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By *oe_Steve_NWest OP   Couple
over a year ago

Bolton

Can't believe I just heard this - have tv on in the back ground and one of the annoying people who tell you what's coming up just shortened episode to ep - for crying out loud! How hard is it to say a full word - why the need to shorten everything - another sign of total laziness? Z

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By (user no longer on site)
Forum Mod
over a year ago

Bol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Can't believe I just heard this - have tv on in the back ground and one of the annoying people who tell you what's coming up just shortened episode to ep - for crying out loud! How hard is it to say a full word - why the need to shorten everything - another sign of total laziness? Z"

My hate is those that don't know the difference between "have" and "of", as in "shouldn't of"! Aaaarrrrggghhhhh! Whoops, stop now!

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By *oe_Steve_NWest OP   Couple
over a year ago

Bolton


"Can't believe I just heard this - have tv on in the back ground and one of the annoying people who tell you what's coming up just shortened episode to ep - for crying out loud! How hard is it to say a full word - why the need to shorten everything - another sign of total laziness? Z

My hate is those that don't know the difference between "have" and "of", as in "shouldn't of"! Aaaarrrrggghhhhh! Whoops, stop now! "

I haven't got a problem with that kind of thing - easy done but some one the television should at least use the full word! Feel a bit old fashioned but why not use the full word!?! Z

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

i blame texting! and whilst we off on one who writes the subtitles?? the spelling on them is terrible!! x

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By *oe_Steve_NWest OP   Couple
over a year ago

Bolton


"i blame texting! and whilst we off on one who writes the subtitles?? the spelling on them is terrible!! x "

lol - that's probably because they have to type it very quickly! Z

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

yeah true but you would think there would be a spell checker!! xx

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By *oe_Steve_NWest OP   Couple
over a year ago

Bolton

people saying "can i get" when they want something

I normally reply yes you can off you go.

They have not got a clue what i am getting at

Steve

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Can't believe I just heard this - have tv on in the back ground and one of the annoying people who tell you what's coming up just shortened episode to ep - for crying out loud! How hard is it to say a full word - why the need to shorten everything - another sign of total laziness? Z

My hate is those that don't know the difference between "have" and "of", as in "shouldn't of"! Aaaarrrrggghhhhh! Whoops, stop now!

I haven't got a problem with that kind of thing - easy done but some one the television should at least use the full word! Feel a bit old fashioned but why not use the full word!?! Z"

But it's a different word, the reduction would be "'ve" - sorry, not pronouncable! And I think you mean "Easily done"? Grammar nazis, I went to grammar school so if we say we want something we must be able to produce it!

My kids txt me, not a problem, that's a different means of communication entirely, I try not to do it to those I don't know well but txt back to the kids in that way. However, with a degree and life experience, I can converse in either, it's a small world and a short time!

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By *oe_Steve_NWest OP   Couple
over a year ago

Bolton


"Can't believe I just heard this - have tv on in the back ground and one of the annoying people who tell you what's coming up just shortened episode to ep - for crying out loud! How hard is it to say a full word - why the need to shorten everything - another sign of total laziness? Z

My hate is those that don't know the difference between "have" and "of", as in "shouldn't of"! Aaaarrrrggghhhhh! Whoops, stop now!

I haven't got a problem with that kind of thing - easy done but some one the television should at least use the full word! Feel a bit old fashioned but why not use the full word!?! Z

But it's a different word, the reduction would be "'ve" - sorry, not pronouncable! And I think you mean "Easily done"? Grammar nazis, I went to grammar school so if we say we want something we must be able to produce it!

My kids txt me, not a problem, that's a different means of communication entirely, I try not to do it to those I don't know well but txt back to the kids in that way. However, with a degree and life experience, I can converse in either, it's a small world and a short time! "

What the hell you talking about

Steve

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By *oe_Steve_NWest OP   Couple
over a year ago

Bolton

I wasn't making a point of grammar - it was the word 'episode' being shortened to 'ep' why? This was really quite a light hearted thread - sorry that you're so easily offended - i would never critisise any one in a forum for their spelling or grammar. Z

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"people saying "can i get" when they want something

"

"Can I get a coffee?"

Don't bloody know ... can you?

What happened to "coffee please?"

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By *oe_Steve_NWest OP   Couple
over a year ago

Bolton


"people saying "can i get" when they want something

"Can I get a coffee?"

Don't bloody know ... can you?

