Hi Fi literacy hits a new low

Very few Colonials can spell.

Sorry, should have been, "Very few Imperials can spell."

Text speak has infiltrated everything now........so sad!!

Ryan

Private ad recently seen in a shop window;

"Collar TV for sail"

One of my brothers was taught phonetic spelling in the 1970s, and it was probably from that generation onwards that a knowledge of the language and the ability to spell correctly went to hell on a handcart.

Poor spelling in email also rankles, especially when correcting someone's poor spelling and grammar is deemed to be politically incorrect.

Cheers

Brad

Shouldn't this thread be titled:

Illiteracy hits a new low ?

What about:

"Bass illiteracy goes lower"

"Shouldn't this thread be titled:

Illiteracy hits a new low ?"

How about:-

"Illiteracy hits a new high" ?

Cheers

Don

Don's correct, of course.

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Originally posted by Rob B:
What about:

"Bass illiteracy goes lower"

Or 'base' as speakers are frequently described in the ads. Or adds.

Must go and do something useful with the rest of Sunday.

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Originally posted by rupert bear:

Or 'base' as speakers are frequently described in the ads. Or adds.

Or - "add's".

Apostrophes are so easy to use too.

Use them in a possessive: 'the dog's bollocks' but never in a plural.

'Its' as a possessive is the only exception to the possessive: 'Give the dog back its bollocks, James.'

Also if your possessive ends in an 's' you don't have to put another 's' at the end: 'James' dog's bollocks.'

Also use in a contraction: 'Don't cut James' bollocks off, nor his dog's, as it's likely to hurt them both.'

And, "You're right, Joe, and your post is constructive!" Fredrik. [Smiley].

quote:

Also use in a contraction: 'Don't cut James' bollocks off, nor his dog's, as it's likely to hurt them both.'

You obviously went to a different kind of primary school to mine ...

Different from, in fact!

I nearly crashed into the back of a lorry when exiting the M40 on the slip for Oxford a number of years ago. A range of brews were listed on the tailgate, and the one that caught my eye was a brew called "the dog's bollocks"

Cheers

Rob

The very one - thanks Melnobone

Rob

quote:

Originally posted by Chris Kelly:
Different from, in fact!

'"Different from" is the construction that no one will object to.
"Different to" is fairly common informally in the U.K., but rare in
the U.S. "Different than" is sometimes used to avoid the cumbersome
"different from that which", etc.'

So fair enough in a purist sense, though my construction is quite acceptable. Unlike that advert.

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Originally posted by rupert bear:

'"Different from" is the construction that no one will object to.

"Different from" is the construction to which no one will object", surely?

I am off to fetch my hat and coat! Fredrik

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Originally posted by Deane F:

quote:

Originally posted by rupert bear:

'"Different from" is the construction that no one will object to.

"Different from" is the construction to which no one will object", surely?

Indeed. I was quoting verbatim from a fairly reliable website, and didn't read it through before pasting.

This is precisely the sort of sloppiness up with which we should not put.

Not forgetting, of course, that a sentence consists at the very least of both a subject and a predicate. This might lead an inquisitive person to enquire as to whether a sentence may consist of only one word.

A learned person must reply:

Yes.