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LenGlover
LenGlover Posts: 31,673
edited September 2008 in Not Sports Related
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7595509.stm

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  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,290
    edited September 2008
    Love the fact that the pedants who put their pet grammatical grievances up there then had to be corrected by the BBC.
  • Riscardo
    Riscardo Posts: 2,338
    Just spoke with my Mum who explained the correct use of fewer and less than ...
  • kigelia
    kigelia Posts: 2,582
    I really can't stand grammar pedants. Language changes all the time (written and spoken) yet people tend to be stuck in the ways they were taught at school. Whilst some of the examples in the article are sensible enough some of them are just insanely pedantic.

    My view is that as long as what you say/write can be clearly understood than it is not grammatically incorrect.
  • LoOkOuT
    LoOkOuT Posts: 10,871
    innit
  • Oggy Red
    Oggy Red Posts: 44,962
    [cite]Posted By: kigelia[/cite]I really can't stand grammar pedants. Language changes all the time (written and spoken) yet people tend to be stuck in the ways they were taught at school. Whilst some of the examples in the article are sensible enough some of them are just insanely pedantic.

    My view is that as long as what you say/write can be clearly understood than it is not grammatically incorrect.

    I'm glad you bought that to my attention, Kigs .... otherwise I would never of known.

    ;o)
  • Charlton Dan
    Charlton Dan Posts: 4,937
    [cite]Posted By: Henry Irving[/cite] I Love the fact that the pedants, who put their pet grammatical grievances up there, then had to be corrected by the BBC.
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,891
    I'm an 'urban writer', so shove it :-)
  • razil
    razil Posts: 15,041
    shouldnt that be sh'of it?
  • Swisdom
    Swisdom Posts: 14,977
    Their are certin time's when bad grammer is unacceptable though!

    There's a Charlton fan on BBC 606 who writes like a 12 year old speaks (Addickted2Charlton) and it's nigh on impossible to work out what he is trying to say. Words such as "Abarht" instead of "About". It's got more letters for fucks sake!

    I am really anal about grammar - not so much on places like this but when I see a sign in a shop window thats badly written or has typos it really grips my turd

    Apologies...it's been a long day
    End of rant

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