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Post by numpty40 on Oct 12, 2016 18:33:03 GMT
I've tried to ignore it but every day the term 'would of' 'should of' 'could of'. I know it's petty.....................  |
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Post by PotterLog on Oct 12, 2016 18:37:14 GMT
I might of paid more attention to this if you'd of posted it on the right board
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Post by Kjones9 on Oct 12, 2016 18:38:00 GMT
I wouldn't of opened this thread if I knew it was about this.
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Post by Northy on Oct 12, 2016 18:47:12 GMT
due to/owing to only trains and planes are due |
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Post by heworksardtho on Oct 12, 2016 18:48:46 GMT
I need a drink
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Post by elystokie on Oct 12, 2016 20:34:26 GMT
I'm the wrong side of almost a full bottle of Amarulah otherwise I'd be as wound up about it as the op :) |
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Post by bojanwonder on Oct 12, 2016 20:52:28 GMT
I've tried to ignore it but every day the term 'would of' 'should of' 'could of'. I know it's petty..................... Yeah and let's not even get started on the whole their/they're thing...... or to/too!  |
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Post by Gods on Oct 12, 2016 20:54:15 GMT
The increasing use of this phrase is a damning testimony to the malaise that afflicts our language.
I wonder if Admin might consider a one week ban for first time miscreants, along with a '3 strikes and your out' policy for repeat offenders?
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Post by norman conquest on Oct 12, 2016 20:54:34 GMT
When i see this i straight away think chav and move on to the next post.
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Post by cheeesfreeex on Oct 12, 2016 21:41:14 GMT
The increasing use of this phrase is a damning testimony to the malaise that afflicts our language. I wonder if Admin might consider a one week ban for first time miscreants, along with a '3 strikes and your out' policy for repeat offenders? Shouldn't that be the you are - you're? Rather than the 'out' belonging to you? your out, possessive like. Nowt more irksome than an incorrect pedant. Should have the perspicacity to impose a wan week self bar perhaps. imo  |
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Post by Gods on Oct 12, 2016 21:53:11 GMT
The increasing use of this phrase is a damning testimony to the malaise that afflicts our language. I wonder if Admin might consider a one week ban for first time miscreants, along with a '3 strikes and your out' policy for repeat offenders? Shouldn't that be the you are - you're? Rather than the 'out' belonging to you? your out, possessive like. Nowt more irksome than an incorrect pedant. Should have the perspicacity to impose a wan week self bar perhaps. imo Ha! You have me bang to rights Mr. Freex  |
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Post by chuffedstokie on Oct 12, 2016 21:55:48 GMT
Can we also include those that start their sentences; So....
Or a response to a question; So...
Just stop for a moment and don't take the lazy route.
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Post by auntiegeorge on Oct 13, 2016 3:13:02 GMT
Can we also include those that start their sentences; So.... Or a response to a question; So... Just stop for a moment and don't take the lazy route. I could not agree more passionately. I am sick of people starting their sentences with "so". It's a conjunction, for goodness sake (or a coordinating conjunction or an adverb). You cannot start a sentence with "so" under any circumstances! What is most surprising is that well-educated people seem to have picked up this habit more than others in society. The deterioration of our language, both spoken and written, continues to alarm me. It's hardly the same English I learned at school 40 years ago. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2016 3:53:11 GMT
I totally agree, the have/of, there/their, your/you're etc misuse has been driving me mad for some time. I do wonder what has happened to our language, and the way that it is taught to make people use it so badly nowadays.
I just thought that it was my intolerance over such things (my wife says I am getting worse as I get older), but I am glad to see that there are quite a few of us who feel the same.
What can be done about it ? Little or nothing I suspect as it's just another symptom of a gradual deterioration or more likely laziness of society.
Happy days.
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Post by bathstoke on Oct 13, 2016 6:33:08 GMT
Clay/Ali,, Prince/Symbol
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Post by steve66 on Oct 13, 2016 6:46:50 GMT
Can we also include those that start their sentences; So.... Or a response to a question; So... Just stop for a moment and don't take the lazy route. I could not agree more passionately. I am sick of people starting their sentences with "so". It's a conjunction, for goodness sake (or a coordinating conjunction or an adverb). You cannot start a sentence with "so" under any circumstances! What is most surprising is that well-educated people seem to have picked up this habit more than others in society. The deterioration of our language, both spoken and written, continues to alarm me. It's hardly the same English I learned at school 40 years ago. So be it 😃 |
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Post by Cast no shadow on Oct 13, 2016 7:06:00 GMT
I think the word cringey is cringey
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Post by felonious on Oct 13, 2016 7:33:31 GMT
I'm the wrong side of almost a full bottle of Amarulah otherwise I'd be as wound up about it as the op  Perhaps this is the answer to the uptight grammer loons who would of got excited about such unimportant things |
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Post by mickmillslovechild on Oct 13, 2016 8:17:34 GMT
I'm the wrong side of almost a full bottle of Amarulah otherwise I'd be as wound up about it as the op Perhaps this is the answer to the uptight grammer grammar loons who would of got excited about such unimportant things EDIT: am i about to be whooshed?  |
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Post by auntiegeorge on Oct 13, 2016 8:39:12 GMT
I could not agree more passionately. I am sick of people starting their sentences with "so". It's a conjunction, for goodness sake (or a coordinating conjunction or an adverb). You cannot start a sentence with "so" under any circumstances! What is most surprising is that well-educated people seem to have picked up this habit more than others in society. The deterioration of our language, both spoken and written, continues to alarm me. It's hardly the same English I learned at school 40 years ago. So be it 😃 I think you mean "Let it be so". |
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Post by Skankmonkey on Oct 13, 2016 8:46:33 GMT
Would of, Could of, Should of...
Hanging. It's the only way.
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Post by chuffedstokie on Oct 13, 2016 9:36:02 GMT
Perhaps this is the answer to the uptight grammer grammar loons who would of got excited about such unimportant things EDIT: am i about to be whooshed? More than likely. |
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Post by bathstoke on Oct 13, 2016 9:54:53 GMT
Would of, Could of, Should of...
Hanging. It's the only way.
Wudda, Cudda, shudda... |
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Post by Skankmonkey on Oct 13, 2016 9:59:16 GMT
Would of, Could of, Should of...
Hanging. It's the only way.
Wudda, Cudda, shudda... Shudder :-) |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2016 10:38:18 GMT
When i see this i straight away think chav and move on to the next post. You don't read many then 
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2016 10:46:04 GMT
No eye sore free of them yesterday but eye shud of just bin chillin is it.
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Post by steve66 on Oct 13, 2016 10:59:37 GMT
I think you mean "Let it be so". Nope! |
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Post by felonious on Oct 13, 2016 11:03:57 GMT
Perhaps this is the answer to the uptight grammer grammar loons who would of got excited about such unimportant things EDIT: am i about to be whooshed? Probably as I went to a grammar school |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2016 16:07:59 GMT
Waitrose makes me giggle with its grammatically correct 5 Five Items or Fewer 😀
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Post by blurtonboy on Oct 13, 2016 16:11:41 GMT
Why not pick on the teachers, that have not teached them write?
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