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I don't know if this annoys anyone else but over the last several months I have seen a rise in the amount of people who post on forums (not just this forum but all forums) and use the word brought instead of bought, I have even heard people saying it. :bang: it drives me crazy. It makes no grammatical sense at all. Is this confined (as it appears to be) to England alone ? Am I the only person who has noticed this?

Another one that has become so widespread I have even heard tv presenters saying it is the use of 'seen' and 'done' in the wrong tense instead of 'saw' and 'did'. E.g. "I seen a guy using a film camera today" No! You 'saw' a guy using a film camera today. Aaaaarghh !! :bang: STOP IT NOW.!!!

Rant over and breathe.....aah that's better. :lol:
 
Och, life's too bleedin short to rant about grammar!
 
Gazamonk said:
I don't know if this annoys anyone else but over the last several months I have seen a rise in the amount of people who post on forums (not just this forum but all forums) and use the word brought instead of bought, I have even heard people saying it. :bang: it drives me crazy. It makes no grammatical sense at all. Is this confined (as it appears to be) to England alone ? Am I the only person who has noticed this?

Another one that has become so widespread I have even heard tv presenters saying it is the use of 'seen' and 'done' in the wrong tense instead of 'saw' and 'did'. E.g. "I seen a guy using a film camera today" No! You 'saw' a guy using a film camera today. Aaaaarghh !! :bang: STOP IT NOW.!!!

Rant over and breathe.....aah that's better. :lol:
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Shouldn't that be number of people? :shrug:
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Gazamonk said:
I don't know if this annoys anyone else but over the last several months I have seen a rise in the amount of people who post on forums (not just this forum but all forums) and use the word brought instead of bought, I have even heard people saying it. :bang: it drives me crazy. It makes no grammatical sense at all. Is this confined (as it appears to be) to England alone ? Am I the only person who has noticed this?
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You are not. Affect and effect get to me, as when transposed they render sentences meaningless. What gets to me more is the attitude of some native English speakers that are proud of their ignorance.
 
We've had the discussion about bought/brought before it's a regional thing. I have family in Colchester who say (and always have) brought, bugs me but I'm not going to change them now.
 
The mistake that makes my ears bleed is when people (usually Americans) use "real" instead of "really". ie. That hamburger was real good!

full disclosure: I'm American and have very poor grammar. But I still like to complain. Something I picked up after living in the UK for 12 years! :naughty:
 
jspash said:
The mistake that makes my ears bleed is when people (usually Americans) use "real" instead of "really". ie. That hamburger was real good!

full disclosure: I'm American and have very poor grammar. But I still like to complain. Something I picked up after living in the UK for 12 years! :naughty:
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So, after 12 years in the UK, have you discovered the joys of the letter "u"? (Only kidding) :lol:
 
neil_g said:
and once upon a time we all spoke "Ye Olde" english, language evolves (for better and worse)
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A Great example of this is to compare Cornish and Welsh. Because Cornish died out and is now under a miniature revival, despite a huge number of words being near as damn it identical, modern Cornish grammar would never be tolerated in modern day Welsh (because Welsh never died and evolved a bit in the meantime). I find it cringeworthy to hear Cornish as it goes against everything I was taught in school grammar wise!
 
Don't get me started, what bug me most is all the Americanisms like pants for trousers, truck for boot, hood for bonnet, fenders for wings (as you can tell, i frequent car forums too :D), but the one that really gets me (from a certain section of the population) is to turn the work ask into axe (or aks, no idea how it's actually spelt), how the hell did that happen :thinking:
 
rpsmith79 said:
but the one that really gets me (from a certain section of the population) is to turn the work ask into axe (or aks, no idea how it's actually spelt), how the hell did that happen :thinking:
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I first noticed this in 2005/6 when a young lady (from a certain section of the population) appeared on a reality tv show. I wasn't a viewer myself, but I was working in London at the time and my colleagues were always talking about it. Suddenly, overnight, one of them started to say aks, proclaiming that people from a certain section of the population have always had a problem with pronouncing ask properly. Absolute tosh we all said and to be honest, I have only heard a small number of people say it since!
 
rpsmith79 said:
Don't get me started, what bug me most is all the Americanisms like pants for trousers, truck for boot, hood for bonnet, fenders for wings (as you can tell, i frequent car forums too :D), but the one that really gets me (from a certain section of the population) is to turn the work ask into axe (or aks, no idea how it's actually spelt), how the hell did that happen :thinking:
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So grammar bugs you yet you can't be bothered to proof read your own post? :thinking:
 
"You and I"/"You and me" :gag: and the way more and more people are using text-speak!
 
