"The proof is in the pudding"

[zigackly]

I see that error in emails all the time. From supposedly well educated, intelligent people.

 

It's not an error if you speak English rather than French. You would say "on the way", so what is technically wrong with it?

 

Just playing Diable's advocate ...

[JohnnyH]

I hate people.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

For Fathers' Day, someone on Facebook has posted this.

 

 

Now, I've got no qualms about the sentiment, but I'm concerned about this other man (presumably the biological father) leaving pieces of baseball equipment on the table. Maybe that's why Mum kicked him out.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

How bad can it get?  You're spending Christmas drunkenly seething at the irritants on "Celebrity Catchphrase".... and then this happens.

 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

It's not an error if you speak English rather than French. You would say "on the way", so what is technically wrong with it?

 

Just playing Diable's advocate ...

"On route", if you're speaking English, needs a definite article between the words (unless you're a massive Wool, "on route from 'Aaydock t' Paarbold").

[zigackly]

"On route", if you're speaking English, needs a definite article between the words (unless you're a massive Wool, "on route from 'Aaydock t' Paarbold").

 

"On top". "On target". "On time".

 

More generally, grammar and definitions always reflect a living, changing language, rather than constrict it. Words aren't to be pinned down to admire, like dead butterflies, until they become dessicated.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Massive Wool

[Rotpeter]

Massive Wool

Phonetic spellers and mouth-breathers, I say.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

"Ten year anniversary".

 

This tautological bullshit has even increasingly been aired by BBC newsreaders recently. It's a "tenth anniversary" you shitwits!

 

And as for people who say "It's our 6-month anniversary" - I've checked the statute books and found that it's perfectly legal to punch these people repeatedly in the face.

So, today I found myself in a restaurant on the premises of a large sporting establishment in L4.  They have display cases of memorabilia, including a commemorative shield, awarded to the winners of a sporting contest held to mark the centenary of the birth of a manager of said establishment.  The engraving on the shield didn't read "centenary", nor even "100th anniversary".

 

They actually engraved "100 year anniversary" on a silver trophy and put it on display, just to annoy pedants like me.

 

Unforgivable.

[Total Longo]

Birds who say "can't bare" so and so, on Twitter.

 

I can't bare that at all.

[General Dryness]

Birds who say "can't bare" so and so, on Twitter.

 

I can't bare that at all.

 

Is it just the general use or the mis-spelling that gets to you the most?

[Total Longo]

Is it just the general use or the mis-spelling that gets to you the most?

 

Never really thought about the general usage, but it's definitely over-used, as is "fuming". Both seem to be exclusively used by women when bitching.

[Rico1304]

I heard 'two times' on R4 at the weekend. Disgraceful.

[PestiRed]

I heard 'two times' on R4 at the weekend. Disgraceful.

Damn right, The Fugees are Radio 2 material

[General Dryness]

Never really thought about the general usage, but it's definitely over-used, as is "fuming". Both seem to be exclusively used by women when bitching.

 

Yeah. "Fuming here" followed by some pointless diatribe seems to be quite a popular one.

[Bjornebye]

"I want solutions not problems"

 

Especially when calling IT helpdesk. Fucking white rasta cunt just made one of our girls cry. IT pricks are vermin. Fuck you stringy

[ZonkoVille77]

IT lads deal with a whole load of mentally retarded fuckwits who can't do even the most simple things on a PC. they deserve medals for dealing with spanners.

[Bjornebye]

IT lads deal with smelly underwear and world of Warcraft. I remember when an IT lad got funny to me for not knowing something I asked him to do that he thought was a piece of piss. I asked him to follow me and walked him across a sales floor to my team and announced to them all that he was going to be managing them from now on. He fucked off straight away when they all started pissing themselves at him. Funnily enough he always dealt with any issues me or my team had right away after that.

 

Fucking geeks

[Bobby Hundreds]

I thought a lad I work with's missus was called maud for years. But apparently she isn't, saying "our maud" is like "the wife" or "her indoors".

[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

I thought a lad I work with's missus was called maud for years. But apparently she isn't, saying "our maud" is like "the wife" or "her indoors".

Yep, heard that a couple of times. Weirdos.

[halewood pete]

I thought a lad I work with's missus was called maud for years. But apparently she isn't, saying "our maud" is like "the wife" or "her indoors".

Think that's from St.Helens area

[King Emlyn]

Think that's from St.Helens area

It is, "our Peg" is another colloquial

[AngryOfTuebrook]

I thought a lad I work with's missus was called maud for years. But apparently she isn't, saying "our maud" is like "the wife" or "her indoors".

I had something similar the other way round.  For years, I thought one of the girls in work was referring to her daughter as "our Tilly" in the generic, "Tilly Mint" sense.  No.  It's her real name.  Poor cow.

 

She's probably also got a son called Softlad.

[Dr Nowt]

Might have some desecrated coconut later.

[Bobby Hundreds]

Think that's from St.Helens area

Yeah I think he's from round that way.