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Email from The Club - Grammar Pedantry
iainambler
Posts: 963
Ok, I admit it, I am somewhat of a grammar pedant.
So this morning's email from CAFC left me feeling more pedantic than I usually do:
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Subject: Limited spaces still available in Harvey’s for this Saturday’s match
Charlton Athletic will be hosting the Owls here at the Valley on Saturday 1st November, 3pm KO.
There's not a better way to have that match-day experience than to enjoy a pre-match meal for just £25 pp.
The package will consist of:
- Classic Lasagne al Farno (beef lasagne + pasta layered with white sauce + parmesan cheese)
- Severed with homemade oregano garlic + paprika potato wedges
- Mixes salad with black olives fresh herb + olive oil dressing
- Ciabatta garlic bread slices
- Warmed cheery pie served with cream
The package will also consist off:
• Lounge overlooking the pitch
• Match-day programme and team sheet
• Match-day hostess
• Appearance from a CAFC legend
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It could be that with a really nasty cold and having to come in to work today I'm just being a grumpy git, but am I being unreasonable in finding the grammar and spelling shocking?
So this morning's email from CAFC left me feeling more pedantic than I usually do:
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Subject: Limited spaces still available in Harvey’s for this Saturday’s match
Charlton Athletic will be hosting the Owls here at the Valley on Saturday 1st November, 3pm KO.
There's not a better way to have that match-day experience than to enjoy a pre-match meal for just £25 pp.
The package will consist of:
- Classic Lasagne al Farno (beef lasagne + pasta layered with white sauce + parmesan cheese)
- Severed with homemade oregano garlic + paprika potato wedges
- Mixes salad with black olives fresh herb + olive oil dressing
- Ciabatta garlic bread slices
- Warmed cheery pie served with cream
The package will also consist off:
• Lounge overlooking the pitch
• Match-day programme and team sheet
• Match-day hostess
• Appearance from a CAFC legend
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It could be that with a really nasty cold and having to come in to work today I'm just being a grumpy git, but am I being unreasonable in finding the grammar and spelling shocking?
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Comments
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You're not very cheery (pie) today at all are you?0
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At least Asterix didn't make an appearance.0
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The warmed Cheery pie sounds nice1
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Garlic AND paprika on the wedges! Too far, too far.3
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cheery pie sounds promising.0
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you can't have much to do at work !1
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We will probably lose now because of this spelling and grammar.
I'm furious.5 -
The severed potato wedges sound tasty - quite a brutal way to prepare them though. Surely standard slicing would do, vegetables have feelings too, you know.11
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Maybe they've got Igor sending out Emails whilst he's injured1
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"al farno" - even the spelling in Italian leaves a lot to be desired...2
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At first I thought you were going over the top. then I read it. It doesn't make great reading I must admit.0
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Like the sound of a match day hostess no need to take my flask and blanket0
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Should pedantry really have a capital P in the thread Title?4
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I wonder who write's this?1
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OK own up, who's making oregano at home? It is actually rather poor though. Prrof; reeders kneeded.0
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I noticed some pretty basic mistakes in my season ticket renewal letter too. It must be to do with the internal staff restructure.0
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fings aint wot they yust too bee1
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I'm having a go at homemade oregano garlic.stilladdicted said:OK own up, who's making oregano at home? It is actually rather poor though. Prrof; reeders kneeded.
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There are errors all over the place; the website, the programme, marketing literature. The comms department definitely need a proper system for quality assuring their work before it is published. It looks so shoddy and unprofessional. Just because we're in an age where Twitter is the preferred means of communication, it does not mean that all communications should be reduced to that level of quality. In this case, if I'm paying £25 for a meal I want to know that there's been some care and attention put into it. I have no faith that that's the case though when the people trying to sell it can't even be bothered to spell the name of the main dish correctly. Very bad marketing.6
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That must the variation where you get a double helping of beef lasagne and pasta layered with white sauceAlgarveaddick said:"al farno" - even the spelling in Italian leaves a lot to be desired...
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I dont think thats pedantic at all ...thats a failed gcse grade effort ...all they are doing is marketing their unprofessionalism
someone really needs to have a word ...very poor (unhappy face thingy)5 -
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Wouldn't this be formatted by our sooper dooper new catering company though, as opposed to CAFC staff?0
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Shocking.
But then I am easily shocked the older I get.1 -
nice that you get your own lounge overlooking the pitch0
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I have made my decision about the so called sooper doper caterers by bringing my food with me.0
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I blame these damn computers with so called helpful software that can change typos to something the software wants.....honestly.0
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i knew about bringing a pencil case to the valley, but i didn't think "nik naks" meant the crisps.Granpa said:I have made my decision about the so called sooper doper caterers by bringing my food with me.
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think they should scrap stadium catering. instead we all bring a food and drink contribution and have a big picnic on the pitch from 1pm to 2.30pm. we can return again around 3.45pm for tea and cakes.1
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I'm more worried that our fans need a detailed description of what lasagne consists of1
