Nice People 13: Nice Save

Generali

Doozergirl wrote: »

While I'm in the mood for complaining, when did the use of 'myself' become so prolific? No one speaks like that so why do they think it's the correct way to write?

Letter from teacher reads "My self and the pupils...". Surely, it should be "The pupils and I..."

It's like a virus. People do it when they want to talk 'properly', except they're not. It makes me cringe. Incorrectly educated people trying to talk 'posh'.

As you were. I'll try and catch up rather than litter the thread.

The one that gets me is when people incorrectly try to correct 'you and me' to 'you and I'.

PasturesNew

Me and you find less people are getting it right

bugslet

Is, PN. ...less people is getting....


I don't bother too much, (mostly because I may we be speaking twaddle), apart from the ubiquitous would ( could/should) of instead of have, and the habit of starting every sentence with 'So,'.

Masomnia

When I did a bit of linguistics at A level it was referred to as 'over-correction' which I think is a nice term for it. Very accurate.

Because 'Would you like to come to the cinema with Doozer and myself?' Sounds somehow 'posher', people assume it's correct, or want to sound more educated.

You get people saying 'whom' a lot when they mean 'who', for the same reason. Niggles a bit.

DG, it's kind of worrying that a teacher is writing like that. Although honestly looking at some of the people I went to school with (with whom I went to school ) who went into teaching it doesn't really surprise me.

Generali

bugslet wrote: »

Is, PN. ...less people is getting....


I don't bother too much, 9mostly because I may we be speaking twaddle), apart from the ubiquitous would ( could/shpuld) of instead of have, and the habit of starting every sentence with 'So,'.

I don't really give a poo about how other people speak as long as I can understand them. When people 'correct' my language incorrectly it makes me really quite grumpy.

Generali

Masomnia wrote: »

When I did a bit of linguistics at A level it was referred to as 'over-correction' which I think is a nice term for it. Very accurate.

Because 'Would you like to come to the cinema with Doozer and myself?' Sounds somehow 'posher', people assume it's correct, or want to sound more educated.

You get people saying 'whom' a lot when they mean 'who', for the same reason. Niggles a bit.

DG, it's kind of worrying that a teacher is writing like that. Although honestly looking at some of the people I went to school with (with whom I went to school ) who went into teaching it doesn't really surprise me.

That's the sort of pedantry up with which I shall not put!

GDB2222

THE most important question of the day!

Leeks. DW has cut up some leeks and left me a note asking me to steam them. I have just tried some, and they seem really nice raw - much more oniony than when steamed.

So, do they need to be steamed at all?
Should I just do it because Management has told me to?
Or should I give Management a big surprise with raw leeks?

I can obviously put some aside to have raw, anyway, but I'd like to double-check that there's nothing in them that requires to be cooked?

lostinrates

You can eat raw leeks. In that its never killed fir or I.


So, ( I actually like so, I feel it gives the reader an understanding that I am sitting here with a certain demeanour to be interpreted by what follows)

I made the bed today. Not made the bed, but really went to town. I cleaned the wood word, I bi carbs then vacuumed then fe breezed the matress. I have been laundering the pillows through the week. I hung out the throw, febreze the bejeezus out of it and beat the devil out of it. THEN I made the bed. Then the cat came and vomited all over it.

Right down to the mattress protector.

Too much grass eating today and too much playing in the pretty weather we had.

Bed now stripped and I am a leetle bit grumpy.

bugslet

GDB, it may not kill either of you to eat them raw, but I'd stick with instructions, if only in the interests of marital harmony.;)

GDB2222

Thanks. I've got some cucumber here and a bowl of bits of leek, and I'm happily munching on those. So, it's a real plus if they aren't poisonous!

My Management has just come home, so I'm not lacking in direction any longer.