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09/05/2008, 17:32 Clarkkent Joined on 23/08/2004 Posts 517 Re: English as she is spoke ? A frequent error made on this site is confusing licence (noun) and license (verb). I know that Americans use the verb form for both uses - but British posters should not. I don't like to see "driver's licence" used instead of "driving licence". I cannot decide whether this is just a matter of style or whether "driver's licence" is not some distortion of meaning. Tesco (and other retailers) don't know when to use "less than" and "fewer than" - perhaps Sir Terry Leahy doesn't know!    Report

09/05/2008, 17:32 tegwini Joined on 19/09/2007 Wiltshire & Vienne Posts 154 Re: English as she is spoke ?  I am reminded of the BBC's  'The Apprentice'  when the apprentices spent hours trying to work out where to put the apostrophe and phoned all over London, and to seriously senior people. Sad, one wonders how they were supposed to the 'cream of the crop'  ! tegwini I think, therefore perhaps I am...    Report

09/05/2008, 17:38 Russethouse Joined on 23/08/2004 Forum Moderator Posts 9,508 Re: English as she is spoke ?  Clarkkent wrote: A frequent error made on this site is confusing licence (noun) and license (verb). I know that Americans use the verb form for both uses - but British posters should not. I don't like to see "driver's licence" used instead of "driving licence". I cannot decide whether this is just a matter of style or whether "driver's licence" is not some distortion of meaning. Tesco (and other retailers) don't know when to use "less than" and "fewer than" - perhaps Sir Terry Leahy doesn't know! Perhaps they use ieSpell ? Despite my best efforts it STILL defaults to English (US version) and as I sometimes need it to be 'US version' I often leave it. www.quimperclub.org 99    Report

09/05/2008, 17:39 sweet 17 Joined on 05/08/2006 charente maritime Posts 2,048 Re: English as she is spoke ? With reference to the OP's post, the verb/noun confusion I dislike is practise (the verb) used instead of practice (the noun), or vice versa.  I wonder if it's worth noting the difference any longer? PS, I didn't mean the OP's post, I didn't see the first 2 pages.  I was referring to Clarkkent's post.  Apologies ! (Whoops, I wasn't supposed to use one of those, was I?)    Report

09/05/2008, 17:44 Patf Joined on 23/08/2004 SW Gers Posts 2,102 Re: English as she is spoke ? Husband had an email from our oldest grand -daughter (aged 12) on his birthday with a lovely message, but in "text" spelling. I know she's doing well at school, quite a star, so why write like this? I wouldn't dream of correcting her though, as it would obviously upset her, and it's good to keep in touch by email.    Report

09/05/2008, 17:45 Weedon Joined on 23/08/2004 Laval (53) Posts 1,136 Re: English as she is spoke ? There are far more cringeworthy (sorry pedantics) forums than this one, as I am sure you all know.  There is a sport forum that I particularly like, but I am loathe to look at it very often as the spelling and grammar is so appalling. Using an ampersand instead of and is a bit sloppy, isn't it?    Report

09/05/2008, 17:51 Cat Joined on 21/01/2005 ------- Forum Moderator ------- Lot Posts 2,801 Re: English as she is spoke ?  tegwini wrote:  I am reminded of the BBC's  'The Apprentice'  when the apprentices spent hours trying to work out where to put the apostrophe and phoned all over London, and to seriously senior people. Sad, one wonders how they were supposed to the 'cream of the crop'  ! tegwini Often it's a style thing.  For example, a lot of  people would frown over the use of single inverted commas in the way that you have used them, as scare quotes (above).  They would not normally be recommended in a writing style guide, unless you were nesting one quote inside another.  In an informal setting however, a forum for example, only sticklers would bother to comment on them, and I'm sure that no one would actually take you to task over them. Cathy Sun, sun, sun, here it comes...    Report

09/05/2008, 17:53 Judith Joined on 01/02/2006 Posts 212 Re: English as she is spoke ?  ErnieY wrote:   also those who write rambling messages without any capitals or punctuation except perhaps for the odd full stop or comma frequently where not neccessary and also write without line breaks the cumulative effect being that the message becomes incomprehensible and almost impossible to make sense of to the point where I just give up Those who may write fairly good English, but persist in using large blocks of text - no paragraphs etc, so that you cannot easily read and separate out.  I give up too.  Also those who use such small type.  Poor grammar can be understood (sometimes) but it is much easier to do so when there is space between and around, especially since we are reading from the screen;  so much harder. Fewer / less - indeed, also quicker instead of more quickly when used as an adverb - AND even the BBC are allowing that (shock, horror).  Every time I hear someone say that, I have to shout "more quickly" so that I can understand it - it is just SO wrong. Judith W1 and Aude    Report

09/05/2008, 18:11 ErnieY Joined on 05/12/2006 Nr Prayssac (Lot) Posts 2,964 Re: English as she is spoke ?  Patf wrote: Husband had an email from our oldest grand -daughter (aged 12) on his birthday with a lovely message, but in "text" spelling. I know she's doing well at school, quite a star, so why write like this? I wouldn't dream of correcting her though, as it would obviously upset her, and it's good to keep in touch by email. Now you see I probably would Pat. Diplomatically and in a positive fashion of course, explaining exactly what is wrong in communicating in that way and the potential consequences of it and the way others might percieve her because of it. If nobody tells the kids that this is wrong and impolite, and god knows the schools don't seem to care, how will they know ? That seems to be one of the fundamental problems for kids today, it's become politically incorrect to tell them they are wrong or that they have failed at something. My doctor said one drink per day, I can live with that !    Report

09/05/2008, 18:48 valB Joined on 21/11/2007 Posts 133 Re: English as she is spoke ? Speak proper like what I does   INNIT YEA .    Report

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