Some things bug me more than others, although it has to be admitted that I am now well into the "Grumpy Old Man" zone, and I find I'm getting less tolerant! Spelling and grammar are two of my pet peeves. Not so much by forum posters, before anyone gets arseholey about it (although several don't know the difference between "their" and "there" ) but by people who are being paid to put words into a visual form. How spooky - as I was typing this last sentance, I have Ice Road Truckers playing on the box - a subtitle just got displayed (due to excess noise in the truck) that read "Liabel to get our asses handed to us" Whoever was responsible for that mistake should get them handed to them, displaying their ignorance to the watching millions! But I see it everywhere in printed advertisements, government forms, magazines ... I could go on. I will! Maybe my printing background is partly to blame for noticing things, but the real truth is that education standards have dropped over the years, and if a copy writer makes a mistake, there is often no one of sufficient intelligence to notice before it is committed to print or other media! I get it that text speak is widely used among the younger members of society, but this will only compound the issue in future years, when today's texters, become tomorrow's employers! Particularly annoying are the spelling mistakes which occur when owners of racehorses complete their name application forms. It is not the duty of the relevant body to check with the applicant - did they really mean to name Wishfull Thinking with two "L"s as opposed to the correct spelling? No - it's the responsibility of the numbskull applicants to spell-check it before sending! Other notable equine errors include Sunny Ledgend (no "d") Duroble Man (surely they meant Durable - it gets pronounced that way anyway) and one that really grates - Quick Decisson. Commentators pronounce it as Decision, as surely it was intended to be named. If I was them I'd pronounce it Deck-i-son to highlight the owner's dimness! Some skirt the edge of my radar - I once thought Balder Succes was a typo, especially as people refered to it as Success, but it seems it is French, who can't spell anyway and is pronounced Soo-say. Another dubious one is Angles Hill - I have a suspicion it was meant to be Angels Hill but I'll give them the benefit of the doubt! I feel better for this - feel free to add your own pet hates! And if they include the words Reebs or Reebok they will be removed!
TV programs are also not doing any favours with terms like "would of" and "somethink". Another one that seems to cause problems is when to use its and it's. Is this going to develop into that famous "Get it off your chest" thread
"Should of" and "would of" really get my ****ing back up - as Calamity Jane would say "You ignorant ****ing ****s" I must say though, I'm losing the ability to type correctly with advancing years. I was never very good at it anyway (two fingers, three at most) but could usually knock out a sentence pretty quickly without errors. But now it seems that some wire is broken and I keep hitting the wrong keys. I'm getting my first pair of glasses today, so maybe that will help. One that I've been guilty of saying for years - "I got weighed this morning". Still don't know if it is correct grammer or not (but somehow I doubt it )
'My personal opinion' - why the need for 'personal'? 'Opinion' - what one thinks about something: belief, judgement. 'My' - tells the listener/reader that it is your opinion.
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Nice one Reebs... You give it to them my man... I always thought the joke 'Why is dysleksia, dielexseecar, delexica, dissleksia or however you spell the blooming word so hard to do...!!!' ps - its dyslexia...
I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulacity uesdnatnrd waht uoyr pboerlm is? Reekob??? Yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid! I cna slpell
*slap* I'm excluding forum use on the grounds that it is too close to home. And what goes around, comes around But while I am here ............ WTF is the reason for nearly every opinion given to an interviewer, being littered with "basically" and "like" I particularly hate the over-use of "like" and almost always in the wrong context. Especially when "like" is followed by some face pulling, or noise making - not easy to replicate on a forum! Example if required: "I saw that Big Bucks lost recently and I was, basically, like - gobsmacked" ................ Well, were you gobsmacked? Or something like it? Amazed? Astounded? Astonished? Find the right sodding word and use it you numpty! And another thing ........... again usually in an interview situation, the reply to a question starts with "You know what?" Guess what, you moron - NO, we don't know what, that is why you are being asked the question BTW Rudi - lose is the most likely scenario!
Reebs, you will clearly be making every effort to avoid all Scousers if you have a problem with the use of the word “like”, as almost every sentence they utter ends with the word. The dumbing down of the education system to make sure that every year’s intake gets better results than the previous means that ultimately English qualifications will be the result of examinations in text speak. The fact that they have turned a blind eye to sentences ending in prepositions, misuse of apostrophes and virtually any other form of punctuation; and mixed use of ‘are’ and ‘is’ for years is only accelerating the decline. It should always be rather obvious that somebody is expressing a ‘personal’ opinion because they should identify the opinion as belonging to somebody else if it is not their own.
