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lambsy_uk · ‎26-09-2014

No I don't mean people who don't like their pets and wouldn't dream of saving them if they were drowning!

I'm talking about things that pergaps shouldn't annoy you as much as they do but you can't help it. Here's one of mine:

My pet hate is people saying "you got that question wrong" and other such phrases on this theme.

Perhaps it shouldn't do so but if fecks me off! People don't get the question wrong they get the answer wrong; they give the wrong answer!

I see and hear it all the time, on game shows on TV, on the BBC website where you'd hope their supposedly cultured people would get it right, but no, they mess up just the same! I recently read an article about people "failing to get this question right". Surely You mean "failing to answer the question correctly"!

You fail to get the right answer!; if you fail to get the question right that means you've messed up in the way you've presented the question! This is so lazy and illiterate is bugs me big-time!

Then there's the hit record 'Never Ever' a big number one hit for All Saints. I recall watching them on TOTP with an audience whooping it up as they began the spoken intro "A few questions that I need to know".
NO NO NO you stupid half-wit bint!; you need to know the answers, you're the one asking the questions!!!
So everyone's whooping it up along with a bunch of illiterate boneheads who don't even realise they've messed up their masterpiece within the first line!

Anything bother you like this?

lambsy_uk · ‎29-09-2014

@rose2008-2008 wrote:
I love a Jamaican Accent me!!!.

If it belongs to Michael Holding then yes!

margaret*e · ‎29-09-2014

Listen UP.

What does it mean, up what?, it doesn't make any sense.

AAARRRGGH.

(Sorry EMB.).

al**bear · ‎29-09-2014

People who prononce Rs as Ws , I do not mean the people who have rhotacism, i mean the ones who do it through choice, maybe because they think it makes them sound posh, like Mr Woss who didn't speak like that at school

People who pronounce H as haitch . We've had a very big argument on the Round Table about this before), No matter what You say it is WRONG

023mjc · ‎29-09-2014

When people use "sat" instead of "sitting", as in He was sat on the bench. They all do it - journalists, newspaper reporters, and even BBC news readers. Surely it should be "he sat" or "he was sitting".

And people who just pronounce words wrongly. Not foreign or particularly difficult words, they could be forgiven, but just every day stuff. I hear people talk about abdominable pains, and their archeries, bold men, and free (3).

I have a friend who puts mascala on her eyelashes, and her photo's in an alban, she comes from Birningham and worst of all she calles me Malaryn. When I pointed out my name is Marilyn she said it was such a strange name and she'd never heard of it before she met me.She's in her early 60'sand she's never heard of Marilyn!!!

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lambsy_uk · ‎29-09-2014

@al**bear wrote:

People who pronounce H as haitch . We've had a very big argument on the Round Table about this before), No matter what You say it is WRONG

I'm with on that one!

lambsy_uk · ‎29-09-2014

@023mjc wrote:
When people use "sat" instead of "sitting", as in He was sat on the bench. They all do it - journalists, newspaper reporters, and even BBC news readers. Surely it should be "he sat" or "he was sitting".

And people who just pronounce words wrongly. Not foreign or particularly difficult words, they could be forgiven, but just every day stuff. I hear people talk about abdominable pains, and their archeries, bold men, and free (3).

I keep hearing people say 'brought' when they mean 'bought'.

upthecreekyetagain · ‎29-09-2014

@023mjc wrote:
When people use "sat" instead of "sitting", as in He was sat on the bench. They all do it - journalists, newspaper reporters, and even BBC news readers. Surely it should be "he sat" or "he was sitting".

Certainly a common one, as is 'stood' and 'standing'.

'Sitting' and 'standing' are the progressive tense of, "to sit" and "to stand" - they describe an action that is continuing.

'Sat' and 'stood' are the past participle of the same verbs and describe a completed action.

For example, "I sat the baby on the chair", and, "the baby was sitting on the chair" - the first describes the action the second the continuing state the baby was in.

English is a lovely language 🙂

Deno thread on FHG

rose2008-2008 · ‎29-09-2014

People say ohhh youve got a Kentish accent!!!,,,,,eh?,,,what does a Kentish accent sound like. I always think i sound a bit like a Londener. I love a Cockney Accent!!!!!

blackburn_stevie · ‎29-09-2014

Creeky wrote .... "I sat the baby in the chair." and seemed to find fault with the way that somebody may have said it or wrote (or written it), but I must beg to differ. Surely, "I sat the baby in the chair," is correct. (Scroll down for my reasoning)

If I am holding a baby in my arms and want to lower the child into a nearby chair, could simply say, "I sat the baby in the chair." It may not be the perfect way to drop the brat into the chair but she was detting heavy and I was Kerry Packered.

In much the same sort of way that I don't blame sellers of furniture for saying that spaces in their cupboards are called "draws". Mind you, if I had an axe, I'd gladly explain that they are called "drawers"

Not forgetting Chimney or Hospickle as two more

Anonymous · ‎29-09-2014

My English grammar will never be perfect (nor is my Dutch grammar) but it surprises me that many English people I know don't know the difference between "there, they're and their" or "too and to". I often think it's more to do with being too lazy to correct it.

I know spellcheckers aren't always right, but if I'm not sure, or if some words are underlined showing me I have made a mistake, I do take the trouble to correct them. Even if it's "only" on a forum.

upthecreekyetagain · ‎29-09-2014

Your you're write right they're their there Harry

Deno thread on FHG

saasher2012 · ‎29-09-2014

Guilty as charged!. lol.

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electric*mayhem*band · ‎30-09-2014

@Anonymous wrote:

I know spellcheckers aren't always right

Excuse me madam, spellcheckers are always right.

To wit:

Eye halve a spelling chequer,
It came with my pea sea,
It plainly marques four my revue,
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.

Eye strike a key and type a word,
And weight four it two say,
Weather eye am wrong oar write,
It shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid,
It nose bee fore two long ,
And eye can put the error rite,
Its rare lea ever wrong.

Eye have run this poem threw it,
I am shore your pleased two no,
Its letter perfect awl the weigh,
My chequer tolled me sew.

Anonymous · ‎30-09-2014

LOL

tommy.irene · ‎30-09-2014

Yes i see........................ where..were..wear..ware..

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