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Post by amanda on Aug 7, 2024 23:33:25 GMT
FB comment re the Olympics telecast here: it has been obismal.
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Post by Bondee on Aug 10, 2024 20:51:01 GMT
I'm not sure if it's a typo or it was deliberate. The missing o in "supporting" makes me think it's the former, but my inner immature twat hopes otherwise.
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Post by amanda on Aug 10, 2024 22:54:14 GMT
Who on earth would name their son Virgin?
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Post by amanda on Aug 11, 2024 6:03:01 GMT
Watching the start of the womens' marathon from Paris and one of our commentators said 'Ver-say' when I thought it's Ver-sigh. (change of tv channel here for these Olympics, there's been a bit of criticism)
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Post by alexanderhoward on Aug 11, 2024 7:11:57 GMT
Watching the start of the womens' marathon from Paris and one of our commentators said 'Ver-say' when I thought it's Ver-sigh. (change of tv channel here for these Olympics, there's been a bit of criticism) it could be worse: driving in Normandy, my satnav insisted on calling Rouen 'Ringwong'. In Wales, it does horrid things to pronunciation. The stanav voice is meant to be a guide to the hasselled driver, not a French lesson, but perhaps it could be programmed to differing levels of proficiency in the language? It would be hard to programme BBC presenters to the same individual variations.
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Post by amanda on Aug 11, 2024 8:24:39 GMT
Buses sat nav here in Aus says the abbreviation for Avenue, Ave, as rhyming with save. And spells St for street, as the two separate letters. 'Ess, Tea' Makes for interesting trips at times.
And a sports reporter here has just said 'from injury to insult', I thought it's usually stated the other way around unless he was trying to be 'clever' when it was a story on an injured rugby player.
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Post by amanda on Aug 14, 2024 1:40:02 GMT
FB post by a fellow who researches and writes true crime things: porpers were buried outside the cemetery wall.
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Post by crissdee on Aug 14, 2024 9:17:00 GMT
He sounds partly like a man after my own heart (with the true crime thing), and partly like the kind of person that drives me mad (the spelling thing)......
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Post by amanda on Aug 14, 2024 9:28:21 GMT
His name is Roy Maloy and he has published about six, seven books on the true crime here in Melbourne, specialising in the 1880-1920 era. He later said it was a voice to text issue that spelt it porpers.
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Post by suze on Aug 14, 2024 13:13:19 GMT
That explanation from Mr Maloy doesn't sound entirely true - or if it is true, he needs to get himself some better software.
There is no such word as porper, so his software shouldn't have suppled it. Had he written that porpoise were buried outside the cemetery wall, I'd have been more inclined to accept his explanation.
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Post by crissdee on Aug 14, 2024 16:46:35 GMT
I think I may have vented about this on the old boards, but it's not going away, so I will whinge about it here. There seems to be a new obsession in America with using "whom" or "whomever" instead of "who" or "whoever", and it rarely, if ever sounds right to me. It always seems forced and inappropriate. For example; "My brother , whom passed away from hitting a guard rail on his bike..." How TF does anyone read that and think it sounds ok? And now this!!!! i.gyazo.com/d0945f0aa6a866655647a50dec355709.png
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Post by alexanderhoward on Aug 14, 2024 19:49:44 GMT
Ugh.
I would be happy with it if the use were correct. Is there a term for a person apparently being pedantic, but being wrong?
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Post by crissdee on Aug 14, 2024 20:24:03 GMT
And someone on FB selling a statuette in "exerlant" condition.
I wish I was joking......
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Post by pdr on Aug 15, 2024 9:38:59 GMT
I think I may have vented about this on the old boards, but it's not going away, so I will whinge about it here. There seems to be a new obsession in America with using "whom" or "whomever" instead of "who" or "whoever", and it rarely, if ever sounds right to me. It always seems forced and inappropriate. For example; "My brother , whom passed away from hitting a guard rail on his bike..." How TF does anyone read that and think it sounds ok? And now this!!!! i.gyazo.com/d0945f0aa6a866655647a50dec355709.pngBecause it IS wrong. "Who" references an object where "whom" references a subject. So to turn "He hit her" into a question you could say "Who hit whom?" Sadly some colonials think "whom" is simply a posh/pretentious version of "who" - essentially down to the effect of all that colonial in-breeding on educational standards... PDR
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Post by suze on Aug 15, 2024 16:42:35 GMT
At GCSE level, the use of whom is by now effectively optional. Students are not penalised if they use who instead. This horrifies some English teachers, although not me. Students are penalised if they use whom wrongly.
A level Eng Lang students are expected to know the difference, and it has been asked about in exam questions - although not recently. But even there, they are not penalised for "My aunt, who I live with".
