English Manglage

[Auld Bassoon]

[QUOTE=Gingermick]
By the way, passed my two subjects and only one left for civil engineering qualifications.
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On the contrary, well done, and good luck for the C.E. qual - as someone once said, "the more I work at a skill, the luckier I get..."

Cheers!

[Gingermick]

Congratulations!

But be warned, there is no such thing as a civil engineer.

Lucky then I'll be a civil design technician, that would do. We just do the engineering and leave the client details to those uncivil folk.
Or an Associate civil engineer. only associatively civil.

Tell you what though, it would have been easier without 3 kids.

And acronyms, how about FIGJAM. Fork I'm good, just ask me.

[Caliban]

When are people going to get it right? It's would have, should have, could have; not would of, should of, could of. Do you say to your kids at night: "Of you cleaned your teeth before bed"?

"Do you have any bananas?"
"No, I do not have any bananas."
"You should have bought some."
"I could have, at least I would have, but they didn't have any."

See, it's not hard really.



Have a nice weekend.

Darren you old stirrer looks like you've outdone yourself this time. I remember my first post was about how spelling wasn't hard and you called me a smart ****. Look what you've started.

[arose62]

1) Hey Danp,

I think that there are 3 exceptions to the "an before a noun starting with a consonant" rule - when the noun starts with "w", "h" or "y".

So, you could easily find a language expert to support "an hotel", "an waterlily" and "an yobbo", although I tend not to use this, as it seems a bit artificial.

Oh, and "vowels" only has one "l" in it

2) Everyone else on this thread:

my pet hate is the (mis)pronunciation of "kilometres".
It's made up of a prefix "kilo" and the unit "metres".
IT IS NOT PRONOUNCED "KLOMUTTERS" !!!

You don't say "klograms" for weight, nor "mlimmitters" for length, so why blend the two in the case of kilo-metres????:mad:

"Key-lo-meet-ers" - say it with me, and let's get every radio announcer and TV face sacked, who says it otherwise.

3) My 3-yo daughter watched some TV show with a magician, then came running out asking me to fix something. Turns out she didn't want "a-broken-dabra".

Cheers,
Andrew

[journeyman Mick]

Slightly off topic here,
my pet hate is when people answer a "how are you?" with "good". I'm asking about their wellbeing, not their behaviour!

Mick

[Grunt]

And acronyms, how about FIGJAM. Fork I'm good, just ask me.

LOMBARD. Lots of money but a real d!ckhead

[Gingermick]

Slightly off topic here,
my pet hate is when people answer a "how are you?" with "good"

I find when I answer that question with anything other than 'Good' or 'Not bad', people look at me strangely.
When I'm feeling really good, I used tto say Fantastic or wonderously marvellous or some such innanity. But your not supposed to feel that way in a Consultant engineers office and your cast aside as a trouble maker or something.

[Iain]

I aint doin nuffin (often heard from kids who are doing something they shouldn't be).
Some rubbish I have heard:
Essedun (Melbourne Suburb)
Scotch Check (Tartan)
Ec Setra (Etcetera)
Vietmanese
Sumbarine
One from school 'Scotland, Wales and Ireland are all part of England'.
And one from uni days 'Morphostasis' Status Quo was just so outmoded.
There is also a recording of the politically correct 'Old Man River'

[Gingermick]

Ec Setra (Etcetera)

There is a bloke at work who says that. I can handle that but he also says 'brang' instead of brought

[bitingmidge]

... ... and then there's the term "youse" unless it's incorporated in speech as an affectation: I don't know how to youse a hand plane.

This is not to be confused with the Kiwi slang which has also become common in the speech of some of our ugg boot wearers: "How're ewes going?"

Cheers,

P

[E. maculata]

Now we know we are getting old, specially you Darren complaining about evolution of the common language as it ceased to be english many years ago ......for my favourite comparison let us roll back the years & imagine William Shakespeare and his Posse down at ye ole Taverne consuming gourds of meade discussing the mangellations of the Kings english thumping the tables with fists closed exclaiming loudly for all to hear "the knaves are using You to replace Thou and "ye verily we shall hasten down the pathe prior taken" has been replace by "Quick come down this way".....sound familar fellas?

[Daddles]

Sorry Bruce, Shakespeare was responsible for more new words and more mangling than anyone else (seriously, I listen to the ABC and they have a language professor come on every week ... and he's a card carrying member of their pedant's club).

Richard

The world is wasted on the young - we should finish stuffing it up so they don't get the chance

[E. maculata]

OKay, replace Bill with Bill's teachers exclaiming "oh despair thy name is Shaekespeare"

[Ashore]

... ... and then there's the term "youse"

Espically when it's used with "aint" and "cumin"

as in aint youse cumin







I don’t mind growing old, it sure beats the alternative.

[Kev Y.]

hey guys (and gals), Get back in the shed, youse have way too much time on you're hands