What happened to "coffee please?""

lol - this also makes me chuckle - bit americanised? Z

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By *eprobatepairCouple
over a year ago

london

Surely, it is incumbent upon us all to criticise poor grammar...

I mean like, it's like, really stuck up and snobby to speak an' write like you are a public schoolboy innit? I don't need nobody to tell me how to speak English proper.

I'll send it to yourself in an email.

;-)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

whilst at it, was i the only one that picked up on the journalist on bbc talking about cameron?

he said that cameron had pledged to visit every country in the uk once elected.

I thought I had misheard and he said counties, then he went on to say his promise to visit these countries would mean that from as early as next week he would be visiting dublin and liverpool and birmingham...not even counties!

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By *harpDressed ManMan
over a year ago

Here occasionally, but mostly somewhere else

So I was like "...", and he was like "...", then I was like "...", and it was all like "....".

...is another irritating idiom I'd like to add to the list.

But the worst part is, I sometimes realise I'm doing the same thing myself. Makes me very cross when I expose my own hypocrisy...grrr

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over a year ago


"whilst at it, was i the only one that picked up on the journalist on bbc talking about cameron?

he said that cameron had pledged to visit every country in the uk once elected.

I thought I had misheard and he said counties, then he went on to say his promise to visit these countries would mean that from as early as next week he would be visiting dublin and liverpool and birmingham...not even counties!"

It wasn't just some journalist but David Dimbleby, I couldn't believe it either.

The lazy, sloppy way in which English is spoken is my own bete noire, but hey everything is dumbed down so we shouldn't really be that surprised!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Languages evolve with the times - so-called grammar is a description of changing meanings, structures, syntax and semantics etx....ie what is considered right, not a prescription of what should be. That happened in Victorian resp Prussian times Sad in some ways but hey - nobody would speak today in the way Shakespeare did?

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By *eprobatepairCouple
over a year ago

london


"Languages evolve with the times - so-called grammar is a description of changing meanings, structures, syntax and semantics etx....ie what is considered right, not a prescription of what should be. That happened in Victorian resp Prussian times Sad in some ways but hey - nobody would speak today in the way Shakespeare did? "

You, madam are nothing but a poppinjay

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"people saying "can i get" when they want something

"Can I get a coffee?"

Don't bloody know ... can you?

What happened to "coffee please?"

lol - this also makes me chuckle - bit americanised? Z"

That's exactly what it is,it wouldn't be so bad them using our colloquialisms if they used them in the right context.

A prime example is "Whats up?",for fecks sake they use a question meaning "Whats wrong?" for a bloody greeting........Cretins! R

XX

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Languages evolve with the times - so-called grammar is a description of changing meanings, structures, syntax and semantics etx....ie what is considered right, not a prescription of what should be. That happened in Victorian resp Prussian times Sad in some ways but hey - nobody would speak today in the way Shakespeare did?

You, madam are nothing but a poppinjay"

Sire, I can say with utmost humility .. "touche"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

As the stepdaughter of an English professor - strange typing that as she's Belgian with an Irish passport - I mean she taught English linguistics at universities, I got away with nothing. Then I was at uni and and word "comedic" was being introduced; it was not in the language at that time, then properly "comic". As you say Ms Provocative et al, it moves, it changes;in the scheme of things, it is small!

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By *iggles and BeardyCouple
over a year ago

Bristol

I swear I heard gordon brown say "I don't not" in his speach....

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By *ickmealloverWoman
over a year ago

a very plush appartment off junt 7 M5

I dont like slang

And I dislike lazy use of the language

and daft things like

" I turned around to her and said"

I insisted my children speak proper english

obviously they do use coloqialism's and a little bit of slang

But I scowl at them and often say "try again"

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By *oe_Steve_NWest OP   Couple
over a year ago

Bolton

Great input - wasn't really making a point about grammar but also think that is very important - just really couldn't understand shortening a word in that way! I am aware of the way in which language evolves but 'ep' for crying out loud!!! Z

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By *irtydanMan
over a year ago

Blackpool


"people saying "can i get" when they want something

"Can I get a coffee?"

Don't bloody know ... can you?

What happened to "coffee please?""
great picture

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

...at the end of the day....

argh!

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By *ickmealloverWoman
over a year ago

a very plush appartment off junt 7 M5


"Great input - wasn't really making a point about grammar but also think that is very important - just really couldn't understand shortening a word in that way! I am aware of the way in which language evolves but 'ep' for crying out loud!!! Z"

it is simply lazy

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