Grammar Discussions

[wombatpatties]

I wonder if this hotel serves good steak?

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I think the title "Stuff travel" is hilarious!

 

[sumthinfornuthin]

I wonder how many cleaners they store in here:

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The apostrophe makes all the difference ( or lack of )

 

[Buzzard]

A very interesting floor plan indeed.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Spotted in the wild in Tunisia...
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Then this one on Ethiopian Airlines on the way to Madagascar.
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Phoar! Who cares about grammar with a menu like that for a 90 minute flight!!

 

[TheRealTMA]

 

[Flashback]

Phoar! Who cares about grammar with a menu like that for a 90 minute flight!!

Menu wasn't correct, it was GVA-ADD. The menu also didn't match what was actually available onboard ........ so yeah!

 

[NM]

Menu wasn't correct, it was GVA-ADD. The menu also didn't match what was actually available onboard ........ so yeah!

Is that like when the picture on the board over the counter does not match what is slapped on your tray at the fast food "restaurant"?

 

[Flashback]

Is that like when the picture on the board over the counter does not match what is slapped on your tray at the fast food "restaurant"?

I guess so

 

[TheRealTMA]

Some of these are amusing.

Such as

"* A veranda over the toy shop"
"* Full as a doctor’s wallet"
"* Drier than a pommy’s bathmat"

...

A hilarious list of Aussie slang terms is blowing up Twitter

A writer from the UK has attempted to explain Aussie slang and even Australians are learning a hilarious new phrase or two.

www.escape.com.au

 

[VPS]

Some of these are amusing.

Such as

"* A veranda over the toy shop"
"* Full as a doctor’s wallet"
"* Drier than a pommy’s bathmat"

...

A hilarious list of Aussie slang terms is blowing up Twitter

A writer from the UK has attempted to explain Aussie slang and even Australians are learning a hilarious new phrase or two.

www.escape.com.au

I have heard both of these used -I may have some bogans in my family

Could eat the crutch out of a low flying duck (hungry)
‘looks like the north end of a southbound camel'

This I've never heard

‘your mum drinks tap water in Adelaide.’” - she'd be one tough mumma - it's disgusting

 

[Buzzard]

The last few posts have been about as useful as an ashtray on a motorbike.

 

[NM]

The last few posts have been about as useful as an ashtray on a motorbike.

Or to stick with the travel/aviation theme, as useful as an ejection seat in a helicopter.

 

[TheRealTMA]

Or to stick with the travel/aviation theme, as useful as an ejection seat in a helicopter.

Like grammar, it all depends on the subjunctive and direction.

 

[Buzzard]

Use to or used to? What about youse two

A lot of people seem to get confused and perhaps I get it wrong sometimes too.
I use "used" to indicate something in the past such as I used to walk but now I ride a bike.
Why it can get confusing is because if I was to write "didn't she used to play the piano?" it is incorrect, it should be use not used.

Don't even start me on youse. It is in the Macquarie dictionary so perhaps I shouldn't get that annoyed when I hear it.
Let's face it, the English language has evolved over the years.

 

[There'sOnlyOneJimmy]

Let's face it, the English language has evolved over the years.

Yes, as an example (from Wikipedi)…

Chaucer, about 1390​

The following is the very beginning of the General Prologue from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. The text was written in a dialect associated with London and spellings associated with the then-emergent Chancery Standard.

First 18 lines of the General Prologue

Original in Middle English	Word-for-word translation into Modern English[43]
Whan that Aprill, with his shoures soote	When [that] April with his showers sweet
The droȝte of March hath perced to the roote	The drought of March has pierced to the root
And bathed every veyne in swich licour,	And bathed every vein in such liquor (sap),
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;	From which goodness is engendered the flower;
Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth	When Zephyrus even with his sweet breath
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth	Inspired has in every holt and heath
The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne	The tender crops; and the young sun
Hath in the Ram his halfe cours yronne,	Has in the Ram his half-course run,
And smale foweles maken melodye,	And small birds make melodies,
That slepen al the nyght with open ye	That sleep all night with open eyes
(So priketh hem Nature in hir corages);	(So Nature prompts them in their boldness);
Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages	Then folk long to go on pilgrimages.
And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes	And pilgrims (palmers) [for] to seek new strands
To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes;	To far-off shrines (hallows), respected in sundry lands;
And specially from every shires ende	And specially from every shire's end
Of Engelond, to Caunterbury they wende,	Of England, to Canterbury they wend,
The hooly blisful martir for to seke	The holy blissful martyr [for] to seek,
That hem hath holpen, whan that they were seeke.	That has helped them, when [that] they were sick.

 

[Captain Halliday]

I'd be happy if they made 20% fewer errors.

 

[get me outta here]

Looking at a fairly expensive site that sells clothes and cloth, for “sewers”. I emailed them to delicately say that they are referring to bathroom pipes.

 

[NM]

 

[NM]

 

[mrs.dr.ron]

If you want to keep breathing .... I would leave it !!