Plural's

R.P.L said:
DO IT.



One of my favourite things is when I correct someone on a spelling or grammatical mistake that they've made repeatedly and they blame it on a typo. I usually don't bother these days though because most people don't give a ****, and if they did then they probably wouldn't have made the mistake in the first place.
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I just read my wife's job application through and corrected "talked to" to "talked with" throughout. Grammatically fine, but it's the feel of the thing...
 
Heh that's reminded me of working for the police. Almost every single officially marked internal document used as reference by officers/staff no matter the rank had multiple instances of apostrophe abuse and bad grammar. These were documents created in MS Office so the default dictionary would have pointed out these errors but these people just don't care one bit. The only department where there were minimal to no errors like that was in forensics. Seems the technically savvy and recently graduated paid more attention to writing properly :p
 
R.P.L said:
DO IT.



One of my favourite things is when I correct someone on a spelling or grammatical mistake that they've made repeatedly and they blame it on a typo. I usually don't bother these days though because most people don't give a ****, and if they did then they probably wouldn't have made the mistake in the first place.
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You have a redundant comma and some questionable clause structure which I wouldn't have otherwise pointed out.

I still understood you though.
 
[FnG]magnolia said:
How much time did you spend with your internal monologue: "Add a full stop / No, it stands on its own merits / NO HELL YEAH I DONT KNOW, STUFF" :cry:

But also thank you. It's ok to say thanks to each other :thumbs up:
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What makes you think I spent any time thinking about it?
 
Jean-F said:
I have no wish to start WW3 here, but I can’t be the only one who is amazed at the amount of nouns in these posts that have miraculously become apostrophised when they become plural, e.g. car’s, door’s, window’s, cat’s, instead of cars, doors, windows, or cats.
I’m no English major, but it looks so obviously wrong when you see it :confused:
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See I can understand it the other way, laziness means one or 2 less keystrokes depending on device and people will figure it out but adding them takes effort to be wrong!
 
ttaskmaster said:
To advise me of their presence and that they were holding position for me to move, yes... But I don't just take their word (or flash) for it. I make sure the way is actually clear first.
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Wooooah there buddy.

The rules of the road state a flash is to inform you they are proceeding and you are to stay put!!

On motorcycles the flash button is even labeled the "passing light".(can you imagine the chaos if we actually used it to indicate an overtake?)

You've interpreted the rules 100% wrong!

But somehow you've never noticed your error was so g
 
Terminal_Boy said:
Death by rectal insertion using honey badgers.
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Your suggestion is unclear. Are you proposing to use honey badgers as some kind of tool to insert something else (if so, what, and how do the honey badgers add value to this process?) or are you planing to insert the honey badgers themselves (in which case you should probably have said “of” instead of “using”.
 
Tefal said:
Wooooah there buddy.

The rules of the road state a flash is to inform you they are proceeding and you are to stay put!!

On motorcycles the flash button is even labeled the "passing light".(can you imagine the chaos if we actually used it to indicate an overtake?)

You've interpreted the rules 100% wrong!

But somehow you've never noticed your error was so g
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I don’t know to which rules of the road you are referring, unless it’s the Highway Code, and I haven’t looked at that for sixty plus years, and you seem to me to be too intelligent a person for me to argue with, but it certainly doesn’t work that way with truckers, (as in if I flash, it means stay where you are).
Hopefully Scania will back me up if he sees this, but if two truckers are heading toward each other on a road, and there’s e.g. a parked car, meaning one of them has to give way, the one who cedes the road will flash his headlights once.
This means, and every trucker knows this, come on through, I’m giving way to you.
There are other vehicle light signals that truckers use, which car drivers may have seen but not understood.
If a truck overtakes a slower truck, as soon as the overtaking truck is far enough past the the one being overtaken, the overtaken driver will flash his headlights, this means that you are far enough past me now, you can safely move to the left.
The truck that has been flashed will wink his tail lights twice to say “thanks pal”, or some drivers will flash their hazards once or twice to say thanks.
 
Tefal said:
Wooooah there buddy.
The rules of the road state a flash is to inform you they are proceeding and you are to stay put!!
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"110
Flashing headlights. Only flash your headlights to let other road users know that you are there. Do not flash your headlights to convey any other message or intimidate other road users.

111
Never assume that flashing headlights is a signal inviting you to proceed. Use your own judgement and proceed carefully."
https://www.highwaycodeuk.co.uk/other-stopping-procedures.html

110 says nothing about either party proceeding or staying...
111 is why I said I never take their word for it.

Tefal said:
On motorcycles the flash button is even labeled the "passing light".(can you imagine the chaos if we actually used it to indicate an overtake?)
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In the UK it again lets them simply know you're there. Works great when you're each approaching a tight corner from the opposite direction.
In other markets where such bikes are sold (mine doesn't say PASS, by the way), they do flash for passing, but if there's a UK law covering this I'd be interested to see...
 
Jean-F said:
I have no wish to start WW3 here, but I can’t be the only one who is amazed at the amount of nouns in these posts that have miraculously become apostrophised when they become plural, e.g. car’s, door’s, window’s, cat’s, instead of cars, doors, windows, or cats.
I’m no English major, but it looks so obviously wrong when you see it :confused:
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Hi there, yes...( This is not correct grammatically. But if you mention possessives, the correct British grammar prescribes using cars', doors' etc. So you won't get away from the apostrophes no matter how hard you try:p:D
P.S. Don't have a clue why people use singulars instead.
"Hey! Don't touch this money. It's door's!"
 
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