Annoying words and phrases
Marketing bollocks, buzzword bingo, or your mum saying "fudge" when she really wants to swear like a trooper. Let's ride the hockey stick curve of this top hat product, solutioneers.
Thanks to simbosan for the idea
( , Thu 8 Apr 2010, 13:13)
Marketing bollocks, buzzword bingo, or your mum saying "fudge" when she really wants to swear like a trooper. Let's ride the hockey stick curve of this top hat product, solutioneers.
Thanks to simbosan for the idea
( , Thu 8 Apr 2010, 13:13)
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Shakespeare was a bad example;
he just made it up as he went along.
www.rediculous.co.uk/
( , Tue 13 Apr 2010, 14:56, closed)
he just made it up as he went along.
www.rediculous.co.uk/
( , Tue 13 Apr 2010, 14:56, closed)
Elizabethans generally did. Their approach to spelling and grammar was liberal to say the very least.
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( , Tue 13 Apr 2010, 15:00, closed)
because no one could read and write
but now nearly everyone can, there is no excuse.
( , Tue 13 Apr 2010, 15:35, closed)
but now nearly everyone can, there is no excuse.
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Yebbut language is always evolving, innit?
Part of that is through common misspelling. Look at "OK" - the origins of that are already getting lost in the myftf of thyme.
Aluminium likewise - the Shermans are right, we're wrong - the i was put in by Europeans who didn't like the spelling, which was originally linguisitically more accurate.
( , Tue 13 Apr 2010, 15:53, closed)
Part of that is through common misspelling. Look at "OK" - the origins of that are already getting lost in the myftf of thyme.
Aluminium likewise - the Shermans are right, we're wrong - the i was put in by Europeans who didn't like the spelling, which was originally linguisitically more accurate.
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