Grammar Discussions

[whatmeworry]

Meanwhile in Bendigo.

 

[get me outta here]

I just heard on the radio that Wendy Whitely (Brett the artist's ex-wife) has a gorilla garden near Lavender Bay SYD.

A WHAT I thought, ... oh! a guerrilla garden.

 

[SeatBackForward]

English can be weird. It can be understood through tough thorough thought though.

 

[Deleted member]

In today's nz herald : "Died in the wool....."

 

[Hvr]

In today's nz herald : "Died in the wool....."

Maybe an NZer died whilst enjoying relations with a sheep?

 

[Austff]

Maybe an NZer died whilst enjoying relations with a sheep?

Not sharing his sheep may also have contributed.

 

[Deleted member]

Shear speculaaaaaaation !

 

[TheRealTMA]

So he "doyd in the woull" did he?

 

[whatmeworry]

Xavier College private school boy gets schooled in grammar and spelling after abusing state school kids on Facebook.



Xavier College bully schooled in VCE Facebook slapdown

 

[JessicaTam]

Xavier College private school boy gets schooled in grammar and s[p]elling after [-]after[/-] abusing state school kids on Facebook.

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Xavier College bully schooled in VCE Facebook slapdown

There, fixed that for you.

 

[cove]

Seams too have a cents of entitlement if you ask me.

 

[whatmeworry]

There, fixed that for you.

Good for you *Sarcastic Slow Hand Clap...

 

[JessicaTam]

Good for you *Sarcastic Slow Hand Clap...

Hey, it is the Grammar thread!

 

[coriander]

If you're going to demonstrate your academic skills, you want them to be out there permanently on show......... letters etched or stamped in iron so that no-one goody-twoshoes can come along and alter your work.



Sadly, I made a gentle comment to the staff "shame about the sign" and was told "a few people have commented about the sign: we've had someone look at it but can't see anything wrong with it."

Sigh.

 

[Warks]

Like that sign. Similarly I've got a photo of from The Nut near Stanley in Tasmania but it goes one better (or worse) - carved in stone (think it was an errant it's). I'll have a look for it.

Saw this on NoNews just then - will probably get fixed but here it is for posterity:

HALLOWEEN never used to be a “thing” in Australia, but judging by this year’s addition, it’s finally taking off. That comes with some benefits.

Maybe they did add something to it but I doubt it.

 

[Foreigner]

Grammar tests make interesting reading:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/a...od-grammar-15-question-quiz-belong-class.html

 

[Danger]

My guess is what Qantas meant to say was "Shop at any one of the 50 stores including David Jones, Marcs and THE ICONIC and each time you shop you'll go in the draw to win AU$2,000 credit with NET-A-Porter".



Unless, of course, the winner gets $2k to spend every time they shop.

 

[Captain Halliday]

My guess is what Qantas meant to say was "Shop at any one of the 50 stores including David Jones, Marcs and THE ICONIC and each time you shop you'll go in the draw to win AU$2,000 credit with NET-A-Porter".

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Unless, of course, the winner gets $2k to spend every time they shop.

Effectively a bottomless prize. I'm surprised the legal team allowed this to slip through.

 

[Warks]

Today's corker from NoNews:

DON’T have $1 million to spend on a property? How about a more pallitable $1000? Here’s an idea that is about to turn househunting on its head.

I had to look it up to see if it was actually a word I didn't know.

 

[get me outta here]

No "pallitable" here, but a few others that get my goat ... Our 51 most commonly misused words and phrases


Our 51 most commonly misused words and phrases