eh?
"An 18-year-old woman who was killed with two other teenagers when a car hit a tree had recently learnt she was pregnant, it has emerged."
How can a dead person learn they were pregnant?
(, Mon 2 Mar 2009, 11:42, Reply)
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elevates you to the rank of Grammar Ubergruppenfuhrer.
You would have been elevated to Grammar fuhrer if you had called them a Schweinhund.
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DrPrunesquallor is determined to post more as of, Mon 2 Mar 2009, 14:27,
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had learned recently.........
that she was a teenager and also a woman, and was confused by the piss poor journo.
It is a hairy area between being a teen and a woman and if there isn`t a hairy area she is a teen not a woman!
If I remember correctly the auntie guidelines for journos ( not word for word, so shoot me down in flames ):
[the use of the Amercanism "teen" is to be deprecated due to its misleading attributes.
If it is used it should be restricted to those below voting age/the age of legal consent for sexual intercourse, after considering the context.
Persons over 16 and/or 18 are technically men and women. In the interests of accuracy they are best best described as a young man or young woman, or man or woman with their age featured. "an 18 year old woman"]
"Teenagers kill 30 Taliban in successful army rout of terrorist stronghold" looks a bit wrong?
(, Mon 2 Mar 2009, 15:26, Reply)
Sounds like an excellent Enid Blyton novel though
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Angry Boss Bee I love horses, death to other animals, Mon 2 Mar 2009, 15:31,
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nah! biggles
"young biggles kills the darkie ragheads"
Actually you are right, that could be Blyton at least thematically too!
(, Mon 2 Mar 2009, 15:42, Reply)