Would of, Should of, could of

Still waters

It's fcuking would have, should have, could have, I can't be the only one on here who can't stand the way some people abuse the English language like this, I'm fairly easy going about most things but this makes me want to stick broken bottle necks in my eyes.

artanevilla

Shudda wudda cudda.

peasant

Still waters wrote: »

this makes me want to stick broken bottle necks in my eyes.

their eyes (or as they would put it ...there eyes)

Still waters

Still waters wrote: »

It's fcuking would have, should have, could have, I can't be the only one on here who can't stand the way some people abuse the English language like this, I'm fairly easy going about most things but this makes me want to stick broken bottle necks in my eyes.

Full-stops are your friend.

py2006

I don't like cucumbers

Yer Da sells Avon

Still waters wrote: »

It's fcuking would have, should have, could have, I can't be the only one on here who can't stand the way some people abuse the English language like this, I'm fairly easy going about most things but this makes me want to stick broken bottle necks in my eyes.

Have course you're not the only person who can't stand the way some people abuse the English language. However, you're abusing it yourself by using commas instead of full-stops.

SeantheMan

Yer Da sells Avon wrote: »

Have course you're not the only person who can't stand the way some people abuse the English language. However, you're abusing it yourself by using commas instead of full-stops.

have course?

Yer Da sells Avon

SeantheMan wrote: »

have course?

Of you got a problem with that?

Still waters

Yer Da sells Avon wrote: »

Have course you're not the only person who can't stand the way some people abuse the English language. However, you're abusing it yourself by using commas instead of full-stops.

Have course I am.

Still waters

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Full-stops are your friend.

They're no friends of mine, little bastards

branie2

I cudda been a contender!

punisher5112

They are her angles..... Cash states....

90° bug not quite sure.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

SeantheMan wrote: »

have course?

Whoosh...….

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

I taught their teachers would have already thought them that.

StreetLight

Bran new.
For all intensive purposes.
Soarview.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »

I taught their teachers would have of already thought them that.

FYP. Try too get it write.

Yer Da sells Avon

Yer Da sells Avon wrote: »

Have course you're not the only person who can't stand the way some people abuse the English language. However, you're abusing it yourself by using commas instead of full-stops.

I'm a terrible woman for a misplaced comma. Don't hate me.

I do it alot.







Yes, that was deliberate.

biko

Lots of people don't read enough, and so they spell how they hear things said.
"Should've" sounds a lot like "should of" and so they get it wrong.

Birneybau

I know someone that used to text 'anal' in place of 'and all'

Alun

Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »

I taught their teachers would have already thought them that.

... at collage, defiantly!

Yer Da sells Avon

Birneybau wrote: »

I know someone that used to text 'anal' in place of 'and all'

Anal 'n anyways.

trashcan

biko wrote: »

Lots of people don't read enough, and so they spell how they hear things said.
"Should've" sounds a lot like "should of" and so they get it wrong.

Yes, but what were they taught in school ? Or not taught as the case may be. Don't they do basic grammar anymore ?

Candie

Candie wrote: »

I'm a terrible woman for a misplaced comma. Don't hate me.

I do it alot.







Yes, that was deliberate.

Misplaced commas are fine. Maybe not in a work document; but sometimes, I deliberately misplace commas to make text a little more, conversational.

FishOnABike

Ignore them. Its awl a mute point solong as there under stood.

Church on Tuesday

Noone should write like that.

Noone.

Birneybau

Church on Tuesday wrote: »

Noone should write like that.

Noone.

Catherine Noone?

Your Face

Oh no let's not abuse the English language.

Anything but that.

StreetLight

I know someone who typed their address as being in Fingla's.

branie2

People who type "lose" as "loose" are just as worse

orourkeda1977

Some people are stupid.

What can I tell you?

tupenny

StreetLight wrote: »

I know someone who typed their address as being in Fingla's.

Know ewe dont

Ipso

StreetLight wrote: »

I know someone who typed their address as being in Fingla's.

Fingla must of bean livid.

klaaaz

If you were reared in rare auld Dublin, you could of been speaking slang or should of been.

Vita nova

I would of course agree that they should of all things, learn basic grammar, and they could of that I'm certain.


Ok, I dropped a few commas for poetic licence.

Nigel Fairservice

branie2 wrote: »

People who type "lose" as "loose" are just as worse

I only just done that after I seen you writing it.

Dtp1979

Theirs no reason too be so pacific about these small errors

dxhound2005

trashcan wrote: »

Yes, but what were they taught in school ? Or not taught as the case may be. Don't they do basic grammar anymore ?

I done Advanced Grammer.

Pherekydes

My daughter asked me to buy (by text) a packet of oreo's.


I rung her neck. :pac:

Marengo

A lot to answer for..from the mid noughties..

Mutant z

Incredible how someone can just nitpick every little thing about the English language that others don't give the slightest thought to is it really worth getting your knickers in a twist about every unimportant thing in life.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

People who put apostrophe's in plural's.

There is something to be said for retaining our own Irish form of grammar, which might initially be perceived as 'bad grammar', but is sometimes a direct translation from irish.

How often have you heard 'I do be (working)', or similar? That's just a direct translation of the Irish 'Bíonn mé (ag obair)'

Or the so-called 'immediate perfect' tense, which doesn't exist in English: 'I'm after (cleaning it)' – Tá mé tar éis é (a ghlanadh)

Another one I often hear locally when someone dies is that they were 'got dead', which I'm sure must come from the verb 'faigh' as we see, for example in 'Fuair sé bás' – literally, 'He got dead'.

Then there's the word 'Ye'. This isn't Irish, but came to us from archaic English. It may have been originally introduced to the Irish via religion, but we conjugate it (yeer, ye're, yiz, yizzer) unlike any other society, and I hope we don't lose that, or consider it grammatically incorrect.

lbc2019

py2006 wrote: »

I don't like cucumbers

I don't either

lbc2019

For all intensive purposes you're point is mute

PARlance

Still waters wrote: »

It's fcuking would have, should have, could have, I can't be the only one on here who can't stand the way some people abuse the English language like this, I'm fairly easy going about most things but this makes me want to stick broken bottle necks in my eyes.

Sort out Your thread Title...

Omackeral

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

People who put apostrophe's in plural's.

Sorry about that

"I seen" makes me twitch.

Franz Von Peppercorn

I’m not going to post much here in case I make a grammar mistake.

Omackeral

Sorry about that wrote: »

"I seen" makes me twitch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pin3Hrxr4V8

spurious

I seen her when she done it.

Franz Von Peppercorn

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Then there's the word 'Ye'. This isn't Irish, but came to us from archaic English. It may have been originally introduced to the Irish via religion, but we conjugate it (yeer, ye're, yiz, yizzer) unlike any other society, and I hope we don't lose that, or consider it grammatically incorrect.

I don’t think ye came from religion but it is old English, for sure. People forget that a lot of Irish towns have been English speaking for generations, while the countryside around them spoke Irish. The influence on modern Hibernian-English comes from both.