Pedants corner
Can I just say, "definitely" please?

"Definately" is wrong.

And it's "could have" or "should have" etc.

Not "could of".


Bloody English.
Conquer half the known world.
Create the worlds greatest literature and cant even speak your own language.

Go raibh maith agat!
rafter
baz
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Fri 30 Jan 2009, 12:32, 23 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

yeah!
You tell 'em, baz!

They come over here... steal all our bibles... burn down our houses... break all the milkjugs... eat all our potatoes... and then have the audacity to not speak proper.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 30 Jan 2009, 12:37, Reply)

Also
It's specific not pacific.
(oneinthepink is at your cervix m'lady, Fri 30 Jan 2009, 12:37, Reply)

RIGHT ON!
and other suchlike phrases denoting approval.

BURN THEIR VILLAGES, KILL THE JEWS, MAIM JEREMY BEADLE
(tiger blood and Adonis DNA, Fri 30 Jan 2009, 12:40, Reply)

you're right
we come over there and take all your land,
we cut off your heads and boil them in oil,
your children are leaving and you have no heads,
so you'll drink and you'll sing and you'll drink and you'll die

We have no heads, no we have no heads!
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 30 Jan 2009, 12:44, Reply)

More importantly
They should have their eyes gouged out for not using the words 'Most important"

Why does that one grate so?
(MrOli is ugly, but in the morning you will be sober, Fri 30 Jan 2009, 13:04, Reply)

And another thing
It's "another thing coming", not "another think coming". That one makes me stabby.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Fri 30 Jan 2009, 13:18, Reply)

I was on your side with this
until I looked it up a while ago.

Consensus is that it's "another think coming"

stupid I know, but true.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 30 Jan 2009, 13:52, Reply)

Can I add to the list with
It's "Could NOT care less" not "Could care less" *seethes*
(darras jeg har en grevling i hodet. Grevling, grevlang, Fri 30 Jan 2009, 13:22, Reply)

Shouldn't that be "Pedants' Corner" ?

(MrOli is ugly, but in the morning you will be sober, Fri 30 Jan 2009, 13:28, Reply)

is probably a fair point, Mr Oli
I won't Ninja it. I shall suffer my humiliation like a man.

Here's one for our colonial cousins:

It's not "As far as..."

It's "As far as (something) goes/is concerned etc".
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Fri 30 Jan 2009, 13:30, Reply)

And it's "go raibh maith agaibh" not "agat."

( Dr Preference AjcuiVd289, Fri 30 Jan 2009, 13:31, Reply)

isn't
'agaibh' the formal address?
Edit: and plurals, I'm presuming. My Irish is very, very shit.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 30 Jan 2009, 13:33, Reply)

Agaibh is the second person plural.

( Dr Preference AjcuiVd289, Fri 30 Jan 2009, 13:34, Reply)

out-pedanted
Go raibh maith agat, Dr Preference.

I think we've all learned an important lesson here.
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Fri 30 Jan 2009, 13:37, Reply)

You don't hear Irish much where I come from,
aside from slogans on the wall. There is a thriving Ulster Scots community nearby, though. Everyone takes the piss out of them.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 30 Jan 2009, 13:37, Reply)

CHCB a "thriving" Ulster Scots community?
You mean an annual march?
( Dr Preference AjcuiVd289, Fri 30 Jan 2009, 13:39, Reply)

@CHCB
Have you seen the 'Celebrate our Ulster-Scots heritage' ads?

"Dinnae houl back!"
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Fri 30 Jan 2009, 13:39, Reply)

Oh yes, marching...
but also "bilingual" Ulster Scots/English roadsigns and streetnames and lots of guff about "heritage trails", most of which seem to involve looking wistfully across 12 miles of Irish Sea to the Scottish coast. I say, if they like it so much why don't they go and live there, etc, bah,
*waves copy of Daily Mail*
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 30 Jan 2009, 13:41, Reply)

@baz
does that mean that anyone talking like a Norn Iron culchie can have a massive grant from some equality body? Happy days!
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 30 Jan 2009, 13:42, Reply)

right back @ CHCB
as long as you're suitably attired and you're carrying a "scian dhu", then I think you're good to go.
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Fri 30 Jan 2009, 13:43, Reply)

The "Bord O' Heritaage" advertised for an Ulster Scots translater a couple of years ago.
The only guy to pass the exam was a lad from Dundalk who went in pissed and made up the translations for everything on the paper.
( Dr Preference AjcuiVd289, Fri 30 Jan 2009, 13:44, Reply)

Some council prick keeps sticking Gaelic public signs around my town. This town has never spoken Gaelic - it has Norse roots. Some marketing bastard is trying to jump on the Gaelic bandwagon at the expense of fact.

Gerrrrrrr
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Fri 30 Jan 2009, 14:58, Reply)

mmmm
That has me wondering, I wonder if I can get the Japanese gov to put up a few signs. Irish is in great danger of dying out around here, there's only 7 of us on the whole island.
(knackerz is skinning up, Sat 31 Jan 2009, 1:17, Reply)