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Irish people and possessive pronouns...

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  • #32
    ziggy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,681 ✭✭✭ziggy


    This post has been deleted.


  • #33
    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 18,100 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    5starpool wrote: »
    Easy peasy. In number 17 what would the yanks say different that they feel the need to point it out?
    I think they'd say:

    IBM have increased profits by 20%.

    and leave out the possessive pronoun.


  • #34
    Phlann
    Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 827 ✭✭✭Phlann


    Tara Le d'Arion wrote: »
    There is a grammar nzi forum, spell czechs.
    You have to PM hullaballu or me to get in... as it is private.

    Haha, I honestly thought you were joking until I saw it in the list under your name.


  • #35
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,119 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    No joke, this is serious business.


  • #36
    Kold
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,778 ✭✭✭✭Kold


    dr.bollocko wrote: »
    I saw it.

    Bastard. Stiff 'D' key clearly.


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  • #37
    mental07
    Closed Accounts Posts: 994 ✭✭✭mental07


    The basic grammar that people are talking about here is the stuff that was drilled into me in primary school. I've never had a problem with the use of apostrophes, it's/its, they're/their/there etc. because I was taught it all at a young age and it's stuck with me ever since. The things we learn in primary school are so important; we just don't realise it at the time.


  • #38
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,073 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    FlutterinBantam wrote: »
    Listen sunshine, when the great unwashed out there cannot differentiate between "saw" and "seen" , "did" and "done" "gone " and "went", how do you expect them to know the correct use of the apostrophe??.

    there is an underclass out there whose grammatical ignorance will always mark them down as chavs and skangers.

    When was the last time a dentist said " I done your teeth last week"??


    Go figure guys.
    I done seen what you meant.

    jaffa20 wrote: »
    I agree with the OP and i do think it is because of the education system. i have just completed uni and since I've left school my grammar and spelling have become atrocious. However, i still managed to get an honors degree and why? Spell check :D
    FlutterinBantam wrote: »
    Must be the US version.:rolleyes:

    Well spotted. :)

    Someone mentioned the American thing.
    Listen out for them talking about bands or generally groups of people as a whole.
    the Smashing Pumpins is going on tour this year as opposed to are.
    It has something to do with a business law passed in the late 19th century which recognises all groups as a single entity. That's all I can remember about it.


  • #39
    genericgoon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,680 ✭✭✭genericgoon


    Huzzah! I got 100% in that 'there/their/they're' quiz. Although, not much of an achievement in retrospect. 'Twas fairly simple.


  • #40
    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 18,100 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    genericgoon wrote: »
    Who the hell are the Smashing Pumpins?
    They released an album - Sesime Dream - a few years ago..


  • #41
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,073 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    genericgoon wrote: »
    Who the hell are the Smashing Pumpins?
    Wow. You noticed that I left out a letter.
    How embarrassing for me.
    I'll go and edit my post and then edit the quote in yours, so that no-one else will see it.
    genericgoon wrote: »
    Is this the changing or the guard thread where all of us whom have now completed the LC for good say fareweel to this board at least as an LC student and into the realm of being finished with this board or stay on as a assisstant to the new crowd of hopeful LC students? Or should we make a proper thread for that?

    Oh noes.


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  • #42
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,073 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    ixoy wrote: »
    They released an album - Sesime Dream - a few years ago..
    :)

    He gone done edited his post.

    Mod powers activate....


  • #43
    genericgoon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,680 ✭✭✭genericgoon


    Terry wrote: »

    Oh noes.

    That's quite an old quote. I was so young and foolish back then. *reminisces

    Anyways, I forgot the most the important part of that question. The :P at the end. Apologies for any offence caused.


  • #44
    Phlann
    Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 827 ✭✭✭Phlann


    ixoy wrote: »
    They released an album - Sesime Dream - a few years ago..

    And what a good album it was. Shame it was mostly downhill from that point.


  • #45
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,369 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Thanks to the Grammar Nazis Easy-payment Plan, I've taken out a contract on one boardsie so far, who insists on using "there" for "their", "they're" and "there". They're coming there to get their target (see what I did there (and there)) :p

    Now that I've checked my grammar and spelling, I'm posting this.


  • #46
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,073 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    Phlann wrote: »
    And what a good album it was. Shame it was mostly downhill from that point.
    http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055335286 :)


  • #47
    Phlann
    Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 827 ✭✭✭Phlann


    Terry wrote: »
    http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055335286 :)

    Ah, I didn't realise the sesime thing was a running joke.

    Bloody hell that thread is unbelievably anal, haha


  • #48
    Yazacoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32 ✭Yazacoo


    My grammer is awful, along with my spelling... I suppose thats why I'm not a writer. It also means I have to pay more attention to my lettering in my drawings and buisness documents. I have a basic grasp of grammer but where can I learn it all? I have the oxford book of grammer but even when I read it, I'm terrified that I'll get something wrong. That's why I get people who know more to check it out for me before it's used.

