Does it bother you?
Apr 1st 2009, 2:46 pm
#79
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Re: Does it bother you?
I'm guessing it's something to do with The Muppets.
Apr 1st 2009, 3:10 pm
#84
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Re: Does it bother you?
An example of this
Mitchell Johnson being interviewed today
"I felt really good at training today. I feel quite fresh and I've pulled up really good."
Now this is all very well and good, as we often expect sports people not to be as well educated as most other people (unless they are Union players or Rowers) but the problem is that Channel9 will more than likely employ him as their chief commentating expert in about 10 years time and will in the process influence millions of people on how to speak English.
That's all I have to say to you
Mitchell Johnson being interviewed today
"I felt really good at training today. I feel quite fresh and I've pulled up really good."
Now this is all very well and good, as we often expect sports people not to be as well educated as most other people (unless they are Union players or Rowers) but the problem is that Channel9 will more than likely employ him as their chief commentating expert in about 10 years time and will in the process influence millions of people on how to speak English.
That's all I have to say to you
Apr 1st 2009, 3:19 pm
#85
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Re: Does it bother you?
On another forum I complained about the use of 'between you and I'. One woman said she'd been taught it that way at school. She did not believe me when I said 'I' should be replaced by 'me'. I went on to ask her if she would say 'between I and you' and I think that eventually convinced her she had been wrong.
As for the apostrophe taking over where it doesn't belong - it seems to be used in plurals mainly where the noun ends in a vowel. How hard is it to learn that we form plurals by adding s, not 's? I mean, our plurals are so easy compared with other languages, as anyone who knows German, Latin, and other inflected languages would know.
As for the apostrophe taking over where it doesn't belong - it seems to be used in plurals mainly where the noun ends in a vowel. How hard is it to learn that we form plurals by adding s, not 's? I mean, our plurals are so easy compared with other languages, as anyone who knows German, Latin, and other inflected languages would know.
Apr 1st 2009, 3:31 pm
#86
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Re: Does it bother you?
An example of this
Mitchell Johnson being interviewed today
"I felt really good at training today. I feel quite fresh and I've pulled up really good."
Now this is all very well and good, as we often expect sports people not to be as well educated as most other people (unless they are Union players or Rowers) but the problem is that Channel9 will more than likely employ him as their chief commentating expert in about 10 years time and will in the process influence millions of people on how to speak English.
That's all I have to say to you
Mitchell Johnson being interviewed today
"I felt really good at training today. I feel quite fresh and I've pulled up really good."
Now this is all very well and good, as we often expect sports people not to be as well educated as most other people (unless they are Union players or Rowers) but the problem is that Channel9 will more than likely employ him as their chief commentating expert in about 10 years time and will in the process influence millions of people on how to speak English.
That's all I have to say to you
Apr 1st 2009, 5:59 pm
#89
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