Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Grammar Pedants DO Have a Point

From Digg, about which they say...
BBC Anchor Omits A Somewhat Crucial Pause In His Opener
Punctuation isn't given it's due very often. Every once in a while, though, it serves a pretty useful purpose.
And the point is...



Heh.

14 comments:

  1. "Heh" is about right. I bet he feels a fool.

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  2. Punctuation isn't given it's due very often.

    That is, one assumes, irony.

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    1. Good eye; I completely missed that. It's irony, alright... of the unintended sort.

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  3. The real irony is it has taken almost five years to reach your blog

    Just sayin'

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    1. It took almost five years to reach Digg. It hit my blog within hours of appearin' on Digg.

      Just sayin'.

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  4. parler l'anglais25 June, 2014 09:01

    I just wish the Brits would learn to speak English...

    Just sayin'.

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    1. What was that Churchill said? "Two peoples, separated by a common language?"

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    2. Speaking of which...After your time in England, are you familiar with the word "summat," Buck? Just saw it used frequently in the Brit movie "Blowdry" on Netflix last night. Since we use the caption feature regularly now in our dotage, we saw it spelled out. "Summat" was new to us. The Oxford defines it as a non standard form of "something."

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    3. Yep, I've definitely heard "summat" a lot. My absolute favorite Brit-ism is "innit," which is always said in the form of a question at the end of a sentence... as in "Beautiful day, innit?"

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    4. I think "innit" is what we call estuary English as it originated in Essex alongside the Thames estuary.

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    5. And i always thought it was Churchill who said that but I have since learned that it was the irish playwright George Bernard Shaw.

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    6. Thanks for that, Brian.

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  5. In our own country, especially the south, I've heard the "innit" with a contracted "d" in there, as in "Beautiful day, id'nit?

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Just be polite... that's all I ask.