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Post by crissdee on Jul 28, 2024 13:16:43 GMT
"On the team" and "In the team" are both in common usage in the UK, inasmuch as I pay any attention to sports, anyway....
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Post by suze on Jul 28, 2024 13:18:30 GMT
I don't think there's any difference between on the team and in the team.
On may be more an American usage and in more a British usage. Australian usage usually follows British usage except when it doesn't (Labor), but programming for overseas may deliberately use American forms as being more widely understood in less developed countries.
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Post by crissdee on Jul 29, 2024 9:54:49 GMT
This on FB;
"Theses are a bargain. 189,99, worn once offers wanted nothing stipid"
Apart from the appalling English, this "bargain" at £190, is a pair of freaking trainers!
Also, someone on "Nextdoor", talking about their local Post Office, declared that it was a "bones" to be able to do their banking there. In fairness, they then posted again, correcting "bones" to "bonus", but rather spoilt it by declaring that the Post Office was a "necessary" rather than a "necessity"....
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Post by crissdee on Jul 30, 2024 11:02:13 GMT
YT comment;
"She doesn't even got a job at all either."
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Post by suze on Jul 30, 2024 17:11:35 GMT
Doesn't got is an American usage, associated mostly with African Americans. It's quite common for it to be followed by another negative, so She do(es)n't got no job.
It's non-standard and I wouldn't recommend using this form in your PhD thesis, but I'd be uncomfortable with calling it wrong.
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Post by pdr on Jul 31, 2024 8:33:14 GMT
Apparently (as in "I wasn't watching but my daughter heard it and screamed") one of the BBC commentators in their Olympic coverage yesterday used the term "criterii", and when challenged he apologised for his inner pedant compelling him to use the correct plural form of "criteria".
Honestly, shouldn't we just round these people up and recycle them as cattle feed? You know it makes sense.
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Post by Bondee on Jul 31, 2024 8:46:20 GMT
Searching for some cheap test leads*, I find a site that gives me 3 choices... Large, Medium, and Trumpet.
It's a well known Chinese website so I suspect that something got lost in translation, but trumpet?!
* yeah, I could make my own, but when I can buy 10 for £1.60, why would I bother.
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Post by pdr on Jul 31, 2024 8:47:57 GMT
Surely a Trumpet would be an Ivanka?
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Post by celebaelin on Jul 31, 2024 10:57:07 GMT
Women's Triathlon commentator "...incidences..." - the intention seemed to be 'incidents'; she might possibly have intended 'incidence' but the construction was all wrong for that.
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Post by crissdee on Jul 31, 2024 12:52:24 GMT
Surely if you can have a single incidence of cheating/drug abuse/whatever, then you could equally have several incidences of cheating etc...
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Post by pdr on Jul 31, 2024 14:06:32 GMT
You have an incident. Multiple incidents may be described as the increasing incidence of drug cheating, but not (as I understand it) multiple incidenceS.
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Post by suze on Jul 31, 2024 17:12:50 GMT
Searching for some cheap test leads*, I find a site that gives me 3 choices... Large, Medium, and Trumpet.
It's a well known Chinese website so I suspect that something got lost in translation, but trumpet?!
* yeah, I could make my own, but when I can buy 10 for £1.60, why would I bother.
The Chinese words for Small, Medium, Large in sizing are 小号 (xiahao), 中号 (zhonghao), 大号 (dahao).
There are only 759 possible syllables in Chinese - that's considerably less than in English - and most Chinese words consist of one or two syllables. It is therefore inevitable that Chinese has rather a lot of homonyms.
And sure enough, 小号 (xiahao) is the Chinese word for a trumpet as well as for the Small size. It has a third meaning as well; it's a child's word for the act of urination. Accordingly, "the small boy did a wee in the trumpet" would contain three instances of 小号 (xiahao).
One might imagine that a Chinese retailer dealing with the English-speaking world would know better than to put its webpage into Google Translate and believe the results. But one might imagine wrongly, it would seem.
