpinion

Sofa_Sogood wrote:

By the way Ivan, 9 should be typed as nine

Just another 'by the way' the number '9' and the word 'nine' should be surrounded by apostrophes within your response!

It depends on whether you are using traditional pre-georgian grammar which derives from latin semantics, in which case the number should be spelt out in full, or post-georgian where a more modern approach was taken to grammar and the inclusion of numbers was deemed to be acceptable (amongst other changes to the language and its semantics). I believe that this did involve a royal decree. If memory serves me right it was something to do with the inclusion of numerics within the bible. During Victorian times there was an attempt to revert back to the original semantics of the English language. Strangely enough this was started by some archbishop (I can not remember which one), who was bit of zealot, and thought that any deviation from the semantics used within the bible was blasphemous. He appealed directly to Queen Victoria to get this changed back but she bowed to the wishes of her royal advisors - I think she was basically allowing some form of natural progression to take place within the language. Can you imagine it, we would be back to speaking with words like 'thou', 'thee' and 'thy'.

Hopefully that puts everything into context.
Ivan

Sofa_Sogood

IvanOpinion wrote:

Just another 'by the way' the number '9' and the word 'nine' should be surrounded by apostrophes within your response!

It depends on whether you are using traditional pre-georgian grammar which derives from latin semantics, in which case the number should be spelt out in full, or post-georgian where a more modern approach was taken to grammar and the inclusion of numbers was deemed to be acceptable (amongst other changes to the language and its semantics). I believe that this did involve a royal decree. If memory serves me right it was something to do with the inclusion of numerics within the bible. During Victorian times there was an attempt to revert back to the original semantics of the English language. Strangely enough this was started by some archbishop (I can not remember which one), who was bit of zealot, and thought that any deviation from the semantics used within the bible was blasphemous. He appealed directly to Queen Victoria to get this changed back but she bowed to the wishes of her royal advisors - I think she was basically allowing some form of natural progression to take place within the language. Can you imagine it, we would be back to speaking with words like 'thou', 'thee' and 'thy'.

Hopefully that puts everything into context.
Ivan

Wow, a lesson in English and history

Didn't know about the apostrophes either Thanks.

Thee's a clever person (Or is it 'thy's?)

YorkshireBoy

IvanOpinion wrote:

...He appealed directly to Queen Victoria to get this changed back but she bowed to the wishes of her royal advisors - I think she was basically allowing some form of natural progression to take place within the language. Can you imagine it, we would be back to speaking with words like 'thou', 'thee' and 'thy'...Ivan

Blimey, up here in Yorkshire we'd heard that she changed her mind back again. For the last 110 years we've enthusiastically adopted these words - note the following examples...

"Wassup wi' THEE?".

"It's THY turn for a go".

We even invented a few more, such as...

"THA can't do that", and "THAS no chance".

I'm going to spread the word that we can stop now, and speak proper, like what the others do.

YB