The grammar nazi thread

[RelaxMax]

Obviously incorrect grammar shits me, but there's a different aspect of speech that people regularly stuff up that is even worse, relating to the meaning of words.

An easy example is the flagrant misuse of 'everyone' when speaking in generalities, or "XYZ is really common" when its statistical significance is somewhere in the vicinity of 10%. That's not ******* common.

Language is so important. It's the foundations of civilization, yet we treat it like a play thing or weird uncle that we just have to endure each Christmas. The importance of accurate and deliberate communication can't be understated!

Liked for its subtle yet effective exclamation point constraint.

*golf clap*

 

[sherbrook]

Singular/plural confusion e.g phenomenon/phenomena, criterion/criteria

 

[Scotland]

I want to know how or why people started saying 'everythink' and 'somethink'.

G and K are not similar sounds. You don't drink Goga-Gola or have a Gagtus in your carden.

 

[RelaxMax]

I want to know how or why people started saying 'everythink' and 'somethink'.

Damn straight

Especially when everyone knows they're pronounced evreyfink and somefink

What are schools teaching these days?

 

[RedmanWasHere]

What are schools teaching these days?

From the sounds of it, absolutely nuffink.

 

[Scotland]

Tense

noun: tense; plural noun: tenses
a set of forms taken by a verb to indicate the time (and sometimes also the continuance or completeness) of the action in relation to the time of the utterance.

'I'm incline to...'
'You're not suppose to...'

FFS, nauseating.

 

[SwampCreature]

you seems tense bro

 

[I Dont Care]

 

[Elton Johns Wig]

For all intensive purposes this is a good thread.

might be time to change tact....otherwise someone will end up escape goat.

 

[kickazz]

Is the word Nazi in this context a proper noun, and thus should it have a capital N in the title?

 

[Gough]

Is the word Nazi in this context a proper noun, and thus should it have a capital N in the title?

Isn’t it technically an acronym which should be full capitalised?

 

[kickazz]

full capitalised?

Ahem. We use adverbs in this country, Gough.


(Benefit of the doubt I'll assume it's a typo)

 

[SwampCreature]

Is the word Nazi in this context a proper noun, and thus should it have a capital N in the title?

Good work not reading the very first reply in the thread before posting

Isn’t it technically an acronym which should be full capitalised?

That’s a rather POSH way to look at it

 

[SwampCreature]

That’s funny because posh is an acronym. True story. Look it up.

My point being once acronyms reach common usage to the point they’re ubiquitous it’s fine to decap

 

[SwampCreature]

Nobody writes SCUBA or PAKISTAN

 

[SwampCreature]

God is this how Silent Alarm feels all the time? It’s great!

IM SO INTELLIGENT. *rubs chest sensuously*

 

[Gough]

Anzac is another.

 

[Bomberboyokay]

Well yesterday was shit.
Had to take one of my pups back to the vet after hes stiches opened up after a complex desexing (he had a internal testie) has it had not dropped.
They bandages him up as they couldn't do a follow up on the surgery yesterday.
He was inside last night and the other one was outside,well Oscar who was outside hated it.As it was hes first night alone in hes life.
He barked abit not too much but he does have a very deep bark,I thought one of the neighbors would have knocked on the door bye now to complain.
Also yet to hear from the vet to see if Wally is ready to bring home.

https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/thre...he-twelfth-one.1161990/page-143#post-53309996

 

[rocker_oz33]

Ok what ever.

 

[Scotland]

Anzac is another.

Qantas.

Shits me when people put a U in it.

 

[Thegibbsgamble]

 

[Gough]

He was pretty much the last of the ranking Nazis to die too.