Modern English Usage

StarPhoenix · Post by **StarPhoenix** » 27 Mar 2008, 19:18

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?

D3PART3D · Post by **D3PART3D** » 27 Mar 2008, 19:26

Oh bless you ST!

@muffinman: He's = he is.
His - possessive.

muffinman wrote:he's muscles wouldn't be saggy if he was still training.

rustypup · Post by **rustypup** » 27 Mar 2008, 19:56

supertwit wrote:Have you heard this variation of the expression before?

never... not surprisingly, as the word "nick" cannot be substituted for "knack"....

one of my pet peeves... "alot" vs "a lot"

grr...

D3PART3D · Post by **D3PART3D** » 27 Mar 2008, 20:01

rustypup wrote: one of my pet peeves... "alot" vs "a lot"

grr...

Thanks to firefox's spellchecker I don't make that mistake anymore...

StarPhoenix · Post by **StarPhoenix** » 27 Mar 2008, 20:06

rustypup wrote:
supertwit wrote:Have you heard this variation of the expression before?
never... not surprisingly, as the word "nick" cannot be substituted for "knack"....

one of my pet peeves... "alot" vs "a lot"

grr...

Unless....What have we here? the person in question had heard the word to which I have linked and has confused the two.

I cannot think of any other explanation.

Borat · Post by **Borat** » 27 Mar 2008, 20:40

Is this US or European english?(they are different)

Post by **Anakha56** » 27 Mar 2008, 20:43

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...

Post by **OnlyOneKenobi** » 27 Mar 2008, 20:49

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!

zerubabel · Post by **zerubabel** » 27 Mar 2008, 21:00

OnlyOneKenobi 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!

Agree. And same here.

Post by **Stuart** » 27 Mar 2008, 21:03

OnlyOneKenobi 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!

QFT

SoulBlade · Post by **SoulBlade** » 27 Mar 2008, 21:21

rustypup wrote:
supertwit wrote:Have you heard this variation of the expression before?
never... not surprisingly, as the word "nick" cannot be substituted for "knack"....

one of my pet peeves... "alot" vs "a lot"

grr...

Guilty as charged...

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=761667

rustypup · Post by **rustypup** » 28 Mar 2008, 07:10

Borat wrote:Is this US or European english?

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...

if that doesn't answer the question, UK english... as spoken by toffs in wigs, and all that... dontcherknow....

OnlyOneKenobi wrote:What irritates me is when people use "sms speak" everywhere

add my vote...

jee · Post by **jee** » 28 Mar 2008, 07:25

Yip, sms language should b fired!

*g*

my pet hate - their and there....

Post by **Stuart** » 28 Mar 2008, 07:27

jee wrote:my pet hate - their and there....

And your versus you're.

AlphA · Post by **AlphA** » 28 Mar 2008, 07:32

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.

D3PART3D · Post by **D3PART3D** » 28 Mar 2008, 07:40

schase wrote:
OnlyOneKenobi 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!
QFT

LOL!

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.

Website · Post by **hamin_aus** » 28 Mar 2008, 07:43

HElo fagorts. My nmaesii JEff K adn Iam an intrenet hax0r.
I typre wrods fatser tahn the speeed of lught - soif sometiems I maek a spelign erroe who craes!

O<ly Bill Gatse caresa tahts who becaues he gerts 15 cebts evertiem oyu frowared a male whith bad speling.

jee · Post by **jee** » 28 Mar 2008, 07:45

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

D3PART3D · Post by **D3PART3D** » 28 Mar 2008, 07:48

LOL! That I can read at least, but StonedIce... Omigosh 8O

PaperCut · Post by **PaperCut** » 28 Mar 2008, 07:54

D3PART3D wrote:LOL! That I can read at least, but StonedIce... Omigosh 8O

same goes for that other guy who posts in the spam thread *whose name I cannot mention*

One of the most irritating pronunciation issues I have is when (mostly Black) people say "youare" instead of "your"

k@k !

come on!

rustypup · Post by **rustypup** » 28 Mar 2008, 08:05

jamin_za wrote:My nmaesii JEff K

jeff is a legend on the internets!...

D3PART3D wrote:What's confusing to me is its vs. it's... the same rules don't apply

how so?..

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"?

D3PART3D · Post by **D3PART3D** » 28 Mar 2008, 08:22

rustypup wrote: unless you're referring to the issue around the possessive "'s"?

Yes, that's what I meant.
*slaps forehead*

rustypup · Post by **rustypup** » 28 Mar 2008, 08:27

D3PART3D wrote:
rustypup wrote: unless you're referring to the issue around the possessive "'s"?
Yes, that's what I meant.
*slaps forehead*

unless your referring to someone or something actually called 'It', there should be no confusion...

[size=0]sheesh... spelling errors all over this post... [/size]

Synthesis · Post by **Synthesis** » 28 Mar 2008, 08:31

I say we scrap english and accept its failure and go back to Latin.

Seriously though, on topic, was the statement above correct? Was its used properly or should it have an apostrophe? the rules say it shouldn't but I'm always not sure...

D3PART3D · Post by **D3PART3D** » 28 Mar 2008, 08:38

rustypup wrote: unless your referrring to someone or something actaully called 'It', there should be no confusion...

With jamin around, we're referring to things called "it" on a daily basis!

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