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Discussion in 'Norwich City' started by canary-dave, Sep 6, 2015.

  1. canary-dave

    canary-dave Well-Known Member

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    canary-dave, Sep 6, 2015
  2. wellyblue

    wellyblue Well-Known Member

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    Nothing wrong with using the English language correctly...

    It's the split infinitives that really get me...;)
     
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    wellyblue, Sep 6, 2015
  3. canary-dave

    canary-dave Well-Known Member

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    I'd rather have a raspberry split! ;)
     
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    canary-dave, Sep 6, 2015
  4. Tony_Munky_Canary

    Tony_Munky_Canary Well-Known Member

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    Was the person who proof-read Hitler's Mein Kampf the original 'grammar nazi'?
     
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    Tony_Munky_Canary, Sep 6, 2015
  5. THURNBY YELLOW

    THURNBY YELLOW Well-Known Member

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    Double negative anyone?
     
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    THURNBY YELLOW, Sep 8, 2015
  6. canary-dave

    canary-dave Well-Known Member

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    yarco canary Well-Known Member

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    <laugh><laugh> Nice one Dave
     
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    yarco canary, Sep 9, 2015
  8. RiverEndRick

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    The BBC seems to have given up on grammar. Things like can and may or due to and owing to don't much matter, but the simple rule of countable and uncountable nouns often seems to escape presenters. It just sounds plain wrong to say 'he scored less goals' rather than 'he scored fewer goals'. There's also the one that occurs very often on here: He could of scored more goals instead of he could have scored more goals.
     
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  9. KIO

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    My favourite on here are the homonyms 'bare' and 'bear' so many seem to have 'naked' minds !

    "baring in mind" when it should be "bearing in mind" :biggrin:
     
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  10. canary-dave

    canary-dave Well-Known Member

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    I don't like kids!

    I simply cannot bear them! <whistle>
     
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  11. RiverEndRick

    RiverEndRick Well-Known Member

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    Yes, I've seen those as well, KIO. Like the 'naked' minds summary! <laugh>
     
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    RiverEndRick, Sep 9, 2015
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    No, no, no.
     
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  13. RiverEndRick

    RiverEndRick Well-Known Member

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    That's a triple, Goldeneadie - doesn't count! <laugh>
     
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    RiverEndRick, Sep 10, 2015
  14. THURNBY YELLOW

    THURNBY YELLOW Well-Known Member

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    So a double negative is the same as a positiv, but two positives do not make a negative?
    Yeah right!
     
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    THURNBY YELLOW, Sep 11, 2015

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