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Petty Hates

Post 16721

Atticus

I think VLC has always been much better than the Windows media player, I've been using it for some years.


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Post 16722

Pink Paisley

These two encountered on the train today. Both with the same offender.

1. T-shirts with band logos on them. Or more precisely, middle aged men sharing my roughly potato shaped figure wearing them. Even more precisely, not having them printed so that the logo (in this case Kiss), stretched around his midriff. By our age it is imperative that the logo appears up on the chest to attract attention away from the widest part of the potato.

2. Drinking beer from the bottle. I will qualify this. Drinking Carlsberg, Budweiser (the USA one) or San Miguel from a bottle is ok. This is all the respect that it deserves. However, a pint of some lovely brown nectar needs to be poured from the bottle into a glass where it is a treat for the eyes, nose AND taste buds.

PP.


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Post 16723

Cheerful Dragon

Bad spelling. I've lost count of the number of different spellings of "definitely" that I've seen online. But the one that is really bugging me at the moment is "losing". I'm watching my weight an I've joined the NHS healthunlocked weight loss forum. Almost everybody writes about "loosing" weight. I know that it's not intuitive spelling, but surely the pronunciation is a clue.


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Post 16724

Pink Paisley

Well, if you 'loose' weight, surely the pounds should just drop off eventually?

PP.


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Post 16725

Cheerful Dragon

Yes, like dropping ballast from a hot air balloon.


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Post 16726

You can call me TC

It's worse when it's on a more official website and not just due to some member of the public who is in a hurry/ham-fisted/not aware of the right spelling. I thought the end of the world was nigh when I noticed a misspelt word on the RADIO THREE website !!! smiley - wah


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Post 16727

Atticus

Quite a number of online journalists can be spotted making spelling errors, some are very bad at checking their work. There is also the lack of proof reading that leads to errors, in which case this sentence would read this sentence something like this.


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Post 16728

Icy North

'Loosing' is a perfectly good verb.

It means to sing in the loo.


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Post 16729

Teasswill

I suspect some of it is auto fill, but also lack of appropriate English teaching & unfamiliarity with grammar and vocabulary.

Re loosing, I have visions of pounds of flesh attached to arrows & sent off into the sunset...


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Post 16730

Cheerful Dragon

Excess weight begin shot into the sunset? I wish!!!


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Post 16731

Cheerful Dragon

That should have been "Excess weight being shot into the sunset." Stupid brain!smiley - ermsmiley - sadface


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Post 16732

Atticus

Here is another example of poor language skills from a journalist, taken from the news item about the jailing of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny:

"The Kremlin's spokesman has criticised organisers for luring them onto the streets, claiming they were paid to turn out. Silent until he spoke, state TV channels have picked up that suggestion and run with it."

'Silent until he spoke'.....?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39404985


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Post 16733

ITIWBS

Alexi Navalny, convicted of embezzling, diverted public funds to pay demonstrators to attend his rallies, something of a demagogue.


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Post 16734

Pink Paisley

When I delete e-mail it goes into my 'Trash' folder. Yuk. Horrid Americanism. Can I change the file name to 'Deleted'. No.

PP.


Petty Hates

Post 16735

ITIWBS

In American slang, especially military slang, 'trash' also means luggage.


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Post 16736

Pink Paisley

And the term now seems to have changed from 'E-mail' with a hyphen to 'email' without.

Or am I imagining that?

PP.


Petty Hates

Post 16737

ITIWBS

Same principle as people get worn out with capitalizations, linguistic drift in the happening....


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Post 16738

Bluebottle

Perhaps most Kremlin representatives typically spend their time humming, whistling, panting, heavily breathing, burping, hiccupping, blowing bubble noises, clicking their tongue, popping their cheeks, cracking knuckles, breaking wind, sneezing, yawning, hissing, gnashing and grinding teeth, clapping, scratching, stamping feet, clicking fingers, flicking and putting their hand under their armpits to make squelchy noises before a press conference, which is what makes this Kremlin spokesman's silence before speaking remarkable?

<BB<

Am I the only one who believes that Donald Trump does at least 60% of the above before a typical press conference?


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Post 16739

SashaQ - happysad

smiley - snork Brilliant <BB< - especially the armpit... smiley - rofl

I don't like how people drop the hyphen in e-mail either - every time I see 'email', I think 'enamel'...


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Post 16740

You can call me TC

Hang on - the TV stations were silent till he spoke. At leasr, that's what the construction implies.


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