Grammar Police Gazette

[Yenn]

It makes me sore also.

[facthunter]

Go and get covers having to GO somewhere to GET the spanner. Go TO get is a bit pedantic in the normal context. Nev.

[old man emu]

4 hours ago, facthunter said:

Go and get covers having to GO somewhere to GET the spanner. Go TO get is a bit pedantic in the normal context. Nev.

An interesting one. 

You could ask an apprentice to "go and get the spanner", which would imply that the apprentice knows to go somewhere specific and once there select a spanner. There is also the implication that the apprentice returns with the spanner.

 

"Go to get the spanner" could imply leaving the vicinity and going somewhere that a spanner could be obtained, such as in "I have to go to the tool supplier to get a Whitworth widget".

 

I think that's where being pedantic comes in. It's all dependent on the context of the act of leaving.  Probably the clearest way to say such a thin would be to say "Go to the (place where it is) and get it". But that would introduce too many words, and speech between individuals usually involves a reduction in total words used.

[Yenn]

I am going to go is one of my least liked contraptions. I shall go or I will go or even I am going, better still I'me off, which those of you who have been close to me would agree with.

 

[Marty_d]

30 minutes ago, Yenn said:

I am going to go is one of my least liked contraptions. I shall go or I will go or even I am going, better still I'me off, which those of you who have been close to me would agree with.

 

Do like the French do... just say "I go".

[pmccarthy]

I'm gunna go.

[old man emu]

The ancestor of all Gunner Go's. 高

[onetrack]

"I'm off like a rotten cheese", has the right kind of Aussie vernacular flavour.

[facthunter]

OFF like roadkill would be more Aussie..  Probably don't notice it in your Toorak tractors with "climate Control".  Cheese doesn't really get that bad.. Spuds are unbelievably vile..Nev

[Jerry_Atrick]

Bucket of prawns in the sun comes to mind

[facthunter]

Most seafood goes off easily.  Riding motorcycles on inland roads where there's lots of dead critters on the side requires good breath holding skills... . Nev

[red750]

Here's a little brain test for you:

 

7H15    M3554G3  53RV35    7O   PR0V3
H0W       0UR      M1ND5      C4N  D0    4M4Z1NG    7H1NG5!
1MPR3551V3     7H1NG5 !
1N     7H3     B3G1NN1NG  17    WA5   H4RD   BU7
N0W,     0N     7H15       LIN3
Y0UR      M1ND    1S  R34D1NG  17    4U70M471C4LLY
W17H0U7     3V3N  7H1NK1NG  4B0U7   17,
B3    PROUD !        0NLY  C3R741N   P30PL3     C4N  R3AD    7H15!

[facthunter]

Must be the dumb ones. I read it as fast as normal print.  Nev

[onetrack]

Someones been reading too many personalised number plates.

[spacesailor]

Sounds good !.

When ' Phoetic spelling ' was the rage, that learning curve wouldn'twork, 

AND

Those kids had a hard time getting work, as prospective employers, took their spelling as a sign of something very wrong with them.

spacesailor

[old man emu]

3 hours ago, onetrack said:

Someones been reading too many personalised number plates.

   

 

Calling all cars! Calling all cars. KLO4 a missing apostrophe. Missing from between 'e' and 's' where it was acting as an elision.

[facthunter]

My reply is from the aspect of the dumb ones as I qualify. The only genuine personal plate is wanker. Nev

[onetrack]

Sorry, OME, I was in a hurry when I posted that, and failed to proof read. What's the standard penalty for a missing apostrophe? Does it include demerit points?

[willedoo]

old man emu will pick it up straight away when someones made a mistake.

[old man emu]

5 hours ago, onetrack said:

What's the standard penalty for a missing apostrophe?

Hang on while I dash off to get the answer.

 

25 minutes ago, willedoo said:

old man emu will pick it up straight away when someones made a mistake.

But not necessarily rise to the bait.

 

I'll accept some ones when they come from an English opener.

[nomadpete]

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1

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[red750]

As Aussie comedian Carl Barron asked, who decided the sound for 1 would be 'wun' and not 'pffft'?

[willedoo]

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/26/most-embarrassingly-outdated-words-and-phrases-to-stop-using-right-now-according-to-grammar-experts.html

[nomadpete]

Hey Will, looks like you are trying to take OME's job?

[willedoo]

2 hours ago, nomadpete said:

Hey Will, looks like you are trying to take OME's job?

No chance of that. I posted it for ome; a few more to add to the book.

Edited December 27, 2021 by willedoo