OT - English 101 - Bias versus biased

[stugots]

LOL (I did actually laugh out loud which is embarrassing when in a university common room)

How emmbbaarrassing.

ffs - "how embarrassment"

 

[Pumbi]

Just another Literally Bandwagoner here. Heard this a couple of weeks ago in the Champions League.

He literally put the ball on a platter for him

 

[Rack Watts]

grampa?

he r ded

 

[invinciBlues]

It amazes me that people still manage to misspell words on this forum when spelling mistakes are underlined for you.

Not everyone uses a browser that does that. I use chrome, so if I do get something incorrect it underlines it and all I have to do is right click once on the word and it'll have the correct spelling and other suggestions.

 

[WakeUpPies]

Not everyone uses a browser that does that. I use chrome, so if I do get something incorrect it underlines it and all I have to do is right click once on the word and it'll have the correct spelling and other suggestions.

Oh i see, how embarrassment! (Or is it embarrassing)

What is the rule on that, my English teacher says "how embarrassing" frequently, but i heard "how embarrassment" in one of my lectures last week.

 

[Invigoration]

I don't know who is trolling or being serious in this thread anymore.

@Bresh -> Heating up and it should be "They lead 5 goals to 2", although the second way is fine as well, albeit a little drawn out.

 

[giantsully]

This thread certainly all goes well for better grammar in the future.

 

[melbournemartin]

Terms such as "versing" are sloppy but they are pretty much a part of football jargon. I don't have much of an issue with "versing" and I use it myself sometimes.

Let's not even begin with affect/effect.

 

[philohk]

Oh i see, how embarrassment! (Or is it embarrassing)

What is the rule on that, my English teacher says "how embarrassing" frequently, but i heard "how embarrassment" in one of my lectures last week.

I'd guess you're pretty young then. 'How embarrassment' started with Acropolis Now, I think - 20 years or so ago.

Also, ilecture FTW indeed! About to get into it now. Though I am a part-time old fart ...

 

[Crow-mo]

Do we have "loose" vs "lose".

you do not frickin' loose a game of footy!!!!

 

[Crow-mo]

Dont know if its been said but one of the biggest spelling mistakes I have noticed on a few forums is the word LOSE.

Lose - to fail. Opposite to win
Loose - opposite to tight

its not a typo, there are people who believe that loose is correct.

they should be drowned in mysterious circumstance

 

[mad-saint-guy]

As a year 12 student I can say that public schools are largely to blame. As a primary school kid I read almost every night and developed decent spelling and grammar that way (although I have since lost the attention span to focus on anything that doesn't have pretty colours and flashing lights). At secondary school we spend no time on actually learning how to use the language but rather pretending that we have eternal wisdom and writing essays on topics such as love, death and personal development.

So rather than coming out of school with solid basic English skills most students graduate with the belief that they have intellectually mastered all facets of life while still not realising that 'alot' isn't a word.

 

[WakeUpPies]

Ah my year 12 English days.....Time wasted.

Wrote countless essays on "Whose Reality"...

I had a teacher that over analyzed everything too. "You see when Charles Foster Kane opened the window to let the light enter his room, it symbolizes freedom! Now can anyone tell me when the lights in the room suddenly switched off in the first scene?"

Turns out "he didn't pay the electricity bill" was not the answer he was looking for .

 

[Sloth]

Oh i see, how embarrassment! (Or is it embarrassing)

What is the rule on that, my English teacher says "how embarrassing" frequently, but i heard "how embarrassment" in one of my lectures last week.

"how embarrassment" is just a quote from a dodgy 90's sitcom, Acropolis Now I think

 

[WakeUpPies]

I'd guess you're pretty young then. 'How embarrassment' started with Acropolis Now, I think - 20 years or so ago.

Also, ilecture FTW indeed! About to get into it now. Though I am a part-time old fart ...

"how embarrassment" is just a quote from a dodgy 90's sitcom, Acropolis Now I think

Thanks guys, i will scissor kick my lecturer tomorrow.

 

[Rod Stroker]

Geez, didn't know we were being patrolled by the grammar police.
I just figured that by now all our shortcomings was water under the carpet. We can't all be rocket surgeons.

 

[Lance Uppercut]

"how embarrassment" is just a quote from a dodgy 90's sitcom, Acropolis Now I think

I'm ashamed to say this, but wasn't it Kylie Mole, that gum chewing school-girl ****bags character off one of those dodgy early 90's Aussie comedy skit shows like The Comedy Company or some shit?

 

[Mervyn Beasley]

I'm looking forward to Richmond versing Hawthorn on Sunday.

'Versing' does my head in.

My now 9 yr old has been using it ever since 'his' been interested in footy.
I assumed he was the only one, but then I heard his mates using it. Then I hear all of his teammates using it at the footy club. My gaster was then flabbered when I heard a young afl player use it.

Now my 6 yr old uses it!

Neither of them believe me when I tell them it's wrong.

It'll be in the freakin dictionary soon!!

 

[ClintEastwood]

Awesome thread, Pumpy. I mean, how hard is it, really?

 

[ClintEastwood]

This thread certainly all goes well for better grammar in the future.

lol

 

[tribey]

This thread certainly all goes well for better grammar in the future.

It's a fate of complete.

 

[questionable]

one of my new favourites is dominant/dominate

"cox was dominate in the ruck today"

 

[Scotland]

one of my new favourites is dominant/dominate

"cox was dominate in the ruck today"

Yeah, his really good. We'd loose more games without him their.

 

[J_Moore]

It's annoying but I can promise you it will never change because we don't learn English in Australia from a grammatical perspective. Also, people are always inventing new words and it's become quite uncool to point out people's mistakes. Languages in Europe don't suffer this problem much at all because they learn their languages much more technically and thoroughly. The fact that they do also means they aren't inventing words and usages nearly as much - thereby preserving their language much better. If we used a time machine to move a hundred years into the future, it's likely that we would all have trouble understanding English. We just screw around with it too much. It's a fashion statement to be making things up all the time.

Europe is full of different dialects. And English has been consistent for about 500 years. We can read Shakespeare with almost no trouble.

 

[CrimsonRaven]

It's funny going through this thread and finding a bunch of self-righteous people spouting off at people for grammar or spelling errors while making some themselves. Then seeing other people doing the exact same thing.

I've probably made a mistake now as well.