Loosing? Learn the English language, people!

A lawyer just said “mute point”. A lawyer.

The Reagan's home? Or their grocer's apostrophe?

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Takes the piss

People need to stop using none as a prefix when you mean to use non.

They don't need to, they just ought to.

They don't need to, they just ought to, no? Y'all.

seen just now on the BBC website

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My sister took her school photo to a local framer in Somerset. The irony is not lost on her.

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Very early in my career, I got hundreds of sticky laminates printed for customer comms teams which included the phrase 'Check spelling and grammar'. I didn't check the proof properly and - of course - they'd changed it to 'grammer'. Got in a lot of trouble for the budgetary waste.

Leafy streets lined with art galleries and shops have been singed beyond recognition

I think they've been a bit more than singed.

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/13/boy-survives-fall-grand-canyon

"Rescue crews had to repel down the cliff..."

I think they've been a bit more than singed.

Will, I don't think understatement counts as not having learned the language. If it did, most things the English ever wrote or said would qualify to be in here.

This isn't a thread for criticising inaccuracy. It's a space for people who know nothing about linguistics but have learned a few trivial "rules" (mostly arbitrary style choices whose context is long gone) to sneer at people who didn't learn the same trivia. This is a thread for mocking people who don't use Typesetter's Quotation. Bonus points if you have no idea why it has that name or how it came to be (and why it's pointless).

Aside from Greengrocer's Comma, of course. That's the spawn of the devil.

Yay, I got bonus point’s for not knowing what Typesetters Quotation is. But does the statement that it’s pointless mean I don’t get the point?

The point's just in the wrong place 🙂

Periods inside of quote marks are a nice historical quirk, but belong absolutely nowhere near anything written after the invention of the typewriter

i learn it then i lose it, i have a loose grip on it, but i would nonetheless claim to be a ‘good’ writer when i want to be. I am amazed at how well some people on here write. I am sure that’s because they are good writers but surely also because some of them are self-conscious writers? most of the time i’m on my phone and don’t give a fuck

The Standard trying to be down with the Cockneys:

There is Cockney rhyming slang for nearly everything. “Apples and pairs” refers to “stairs”

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/london-cockney-rhyming-slang-international-beer-day-b1098566.html

Every time I play an Assassin's Creed game, my apostrophe usage goes to pot. The other players don't help; nobody seems to be able to talk about more than one assassin without inserting an apostrophe.

Is it just one assassin's creed, or is it several assassins' creed or creeds?

One fella. You have to borrow it before you can go kill someone. Every week, there's always somebody who forgets to return it.

I received an email today that said: "...I don't believe I met the fresh hold for..."

What does that even mean, what was the subject?!

I think 'threshold' was the target word, 'imbecile' was the actuality.

Oh. I’m more the imbecile then…
I shouldn’t drink on a Monday