Moved Grammar Posts (from HWIST thread)

Golferx

Not on any high horse, or anything like it, but what is wrong with people today with the grammar used in posting?

Surely people know the difference between "seen" and "saw"

"I seen", "he seen me" ? :eek:

Come on now, surely nobody accepts this as correct English? There's nothing to drag down a post as much as someone incapable of spelling correctly or using bad grammar. Everyone will have the odd typo, but repeated bad grammar is a no no.

Seth Brundle

This isn't the English forum!

Golferx

So, by that answer, the level of grammar is acceptable?


(Another one, frequently seen, the inability to differentiate between "their" and "they're")

richie_rvf

Golferx wrote: »

So, by that answer, the level of grammar is acceptable?


(Another one, frequently seen, the inability to differentiate between "their" and "they're")

They're is notin wrong wit peeple sawing what they'd seen

Sorry - couldn't resist

jozi

Easy to slate someone's grammar on a forum. All you know about the person posting is their boards nick name, you don't know why their grammar is bad.

Ever consider they might not be native english speakers, dyslexic, to young to fully know the english language inside out, etc etc....


Mods can delete this post if they want, way of topic but i had to say it.

Seth Brundle

Golferx wrote: »

So, by that answer, the level of grammar is acceptable?


(Another one, frequently seen, the inability to differentiate between "their" and "they're")

Get over yourself. If you want to discuss motoring thes post in this forum. If you want to discuss diction & grammar then I have shown you where the English forum is!
End of story!
Gentlemen (and ladies), restart your engines.

kikel

jozi wrote: »

Easy to slate someone's grammar on a forum. All you know about the person posting is their boards nick name, you don't know why their grammar is bad.

Ever consider they might not be native english speakers, dyslexic, to young to fully know the english language inside out, etc etc....


Mods can delete this post if they want, way of topic but i had to say it.

dito

Can't we remove these posts? IT's spoliing one of the best threads on boards!!

Seth Brundle

Done!

Gramer natzis should checked this site http://englishplus.com/grammar/

E92

And while we're at it, what is peoples' obsession with spelling things in American English?

Like leaving out the 'u' in favour and colour, and Americanized instead of Americanised?

Anyway, this a forum about cars, so lets get back to what we do best .

colm_mcm

Have you considered a Scoda Uctavia

kikel

kbannon wrote: »

Done!

Nice one

But it probably would've been more suited to this forum

http://boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=328

:D:D:p:p:p

unkel

Good move cutting this out of the HWIST thread!

Golferx - I can understand why you're fed up with the Bertie style "I seen" kinda grammar. I feel it is mostly lazy when people use knacker grammar, but hey, I might be wrong

Pherekydes

E92 wrote: »

...and Americanized instead of Americanised?

That's not an Americanization.

American spelling accepts only -ize endings in most cases, such as organize, recognize, and realize. British usage accepts both -ize and the more French-looking -ise (organise, recognise, realise). However, the -ize spelling is now rarely used in the UK in the mass media and newspapers, and is hence often incorrectly regarded as an Americanism,[29] despite being preferred by some authoritative British sources, including Fowler's Modern English Usage and the Oxford English Dictionary, which until recently did not list the -ise form of many individual words, even as an alternative. Indeed, it firmly deprecates this usage, stating, "[T]he suffix…, whatever the element to which it is added, is in its origin the Gr[eek] -ιζειν, L[atin] -izāre; and, as the pronunciation is also with z, there is no reason why in English the special French spelling in -iser should be followed, in opposition to that which is at once etymological and phonetic."[30] Noah Webster rejected -ise for the same reasons.[31]

Source

Rovi

jozi wrote: »

Easy to slate someone's grammar on a forum. All you know about the person posting is their boards nick name, you don't know why their grammar is bad.

Ever consider they might not be native English speakers, dyslexic, too young to fully know the English language inside out, etc., etc.?


Mods can delete this post if they want, way off topic but I had to say it.

Fixed that for you.

:D:D

Esel

Complaining about bad grammar on the Internet is as futile as complaining about bad driving. And wtf is this topic doing on a motoring forum? OP, get a life.

wil

E92 wrote: »

Anyway, this a forum about cars, so lets get back to what we do best .

Agreed.
Now have you read this review of the new Tata;)
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=249448&area=/wheels_deals/new_reviews/

antodeco

I taut I waz reading it rong, but y is dis in d motors 4um?

milltown

Probly a Rover driver.

antodeco

milltown wrote: »

Probly a Rover driver.

In fairness, seems people get mixed up with M and U, along with W and S, when put beside a B. Driving down those wide lanes with "giant" blue and yellow cars! :rolleyes:

jozi

Rovi wrote: »

Fixed that for you.

:D:D

Oh gawd :mad:

You forgot to change the J in Jozi to a capital, just like i did when signing up

Seth Brundle

and thats a wrap folks