What 'Sky Blues Talk' has taught me throughout this sorry affair: (1 Viewer)

[Malfie Henpox]

I still don't fully grasp who is right or wrong with regards the club.

All I've really learned is how few of you know the difference between 'of' and 'have'.

 

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[Covstu]

hmmm okay, thanks for that constructive post....

 

[duffer]

I still don't fully grasp who is right or wrong with regards the club.

All I've really learned is how few of you know the difference between 'of' and 'have'.

Yeah... some of them struggle with 'learned' or 'learnt' too.

 

[thaiskyblue]

I still don't fully grasp who is right or wrong with regards the club.

All I've really learned is how few of you know the difference between 'of' and 'have'.

Enlighten me please ?

 

[jimmyhillsfanclub]

Yeah... some of them struggle with 'learned' or 'learnt' too.

Ha Ha....Indeed...bloody americanisation (or is that americaniZation) of the English language.

 

[Malfie Henpox]

Yeah... some of them struggle with 'learned' or 'learnt' too.

Yes, it looks like they do.

 

[ccfcway]

well I for one have "learnt" far more about the internal workings of an organisational structure than I ever cared to know

 

[ohitsaidwalker king power]

I still don't fully grasp who is right or wrong with regards the club.

All I've really learned is how few of you know the difference between 'of' and 'have'.

I would of hoped against the backdrop of issues surrounding the club... that correct queens English were the last have our troubles?
Still we all live and learnt?

 

[Skyblueweeman]

A thread related to English grammar...in the wrong place?!

 

[Malfie Henpox]

Ha Ha....Indeed...bloody americanisation (or is that americaniZation) of the English language.

It's nothing to do with America and, quite frankly, you're only making yourselves look worse by thinking I used 'learned' incorrectly. Feel free to Google "Perfect tense".

 

[SIR ERNIE]

are you a traffic warden malfie?

 

[jimmyhillsfanclub]

...but are you not talking of your learning in the past tense??


PS: I don't really give a shit.....just passing the time while eating my dinner....

 

[Malfie Henpox]

...but are you not talking of your learning in the past tense??



PS: I don't really give a shit.....just passing the time while eating my dinner....

No, I'm using it as a past participle in the perfect tense. I'm also eating my dinner. I just read one 'could of' too many and snapped.

 

[SIR ERNIE]

No, I'm using it as a past participle in the perfect tense. I'm also eating my dinner. I just read one 'could of' too many and snapped.

ah, ok, easily done. one too many of those 'could ofs' and 'should of's' on a Monday can be fatal.

you ok with starting sentences with a lower case?

 

[jimmyhillsfanclub]

I just read one 'could of' too many and snapped

Maybe you should google "perfectly tense"

 

[dadgad]

Being pedantic about grammar on a footy forum, really!!

 

[lordsummerisle]

"Looser" instead of "loser" happens quite regularly.

 

[duffer]

It's nothing to do with America and, quite frankly, you're only making yourselves look worse by thinking I used 'learned' incorrectly. Feel free to Google "Perfect tense".

I must confess that I did have to Google it to remember, because I haven't studied grammar for thirty years or so. I'd say the OP is actually quite right to use learned instead of learnt, but it certainly got a rise which is why I did it, sorry.

Personally, I've learnt(ed) not to worry too much about the grammatical quality of posts on message boards - it doesn't tend to get you very far.

 

[Longford]

Being pedantic about grammar on a footy forum, really!!

Indeed. Grammar is the tip of the iceberg. If you ever met any of us and could actually hear some of the pronunciation you would burst a vessel...

 

[duffer]

Still trying to work out if 'really learned' is a split infinitive too. Gosh, this is so much better than talking about footy.

 

[kingharvest]

I find it interesting that two posters on this thread are eating their 'dinner' in the middle of the day. Lunch surely?

 

[John_Silletts_Nose]

If you think the posters on this forum display poor grammar and sentence construction then you should try reading a match report written by Kevin Monks, his use of English sets a low point.

 

[ccfcmustang]

If we were all brilliant at grammar, the english language and sentence construction by heck we would not be living in Coventry

 

[jimmyhillsfanclub]

I find it interesting that two posters on this thread are eating their 'dinner' in the middle of the day. Lunch surely?

You didn't have Lunch ladies at school did you? They were dinner ladies right?

The only time I have lunch is on a sunday.....and sunday lunch is a full roast with all the trimmings...

 

[Paxman II]

Ok we all make grammatical errors as our brains typically run ahead of our typing fingers and we end up with typos all too often.
- Perfectly understandable.
It's the use of TO instead of TOO, OF instead of OFF and such like that is most annoying tbf.
I don't claim to be the best as I lived and presented in French for 15 years and then America for 10 years so I tend to mess up regularly but schooling has changed I noticed? I correct my daughter yet she insist there is a comma after BUT?
AND is acceptable to start a sentence with? Not when I was at school! Have standards been eroded or is this the 'norm' now?

 

[thaiskyblue]

I find it interesting that two posters on this thread are eating their 'dinner' in the middle of the day. Lunch surely?

dinner, lunch is for southern poofters.

 

[ccfcway]

dinner, lunch is for southern poofters.

agreed. I am just taking afternoon tea

 

[dadgad]

I find it interesting that two posters on this thread are eating their 'dinner' in the middle of the day. Lunch surely?

They are probably in Asia teaching the "queens English" to the chinks.
They're the only people who are in the least bit bothered by this sort of thing.
Of course it is important to be understood just as its critical not to dismiss somebody or an argument due to poor grammar.
Language continually evolves, Chaucer was great but his use of grammar downright abysmal.

 

[ajsccfc]

'Brought' in place of 'bought' is one that gets me. I've not noticed it here, but seeing as we're sharing.

 

[Nick]

"that will learn you" is a good one.

 

[TheRoyalScam]

If you think the posters on this forum display poor grammar and sentence construction then you should try reading a match report written by Kevin Monks, his use of English sets a low point.

Is it as bad as your sentence construction then?

 

[Nick]

How many people are being careful and spell / grammar checking their posts in this thread in case they get caught out?

 

[Philosoraptor]

I believe this answers our pedantic friend.

[video=youtube;Ovi7uQbtKas]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ovi7uQbtKas[/video]

 

[ohitsaidwalker king power]

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[ohitsaidwalker king power]

Ok we all make grammatical errors as our brains typically run ahead of our typing fingers and we end up with typos all too often.
- Perfectly understandable.
It's the use of TO instead of TOO, OF instead of OFF and such like that is most annoying tbf.
I don't claim to be the best as I lived and presented in French for 15 years and then America for 10 years so I tend to mess up regularly but schooling has changed I noticed? I correct my daughter yet she insist there is a comma after BUT?
AND is acceptable to start a sentence with? Not when I was at school! Have standards been eroded or is this the 'norm' now?

Yous just aint street innit?