English Language

[gl556tr]

The standards of both general English literacy and English grammar are often poor, at times atrocious.

[Tuvok]

Whether the weather!

[Arksided]

I agree with Mikey, It's good to have a solid base and common understanding of basic Grammar before you can play around with it, however understanding what a poster on this site means rather nit picking spelling etc... is more important. If its incomprehensible then its understandable to ask for a better question, but the Grammar Police Goad me oop to here. ‾ . The dialect thing is also fun to play with but often lost on me with foreign languages like Welsh.

[-Talbot-]

lmao
I miss Mark-Rae when threads like this are posted, he would rip half these posts to bits.

[Arksided]

means rather *than nit picking...

[Arksided]

Wasn't he the guy that played the drums... and could't even identify a bloomin' clutch from a hi-hat. (Every drummer know what one is.)I was never convinced by that fella.

[Garaman]

I know we shouldn't generalise, but those who pick on others for their poor grammar are usually intellectual bullies, and those who moan about good grammar usually do so because they aren't very good at it.

[pixie374]

Language is for communication, as long as it does that, it’s fine. It does change and evolve, but unless you're in an English exam, nitpicking is unnecessary.

[DTCwordfan]

this sums this thread up

[gingejbee]

We've had nit picking and nitpicking...now, shouldn't that be nit-picking?

[Arksided]

are you a nurse?

[DTCwordfan]

I've got a scratch, that needs satisfying, Ark (deliberate grammatical error in there).

[Arksided]

I'm itching to know what it is?

[New Judge]

"Flexible, vibrant and ever evolving."

For which read "I'm too lazy to learn the rules and cannot be arsed to apply them even if I knew them. So I'll say my sloppiness is all part of the language's 'evolution'"

[kvalidir]

So does language not evolve NJ, or is it simply more fun to pick on Mamy's opinion just for the sake of it?

[-Talbot-]

sick ^

[Togo]

Notice Ed extolling "our noble rough language" @ 12.15 and then............................utilising a harf rrsed word blocker to smooth our "rough edges"? This is a piste ache by the way. (^_*)

[Togo]

Surely that is "sic" Talbot? :))

[Arksided]

DTC on my post the 't' is pushing back the 'n' to appreciate the apostasy.
;-)

[Arksided]

Togo, I do believe the OP was genuine, but took a steady turn down that slippery slope of your ache. ;-)