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Atticus Posted Mar 25, 2017
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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Pink Paisley Posted Mar 26, 2017
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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Cheerful Dragon Posted Mar 26, 2017
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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Pink Paisley Posted Mar 26, 2017
Well, if you 'loose' weight, surely the pounds should just drop off eventually?
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You can call me TC Posted Mar 26, 2017
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 !!!
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Atticus Posted Mar 26, 2017
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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Icy North Posted Mar 26, 2017
'Loosing' is a perfectly good verb.
It means to sing in the loo.
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Teasswill Posted Mar 27, 2017
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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Atticus Posted Mar 27, 2017
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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ITIWBS Posted Mar 27, 2017
Alexi Navalny, convicted of embezzling, diverted public funds to pay demonstrators to attend his rallies, something of a demagogue.
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Pink Paisley Posted Mar 28, 2017
When I delete e-mail it goes into my 'Trash' folder. Yuk. Horrid Americanism. Can I change the file name to 'Deleted'. No.
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ITIWBS Posted Mar 28, 2017
In American slang, especially military slang, 'trash' also means luggage.
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Pink Paisley Posted Mar 28, 2017
And the term now seems to have changed from 'E-mail' with a hyphen to 'email' without.
Or am I imagining that?
PP.
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ITIWBS Posted Mar 28, 2017
Same principle as people get worn out with capitalizations, linguistic drift in the happening....
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Bluebottle Posted Mar 28, 2017
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?
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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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SashaQ - happysad Posted Mar 28, 2017
Brilliant <BB< - especially the armpit...
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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You can call me TC Posted Mar 28, 2017
Hang on - the TV stations were silent till he spoke. At leasr, that's what the construction implies.
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