@Lyn đ you make a very good point ... youâll have to feel sorry for us pedants whose sensibilities are so easily upset and who fail to appreciate the important things in life ... we canât help it but we will try to do better đÂ
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Probably been said before, but beginning a sentence with "So,".
It isn't always wrong - @Lyn correctly used 'so' at the beginning of an interrogative sentence a couple of pages back. It's only when it's being used in place of 'ummm' it's annoying. "When did you begin collecting teapots?" "So it was when I was 5 and my granny gave me a porcelain train". Politicians use 'look' in the same way. "Why haven't you brought in a law banning people from starting a sentence with 'so'?" "Look, there are many people who find it irritating and it's often used incorrectly. Nevertheless there is a case for 'so' in modern discourse and we don't feel that banning it entirely would be appropriate".
Lyn is also right to say that pedantry is a handicap. Nitpicking the way people speak generally only alienates people who are speaking perfectly clearly. Many of the 'rules' are actually made up anyway - ending a sentence with a preposition, splitting infinitives, that sort of thing. There's no real problem with comprehension if you get those 'wrong', it's just convention and who cares about convention? Not me. Should of, on the other hand, is just sloppy.
It is helpful to have an outlet for this disability, for those of us who suffer the affliction. The one that was bugging me this week was the chap who had his medals "taken off him", according to the BBC. Quite apart from the injustice of the military decision, did someone really stand in front of him and rip them off his jumper? Or - I would have thought - were they really take from him?
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âI was stoodâ, âI was satâ - who put you there, I want to ask.
Pre-booking? Thatâs tautological.
âWeâll be re-doubling our efforts ...â - will you be quadrupling them, then?
Question marks at the end phrases that arenât direct questions
The list runs and runs. Seeing spelling errors and what I perceive to be grammatical errors, and seeing them more frequently, just grates with me. Rather pathetically I think of it as a mild affliction.
Raisingirl, at least those medals werenât taken off of him.
Very interestingđ The pedants would probably die if they lived here, Iâll ask she to do that, or her will do it. I don't think there was much schooling done down here, the boys were kept home at certain times of the year, it was all hands to the deck at hay making time, the girls in the kitchen. I donât like the question at the end of every sentence, most of Plymouth speak like that. But itâs what theyâve heard so they will copy.Â
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Politicians use 'look' in the same way. "Why haven't you brought in a law banning people from starting a sentence with 'so'?" "Look, there are many people who find it irritating and it's often used incorrectly. Nevertheless there is a case for 'so' in modern discourse and we don't feel that banning it entirely would be appropriate".
Lyn is also right to say that pedantry is a handicap. Nitpicking the way people speak generally only alienates people who are speaking perfectly clearly. Many of the 'rules' are actually made up anyway - ending a sentence with a preposition, splitting infinitives, that sort of thing. There's no real problem with comprehension if you get those 'wrong', it's just convention and who cares about convention? Not me. Should of, on the other hand, is just sloppy.
It is helpful to have an outlet for this disability, for those of us who suffer the affliction. The one that was bugging me this week was the chap who had his medals "taken off him", according to the BBC. Quite apart from the injustice of the military decision, did someone really stand in front of him and rip them off his jumper? Or - I would have thought - were they really take from him?
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âIt's still magic even if you know how it's done.âÂ
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Pre-booking? Thatâs tautological.
âWeâll be re-doubling our efforts ...â - will you be quadrupling them, then?
Question marks at the end phrases that arenât direct questions
The list runs and runs. Seeing spelling errors and what I perceive to be grammatical errors, and seeing them more frequently, just grates with me. Rather pathetically I think of it as a mild affliction.
Raisingirl, at least those medals werenât taken off of him.
The pedants would probably die if they lived here, Iâll ask she to do that, or her will do it.Â
I don't think there was much schooling done down here, the boys were kept home at certain times of the year, it was all hands to the deck at hay making time, the girls in the kitchen.
I donât like the question at the end of every sentence, most of Plymouth speak like that.Â
But itâs what theyâve heard so they will copy.Â
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