Another is it just me? Personal pronouns in Norn Iron media

NAR

waltsalt wrote: »

In what way did he misuse it? He used it as a contraction for 'it is' in both instances. This is correct grammatically.

Because the second one he wrote "really in it's pettyness" which is NOT correct.

wifeforlife

warmhands.coldheart wrote: »

My Gripe.... why people complain about all the floods of late but will not pay "properly" for water bills/rates so the actual infrastructure can be improved! ohhhhhhhhhhhh!

I agree, but to add on, people who have huge 50 inch tv's, laptops and xbox's but don't have contents insurance, then get help and charity when the properties flood.

Double parking is my car gripe, which is prevalent in Lurgan with taxi drivers, also hate when I park properly in a space and some eejit parks at an angle or completely up against my doors so I can't get my child into his car seat.

waltsalt

NAR wrote: »

Because the second one he wrote "really in it's pettyness" which is NOT correct.

Ah! My apologies! I had only noticed the first two uses of it's (as in the sentence 'although to me it's normal as it's the way I was tought to speak growing up') but not noticed it being used for a third time like you pointed out. I couldn't see the wood for the trees.

Thank you. That had me puzzled for the last couple of days.

D.A.

People who can't tell the difference between "were" and "where", particularly when they have a university degree.

Mistral001

This is not particular to Norn Iron I have to admit but it is one that I find totally puzzling as well as annoying. It is the use to the phrase "going forward" when talking about future plans. The term did not exist in the English language 10 years ago except when talking about walking or driving a car, yet it is used by nearly every minor politican or public official these days and some not so minor as well.

steveymp

Mistral001 wrote: »

This is not particular to Norn Iron I have to admit but it is one that I find totally puzzling as well as annoying. It is the use to the phrase "going forward" when talking about future plans. The term did not exist in the English language 10 years ago except when talking about walking or driving a car, yet it is used by nearly every minor politican or public official these days and some not so minor as well.

Ah c'mon now how can you hate 2 words ? You just haven't enough blue sky thinking, we need to touch base sometime run a few ideas up the flag pole and see if we can't get you to join a tiger team :rotfl:

These and a lot more of the most annoying Americanized business jargon clips are quiet often received in my inbox from an idiot (who is a Health Service Director) I work with, I refuse to answer them. He emails to ask why I haven't answered, I ask him to resend the email using English

This Jargon is becoming more and more prevalent in our wee country along with Nokia Speak which pi$$es me off too, do not respond to it or encourage it.

parkmoy

leftieM wrote: »

I have no problem with 'our'.
Can this be a random whinge thread? I'm very annoyed at people putting parking cones on the road and thinking this overrides the law and they somehow have a right to that bit of the street.
To the conettes of this world - you have no right to do this.
(However you are probably unhinged so I will not park outside your house in case you wreck my car.)

The ones I hate the most are the shops that line their dustbins up along the kerb taking up valuable parking spaces!