Wow my first ever post. I have just skimmed through all the posts in this topic and I must say that it is a welcome change to read posts about people discussing the proper use of the English language. I have had enough of slang and all those "chavs" who think they are so 'cool' hanging about outside shops and on street corners in hooded tops and Burberry caps. Do they think they look good? They look like a useless mess that are never going to add anything useful to society. I myself, at the age of sweet 16 (yay) must admit that a lot of "Blair's Britain" is in disrepair and is going downhill, and I personally, whilst still of a relatively yound age, have lost faith in politicians...and those people who hang around the streets in gangs doing bugger all.
Originally posted by ToeThey aren't just as legitimate. Standardised English clearly states the past tense and past principle of 'bring' are both 'brought.' A standard always outranks a dialect.
That would be an irritation with dialect, not grammar: "Brung" is as legitimate a word as "brought".
Another pet grieve: commas before conjunctives (when not used to seperate an inserted clause). Do we always have to write in conversational grammar?
Here is a list of more common errors:
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/errors/errors.html
However most of them are things I see on US television shows.
Originally posted by DreamlaXBrian can argue it out with "The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language" where brung is defined as:
They aren't just as legitimate. Standardised English clearly states the past tense and past principle of 'bring' are both 'brought.' A standard always outranks a dialect.
Here is a list of more common errors:
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/errors/errors.html
However most of them are things I see on US television shows.
brung VERB: A past tense and a past participle of bring.
Regardless, it is still a lexical disgruntlement, not grammatical.
Originally posted by Crowley"The Irony". God, I have never laughed so much...I got busted at school for that. Oh well...*laughs*
One of my favourite posts about spelling mistakes, check out the comment by bbarr :
http://www.redhotpawn.com/board/showthread.php?threadid=4935
Man, he really put a smile on my face that day...
Originally posted by RagnorakYes. I know.
They aren't really ironies she's wailing about.
D
Now, the big question is: Did she?
For if she didn't she's a complete dunce, yet if she did...the song is truly ironic.
And since we don't know...it's like that cat in the box thing, you know Schwarzenneger's cat or somethin'. You know, it's both alive and dead at the same time. In a sort of a relative stasis...
Actually, I really don't know where I'm going with this. In fact, I'm not even sure why it's in this bloody thread...when there's a thread on irony just a few posts below...
Originally posted by VargHehe, I was trying to write a story about alien kidnappings (don't ask) a little while ago. I started with the line: "It’s not often that you wake up to discover that you have been kidnapped by aliens. "
Another gripe, grammar checkers in MS Word. It always want's to change something that sounds fine to me to something which sounds bizarre.
Word wanted to change the italicised words to "aliens have kidnaped you"
And yes, it's Word's mistake.
