Grammar Discussions

[whatmeworry]

Paranoid spell checking.

 

[JohnK]

I had a quick flick through and it seemed to be complex grammar.

English grammar is extremely complex.

I don't know what I was doing at school but it's quite obvious I was not paying any attention.

 

[anat0l]

I"caution, isle parking zone". Excuse me while I just park my island over here....

Aisle make no further comment....

 

[whatmeworry]

Some people are attempting to bring English back to its Germanic roots with a language called Anglish.

[video=youtube;IIo-17SIkws]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIo-17SIkws[/video]

 

[TheEmu]

Some people are attempting bring English back to its Germanic roots with a language called Anglish.

[video=youtube;IIo-17SIkws]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIo-17SIkws[/video]

That would cause some anguish.

 

[anat0l]

Some people are attempting to bring English back to its Germanic roots with a language called Anglish.

...

Geez... so instead of "hospital", would we say "sickhouse" instead (taking a German approximation from krankenhaus).

Thank goodness they didn't suggest reviving grammatical gender, cases, or V2 word order.

I'd sooner see Esperanto become a global language before Anglish takes off.

 

[Warks]

From today's NoNews website:

EARTH will be decimated in a nightmarish inferno as the sun balloons to 100 times its normal size, scientists predict.

When I read this out and exclaimed it was lucky that only 10% of the Earth would be destroyed my son piped up with "let's hope it's America".

 

[anat0l]

Confusion abounds: Scrap versus scrape. The forms are:

• Gerund form: scrapping; scraping
• Past tense: scrapped; scraped

Sample sentences:

• The airline has decided to scrap the service between Brisbane and Tahiti.
• I wish they would scrape the chilli jam off my burger.

 

[TheRealTMA]

Confusion abounds: Scrap versus scrape. The forms are:

• Gerund form: scrapping; scraping
• Past tense: scrapped; scraped

Sample sentences:

• The airline has decided to scrap the service between Brisbane and Tahiti.
• I wish they would scrape the chilli jam off my burger.

No? Where's the confusion. Completely different meaning.

 

[anat0l]

No? Where's the confusion. Completely different meaning.

Sorry, should have explained the context better.

It's a small PSA / rant after I found several examples online where the two words were used incorrectly, particularly in non-infinitive forms, e.g. "scraped a service", "chilli jam scrapped off" (the latter one might make sense with some rather esoteric interpretation).

 

[coriander]

Not sure if it's Qantas' error or David Flynn's error in the AusBT article on the PER-LHR using 787-9s:

Quote "For its part, Qantas has made an "in-principal agreement".

Surely it's "in-principle".

 

[TheRealTMA]

Sorry, should have explained the context better.

It's a small PSA / rant after I found several examples online where the two words were used incorrectly, particularly in non-infinitive forms, e.g. "scraped a service", "chilli jam scrapped off" (the latter one might make sense with some rather esoteric interpretation).

Yes. Is that more just a comment on the poor spellink ability of the user? (Or on the use of auto-correct dictionaries!)

 

[anat0l]

Yes. Is that more just a comment on the poor spellink ability of the user? (Or on the use of auto-correct dictionaries!)

The former.

I've often held that it is the responsibility of the user to check spelling or grammar; blaming the autocorrect system is a low cop out. Plus, most autocorrect systems wouldn't necessarily pick up the error anyway, because the "misspellings" are valid words themselves.

 

[JohnM]

Not sure if it's Qantas' error or David Flynn's error in the AusBT article on the PER-LHR using 787-9s:

Quote "For its part, Qantas has made an "in-principal agreement".

Surely it's "in-principle".

It was QF's in their press release (work experience kids yet again ) - and already noted in the thread on the new PER-LHR service announcement.

 

[coriander]

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[anat0l]

Aside from the honest tragedy of the event, the ABC ran the following Breaking News text on the runner:

"Twelve people dead after truck drove into Christmas markets" (or similar)

My dad thought the ABC must have a bunch of grammar muppets at work because he said it should read, "...after a truck was driven into..." That is, trucks don't drive themselves, they have to be driven. He makes a similar argument when a line like, "Two in hospital after a car and lamp post collided," again claiming this is BS as it is the car which has collided with the lamp post, and not the latter which has contributed to the two objects colliding.

What do you think?

 

[TheRealTMA]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/dec/19/unpresidented-trump-word-definition

 

[TheRealTMA]

Aside from the honest tragedy of the event, the ABC ran the following Breaking News text on the runner:

"Twelve people dead after truck drove into Christmas markets" (or similar)

My dad thought the ABC must have a bunch of grammar muppets at work because he said it should read, "...after a truck was driven into..." That is, trucks don't drive themselves, they have to be driven. He makes a similar argument when a line like, "Two in hospital after a car and lamp post collided," again claiming this is BS as it is the car which has collided with the lamp post, and not the latter which has contributed to the two objects colliding.

What do you think?

Yes inanimate objects can't 'do' things by themselves but unfortunately very common usage in the media. What happens when we have self-driving vehicles?

 

[ozmille]

having a disagreement with the marketing team here and thought let me ask the Grammar Buffs

xx_, world's ahead

where xx_ is the product name, I don't agree with the ' in "world's" but English is only my third language so I could be mistaken

 

[TheRealTMA]

having a disagreement with the marketing team here and thought let me ask the Grammar Buffs

xx_, world's ahead

where xx_ is the product name, I don't agree with the ' in "world's" but English is only my third language so I could be mistaken

LOL. Which 'world' is doing this action or ownership or owns a grocer shop? Better alert NASA!