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What 'Sky Blues Talk' has taught me throughout this sorry affair: (1 Viewer)

  • Thread starter Malfie Henpox
  • Start date Sep 16, 2013
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Malfie Henpox

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  • Sep 16, 2013
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I still don't fully grasp who is right or wrong with regards the club.

All I've really learned is how few of you know the difference between 'of' and 'have'.
 

Covstu

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  • Sep 16, 2013
  • #2
hmmm okay, thanks for that constructive post....
 

duffer

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  • Sep 16, 2013
  • #3
Malfie Henpox said:
I still don't fully grasp who is right or wrong with regards the club.

All I've really learned is how few of you know the difference between 'of' and 'have'.
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Yeah... some of them struggle with 'learned' or 'learnt' too.
 
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thaiskyblue

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  • Sep 16, 2013
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Malfie Henpox said:
I still don't fully grasp who is right or wrong with regards the club.

All I've really learned is how few of you know the difference between 'of' and 'have'.
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Enlighten me please ?
 

jimmyhillsfanclub

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  • Sep 16, 2013
  • #5
duffer said:
Yeah... some of them struggle with 'learned' or 'learnt' too.
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Ha Ha....Indeed...bloody americanisation (or is that americaniZation) of the English language.
 
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Malfie Henpox

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  • Sep 16, 2013
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duffer said:
Yeah... some of them struggle with 'learned' or 'learnt' too.
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Yes, it looks like they do.
 

ccfcway

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  • Sep 16, 2013
  • #7
well I for one have "learnt" far more about the internal workings of an organisational structure than I ever cared to know
 

ohitsaidwalker king power

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  • Sep 16, 2013
  • #8
Malfie Henpox said:
I still don't fully grasp who is right or wrong with regards the club.

All I've really learned is how few of you know the difference between 'of' and 'have'.
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I would of hoped against the backdrop of issues surrounding the club... that correct queens English were the last have our troubles?
Still we all live and learnt?
 

Skyblueweeman

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  • Sep 16, 2013
  • #9
A thread related to English grammar...in the wrong place?!
 
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Malfie Henpox

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  • Sep 16, 2013
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jimmyhillsfanclub said:
Ha Ha....Indeed...bloody americanisation (or is that americaniZation) of the English language.
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It's nothing to do with America and, quite frankly, you're only making yourselves look worse by thinking I used 'learned' incorrectly. Feel free to Google "Perfect tense".
 

SIR ERNIE

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  • Sep 16, 2013
  • #11
are you a traffic warden malfie?
 

jimmyhillsfanclub

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  • Sep 16, 2013
  • #12
...but are you not talking of your learning in the past tense??


PS: I don't really give a shit.....just passing the time while eating my dinner....
 
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Malfie Henpox

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  • Sep 16, 2013
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jimmyhillsfanclub said:
...but are you not talking of your learning in the past tense??



PS: I don't really give a shit.....just passing the time while eating my dinner....
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No, I'm using it as a past participle in the perfect tense. I'm also eating my dinner. I just read one 'could of' too many and snapped.
 

SIR ERNIE

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  • Sep 16, 2013
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Malfie Henpox said:
No, I'm using it as a past participle in the perfect tense. I'm also eating my dinner. I just read one 'could of' too many and snapped.
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ah, ok, easily done. one too many of those 'could ofs' and 'should of's' on a Monday can be fatal.

you ok with starting sentences with a lower case?
 

jimmyhillsfanclub

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  • Sep 16, 2013
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I just read one 'could of' too many and snapped
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Maybe you should google "perfectly tense"
 
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dadgad

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  • Sep 16, 2013
  • #16
Being pedantic about grammar on a footy forum, really!!
 

lordsummerisle

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  • Sep 16, 2013
  • #17
"Looser" instead of "loser" happens quite regularly.
 

duffer

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  • Sep 16, 2013
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Malfie Henpox said:
It's nothing to do with America and, quite frankly, you're only making yourselves look worse by thinking I used 'learned' incorrectly. Feel free to Google "Perfect tense".
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I must confess that I did have to Google it to remember, because I haven't studied grammar for thirty years or so. I'd say the OP is actually quite right to use learned instead of learnt, but it certainly got a rise which is why I did it, sorry.

Personally, I've learnt(ed) not to worry too much about the grammatical quality of posts on message boards - it doesn't tend to get you very far.
 