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Post by Bondee on Jul 31, 2024 20:31:05 GMT
You know, suze, replies like yours are the reason why I fucking love this forum!
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Post by jenny on Aug 1, 2024 15:28:32 GMT
Me too!
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Post by Bondee on Aug 2, 2024 17:40:59 GMT
YouTube comment referring to someone being "footless and fancy free".
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Post by jenny on Aug 2, 2024 17:42:15 GMT
You can be as fancy free as you like, but without feet you aren't going to get very far.
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Post by Bondee on Aug 2, 2024 17:46:34 GMT
The film would've been very different. It's a bit difficult to dance without any feet.
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Post by amanda on Aug 3, 2024 4:25:00 GMT
FB comment - divide and conker.
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Post by eeyoresmum on Aug 3, 2024 7:23:38 GMT
Poor Dutch: Today's NRC newspaper states that on the Mogadishu beach in Somalia an explosion has gone off.
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Post by Bondee on Aug 3, 2024 7:31:29 GMT
"What's that smell?"
It's the explosion, under that tree over there. I told you it was past its best before date!
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Post by eeyoresmum on Aug 3, 2024 7:44:51 GMT
Hah - mixing languages. The two meanings of 'afgaan' are 'to detonate' and 'to have a dump'. it's all pointing in one direction. But anyway - it was sloppy phrasing.
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Post by amanda on Aug 3, 2024 12:13:42 GMT
FB comment - it is orthentic.
Took me awhile to work out what they meant....
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Post by Bondee on Aug 3, 2024 16:38:03 GMT
Reminds me of a not-too-bright friend of mine who, upon setting up his first e-mail account, sent everyone a message that said "this is my inorgral email."
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Post by amanda on Aug 5, 2024 1:39:51 GMT
FB comment: holed your head high.
Do they really think it's spelt that way or did they just select the first option from auto select?
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Post by jenny on Aug 5, 2024 17:41:47 GMT
The thing is that spellcheck doesn't work if the word you have used is an actual word. I used to teach a guy who was very dyslexic and depended heavily on his spellchecker. He misspelled "audience" as "ordinance" all the way through his essay because of course the spellchecker recognized it as a word. Holed could fall into the same category.
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Post by crissdee on Aug 5, 2024 21:11:58 GMT
Some guy on YT has just announced that;
"More than half of every plane destroyed in the Battle Of Britain was by a Hurricane."
So the Hurricanes would fly in, destroy over half of each plane, then fly off and leave the rest to the Spitfires?.......
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Post by amanda on Aug 5, 2024 22:43:31 GMT
And for me, spitfires are a nickname of caterpillar that 'spit' so to speak, hence their name. They cluster in big groups in a certain type of tree.
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Post by pdr on Aug 6, 2024 10:30:26 GMT
Some guy on YT has just announced that; "More than half of every plane destroyed in the Battle Of Britain was by a Hurricane." So the Hurricanes would fly in, destroy over half of each plane, then fly off and leave the rest to the Spitfires?....... Nah - the rest was destroyed by moths. Actually for me the far more sobering statistic relates to german submarine crews. We generally regard the german U-Boat campaign against allied atlantic convoys to have been severe with around 5,000ships sunk and over 60,000 sailors lost versus around a thousand U-boats sunk or surrendered with the loss of 28,000 of their sailors. But that hides the bald reality that about 75% of the people who went to sea in a u-boat during WW2 died in that boat. That's pretty horrific IMHO. PDR
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Post by crissdee on Aug 6, 2024 11:06:22 GMT
I remember seeing the captured German one man sub in the IWM a few years ago. Basically a small cockpit over an engine with a giant torpedo either side; i.gyazo.com/321a721d7d072142b2124cb93d815340.pngI was horrified at the thought of just going to sea in the thing, let alone going to war! Apparently, it was found drifting with a dead pilot who had forgotten to shut off the valve that allowed the cockpit to fill up with carbon monoxide from the engine exhaust. Horrible way to go...
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Post by crissdee on Aug 6, 2024 13:34:38 GMT
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