I care to a degree, and I try to use correct grammar. It's fair to say that things 'I' think are basic may grate, but then I have situations where I can't work out what apostrophe goes where and I tend to revert to 'if someone can understand the post it's probably good enough'. There are also some words I will continually spell incorrectly, no matter how many times I look up the right spelling.

Also sometimes there's a battle between good grammar and good manners. It is frankly rude to pick someone up on their spelling/grammar on a forum.
 
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There's a member of another forum I'm on who either uses no punctuation at all in very, very long sentences or finishes every sentence with a question mark or two?? and throws in some smilies for good measure? :) :)
 
Lose and bloody 'loose' is the one I hate. :bang:

As a footnote, why has a thread about grammar got adverts for 'Once upon a time in America' coming up at the bottom?!
 
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gramps said:
"You and I"/"You and me" :gag: and the way more and more people are using text-speak!
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LOL its *** when u get used 2 it :D

Edit - why the hell did the swear filter pick up on g r 8 in the form of text speak :thinking:
 
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viv1969 said:
Can you reach the "Shift" key?

Just kidding :)
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Actually, it's the Alt Gr key at the same time as the E. (Not kidding!)

gm43uk, there are some of them on this forum as well. Some of them even feel that the space (and upper case letter) following a full stop are an optional extra as well!

I know some of my spelling is a little suspect and that I make loads of typos - the spelling I can check by either using Word or similar then C&Ping the text into a post once the spell checker's done its stuff or by using a dictionary (which is currently behind this computer desk after being killed to death by the cat!). Typos I tend to pick up as I go - I look at the keys as I type so am usually unaware of what I've typed but have plenty of sensation in my fingers so can tell when I've hit more than one key. My most common (or should that be frequent?) keying error is to catch the Caps Lock button when aiming for the left Shift key or the A - so frequent (or should that be common?) that I've physically removed the Caps Lock button from this keyboard and have it taped above the Scroll Lock key.
 
stupar said:
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LOL its *** when u get used 2 it :D

Edit - why the hell did the swear filter pick up on g r 8 in the form of text speak :thinking:
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Because text speak is such poor form!
 
To me the content of a conversation or a reply in a thread is more important than a missing full stop or a misspelled word.
 
Certain things get to me too. "should of" rather than "should have" is a pet hate of mine...innit :D
 
truebutsometimesitshardtogetame aningfrombadlyspaced or punctuated(nottomentionmispleld)posts. That's an extreme example I know but there have been distressingly close real ones. Text speak has its place - on mobile 'phone SMSes where the message's length in characters is limited. In real life, proper spelling and grammar is appreciated.
 
I don't mind the odd mistake but when, like the character I mentioned earlier, the post becomes unreadable it becomes very annoying. Especially as this character insists on answering just about every post with his epic, incomprehensible replies.
 
pepi1967 said:
To me the content of a conversation or a reply in a thread is more important than a missing full stop or a misspelled word.
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Absolutely :clap:
 
Nod said:
truebutsometimesitshardtogetame aningfrombadlyspaced or punctuated(nottomentionmispleld)posts. That's an extreme example I know but there have been distressingly close real ones. Text speak has its place - on mobile 'phone SMSes where the message's length in characters is limited. In real life, proper spelling and grammar is appreciated.
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And I bet that drove you nuts just having to type that :lol:
 
No, I have a spare steering wheel in the garage which (when placed in the correct position) drives me nuts! (Now try getting THAT image out of your mind!!!)
 
Nod said:
No, I have a spare steering wheel in the garage which (when placed in the correct position) drives me nuts! (Now try getting THAT image out of your mind!!!)
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:gag: :lol:
 
The one that gets me is the use of an apostrophe when making a plural. It's "nice photos" not "nice photo's"!
 
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