Should we just give in ?

If my daughter says "Sa-dur-day" or "Charidee" once more, she'll be for the high jump.

Added to the innapropriate misuse of the word 'like' during every sentence, listening to a school story is painful.

On another note, pillocks who use say "basically" or "technically" when there is no requirement for it. Berks.
 
louise_a said:
In fairness if people get a decent education, they will spell and speak correctly.
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It ain't necessarily so. ;)

Unfortunately there are many able and well educated people who have great difficulty with spelling. Fortunately for some of them, they are able to progress quickly enough to have a secretary to get it right for them.

I hope you are not implying (notice I don't misuse "inferring") that dodgy spelling is a sign of an indecent education? :)

Perhaps we should have a new forum called Pedants' Playground?
 
So who started calling a golf course a "track" and why are golf clubs referred to as "bats"? Now that does my brains in y'all
 
There are a couple of presenters on Talksport, Micky Quinn being the main offender, who regularly say 'them' players instead of 'those' players - numpties.
 
arnieboy said:
There are a couple of presenters on Talksport, Micky Quinn being the main offender, who regularly say 'them' players instead of 'those' players - numpties.
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I don't know where he comes from so it may not apply , but we shouldn't really condemn someone if he is using the established grammar of a regional dialect. "Them" with a plural is, if I remember correctly a feature of West Country dialect (correct me someone if I misremember); "that" with a plural is a feature of the dialect in the NE of Scotland.
 
Colin L said:
I don't know where he comes from so it may not apply , but we shouldn't really condemn someone if he is using the established grammar of a regional dialect. "Them" with a plural is, if I remember correctly a feature of West Country dialect (correct me someone if I misremember); "that" with a plural is a feature of the dialect in the NE of Scotland.
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I'm not talking about spelling mistakes or regional dialects, I'm asking the question should we give in and all speak American.
 
In the 1980's I attended a lecture given by Lord Puttenham.
The theme of the forum was about thinking into the future.
Best lecture I have ever heard and at the conclusion he pointed out the three major changes he thought would happen to the world.

1] Clean up technology would see a huge increase.
2] Global warming would be taken seriously
3] The world will speak either UK English or USA English depending where they bought their computer.

This was about 1986 so not far out then.
 
RESIST!! Sloppy language = sloppy thinking. Besides - we might otherwise accept that it is OK to hold fork in right hand and knife in left - or use fork as a shovel! RESIST the *******isation of the English language by Americanisms (the clue for where these are acceptable is in the word itself) and by those too lazy or ignorant to simply 'get it right'.

Post posting note - funny how blunt an instrument a spell checker is - rather makes the point as the spell checker clearly doesn't know the meaning of the word b**tardisation and is unable to differentiate it from a swear word - which as any fule know it is not.
 
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