The Little Things'Hullo chaps', bellows Richard McBeef, of 'the internet' fame. My boss has managed to make 'shown' into a two syllable word and it drives me round the fucking bend. Tell us about the little things that people around you do, which annoy you for more than they rationally should. Vent your spleen.
(, Fri 18 Mar 2016, 8:47)
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I can't even fall back on the defence that grammar does and ought only to reflect use.I'm too much of a prescriptivist for that.
Darn it.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Tue 29 Mar 2016, 15:10,
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you'll just have to accept that your knowledge of linguistics is cretinous at bestHTH
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Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Wed 30 Mar 2016, 7:54,
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