Grammar Discussions

[Kerrodt]

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

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Break out the Ouija Board!

 

[VPS]

Oh Qantas

Eek, times running out

 

[Mattg]

It's been a while since Marriott seen me.

 

[Happy Trails]

News.com.au today:

 

[Julesmac]

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.

Can't imagine my dad -who would now be 103- reading that and understanding more than a word or two. Some joker gets paid to produce that rubbish

 

[Captain Halliday]

Weather alerts sound useful.

But if I win, what am I supposed to do with a Lord Mayor?

 

[mrs.dr.ron]

Weather alerts sound useful.

But if I win, what am I supposed to do with a Lord Mayor?

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The mind boggles, knowing several "Lord Mayors " from various parts of AU I would be very wary

 

[JessicaTam]

Weather alerts sound useful.

But if I win, what am I supposed to do with a Lord Mayor?

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You could get the key to the city. Or if the weather is as predicted, the quay to the city.

 

[Hvr]

But if I win, what am I supposed to do with a Lord Mayor?

You could ask for counciling.

 

[JohnK]

Resterrong!

I'm not even sure it sounds that like that?

 

[Mattg]

I wonder if this hotel serves good steak?

 

[Hvr]

I wonder if this hotel serves good steak?

Who ever wrote that deserves to be boned.

 

[NM]

I wonder if this hotel serves good steak?

Think I might order the heritage chicken, thanks.

 

[Captain Halliday]

I wonder if this hotel serves good steak?

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Sadly, errors like this are not rare.

However the subsequent puns have been well done.

 

[Buzzard]

Not everything is PERfect in PER.
This photo was taken at the airport.

 

[mrs.dr.ron]

I knew there was something not quite right in WA !!! Have they already buried the rest of the body ?

 

[Hvr]

Not everything is PERfect in PER.
This photo was taken at the airport.

Where's Richard?

 

[sagittariusdrake]

Re: The totally off-topic thread

"Should of" instead of "should have" is one of mine.

In spoken English they're effectively interchangeable.
In writing, though!
Don't these people stop, parse the correct usage & think "Am I doing this right?"

 

[Hvr]

Don't these people stop, parse the correct usage & think "Am I doing this right?"

Its not done anymore.

 

[NM]

Its not done anymore.

indeed. If there phones auto-corrupt don't fix it, than it aint gonna be fixed

* Note, the above comment may cause some distress to the grammar police.