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Post by Bondee on Aug 15, 2024 20:03:27 GMT
Comment beneath a YouTube video about restoring an original Game Boy...
I bet that was a rare treat for the rabbit!
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Post by tetsabb on Aug 16, 2024 9:22:49 GMT
Comment beneath a YouTube video about restoring an original Game Boy...
I bet that was a rare treat for the rabbit!
As ever consent is crucial in these matters.
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Post by Dix on Aug 17, 2024 18:57:11 GMT
Just read through a letter explaining how to return a device when you close down an account with the phone company whose name is a number between one and two. They want the device, the packaging, manuals, etc. including any free gifts received when the account was set up.
That's not a gift, then. That's a loan. How nice of them.
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Post by efros on Aug 17, 2024 19:06:23 GMT
If you hand it in personally make sure you get a receipt for all of the items. We have a company over here that was notorious for this sort of behaviour when closing accounts, Time Warner Cable... shower of bastards.
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Post by eeyoresmum on Aug 17, 2024 23:02:10 GMT
Who on earth would name their son Virgin? Typo - it's Virgil.
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Post by amanda on Aug 18, 2024 9:22:55 GMT
FB comment - 'I thought it was my cat as I couldn't fined him'.
I don't use my phone often enough to know if these suggestions/auto correct are that bad. Or it's because I correct it all the time.
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Post by crissdee on Aug 18, 2024 9:54:42 GMT
......name is a number between one and two...... What number comes between one and two? ? One and a half?......
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Post by pdr on Aug 18, 2024 10:09:07 GMT
......name is a number between one and two...... What number comes between one and two? ? One and a half?...... Well she didn't specify it being in a sequence that was in numerical order. For instance between 1 & 2 in the old directory enquiries phone number comes the number "9"... PDR PS - I presume Dix meant between 2 & 4
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Post by Dix on Aug 18, 2024 10:22:05 GMT
I did, yes. Ooops...
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Post by pdr on Aug 18, 2024 10:26:41 GMT
Just read through a letter explaining how to return a device when you close down an account with the phone company whose name is a number between one and two. They want the device, the packaging, manuals, etc. including any free gifts received when the account was set up.
That's not a gift, then. That's a loan. How nice of them. You should forward that letter to the competition & markets authority, because they are very hot on free offers that aren't (things like "interest-free credit" where there is also a "discount for not using the interest-free credit"). It's also unreasonable to expect people to keep all the boxes, manuals and packaging of items received some years ago UNLESS it was explicitly identified as an obligation on the outside of the packaging when it was originally delivered. Assuming that this is the network provider whose name is a homonym of the square root of the highest number base below denary - we hasd a similar experience back in 2020 when we tried their 4g-based home internet for a working from home solution at the start of lockdown. They provided a "free" router (Huwei 535B) but sadly their 4g coverage in this area was so poor that it didn't work (but an EE SIM provided instant 40-70Mb internet) so we tried to cancel it within the 30-day period. They placed obstacles in the way, didn't respond to emails, never answered the phone etc etc. So in the end I emailed the CEO, cc'd to my MP. That got a response within three hours with one of the CEO's staff taking direct control. He gave me an address to return the kit to (which I did, by recorded delivery) but then tried to claim that the packaging wasn't pristine so I have voided my rights. This was forwarded to my MP and resulted in an email from his office pointing out that this was so far from the legal requirement as to be seen as illegal behaviour, and asking the CEO to confirm it was a mistake unless he wanted the DTI minister to initiate the process for having him declared unfit to be a Director of a PLC. 24 hours later we received an apology email from the CEO's office and confirmation that the contract was voided and all money would be refunded (which it was). Failing that just kick his car and set fire to his duck house. PDR
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Post by amanda on Aug 18, 2024 11:15:06 GMT
That's assuming he has a car and a duck house.....
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Post by Dix on Aug 18, 2024 17:07:59 GMT
I was thinking we should forward it to the people at Which as a first step. I don't think that particular paragraph is relevant in our case, it's more the principle of the thing.
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Post by Dix on Aug 18, 2024 17:21:45 GMT
Fresh from BBCs main news page.
(bear with me while I test the different ways to insert/attach images)
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Post by bigmartin on Aug 19, 2024 8:30:00 GMT
Back from walking the dog and looking at the TV menu to see if there's anything I want to watch whilst having my post-dog-walk coffee. According to that, the Abandoned Engineering programme being shown now has a section on a place that brought life to the planes of Mexico. I'm not actually watching it, so it could be about aircraft, but I suspect they actually mean plains!
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Post by amanda on Aug 19, 2024 11:27:28 GMT
I have to wonder if some people's grasp of the language is so poor that they let this through or they just select the first word that comes:
oh do you no we're.
(re a lost dog being found and taken to the local pound)
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