Grammar Discussions

[VPS]

My new favourite on Twitter

 

[andye]

"India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has rechristened three of the country’s island territories named after colonial officials, as part of a campaign by his Hindu nationalist government to disassociate itself from two centuries of British rule"

Perhaps not the best choice of verb in the UK Daily Telegraph

 

[get me outta here]

Arising from a thread here on NYC I looked up The Queens Museum only to find my pet peeve, those who don't know what uninterested means or what disinterested means, as in, "... undeterred by the current disinterest in Tiffany lamps, (they) were struck by the beauty of the colorful glass ..." Queens Museum

An uninterested person is unconcerned or indifferent; a disinterested person is unbiased, or has no stake in the outcome. If you're on trial, you want a disinterested judge.

 

[love_the_life]

Seen at MOMI in Melbourne this week. Perhaps they can argue that ad’s is a contraction of advertisements but doesn’t cut it with me.

 

[Hvr]

At least his non de plume demonstrates self awareness.

https://www.theage.com.au/politics/...st-liberal-seats-hardest-20190115-p50rg4.html
bob bogan

54 minutes ago

Native gearing is just taxpayers welfare handouts for millionaires

A negative mark from me bob (sic).

 

[codash1099]

 

[JessicaTam]

Oh dear SBS. You can do better than that.

 

[Captain Halliday]

I love how they used smaller font for the apostrophe and the “s” as if to concede they have no idea if it should be there or not.

 

[VPS]

Yeah nup - I'll have a canape thanks

 

[Happy Trails]

Yeah nup - I'll have a canape thanks

Being charitable, I thought perhaps they might be referring to those miniature parasols they put in the coughtails.
A bit steep though at $5 per.

 

[Buzzard]

Or something to shelter you and 2 friends from the sun?

 

[codash1099]

 

[Captain Halliday]

 

[andye]

Seize, protein, buddleia and Sheila also break the rule even allowing for the 'when the sound is ee' follow-up.
Plurals of words ending in -cy do too

 

[JessicaTam]

Apparently there are more exceptions to the rule than not.

 

[Peter D]

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One of the beauties of our language is its irregularities.

Of course one of the words quoted actually complies with rule.

 

[Hvr]

I wonder if looking up the word floccinaucinihilipilification demonstrates its usefulness?

 

[JohnK]

I wonder if looking up the word floccinaucinihilipilification demonstrates its usefulness?

I'd say it's very rare that anyone would look up that word?

 

[andye]

I've mentioned this slogan before. They have corrected the one on their coach but didn't get round to this car.

 

[get me outta here]

Today's peeves:

Does the writer mean ‘disinterested’ or ‘uninterested’? "... it might seem problematic to stage a musical as utterly disinterested in the inner lives of .... as Jersey Boys".


…. hosting a subscriber event ....... where myself, Stephen Bartholomeusz, and business section editor Mathew Dunckley…" (will be in attendance).

sheesh.