I got a telling off from an English teacher for describing something as tripe. He said there was no such word, did I mean trite? My reply that he had better tell my dad as he was eating no such thing with onions the other night for his tea got me a detention.
Imagine getting booted off a thread for asking relevant questions regarding the thread topic to posters who had passed on information because doing do was deemed tedious. Can’t wait for the puns to start.
Language changes over time and dropping of entire syllables is regular. In Modern English, ‘king’ has one syllable. In Old English, ‘cyning’ had two syllables. And if you go further back, Proto-Germanic in the 1st millennium BC probably had *kuningaz with three syllables. ‘Slang’ or shortened forms of words is not a new thing. It’s been an occurrence in languages since time immemorial.
Imagine not heeding repeated polite warnings from a moderator. Oddly, much like language, threads evolve to include puns etc. Of course one could always take their own wise advice and just scroll down the page. That is all.
We’re usually in agreement but Ben has a point that spelling ****e should not carry on it is so tedious.
I've never seen the point why people correct someone's spelling, it's a football forum not an English test. Boring as **** to read people going on about spelling mistakes.
