Grammar Discussions

[mrs.dr.ron]

It depends which way you slice HALF, straight down the middle, or from top to toe, I would like to see a comparison table, so I could decide

 

[Buzzard]

This guy seems to do a lot of repair's

 

[themaiz]

Apostrophe or not, I'm having a time with the plural of "clutch"!

 

[rginoz]

A shop sign in rural Ireland. Gateaux with some added extras. To be sure.

 

[Major]

Take your pick !!!

 

[Ekka]

I hope they have no "guys" or even "guy's"in Ireland these days; I did not detect any in 1973, 1992, 2001, 2014 or 2015.

 

[VPS]

'Grammer' School: Lancashire council's sign error amuses pupils

Lancashire County Council apologises for the "schoolboy error" near Lancaster Royal Grammar School.

www.bbc.com

 

[VPS]

A snake on holiday

 

[TheRealTMA]

 

[wombatpatties]

The totally off-topic thread



Should of or should have? I'm confused on that one.

I should have.

 

[Flashback]

I should have.

What should you of done?

 

[RooFlyer]

From today's Hobart Mercury Mockery on-line:

 

[TheRealTMA]

A friend asked me the difference between “meme” and “trope”. I had to look it up!

The Grammarphobia Blog: Memes, tropes, and notions

Is there a distinction between a meme, a trope, and a notion?

www.grammarphobia.com

 

[RooFlyer]

A friend asked me the difference between “meme” and “trope”. I had to look it up!

You and they haven't spent much time around a Uni Humanities Dept lately! Add 'canon' and you can make pleasant conversation in any tea room.

There is a seminar series on 'Life Writing' (it used to be called biography) at UTAS coming up. The blub for one talk says, in part:

Life writing has traditionally centred upon the fortunes and furies of human lives, from the extraordinary to the
quotidian. Yet in focussing so firmly upon the human, it can forget about the lives that support us: air, water,
fungi, soil, plants, fish, animals and bacteria. Ecobiography is a form of life writing that, by representing the
imbrication of human selves within an ecosystem, decentres the human and encourages an awareness of
nonhuman lives.

So, keep an eye out for the biography of that dandelion in your back yard and/or that paramecium in your gut. Fair dinkum, they are perfectly serious.

 

[TheRealTMA]

You and they haven't spent much time around a Uni Humanities Dept lately! Add 'canon' and you can make pleasant conversation in any tea room.

There is a seminar series on 'Life Writing' (it used to be called biography) at UTAS coming up. The blub for one talk says, in part:

Life writing has traditionally centred upon the fortunes and furies of human lives, from the extraordinary to the
quotidian. Yet in focussing so firmly upon the human, it can forget about the lives that support us: air, water,
fungi, soil, plants, fish, animals and bacteria. Ecobiography is a form of life writing that, by representing the
imbrication of human selves within an ecosystem, decentres the human and encourages an awareness of
nonhuman lives.

So, keep an eye out for the biography of that dandelion in your back yard and/or that paramecium in your gut. Fair dinkum, they are perfectly serious.

So “life writing” is a trope or “tripe”?

 

[RooFlyer]

So “life writing” is a trope or “tripe”?

Done their way, its tripe. As to the one I'm writing, time will tell!!

 

[TheRealTMA]

Done their way, its tripe. As to the one I'm writing, time will tell!!

YMSTBICNPC!

 

[Ekka]

Having been taken to task (incorrectly) by Serfty, some years ago, for preferring correct English to the alternative, I hereby resign, noting that someone should have had to correct "should of" to should have.
Good grief.

 

[Captain Halliday]

I’ve posted this in the humour thread too, but it feels appropriate here.

Apologies to those who think I should have posted it in less threads.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1542650344182009856

 

[VPS]

Well obviously it was filmed before he died otherwise it would be difficult to do an interview