Longford

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  • Sep 16, 2013
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dadgad said:
Being pedantic about grammar on a footy forum, really!!
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Indeed. Grammar is the tip of the iceberg. If you ever met any of us and could actually hear some of the pronunciation you would burst a vessel...
 

duffer

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  • Sep 16, 2013
  • #20
Still trying to work out if 'really learned' is a split infinitive too. Gosh, this is so much better than talking about footy.
 
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kingharvest

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  • Sep 16, 2013
  • #21
I find it interesting that two posters on this thread are eating their 'dinner' in the middle of the day. Lunch surely?
 
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John_Silletts_Nose

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  • Sep 16, 2013
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If you think the posters on this forum display poor grammar and sentence construction then you should try reading a match report written by Kevin Monks, his use of English sets a low point.
 
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ccfcmustang

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  • Sep 16, 2013
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If we were all brilliant at grammar, the english language and sentence construction by heck we would not be living in Coventry
 

jimmyhillsfanclub

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  • Sep 16, 2013
  • #24
kingharvest said:
I find it interesting that two posters on this thread are eating their 'dinner' in the middle of the day. Lunch surely?
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You didn't have Lunch ladies at school did you? They were dinner ladies right?

The only time I have lunch is on a sunday.....and sunday lunch is a full roast with all the trimmings...
 

Paxman II

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  • Sep 16, 2013
  • #25
Ok we all make grammatical errors as our brains typically run ahead of our typing fingers and we end up with typos all too often.
- Perfectly understandable.
It's the use of TO instead of TOO, OF instead of OFF and such like that is most annoying tbf.
I don't claim to be the best as I lived and presented in French for 15 years and then America for 10 years so I tend to mess up regularly but schooling has changed I noticed? I correct my daughter yet she insist there is a comma after BUT?
AND is acceptable to start a sentence with? Not when I was at school! Have standards been eroded or is this the 'norm' now?
 
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thaiskyblue

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  • Sep 16, 2013
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kingharvest said:
I find it interesting that two posters on this thread are eating their 'dinner' in the middle of the day. Lunch surely?
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dinner, lunch is for southern poofters.
 

ccfcway

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  • Sep 16, 2013
  • #27
thaiskyblue said:
dinner, lunch is for southern poofters.
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agreed. I am just taking afternoon tea
 
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dadgad

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  • Sep 16, 2013
  • #28
kingharvest said:
I find it interesting that two posters on this thread are eating their 'dinner' in the middle of the day. Lunch surely?
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They are probably in Asia teaching the "queens English" to the chinks.
They're the only people who are in the least bit bothered by this sort of thing.
Of course it is important to be understood just as its critical not to dismiss somebody or an argument due to poor grammar.
Language continually evolves, Chaucer was great but his use of grammar downright abysmal.
 

ajsccfc

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  • Sep 16, 2013
  • #29
'Brought' in place of 'bought' is one that gets me. I've not noticed it here, but seeing as we're sharing.
 

Nick

Administrator
  • Sep 16, 2013
  • #30
"that will learn you" is a good one.
 

TheRoyalScam

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  • Sep 16, 2013
  • #31
John_Silletts_Nose said:
If you think the posters on this forum display poor grammar and sentence construction then you should try reading a match report written by Kevin Monks, his use of English sets a low point.
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Is it as bad as your sentence construction then?
 

Nick

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  • Sep 16, 2013
  • #32
How many people are being careful and spell / grammar checking their posts in this thread in case they get caught out?
 

Philosoraptor

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  • Sep 16, 2013
  • #33
I believe this answers our pedantic friend.

[video=youtube;Ovi7uQbtKas]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ovi7uQbtKas[/video]
 

ohitsaidwalker king power

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  • Sep 16, 2013
  • #34


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ohitsaidwalker king power

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  • Sep 16, 2013
  • #35
Paxman II said:
Ok we all make grammatical errors as our brains typically run ahead of our typing fingers and we end up with typos all too often.
- Perfectly understandable.
It's the use of TO instead of TOO, OF instead of OFF and such like that is most annoying tbf.
I don't claim to be the best as I lived and presented in French for 15 years and then America for 10 years so I tend to mess up regularly but schooling has changed I noticed? I correct my daughter yet she insist there is a comma after BUT?
AND is acceptable to start a sentence with? Not when I was at school! Have standards been eroded or is this the 'norm' now?
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Yous just aint street innit?
 
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