Loosing? Learn the English language, people!

what do you expect when working with deleted

Could of said
What are you suppose to expect?

I assume deleted means the C-word?
If it does then you're right.
I daren't use the word myself as I am using a job computer.

could of..

also 'would of had'

it wasn't the cee word, no, more along the lines of thick as shit pigs

Oh but an awful lot of them are cunts. Not at work now.

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http://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/can-you-spot-the-spelling-blunder-on-this-northern-line-tube-sign-a3162136.html

tfl unable to spell their tube stations correctly

A good caption here:

Drained: A Canal and River trust worker checks the boarding damning the drained canal bed

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/shopping-trolleys-mobile-phones-and-trainers-found-lurking-in-the-depths-of-regents-canal-a3163536.html

That damned elusive drained canal bed...

Cycling News making John Degenkolb sound coy.
“Earlier (on Saturday) I had a full anesthesia so that the wounds on my thing, underarm and lips could be stitched"

Double negatives trouble:

The driver clearly wasn't having none of it

http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/14224322.Cyclist_who_was_knocked_off_his_bike_by_4x4_chased_and_attacked_driver_then_smashed_his_window/?ref=mr&lp=15

(From here: https://www.lfgss.com/comments/12751091/)

Nonplussed.

http://www.thecanary.co/2016/03/21/sinister-video-boris-shows-tories-grasping-straws-battle-london/

Spot the clanger:

Khan has repeatedly used his media space to cosy up to big business. Incredulously, instead of taking advantage of Corbyn’s popularity, Khan is trying to outflank multi-millionaire aristocrat Goldsmith from the right.

Still disappointed in intelligent, educated friends using the American definition of nonplussed.

There's been a flurry of it over the last two months since my last post.

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Michael Geoghegan, the former chief executive of HSBC, held his £8m Kensington townhouse through an offshore company, planning to avoid tax by renting the property to himself.

http://www.theguardian.com/housing-network/2016/apr/08/tax-havens-lambeth-libraries-cuts-panama-papers

Is that an avoid/evade thing? I'm probably missing something more obvious.

It's about the vanishing distinction between 'to let' and 'to rent'.

Ah, quite. So slight is the distinction that I didn't notice.

Actually, in that context (where landlord and tenant is, bizarrely, the same person) there a confusing set of circumstances.

He rents it from himself
He lets it to himself
He rents it to himself
? He lets it from himself ?

I wouldn't call the distinction 'slight'.

Current usage is slipping into things like:

'He rents the flat to his brother.' (wrong)
'He rented out the flat.' (correct but clunky)

He rents it from himself
He lets it to himself
He rents it to himself
? He lets it from himself ?

All correct except for the last one.

How is "he rents it to his brother" wrong, but "he rents it to himself" right?

OED gives rent as a synonym of let.

Lets is dead, rents is the universal word accepted into the newspeak dictionary.
Provided you keep the to and from so it remains clear who is owner and who is renter then let's let the language evolve.

He leases it from himself.

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