Post: #101

The word "fuck" really is the Swiss Army knife of all words. No other word has more use.

Post: #102

(09-30-2017 04:00 PM)Kona Wrote:  

(09-30-2017 03:38 PM)Conscious Pirate Wrote:  The bloke's name is Arryn. That's got to be the soyest, Game-Of-Thrones spelling of Aaron I've ever come across. What is he, a fucking satyr?

Arryn needs his ass kicked. He's cultural appropriationing the shit out of Polynesians with those tattoos. Huffington post owes us an apology.

Aloha!

Appropriating, Appropriated.

Post: #103

Putting a question mark at the end of a declarative statement and vice versa.

Also saying "capacitator" instead of capacitor.

Post: #104

(09-30-2017 06:47 PM)h3ltrsk3ltr Wrote:  Putting a question mark at the end of a declarative statement and vice versa.

Also saying "capacitator" instead of capacitor.

See now I have a pronunciation pet peeve. How often to you say "capacitor" in your daily life?

If you are a ham radio operator I apologize. But other than that really?

I don't like when people correct me over words I hardly say at all anyway. I say karaoke. I say it carry-okie not freaking kada-ohkay. I say the word so infrequently that I don't care so I wish people would leave me alone.

Aloha!

Post: #105

PUSHBACK!!


Kona, you can start you're own Pronunciation/Phonetics Nazi Thread. But this one is for Grammar.




debeguiled was right. This fucking thread is a rabbit hole. A fun one, no less!

Post: #106

No reason to. I've aired my grievances. Back to the grammar...

Aloha!

Post: #107

(09-30-2017 07:39 PM)Kona Wrote:  

(09-30-2017 06:47 PM)h3ltrsk3ltr Wrote:  Putting a question mark at the end of a declarative statement and vice versa.

Also saying "capacitator" instead of capacitor.

See now I have a pronunciation pet peeve. How often to you say "capacitor" in your daily life?

If you are a ham radio operator I apologize. But other than that really?

I don't like when people correct me over words I hardly say at all anyway. I say karaoke. I say it carry-okie not freaking kada-ohkay. I say the word so infrequently that I don't care so I wish people would leave me alone.

Aloha!

I accept the apology! I don't hear it outside the comm world but within it, oh hell yes.

But yeah, it was more just a thought that remora'd on to the first comment.

Post: #108

The word "utilize" is pointless.
Just say "use".

Post: #109

"remora'd."

Heh

Post: #110

(09-25-2017 02:38 PM)Veloce Wrote:  It should be normality instead of normalcy. That one doesn't irk me too bad though.

I've edited the above post to show what really gets me. I hear "I don't sing good", "Take me serious", "speak normal" etc all the time from American podcasts, YouTube videos, television etc.

Other things Americans tend to do is "Most fastest", "more faster", etc.

In Poland I teach English and most of my students interact with American reps and learn this BS. And in emails the reps skip articles (Send to printer), as if Poles don't have enough problems with article usage. I once finished a class and someone had to use the room for a conference call and an EE sounding girl on the other side said "More easier".

I also have to explain to every student why it's "How it looks" not "How it looks like", because in school their really, really bad English curriculum taught them it. Even pewdiepie uses that shit and he's lived in the UK for years.

Post: #111

Being too strict on sentence structure, especially if all you know about grammar comes from high school and Harry Potter books is also a disgusting sin.

I was writing a speech for my master-sergeant and some dumb cunt tried to tell me my hendiadys violated her 11th-grade-level English and needed to be changed.

Post: #112

(09-30-2017 07:42 PM)Conscious Pirate Wrote:  PUSHBACK!!


Kona, you can start you're own Pronunciation/Phonetics Nazi Thread. But this one is for Grammar.

Kona isn't outside the bounds of this thread really though.

What I got from his post is: What are the limits of linguistic complaint?

When are you overdoing it?

What is the point of correcting someone on something that, for all practical purposes, doesn't really matter?

In other words, which of these guys do you want to be?

Post: #113

This is the grammar nazi thread...I took that as license to be a bloody pedant.

And I'm not taking it back.

Post: #114

(10-01-2017 01:56 PM)h3ltrsk3ltr Wrote:  This is the grammar nazi thread...I took that as license to be a bloody pedant.

And I'm not taking it back.

Fine.

But you will still be this guy.





And it will be a long time before I run out of these clips.





And it will only get worse.

Post: #115

So uh... You guys wanna come over and watch Monty Python?

Post: #116

(10-01-2017 08:13 PM)h3ltrsk3ltr Wrote:  So uh... You guys wanna come over and watch Monty Python?

Too late.

You made me do this.

Post: #117

^ God I love British TV. If I lived in England all I would do is flip channels all day, that's it.

Aloha!

Post: #118

Someone already said "conversate" (which must stem from the B.I.G. Big Poppa song) but it reminded me of another.

"Orientate" - I hear this one much more often than the shorter, simpler, and correct "orient."

Post: #119

(10-02-2017 03:07 PM)Fender_Bender Wrote:  "Orientate" - I hear this one much more often than the shorter, simpler, and correct "orient."

'Orientate' is possible in British English. Just a dialectal difference, not a question of correctness.

Post: #120

(10-02-2017 02:10 PM)Kona Wrote:  ^ God I love British TV. If I lived in England all I would do is flip channels all day, that's it.

Aloha!

I've been trying to find an appropriate clip from "the thick of it" for the last hour or so.

This completely irrelevant clip will now be left here.

Post: #121

(10-02-2017 02:10 PM)Kona Wrote:  ^ God I love British TV. If I lived in England all I would do is flip channels all day, that's it.

Aloha!

The truth comes out. You don't care about lawns, you just want to be English.

You like their lawns, their slang, their shows.

Forget lawns. A true Englishmen is obsessed with something else in a garden.

The Shed. No edging. No Round-Up. Personal Empire Building.






Why Are the British Obsessed With Sheds?




Be your true self, Kona, come over to the pale side.

Post: #122

(10-03-2017 04:27 PM)debeguiled Wrote:  

That guy has lawn ON his shed. I've misunderstood the Spice Girls all these years. If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my SHED! Add British engineering to the list of things I like about england.

10 Downing St., Basils of Baker Street, Piccadilly Circus, Portobello Road, Abbey Road and the M4.

Then there's the people. Mr. Bean, Richard Hammond, Henry The Eighth, The Monkeys, The Kinks, The Iron Lady. I love them all.

Maybe someday I will move there. I'll eat crisps and chips and play football with my mates when my ssshhedule permits.

Aloha!

Post: #123

(09-30-2017 10:54 PM)Krivo Wrote:  The word "utilize" is pointless.
Just say "use".

Equivalent.

Equivalent = Equal. Just say equal.

Post: #124

If someone is calling you names, they are hurling epithets, not epitaths.

Many don't know this.

Post: #125

(10-02-2017 03:07 PM)Fender_Bender Wrote:  Someone already said "conversate" (which must stem from the B.I.G. Big Poppa song) but it reminded me of another.

"Orientate" - I hear this one much more often than the shorter, simpler, and correct "orient."

https://www.dailywritingtips.com/do-you-...-yourself/

Quote:In the UK, it is more common for people to say “orientate” whereas in the US, “orient” is more common. Writers in both countries sometimes bemoan the usage of the alternative word. In fact, both words are acceptable according to the dictionaries.

If you really want to be a grammar nazi it's worth googling to check if there's a reason why people use the alternative and if it's valid. (Me) personally I feel like to orient means to dress up like someone from a specific Asian demographic.