- It's "from", you pleb
“My generation was no different than any other,” Armstrong told Cyclingnews’ Daniel Benson.
Sod the drugs, the cheating, the bullying, it’s *from*, not *than*.
Posted 5 years ago“to”, I’d have said but then I’m a bit like that bloke off of shameless
Posted 5 years ago‘from’ and ‘to’ are both correct, but he’s an American so what do you expect?
Posted 5 years agoIt’s when Americans say “I could care less” when they meant they couldn’t care less that really winds me up.
Posted 5 years agoNope, all of these are beaten by “I could of” instead of “I could have” literally grinding my teeth as I type!
Posted 5 years agofun fact: “could of” comes from a misunderstanding of “could have” > could’ve. 😀
“could care less” is worse because it means the opposite… 🙁
Armstrong is the worstest, of course. for realz.
Posted 5 years agoPedants posting in the wrong forum….. 🙄
Posted 5 years agoAt least he didn’t say ‘off of’. I’d punch Scott Mills in the face all day long for that.
Posted 5 years agoI agree with him to a certain extent that he’s being singled out, but on the flipside he brought it on himself with his past behaviour.
There’s no doubt that people were after him because of his profile. Had he admitted it years ago then I imagine the punishment would have been less, but no doubt his head in the sand stance, coupled with his arrogance, surely made it a mission for people to nail him to the cross
Posted 5 years agoTry explaining the difference between “Alternate” and “Alternative” to somebody that’s absolutely convinced that they mean exactly the same thing….
Posted 5 years agoMiriam Webster lists among the definitions of “alternate”:
4 : constituting an alternative <took the alternate route home>
5: alternativeI’d say it’s an americanism but I reckon it’s only a matter of time til the OED caves in.
Posted 5 years agoon the flipside
his head in the sand stance
nail him to the cross
BoardingBob. You have a job on News of the cliches.
Posted 5 years agoI love a buzzword 8)
Posted 5 years ago‘Than’ instead of ‘from’ I can live with but ‘off of’ deserves a public stoning. At the beginning of this year I asked for a date stamp which went up to the year 2013, the stationary girl replied “I’ve got some on order, some other secretary’s have . . . “. Child, the plural of secretary is secretaries. Tsk.
Posted 5 years agoEven if “secretary’s” and “secretaries” mean different things they are homophones. Did you forget the smiley, Karin?
Posted 5 years agoKarinofnine – Member
‘Than’ instead of ‘from’ I can live with but ‘off of’ deserves a public stoning. At the beginning of this year I asked for a date stamp which went up to the year 2013, the stationary girl replied “I’ve got some on order, some other secretary’s have . . . “. Child, the plural of secretary is secretaries. Tsk.A stoning offence for me is when people use ‘stationary’ when they mean ‘stationery’ 😉
Apologies if you were just referring to a girl who was not moving. 😛
Posted 5 years agoedit: beaten to it
Posted 5 years agoAt least he didn’t say ‘off of’. I’d punch Scott Mills in the face all day long for that
You’d have to get to him before me…
I’d also like to add
– “can I get” instead of “can (or, even better, may) I have”
– “off” instead of “from”
– “of” instead of “have”Grr.
EDIT – oh, and this
Posted 5 years agoI agree with him to a certain extent that he’s being singled out
Pish, he’s a big fat fish. And gets the coverage a big fat fish warrants. Which in itself is determined by what value the media place in the story.
Which it seems is greater that that of some fat bloke in Switzerland who deserves an awful lot more scrutiny that he’s getting.
I can’t comment on the grammar as I’m a barely literate imbecile.
Posted 5 years ago
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