Well I could of chipped in with me own pet hate. In fact, perhaps I should of chipped in. I might of posted earlier, but I couldn't of. Can you guess?
It's not picky or petty, its like a bloody splinter under a fingernail. And I'm looking at a thread at the moment that's making me itch...
I was reading Steve Parish's monthly article in Fast Bikes the other evening, all I can say is, he is lucky he could ride a bike as he would never have earned a living as an English teacher.
It has to be said, some of the English in the bike mags is horrendous. I'm certainly no expert in English by any means, but I think EVERYONE should know the difference between "should of" and "should have", and "their, there and they're". And of course the perennial favourite, "your vs you're". On a similar vein, has anyone read about the council that has banned the use of apostrophes in street names? How crazy is that... just because a minority of half-wits are too dense to know when, and when not, to use apostrophes. Lets just dumb down the entire language so that the thickest/laziest members of our society can cope. Rant over... I'm off to start a counter-movement to make it mandatory to use punctuation gestures during all face-to-face conversation (as per a Billy Connolly sketch)
Yes Gappy. The dip shit council contributing to the dumbing down of English as a language is down here. Think I might get me a multicolour pack of felt tip pens and do me some defacing of public property.
I fink "text chat" splet the end of the Eengleesh langwij as we no it. ( i will let you know, i have a ROYAL SOCIETY OF ARTS in the english language) didn't do me any bloody good though. lol!!