    But that does not mean I'm "an underclass" of society.
    I'm just not good with grammer all the time.


  • #49
    genericgoon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,680 ✭✭✭genericgoon


    Yazacoo wrote: »
    My grammer is awful, along with my spelling... I suppose thats why I'm not a writer. It also means I have to pay more attention to my lettering in my drawings and buisness documents. I have a basic grasp of grammer but where can I learn it all? I have the oxford book of grammer but even when I read it, I'm terrified that I'll get something wrong. That's why I get people who know more to check it out for me before it's used.

    But that does not mean I'm "an underclass" of society.
    I'm just not good with grammer all the time.

    MUST RESIST TEMPTATION!

    :p


  • #50
    Yazacoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32 ✭Yazacoo


    genericgoon wrote: »
    MUST RESIST TEMPTATION!

    :p

    meanie!

    psh...IM GOIN BACK TO LURKING.


  • #51
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,157 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    Businesses who use a combination of '€' and 'c' in one price, (e.g. €1.99c).

    How retarded can you get?

    Another example is the price list in my work dining area:

    "Soup 0.50c"

    I joked with the catering manager that the soup was great value but he hadn't a clue what was wrong with it. :rolleyes:


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  • #52
    brianthebard
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    Yazacoo wrote: »
    My grammer is awful, along with my spelling... I suppose thats why I'm not a writer. It also means I have to pay more attention to my lettering in my drawings and buisness documents. I have a basic grasp of grammer but where can I learn it all? I have the oxford book of grammer but even when I read it, I'm terrified that I'll get something wrong. That's why I get people who know more to check it out for me before it's used.

    But that does not mean I'm "an underclass" of society.
    I'm just not good with grammer all the time.

    would you consider getting a junior cert english book or even a sixth class one?You just need to take the fear away by practising imo.


  • #53
    5starpool
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    ziggy wrote: »
    This post has been deleted.
    You should try being mod of poker and gambling and see how often it is used there!!! Really annoys me too. Being and been is another one that gets to me.
    ixoy wrote: »
    I think they'd say:

    IBM have increased profits by 20%.

    and leave out the possessive pronoun.

    I would use the thanks button, but this being afterhours it is absent, so thanks.


  • #54
    javaboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,094 ✭✭✭✭javaboy


    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    Businesses who use a combination of '€' and 'c' in one price, (e.g. €1.99c).

    How retarded can you get?

    Another example is the price list in my work dining area:

    "Soup 0.50c"

    I joked with the catering manager that the soup was great value but he hadn't a clue what was wrong with it. :rolleyes:

    I am not alone.


  • #55
    vektarman
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    ziggy wrote: »
    This post has been deleted.
    That annoys me aswell
    and people who spell a lot as alot:D


  • #56
    earlyevening
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,334 ✭✭✭earlyevening


    "Heighth" and "lengt" are my favourite common mispronounciations. This is followed closely by "thongue".


  • #57
    Ste.phen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,808 ✭✭✭Ste.phen


    Let's not forget
    your = yizzer
    your (pl) = yizzizer

    as in 'get yizzizer asses back hee-ur or oil bait ya'


  • #58
    rowlandbrowner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 263 ✭✭rowlandbrowner


    I find a horrendous amount of Irish people struggle with both written and spoken Irish, interestingly there seems to be a direct correlation between a person’s command of linguistics and the views they hold in regard to foreign nationals. I have seen a perfect example of this recently spray painted on the side of the Mill Shopping Centre in Clondalkin, written in big red letters was “Foreners go home”, I laughed, as did my Foren girlfriend (who pulls me up on my grammar and spelling all the time).


  • #59
    Blisterman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,536 ✭✭✭Blisterman


    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    Businesses who use a combination of '€' and 'c' in one price, (e.g. €1.99c).

    How retarded can you get?

    Another example is the price list in my work dining area:

    "Soup 0.50c"

    I joked with the catering manager that the soup was great value but he hadn't a clue what was wrong with it. :rolleyes:

    Just be glad you don't like in France.

    Prices are spelled 30€ everywhere. A holdover from Francs. It looks so wrong to my eyes.


    It's/Its is a weird one.

    Surely, in the example, "He broke its wheel" it should be spelled "It's" as in belonging to it, but it's not.

    Can anyone explain this to me?


  • #60
    Honey-ec
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,844 ✭✭✭Honey-ec


    Actually I think the American version of question 17 in that quiz would be:

    "IBM has increased its profits..." or whatever the rest of the sentence was.


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  • #61
    Phlann
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    Blisterman wrote: »
    J
    It's/Its is a weird one.

    Surely, in the example, "He broke its wheel" it should be spelled "It's" as in belonging to it, but it's not.

    Can anyone explain this to me?

    Yeah, it's counter-intuitive but it's is always a contraction of 'it is' or 'it has' while its always indicates the possessive.

    I don't know why it's like that but I'd like to think that the rule is there to avoid confusion. Because that would be pretty damn funny :pac:


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