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[MaxAndPaddy]

There is a school of thought out there which states, if you communicate what you are trying to get across does it make a difference?

 

Language has been changing and evolving since the beginning of time. Technology is probably speeding this up though.

 

For example, "The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool". (William Shakespeare)

 

I'm not saying I agree or disagree with this.

 

The words I cannot abide however, are naink (meaning nothing) and saink (meaning something)

 

I had this argument the other day (admittedly drunkenly), if the purpose of words is to convey meaning and you understood what I meant, then it was fine for me to use those words. 

 

Having said that, what the hell is naink never heard that one before

[Carlos W]

 

There is a school of thought out there which states, if you communicate what you are trying to get across does it make a difference?

 

Language has been changing and evolving since the beginning of time. Technology is probably speeding this up though.

 

For example, "The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool". (William Shakespeare)

 

I'm not saying I agree or disagree with this.

 

The words I cannot abide however, are naink (meaning nothing) and saink (meaning something)

 

I had this argument the other day (admittedly drunkenly), if the purpose of words is to convey meaning and you understood what I meant, then it was fine for me to use those words. 

 

Having said that, what the hell is naink never heard that one before

 

It's an awful word, and means nothing!

[Alex_B]

Personally I understand that language is evolving, its just something that happens naturally. Social media and mobile phones have certainly acted as a catalyst for that however I still think its important to talk 'correctly'. It is just the way I have grown up I guess as I certainly haven't always spoken like this, I was reading some chat logs from when I was at school (5 years ago+ ) and for some reason 'text speak' was my preferred medium of talking, looking over it now and I just want to slap myself. 

But in the grand scheme of things it isn't really important on anything other than official document's. I find it irritating but that's an issue I have because anyone can talk how they like, it's their decision. 

[mini93]

For me, its when people put "for SWOP" but its writen right above the page normaly, SWAP!

 

gahh...

 

Or another thing, when talking to people at work, mentioned in passing windows, as you do... normal subject of conversation for insanely bored people at work... for some reason people feel the need to pronounce it "win-duss"... so I usually reply "what does it do?"

[MaxAndPaddy]

For me, its when people put "for SWOP" but its writen right above the page normaly, SWAP!

 

gahh...

 

Or another thing, when talking to people at work, mentioned in passing windows, as you do... normal subject of conversation for insanely bored people at work... for some reason people feel the need to pronounce it "win-duss"... so I usually reply "what does it do?"

 

Never seen that before but I'm preferring SWOP! I think we should start a campaign to change it 

[Shifty]

Dave, how bored do you have to be at work to discuss windows???

[mini93]

You have no idea...

 

(although it came into conversation when someone released a compressed cylinder which shot up skyward, almost hitting the skylights (windows/WINDUSS!!) bouncing of the rubber floor matt and thwacking me in the arm)

[MaxAndPaddy]

You have no idea...

 

(although it came into conversation when someone released a compressed cylinder which shot up skyward, almost hitting the skylights (windows/WINDUSS!!) bouncing of the rubber floor matt and thwacking me in the arm)

 

that's got accident at work compo claim written all over it....on second thoughts, we have enough contentious threads running at the moment, so scratch that one.

[leeuk]

Ok so now that I've had a cup of tea and I have calmed down since my last posts I would like to apologize to TMF members for my slight rant there.

I would like to think that I am here to share the joys of owning minis and not to be the subject of a thread for other members to come and take the piss out off me.

I didn't join TMF to start falling out with others.

As for the spell check, If any words are not underlined in red then that's it for me,  I have written it how I meant to say it and I shall not be changing my ways now.

Edited by leeuk, 07 March 2014 - 12:16 AM.

[Shifty]

Yam rite orr kidda....

[MaxAndPaddy]

Ok so now that I've had a cup of tea and I have calmed down since my last posts I would like to apologize to TMF members for my slight rant there.

I would like to think that I am here to share the joys of owning minis and not to be the subject of a thread for other members to come and take the piss out off me.

I didn't join TMF to start falling out with others.

As for the spell check, If any words are not underlined in red then that's it for me,  I have written it how I meant to say it and I shall not be changing my ways now.

 

You stick with saying what you want to say mate, can't say anyone's spelling spelling in this thread tonight has hit a high for the queens English (if I even knew what that was) and certainly not my intention to take the mick out of anyone on here.

 

Having just said that, Shifty's last comments has just hit a new low for the forum.... 

[Cooperman]

The one piece of bad grammar that amused me was a few years ago when BMW were advertising the 5-Series. They proudly announced that every BMW went through over 100 separate quality checks and it was this attention to detail which made the BMW - wait for it - different to other cars.

I couldn't resist it. I cut the ad out and sent it to BMW UK with a red pen marking saying: 10/10 for your cars, 2/10 for your grammar - see me after school and write out 100 times: 'Different FROM, similar TO', which is what I was made to do when I was at school and made that mistake.

That ad never appeared again and I did wonder who got the big b******ing over it.

[Shifty]

Dude, don't you speak 'Black country'?   I've had texts from people  that have taken me hours to decipher!!

[MaxAndPaddy]

Dude, don't you speak 'Black country'?   I've had texts from people  that have taken me hours to decipher!!

 

had texts from Jane that take hours to decipher but she doesn't understand the concept of predictive text 

[MaxAndPaddy]

The one piece of bad grammar that amused me was a few years ago when BMW were advertising the 5-Series. They proudly announced that every BMW went through over 100 separate quality checks and it was this attention to detail which made the BMW - wait for it - different to other cars.

I couldn't resist it. I cut the ad out and sent it to BMW UK with a red pen marking saying: 10/10 for your cars, 2/10 for your grammar - see me after school and write out 100 times: 'Different FROM, similar TO', which is what I was made to do when I was at school and made that mistake.

That ad never appeared again and I did wonder who got the big b******ing over it.

 

I'm liking the concept that Cooperman might have got BMW ad execs fired!