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[Closed] English spelling and grammar anomolies

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rest assured that the quickest way to devalue the language would be to insist on a proper version like what various Frenchies are trying to do.

“Can I get?” bugs me however. There’s being incorrect and there’s being obnoxious, and this is both.

Both statements have my wholehearted support.


 
Posted : 21/06/2021 7:59 pm
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It’s probably time to put this one to bed as well. 1. It isn’t an Americanism (the phrase appears in British newspapers in the mid 19th C all the time), 2. Strictly speaking; it’s an idiom, so it doesn’t have to make any sense. 3. both are understood to mean the same thing, so just use the one you prefer.

I frequently use ‘I could care less’, by which I mean ‘I could care less, but by such a minuscule amount as makes no difference’.
And I’ll continue to do so, irrespective of whether it makes people’s heads explode! 🤯 😁


 
Posted : 21/06/2021 8:17 pm
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Train station.

I’ve never had an issue with this but apparently it should be railway station.

I'm with you. A station is where something stops or is positioned. Railways don't move (or shouldn't) so they don't stop. Trains stop, and the place where they are intended to stop is a station.

The one I find difficult is "That's not an option". Does it mean "That's impossible" or "That's compulsory"? I honestly don't know - sometimes you can guess from the context.


 
Posted : 21/06/2021 8:30 pm
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rest assured that the quickest way to devalue the language would be to insist on a proper version like what various Frenchies are trying to do.

Indeed or like textbook Latin, though English being a world language and also a living one this could never be enforced. Though I get that there are people of a more mechanical mindset who'd like rules of speaking English to be laws of physics...


 
Posted : 21/06/2021 8:42 pm
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