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Sunday May 31, 2020
The English Language
Sunday May 31, 2020
Sunday May 31, 2020
The English language, grammar, syntax, sayings… In this episode, I take a look at the mistakes people make when speaking or writing. I hope you find somthink of what might interest you, if you get my drift, know what I mean.
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Excellent.
Wednesday Jun 03, 2020
OMG! You will get a part in " One foot in the grave" Language changes all the time. However, some thinks you pointed out also annoyed me. Even I get things wrong and some of is old fashioned. I saw a job application that was written as if it was phone text. The wife is an a administrative assistant and she keeps saying " How bad is people's grammar, this is going to the head of a big company, it's atrocious" but I never ask. Sometimes hear her reading it to correct it or she will ask how it sounds now that she has changed it. Sometimes I tell her she has to put it back the way it was it she will have to change most of it to get the correct point across. She will say "But it is bad English and grammar". I have to point out that if she corrects it she will end up writing it all again. I tell her just type it and send it. One letter was so bad she sent it back to the person that directed it saying she couldn't send that out. It was so bad she was not going to post it. They took offence and a boss had to intervene and he couldn't understand what she was I about. He did after she pointed everything out, the person was sent away to do it again. But the boss had the cheek to tell her off for it, then he agreed it was terrible, but he couldn't see it for a start either!
Wednesday Jun 03, 2020
M8 is a motorway between Glasgow and Edinburgh, innit mate? LOL
Monday Jun 01, 2020
The English language isn't evolving, it's de-evolving.
Monday Jun 01, 2020
So, innit, summat... Silly words!
Monday Jun 01, 2020
The comment I hate is when people say ‘if I was you’ instead of ‘if I were you...’ there are whole songs where this is repeated throughout. For example, ‘if I was a sailor.....’
Sunday May 31, 2020
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