Work & Education you pick one's spelling and grammar thread

Jun 5, 2007
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Here's a little pic for you to hang onto, allrighty- bring it out whenever you feel it's necessary ;)

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Than I could use then than then - right?
 
Mar 6, 2014
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*puts up hand
Guilty!!

(Though I'm far too young to have had my knuckles strafed by the nuns for poor grammar. They'd stopped whacking most of the kids when I went to school- though my elder siblings can't say the same thing)

Btw, PiS, "Nuns" in your post should not have an apostrophe. In fact I'd question the use of apostrophes associated with that word- ever .... Nuns are not meant to own anything, are they?
 

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*puts up hand
Guilty!!

(Though I'm far too young to have had my knuckles strafed by the nuns for poor grammar. They'd stopped whacking most of the kids when I went to school- though my elder siblings can't say the same thing)

Btw, PiS, "Nuns" in your post should not have an apostrophe. In fact I'd question the use of apostrophes associated with that word- ever .... Nuns are not meant to own anything, are they?

Very observant, TC, obviously taught by Nuns.
Actually I was planning on writing Nun's big sticks.
Somehow that picture didn't gel, and I left it at Nun's.
Hence the error. :D:eek: They did own sticks in my day.
 
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Very observant, TC, obviously taught by Nuns.
Actually I was planning on writing Nun's big sticks.
Somehow that picture didn't gel, and I left it at Nun's.
Hence the error. :D:eek: They did own sticks in my day.
Lol
Yes, my sisters told stories about getting rapped on the knuckles by the nun who taught them, if they got their piano scales wrong :(
 
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FArrrrrkkkk.

This is an extract from The Age report of the HSU Union issues at the current Royal Commission from 30/08:

"Dr XXXX said she thought the $250,000 was a fair estimate of the union's costs and future expenses. Other then board members, however, say they knew nothing of the payment."

What bloody hope do we have?
 
Mar 6, 2014
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FArrrrrkkkk.

This is an extract from The Age report of the HSU Union issues at the current Royal Commission from 30/08:

"Dr XXXX said she thought the $250,000 was a fair estimate of the union's costs and future expenses. Other then board members, however, say they knew nothing of the payment."

What bloody hope do we have?
They all go to the same bloody journo school!!

here's another that I see quite often on boards (oh, and the confusion on quiet/quite, I just can't understand!):
COMPLIMENT vs COMPLEMENT

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Aug 2, 2012
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FArrrrrkkkk.

This is an extract from The Age report of the HSU Union issues at the current Royal Commission from 30/08:

"Dr XXXX said she thought the $250,000 was a fair estimate of the union's costs and future expenses. Other then board members, however, say they knew nothing of the payment."

What bloody hope do we have?

Notice everyone else has left this thread?

I'm still watching youse.

Just as a matter of interest, what is actually wrong with The Age one, apart from an (optional) missing hyphen, ie "then-Board"?
 
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I'm still watching youse.

Just as a matter of interest, what is actually wrong with The Age one, apart from an (optional) missing hyphen, ie "then-Board"?
Yes Fred, I re-read it and saw that but had already posted so too late! Well spotted. Aside - I know the person in the article well, who is being mercilessly and wrongly hammered over this by the Age.
 
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*puts up hand
Guilty!!

(Though I'm far too young to have had my knuckles strafed by the nuns for poor grammar. They'd stopped whacking most of the kids when I went to school- though my elder siblings can't say the same thing)

Btw, PiS, "Nuns" in your post should not have an apostrophe. In fact I'd question the use of apostrophes associated with that word- ever .... Nuns are not meant to own anything, are they?
Other than a fully intact hymen, no.
 
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