In a previous job I was asked to learn someone how to complete a task.
I replied 'You mean teach them?' the response was 'Er what are you a f'in English teacher now'.
Not my fault you can't speak proper
Although, 'touching cloth' is OK.loum - Member
"cloth" works similarly with "touching base".
As mentioned way up there ^^ the misuse of 'Like'
It was 'like' brilliant.
She can 'like' sing and everyfin.
It's 'like' sic.
Arrgghhh, all from America me thinks.
Oh and the word 'basically', which in my mind has no meaning.
24/7
I'm good
People using 'like' throughout a sentence.
Using double negatives - I didn't do nothing.
Are you going to tell me that some "wendyballers" can be "chavs" too?
no i'm going to tell you being poor doesn't automatically make you a chav, which is why people like you shouldn't use the two interchangeably
being a chav makes you be a chav.
A ram, a ewe, a little lambikins - a flock sheep
*Tuts*
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Anyway, back on topic-ish, Lego will be considered an uncountable noun, as a proper noun, resulting in no plural. Sheep is irregular hence the plural being sheep. The difference being that sheep is countable, one sheep, two sheep, etc.
Lego will be considered an uncountable noun
like Playdough..?
No, because play is a verb.
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While on the coffee shop tirade. i ask for a black coffee and get an "americano, no milk". Every time i hear this it is accompanied by the satisfying thunk click of a pulled back cocking handle and the selector going from single shot to american.
Not sure I see what's wrong with that ❓
Black coffee can be made in a number of ways, they are just calling it what it is, the way they are making it.
Shot of espresso and added hot water is an Americano.
filter coffee with no milk wouldn't be. Neither would Nescafé with hot water and no milk.
Lego is the name for the system of interlocking bricks. Each one is known as a lego brick or piece. I have argued with my American family on this and they continue to use "Legos" despite there being an official statement from Lego definitively statingwhat I had said.
Re the absence of small - in Starbucks there is a small size, called short. You can ask for it, and get it, but it is not on the menu. This is much worse than simply renaming small, but what is significantly worse is than when people go in and ask for "the smallest size" they get tall, which is not the smallest.
I may well call trading standards about this.
No need to be suspicious, the answer needs some thought though. 😉
Uni, as in "I'm going to uni in September"
Are you that lazy you can't say the whole word? Or so important that the extra few seconds it takes to say university will make a difference to anything?
Abbreviations are ubiquitous, richmars. So you can't have that one I'm afraid.
Are you that lazy you [b]can't[/b] say the whole word?
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"I'm liking"
"Yes to..."
Using double negatives
Aye right.
Brutal Murder-- as opposed to a gentle one ?
Intersesting stuff David
jones25.I've always wondered what the multiple of lego was. Can anyone explain why I type like a moron when I'm pissed?
I have argued with my American family on this and they continue to use "Legos" despite there being an official statement from Lego definitively statingwhat I had said.
Funny, I can imagine only you doing this.
as stoner says, "The day to day opportunities to say "myself" are considerably fewer than some people seem to believe."
'myself solutions' must be trading somewhere these days...
wiminz
"it's all good"
innit
bless him/her
credit-crunch
oh and "do the math" 😡
Expresso
You can see why it happens but it's still cringy.
you shouldn't use the two interchangeably
I didn't, you just said that I had.
Docking
Whoa there cowboy! This is a family website.
Abbreviations are ubiquitous, richmars. So you can't have that one I'm afraid.
H8ers will H8.
Funny, I can imagine only you doing this.
I didn't write to them for a statement, someone else presumably did years ago - it's all online, and it's a very common [s]debate[/s] area of wrongness.
I find myself saying "if you see what I mean" a lot, and it really annoys me - generally the person who I am speaking to sees perfectly well what I mean because they are not a retard (with the exception of some people at work...).
I'm sure that it must annoy the person that I'm speaking to even more.
absolutely! aaaaghh -
good call on "bless". Such a fake way of pretending you give a shit!
Off of. You just need to say off, bloody yanks 🙁
Bloody Scott Mills, ITYM.
Awesome! (that's)
flipping heck.. outside of swearing and shouting my entire spoken vocabulary consists of awesome, innit and it's all good.. 😳
My pet hate is 'What do you mean.....?' responses to very simple statements.
We've run out of sugar.
What do you mean we've run out of sugar?
WTF do you think I could possibly mean other than there is no more sugar left in our house?
Bloody Scott Mills, ITYM.
Exactly. And that's not the only one he is responsible for either.
Twunt.
'Grow' used as an active verb: as in, 'we are going to grow the business'.
No you are NOT. The business may grow, but it will either be in spite of your poor use of English, or because you nurtured it well.
When people say 'haitch' instead of 'aitch' for the letter H. Sky sports presenters are particularly bad at this. It has become a bit of an obsession to be fair
'Grow' used as an active verb: as in, 'we are going to grow the business'.
If a business can grow, why can't the future tense of the verb "grow" be used to describe it ?
Genuine question.
If I can say "I am going to grow vegetables in the garden"
Why can't I say "I am going to grow the business next year"
this thread is gr8!
"Chav" - it IS used to mean poor 99% of the time and is always sneering and divisive.
Also, "Boils my piss" and "twunt" and any other twee swearing.
'That' London
Inbox me
'I could care less' always makes my blood boil.
For my job I deal with a lot of Americans, I want to punch them in the face when they say 'Legos'.
For my job I deal with a lot of Americans, I want to punch them in the face when they say 'Legos'.
If that happens regularly enough to bring on violence, it sounds like you lot need to put away the toys and get some work done 🙂
