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Modern English Usage
This thread is dedicated to nit-pickers, old fuddy-duddies and Linguistic Gestapo Members such as supertwit who wish to discuss
English Grammar and it's peculiarities, as well the derivation of words/expressions and common and or humorous errors.
Today I heard one of my colleagues remark that a certain temp. would soon
"get the nick" of something. I have always thought that the correct usage was "knack". Have you heard this variation of the expression before?
English Grammar and it's peculiarities, as well the derivation of words/expressions and common and or humorous errors.
Today I heard one of my colleagues remark that a certain temp. would soon
"get the nick" of something. I have always thought that the correct usage was "knack". Have you heard this variation of the expression before?
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never... not surprisingly, as the word "nick" cannot be substituted for "knack"....supertwit wrote:Have you heard this variation of the expression before?
one of my pet peeves... "alot" vs "a lot"
grr...
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Thanks to firefox's spellchecker I don't make that mistake anymore...rustypup wrote: one of my pet peeves... "alot" vs "a lot"
grr...
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Unless....What have we here? the person in question had heard the word to which I have linked and has confused the two.rustypup wrote:never... not surprisingly, as the word "nick" cannot be substituted for "knack"....supertwit wrote:Have you heard this variation of the expression before?
one of my pet peeves... "alot" vs "a lot"
grr...
I cannot think of any other explanation.
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by the way the twit and rusty as well as D3 are talking its British, the true English language. America has killed the once lovely language.
/and yes I know there are errors in this post...
/and yes I know there are errors in this post...
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What irritates me is when people use "sms speak" everywhere - even in the workplace... using "u" instead of "you", etc.
To be honest, even when I sms someone in English, I use the proper
English words!
To be honest, even when I sms someone in English, I use the proper
English words!
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Guilty as charged...rustypup wrote:never... not surprisingly, as the word "nick" cannot be substituted for "knack"....supertwit wrote:Have you heard this variation of the expression before?
one of my pet peeves... "alot" vs "a lot"
grr...
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the US version of english is a special ed colloquial bastardisation of the language... their addiction to 'rap' culture has done nothing to improve matters...Borat wrote:Is this US or European english?
if that doesn't answer the question, UK english... as spoken by toffs in wigs, and all that... dontcherknow....
add my vote...OnlyOneKenobi wrote:What irritates me is when people use "sms speak" everywhere
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Yip, sms language should b fired!
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my pet hate - their and there....
*g*
my pet hate - their and there....
"Integrity" and "integer" both contain a Latin root meaning "whole; complete." The root sense, then, is that people may be said to be acting with integrity when their beliefs, words, and actions have a sense of unity or wholeness.
I work in IT - people at my company talk about "productionalization" (meaning the process of taking code to the Production systems). It REALLY irritates me when people use that word.....along with "productionalize". For example, "If all goes well with testing, we will productionalize the code next week".....There are SO MANY other words one could use...."deploy" or "implement" comes to mind.
LOL!schase wrote:QFTOnlyOneKenobi wrote:What irritates me is when people use "sms speak" everywhere - even in the workplace... using "u" instead of "you", etc.
To be honest, even when I sms someone in English, I use the proper
English words!
Come now, your vs. you're is easy. You see an apostrophe you know there's a contraction of two words. What's confusing to me is its vs. it's... the same rules don't apply
Just so you all know, there is no such thing as pure English. We have standardized English, yes, but that just happens to be because this version was spoken at the right time and place rather than because it's the best form of the language. As a Linguistics student, I can tell you this. I love being semi-educated.
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jamin huns, we have a member on this forum that writes like that... i literally get a tummi ache when i read his posts..... 8O
"Integrity" and "integer" both contain a Latin root meaning "whole; complete." The root sense, then, is that people may be said to be acting with integrity when their beliefs, words, and actions have a sense of unity or wholeness.
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jeff is a legend on the internets!...jamin_za wrote:My nmaesii JEff K
how so?..D3PART3D wrote:What's confusing to me is its vs. it's... the same rules don't apply
its - possesive
"The lame duck trips over its feet"
it's - contraction
"It's cold tonight" - [it is]
"It's become colder of late" - [it has]
same rules... unless you're referring to the issue around the possessive "'s"?
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unless your referring to someone or something actually called 'It', there should be no confusion...D3PART3D wrote:Yes, that's what I meant.rustypup wrote: unless you're referring to the issue around the possessive "'s"?
*slaps forehead*
[size=0]sheesh... spelling errors all over this post... [/size]
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With jamin around, we're referring to things called "it" on a daily basis!rustypup wrote: unless your referrring to someone or something actaully called 'It', there should be no confusion...
Ceterum autem censeo Samsung Mobile esse delendam.
When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
- Elon Musk
When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
- Elon Musk