Grammar Discussions

[Deleted member 29185]

"Those ones" instead of 'those', 'that one' or 'mine'. 'Ones' ... is that a plural of 'one' or what?

"Them" instead of 'those'. Then, you can combine those two into, "them ones" Beaudy.

I guess if you are talking binary notation there will be lots of "those ones"........lots of "those zeros" too!

 

[get me outta here]

Just heard on the ABC, when talking about the opera, 'La Bo-hem'.

 

[whatmeworry]

Report from 3AW.

Last year, an Oxford University academic urged spelling pedants and language naz_s to take a chill pill and stop getting in a tizz over misspellings and grammatical errors.

Stop fretting about they're spelling | Tom Elliott

 

[JohnK]

Boar
Bore
Boer
Boor

Or

Board
Bored
Baud
Bawd

Bored on board without any baud! Way too many similarities.

 

[Major]

Boar
Bore
Boer
Boor

Or

Board
Bored
Baud
Bawd

Bored on board without any baud! Way too many similarities.

That's all a bit boring

 

[JessicaTam]

I am wondering if this is correct. I had to send an email (in effect) about a number of different teams and their various jumpers and some things on the jumpers, so...

The teams' jumpers' emblems.

I think it is correct.

 

[JohnM]

I am wondering if this is correct. I had to send an email (in effect) about a number of different teams and their various jumpers and some things on the jumpers, so...

The teams' jumpers' emblems.

I think it is correct.

Yes, that is correct.

 

[jastel]

[h=3]Read Aloud For Best Effect!!![/h]The European Union commissioners have announced that agreement has been reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European communications, rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five-year phased plan for what will be known as EuroEnglish (Euro for short).

In the first year, "s" will be used instead of the soft "c." Sertainly, sivil servants will resieve this news with joy. Also, the hard "c" will be replaced with "k". Not only will this klear up konfusion, but typewriters kan have one less letter.

There will be growing publik emthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced by "f". This will make words like fotograf" 20 persent shorter.

In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of silent "e"s in the languag is disgrasful, and they would go.

By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" by "z" and "w" by " v".

During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou", and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.

After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech ozer.

Ze drem vil finali cough tru.

 

[Major]

I am wondering if this is correct. I had to send an email (in effect) about a number of different teams and their various jumpers and some things on the jumpers, so...

The teams' jumpers' emblems.

I think it is correct.

As a contrast the plural of Court- Martial is Courts- Martial

 

[OzEire]

"Lexophile" is a word used to describe those that love using words in rather unique ways,such as "you can tune a piano, but you can't tuna fish", or "to write with a broken pencil is pointless." A competition to see who can come up with the best one is held every year.

This year's winning submission is posted at the very end.


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A thief who stole a calendar got twelve months.

When the smog lifts in Los Angeles U.C.L.A.

The batteries were given out free of charge.

A dentist and a manicurist married. They fought tooth and nail.

A will is a dead giveaway.

With her marriage, she got a new name and a dress.

A boiled egg is hard to beat.

When you've seen one shopping Centre, you've seen a mall.

Police were called to a day care Center where a three-year-old was resisting a rest.

Did you hear about the fellow whose whole left side was cut off? He's all right now.

A bicycle can't stand alone; it is two tired.

When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.

The guy who fell onto an upholstery machine is now fully recovered.

He had a photographic memory which was never developed.

When she saw her first strands of gray hair she thought she'd dye.

Acupuncture is a jab well done. That's the point of it.

And the cream of the wretched crop:

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[anat0l]

As a contrast the plural of Court- Martial is Courts- Martial

As in, "The soldier was subjected to three Courts-Martial during his service in the armed forces"?

 

[JohnK]

That's all a bit boring

Apologies I was bored.

 

[Major]

As in, "The soldier was subjected to three Courts-Martial during his service in the armed forces"?

Quite correct (also a lousy soldier)

 

[Deleted member 29185]

Bored on board without any baud!

Scary thing is, I know exactly what you mean! :shock:

 

[JohnK]

As in, "The soldier was subjected to three Courts-Martial during his service in the armed forces"?

Isn't court-martials also accepted?

"How many courts-martial have you had?" doesn't sound right to me.

"How many court-martials have you had?" on the other hand....

 

[JessicaTam]

Isn't court-martials also accepted?

"How many courts-martial have you had?" doesn't sound right to me.

"How many court-martials have you had?" on the other hand....

Whilst the alternative may be becoming accepted, courts-martial is correct. Like attorneys general.

 

[JohnK]

Whilst the alternative may be becoming accepted, courts-marshall is correct. Like attorneys general.

Marshall or martial?

Attorneys General is really weird and another that does not sound right to me.

"There are 2 Attorneys General arriving!"

"There are 2 Brigadier Generals arriving!"

Extremely confusing language.

 

[Happy Trails]

As in, "The soldier was subjected to three Courts-Martial during his service in the armed forces"?

Yeah, but ditch the capitals unless you're referring to the UK 'Court Martial', in which case the hyphen is redundant.

 

[Happy Trails]

Marshall or martial?

The English language is constantly evolving and no doubt both will be passable one day.
But for now it's "martial".

 

[JessicaTam]

The English language is constantly evolving and no doubt both will be passable one day.
But for now it's "martial".

Corrected, thanks.