This is a personal blog mainly to do with hillwalking things but with other stuff as well.....maybe the odd rant..
Friday, 25 January 2013
I should of known better
Look, sorry guys, but this is really fckn annoying. If you're ever, I mean ever, tempted to write "I should of" or "I could of" , please stop and replace the word "of " with the word "have"
I mean FFS, what were your English teachers thinking about? Did they never mention this? What's the matter with you? Are you foreign? Good grief. Are you retarded or what?
Sorry about that. Here's a Beatles song. This might help you get it right.
I was absolutely ready to come in here and jump on you from a great height. So many times have I corrected the young ones with their lack of grammar, even though they have received a damned good and expensive education. So I was relieved to see your post - the title wound me up!
Brilliant! And what about "off of" eg "You need to get off of that chair" ? And "to be honest..." So you normally lie do you? Ithink you will have started something with this post. David ( www.fellbound.co.uk )
Janet - I should of known somebody would take the bait.... er.... what? Fellbound - I would start that kind of debate but my spelling and grammar isn't really up to it! You of to be careful with a grammar rant. Geoff - see above! Oldmortality. Ah yes, the catering Apostrophe. Egg's and Bacon. All day breakfast 9 till 11:30
As the daughter of an English teacher, my life was made a grammatical misery as a child, but now I find myself constantly correcting others, including The Little Treasures of course. My pet hate? There, they're and their.
There they're their, Louise... Alan - You came back for another go... this are getting obsessive LOL (I fckn hate LOL as well...) LOL Laura - "...allow myself to introduce... myself" was a good joke, I thought.
As a teacher, I have to say that you have no idea how many times we correct all of the above mentioned things. The words 'speaking' and 'brick wall' often come to mind..........
I can't abide when, instead of saying "you have to talk, pigdog",they say "Du musst sprechen, Schweinhund", before attacking your genitals with a blowtorch. It is soooooo irritating.
Yes, I've had to beat my children frequently over the years for this and other grammatical misdemeanours. I know they'll thank me for it one day ;)
As it is, I find myself shouting at people on Radio 4 who say less, when they mean fewer. How hard can it be FFS? You don't need a PhD in physics to understand this. One is applied to discrete objects or quanta and the other to a continuum, e.g. fewer chips and less porridge (although, to my mind, no porridge is to be desired but that's another topic)
Mexicans, Pete. Irritating buggers with all that mad laughing and "Eyy Gringo, you gonna die" stuff. And cruelty to donkeys. And spitting. Dibble/Chrissie/Tony : They should of bathed there dogs otherwise they should of less dogs." innit?
LOLOLOLOLOL ...well said that man!!! Don't you just want to slap 'em?
ReplyDeleteThank you
ReplyDeleteOne of my pet hates.
I couldn't of put it better myself...
Kitty... (cracking name by the way) I thought it wa just me...
ReplyDeleteAlan - "one have my pet hates".. oh, no, you're right. It's so complicated...
I was absolutely ready to come in here and jump on you from a great height. So many times have I corrected the young ones with their lack of grammar, even though they have received a damned good and expensive education. So I was relieved to see your post - the title wound me up!
ReplyDeleteBrilliant! And what about "off of" eg "You need to get off of that chair" ? And "to be honest..." So you normally lie do you? Ithink you will have started something with this post.
ReplyDeleteDavid ( www.fellbound.co.uk )
I agree Mike, how about brought and bought loads if people mix these two up grrr!
ReplyDeletesurely "pet hate's" ?
ReplyDeleteJanet - I should of known somebody would take the bait.... er.... what?
ReplyDeleteFellbound - I would start that kind of debate but my spelling and grammar isn't really up to it! You of to be careful with a grammar rant.
Geoff - see above!
Oldmortality. Ah yes, the catering Apostrophe. Egg's and Bacon. All day breakfast 9 till 11:30
As the daughter of an English teacher, my life was made a grammatical misery as a child, but now I find myself constantly correcting others, including The Little Treasures of course.
ReplyDeleteMy pet hate? There, they're and their.
DON'T get me started...
I was standing "outside of" the station.
ReplyDeleteGrrrrrrrrrrrr.......
Your on the right track Mike! (Even hurts to type it....)
ReplyDeleteThe latest pet hate? The use of 'myself' and 'yourself' instead of 'me' and 'you'. Grrr!
There they're their, Louise...
ReplyDeleteAlan - You came back for another go... this are getting obsessive LOL (I fckn hate LOL as well...) LOL
Laura - "...allow myself to introduce... myself" was a good joke, I thought.
Well said Mike.
ReplyDeleteLast week I was trying to persuade someone not to use "are"
when they meant "our"
as in...
we bathed "are" dog.
As a teacher, I have to say that you have no idea how many times we correct all of the above mentioned things. The words 'speaking' and 'brick wall' often come to mind..........
ReplyDeleteI can't abide when, instead of saying "you have to talk, pigdog",they say "Du musst sprechen, Schweinhund", before attacking your genitals with a blowtorch. It is soooooo irritating.
ReplyDeleteYes, I've had to beat my children frequently over the years for this and other grammatical misdemeanours. I know they'll thank me for it one day ;)
ReplyDeleteAs it is, I find myself shouting at people on Radio 4 who say less, when they mean fewer. How hard can it be FFS? You don't need a PhD in physics to understand this. One is applied to discrete objects or quanta and the other to a continuum, e.g. fewer chips and less porridge (although, to my mind, no porridge is to be desired but that's another topic)
Mexicans, Pete. Irritating buggers with all that mad laughing and "Eyy Gringo, you gonna die" stuff. And cruelty to donkeys. And spitting.
ReplyDeleteDibble/Chrissie/Tony : They should of bathed there dogs otherwise they should of less dogs." innit?
Give this man a Grammy!
ReplyDeleteIt is what they're for, isn't it?
Along with:
ReplyDeleteCan I get a coffee?
No, you can HAVE a coffee but I'll GET it for you.
and:
Should have GOTTEN the coffee myself AAAAARRRGGGHHHH!
We no need no thtinking badgeth, ahahahah. Yes that can be rather annoying. Then they expect you to tell them where the gold is. Cheeky bastards.
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