joe average
Member Extraordinaire
Quite unique, what’s that all about, it’s either unique or it isnt
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starting every sentance with "so"
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Cannon Fodder
Super member
Starting sentences with "at the end of the day", and continuing with an opinion rather than a fact irks me no end. You're denying the person you are talking to an opinion of their own.
Andy from Sandy
Super member
Murray Walker, "The lead car is absolutely unique, except for the one behind it which is identical."
Cannon Fodder
Super member
I, prefer, the, Shatner, comma.The Oxford comma! I’ve been awake for an hour and already I’m having to deal with an Oxford comma.There’s enough material here for a thread all of its own, are you for the Oxford comma, against them or couldn’t give a to$$?
I’ve proof read the above to death, please don’t there be any mistakes.
Inca
Member Extraordinaire
@joe average, quite unique is as bad as really unique.
Lee71
Member Extraordinaire
I know someone exactly like that, doesn't realise what he's saying.I swear more than normal but an exworkmate was the extreme. He'd swear constantly, often without realising.
One day, he had to go to the offices and was chatting to people he knew. A female secretary said "please mind your language". His response was "what's the matter, I haven't said f*** all"
andrewc2855
Proactive member
With politicians, its either -so' or more commonly 'well listen...". If a politician starts a sentence with that, it's always because they know they can't properly explain something away
andrewc2855
Proactive member
Generally, if I'm asking you a question it's because I want to know the answer , so you don't need to tell me to listen !!!
Muddy
Super member
Couldn't agree more. AGF is like being in a pub or some other social setting where formal speech counts for zilch. I don't give a toss how people communicate in text form - it's what they're saying that matters. My grammar and spelling on here is erratic, partly due to large thumbs and predictive text doesn't help. Also, I don't always feel the need to check what I've tapped out. If someone wants to criticise use of language rather than what a member is trying to convey, well, feck 'em - life's too short
yep, thats ow we talks round 'ere...
Andy from Sandy
Super member
What might help with some posts is if they are carried out like a pub conversation is when taking a breath enter a new line to add a bit of white space.
chris l
Member Extraordinaire
I was in the pub, The Rusty Axe, and heard two old boys talking
"Aaarr?"
"Bugger aarr!"
I understood exactly what they meant...
(Local boy come home...)
shaun65
Keen member
Similar to starting every sentence with the word "like". Drives me mad.
crissdee
Super member
I have a book by Bruce "Withnail and I" Robinson about Jack the Ripper. Huge thing, 850 pages. I swear if he took out all the unnecessary profanity (i.e. all of it), it would be about 600 pages. I don't really care for profanity in any written work, unless it is specifically quoting what someone else said, and even then it can be censored. To fill a non-fiction work with it is inexcusable. Having said that, as I get grumpier in my old age, my own postings can get a little more "fruity" than I would care to share with a maiden aunt...
Lee71
Member Extraordinaire
Exactly we're not here to pass English exams.Couldn't agree more. AGF is like being in a pub or some other social setting where formal speech counts for zilch. I don't give a toss how people communicate in text form - it's what they're saying that matters. My grammar and spelling on here is erratic, partly due to large thumbs and predictive text doesn't help. Also, I don't always feel the need to check what I've tapped out. If someone wants to criticise use of language rather than what a member is trying to convey, well, feck 'em - life's too short
Andy from Sandy
Super member
If you are of working age and are looking for work then practicing good writing may just be key to getting an interview.
Badly written, with a spelling mistake or two will probably see your letter go straight in the bin.
Badly written, with a spelling mistake or two will probably see your letter go straight in the bin.
Andy from Sandy
Super member
Or turning every sentence into a question by finishing it with "yes".Similar to starting every sentence with the word "like". Drives me mad.
My dad was an entertainer (singer / guitarist / etc) for many years, from around age 12 in 1959 until around 2005. In the 80's I used to go with him to some of his gigs and my grandad used to go with him even more often. If in any of the clubs / pubs men swore in front of women my grandad would give them a rollicking for it regardless of how big/drunk/menacing or how many of them there were hehe. He never swore himself except words like 'bloody'. He wasn't a big bloke, said he'd been 11stone all his life except when he was a POW with the Japanese, but he never thought twice before telling people exactly what he thought, he did have an extremely bad temper and he never admitted to being in any pain except for the time Japs offerred him the choice of leaving a bullet in his leg in which case he'd die of gangrene or removing it (after digging around with a knife to find it first) without anaesthetic. He obviously chose the latter and told us the Japs said 'he very brave man'. They took a bit of a liking to him for this supposed bravety (but still hit him in the mouth with a rifle butt every time we sunk one of their ships, just like they did all the other POW's), he used the bit of extra priviledge they gave him to pinch rice and other foods to give his mates when they gave him the relatively easy task of cooking since he couldn't walk. I once saw him doing some woodwork and hit his thumb very hard with a big hammer, it flattended the end of his thumb and blood squirted out all over, he just grimaced a bit but carried on what he was doing. When my dad got with my mum all 4 of my grandparents became friends and sometimes holidayed together, on one such holiday in Blackpool the other 3 granparents retired to the guest-house but grandad stayed out drinking by himself, returned to the guest house late to find the door locked, he simply kicked the door in. When I was a kid he and my grandma ran a fish and chip shop, I was in the adjoining living room and tried to turn a standard lamp on using the switch under the lamp shade, it didn't come on, I turned the power on at the mains plug, it still didn't come on, I went for the switch under the lamp shade again, there was no bulb fitted but I had turned the power on and I put my finger in the bulb socket. The 240v shock made me jump off the sofa across the room where I banged my head on the corner of the gas fire. Grandad was walking through the living room carrying a bucket of freshly cut chips as this happened and thought it was very funny. My mum didn't often speak out but on this occassion called him 'bloody cold minded'. He was one of 4 brothers, all good boxers, one a really good boxer who represented the army at boxing and bet the then Irish champion boxer in a 'friendly' match. One brother was killed in a mining accident, my great grandad was the top union boss and had regular union meetings in the house, my grandad refused to join the union because he was so peeved at all the meetings in the house but did work down the mine until he joined the navy in 1937, he was on several ships that got sunk including Prince Of Wales. Another brother got KIA, the champion boxer brother got a leg blown off and was mostly blinded mostly deafened by a shell when he was a messenger in the army. One day I was at the fish shop when grandad was told this brother had hanged himself. Grandad went to his house, a policeman on the doorstep told him he couldn't go in, grandad told him not to be stupid, he'd seen more death than the policeman would ever see, he was annoyed that they'd so far left him hanging and pushed him out of the way then went inside and cut his brother down and laid him out... then returned to the fish and chip shop and carried on work until the frying session had ended. There was a bus stop outside the fish and chip shop, one day an old lady got run over by a bus that shouldn't have been reversing, the bus went over her body and head. Before the days of CSI etc grandad went out with his yard brush and helped sweep some of the blood guts and brains down the grate without batting an eyelid. But he never swore and I think it was partly all this that left me with the impression that there's not much point to it (swearing), just extra unneccessary words, I grew up never really thinking it was cool to swear or made anyone look any tougher because it was possible to be very tough but never swear and understatement is often more effective especially if you're known for it.
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Berber
Member Extraordinaire
In Norwegian, the equivalent of “Can I get?” Is considerered to be very rude manners. Their polite, “Jeg wil jerner har,” (I yearn to have) is much nicer.Send people back to school…..dom
I liked the thread where he was caught out .
As you are head of the spell check police always correcting peoples grammar and spelling could you please explain to me what "memebers" is please
Thank you in anticipation
