Using the wrong words....

octatonic

menamestom said:

Double negatives annoy me.  They are a no no in my book.

YES!

Teetonetal

CabbageCat said:

It is interesting to note, however, just how many people think that they are special because they can spell OK or know how to use an apostrophe. I suppose what's the point in knowing stuff if you can't be all superior about it, right?

it's also interesting how many people get frustrated that other people misinterpret what they say or fail to follow written instruction, the root cause of which is that their own command of language is less than stellar and they have communicated their instructions poorly. Managers, for example, that can't communicate properly always struggle to get their team to produce the required work. Correct use of language is both important and underrated.

I'm always shocked at how poor the spelling and punctuation is in emails I receive from British people at a fairly high level of corporate business.

bingefeller

I realise that I put certain words in strange places sometimes <------------- just did it in that sentence.  Can anyone see what I did?

 

fob

bingefeller said:

I realise that I put certain words in strange places sometimes <------------- just did it in that sentence.  Can anyone see what I did?

I could care less!

sev112

CabbageCat said:

 I suppose what's the point in knowing stuff if you can't be all superior about it, right?

Well strictly that ought to be a hyphen and not a comma  ...

richardhomer

menamestom said:

Double negatives annoy me.  They are a no no in my book.

Personally I don't understand what's not to like....

mike_l

Moltisanti said:

might could. As is "we might could do that"
Americans use it all the time, if it takes off over here i'm moving to Sweden.

The Swedes already do that.
And charge loads for beer.
You'd soon move back
;-)

Jimbro66

"We was nervous bout it but the boys done great"

Frankly I blame foreign football managers

Gassage

Anyone how uses myself or yourself when in fact they mean me (I) or you.

God it grinds my gears.

Lloyds called me on Fri- Hi, I believe we are meeting yourself at meeting with ourselves next week....

Literally, no bull, I advised him(self) I (myself) can't possibly bank with people who abuse reflexive pronouns and I put the phone down.

I will literally stop and correct people over it now.

lloyd

Gassage said:

Anyone how uses myself or yourself when in fact they mean me (I) or you.

God it grinds my gears.

Lloyds called me on Fri- Hi, I believe we are meeting yourself at meeting with ourselves next week....

Literally, no bull, I advised him(self) I (myself) can't possibly bank with people who abuse reflexive pronouns and I put the phone down.

I will literally stop and correct people over it now.

Sounds like a scam phone call, you know our special time is Sunday's x

Gassage

lloyd said:

Gassage said:

Anyone how uses myself or yourself when in fact they mean me (I) or you.

God it grinds my gears.

Lloyds called me on Fri- Hi, I believe we are meeting yourself at meeting with ourselves next week....

Literally, no bull, I advised him(self) I (myself) can't possibly bank with people who abuse reflexive pronouns and I put the phone down.

I will literally stop and correct people over it now.

Sounds like a scam phone call, you know our special time is Sunday's x

"Thank you for flying with ourselves..."

ARRRGHHHHHHHHH Repeal the death penalty.

Jimbro66

"What can I get you guys?"

YOU GUYS!! We're both waving goodbye to middle age and we get called You Guys. Ffs we're in the Dog and Duck, not some Texan diner. It really brings out the Victor in me

richardhomer

Gassage said:
ARRRGHHHHHHHHH Repeal the death penalty.

I presume you mean 'reenact'?

jonnyburgo

"I haven't done nothing" bugs me. A lad  I used to worked with would say "I teached him how to do it" 

shrinkwrap

Steve Cram over Bolt's 200 metre medal ceremony, as Bolt looks over the stadium realising he's not going to do another Olympics:
"Usain will be feeling a bit whimsical now.."

Handsome_Chris

jonnyburgo said:

"I haven't done nothing" bugs me. A lad  I used to worked with would say "I teached him how to do it" 

Yeah, how did that teaching job go?

Handsome_Chris

richardhomer said:

Gassage said:
ARRRGHHHHHHHHH Repeal the death penalty.

I presume you mean 'reenact'?

Haha, Mr @Gassage , foisted by your own retard.

richardhomer

Handsome_Chris said:
Haha, Mr @Gassage , foisted by your own retard.

I think you mean hoisted by his own leotard....

JezWynd

like conceptually vacant. I'm often guilty of it.

LoFi

Jimbro66 said:

"What can I get you guys?"

YOU GUYS!! We're both waving goodbye to middle age and we get called You Guys. Ffs we're in the Dog and Duck, not some Texan diner. It really brings out the Victor in me

Heh - As someone pretty-much entering middle-age (depending on one's definition), I'm now being addressed as "Sir" rather than "Mate" by bar staff. I don't like.

On the topic at hand, a friend of a friend once declared she "felt like a social piranha".