Sinister goings on?

[DamperMan]

Hopefully he finds his meds and returns to a more calm condition.

[DonPeffers]

On 12/19/2016 at 23:01, DamperMan said:

Hopefully he finds his meds and returns to a more calm condition.

Note the phrase 'more calm'.  Used to be calmer. No criticism intended.

Perhaps language is changing but I first noticed this about 4 years ago on weather reports where the weatherperson would say tomorrow will be 'more cold' instead of colder.

The best example was football pundit Roy Keane on ITV saying   in the second half Real Madrid must try 'more hard'----- when I expected the word harder.

Perhaps insignificant but this is Stuff & Nonsense.

[Nemesis]

I reckon we're all a tad warped twisted or insane..... why else would we drive motors with the crash resistance of a crisp packet?

I've also noticed that 'Fluent Gibberish' and 'Political Correctness' seem to go hand in hand, but using a footie pundit as an example of what can be said and how..... now that's got to be a new level of unwell....

Nem.... 

[DamperMan]

4 hours ago, dpeffers said:

Note the phrase 'more calm'.  Used to be calmer. No criticism intended.

Perhaps language is changing but I first noticed this about 4 years ago on weather reports where the weatherperson would say tomorrow will be 'more cool' instead of colder.

The best example was football pundit Roy Keane on ITV saying   in the second half Real Madrid must try 'more hard'----- when I expected the word harder.

Perhaps insignificant but this is Stuff & Nonsense.

A phrase like "More hard" compared to "harder" is interesting as for me there is a subtle difference in meaning... For me...   "More hard" giving an extra meaning they are already working hard but they should do more.  Where as "working harder" does not give any starting level..

I guess I'm entirely wrong with this subtlety...    I have absolutely no idea!!!!!, I find it interesting.     English as a language is wonderfully fluent.  There are a million different ways to say the same thing. Even if we have said the wrong thing we know that it means, mostly!.  Spoke English is constantly changing.    In fact we all have personal variances and then the regional variations are fun also.   Also with such a large % of UK residence being born out side the UK this will be affecting and injected into spoken Spoken English.   I was born in Wales and English was a second language for many folk where I lived (not me).  They often constructed their sentences quite differently which will of influenced my own learning of spoken English.     Other languages like German are much more structured than English and as such don't change over time so dramatically.  I'm "proper" dyslexic and I think rather than trying to teach me to run and know what a verb, noun,pronoun is, my teachers just stayed at step 2, "spelling".   So I write as I talk, with little though of sentence structure etc.    For me writing is just a for recording information or passing on information...    If you guys can understand great :).... if you can't "sorry!.(i'm not really .).   I guess I'd like to be able to use all the right words I the right order and with correct spelling.    

If was King! and wanted to sort this mess out................ 

We'd not have two different meanings for the same word.    

We'd lose the U after Q since is they are always together lets assume its there... Any qestions?

 I'd definitely look at the use of adjectives....  More hard (harder), Less hard (softer),  more bouncy (bouncier), Less bouncy (??), more powerful (powerful-er!), Less powerful (?).   More old (older), less old (younger).      Using 2 words seems to work fine without needng to sometimes convert  word system seems to work as a constant rule where as the conversion to one word. ..  

 

  

 

                  

Edited December 21, 2016 by DamperMan
crap spelling

[Captain Colonial]

12 minutes ago, DamperMan said:

We'd loose the U after Q since is they are always together lets assume its there                 

You meant "lose", not "loose".  Unless you were trying to set the "U" free from imprisonment.

Loose = something is not tight

Lose = you've lost something and it fell off because it was loose

/pet pedantic peeve

//not "lets", it's "let's" in this case because it's a contraction of "let us" and so needs an apostrophe

///pedantry shoes back off

[DamperMan]

                                                                                                                  

[pistonbroke]

The written word is always ambiguous and open to interpretation . 

for e.g.

The word "Set" alone has 464 different meanings in the Oxford English dictionary !

 

 

[Man On The Clapham Omnibus]

I blame the Yanks...

[Captain Colonial]

1 minute ago, Man On The Clapham Omnibus said:

I blame the Yanks...

Don't see why not to, I think they can be blamed for just about anything from now until 20th January 2021 at the earliest.

[DonPeffers]

I see Scott is referring to the Trump Presidency which starts 20Jan2017 for 4 years.

What if he gets re-elected?--would the blame extend until 20th Jan 2025?

[Captain Colonial]

25 minutes ago, dpeffers said:

I see Scott is referring to the Trump Presidency which starts 20Jan2017 for 4 years.

What if he gets re-elected?--would the blame extend until 20th Jan 2025?

Yes.  This is automatic.

i know that man can make America what it once was - a vast barren wasteland devoid of all intelligent life.

[Man On The Clapham Omnibus]

Scott, I must put you in touch with my good friend Dennis from South Carolina. He is an otherwise intelligent man, but not only did he vote for Trump, but it was NOT because of the God-awful alternative! He'd have done it anyway! Dennis is a thoroughly decent, very generous man in his seventies, and he was born in Montana, lived a long time in Florida, and worked until recently in North Carolina in a research centre (center?). George Bernard Shaw said that we and the Americans are two nations separated by a common language. By that I think he meant that just because we speak nominally the same tongue, it doesn't make us similar at all. I realise that you hail from across the pond, but you've seen the world outside the USA and have a foot in each camp I assume. Dennis lived and worked in London for several years in the 1970s (that's how I know him), but he seems to have now gone native again. Fascinating subject...

[Nick Algar - Competition Secretary]

3 hours ago, Scott Young - WSCC Chairman said:

Yes.  This is automatic.

i know that man can make America what it once was - a vast barren wasteland devoid of all intelligent life.

Sometimes I think it's already there

Anyway, back to the Picture, I presume normal service will be resumed after the May AGM 

[Captain Colonial]

15 minutes ago, Nick - Joint North East AO said:

Sometimes I think it's already there

Anyway, back to the Picture, I presume normal service will be resumed after the May AGM 

Once I retire, I'll have LOTS more time to find these dangers to society.  Captain Colonial will return!