The Should Of thread

[Lee Lifeson-Peart]

Re: I suggest we trial dropping TMO “Protocols”.

at the risk of upsetting my fellow pedants i've reported this thread to the mods, in the hope they'll intervene and ask us all to play nicely and refrain from pedanticism...

Or pedantry! :biggrin:

 

[Dickie E]

I like turtles!

I kind of like turtles too

 

[dave_clark]

Re: I suggest we trial dropping TMO “Protocols”.

Or pedantry! :biggrin:

spoilsport :biggrin:

 

[Adam]

It's turtles all the way down.

I turtley agree...

 

[Browner]

Re: I suggest we trial dropping TMO “Protocols”.

Careful Browner or the Grandma police will be after you:rc::rc::rc:

Careful for what ? .... I can't see that I've made a post ...... ( cue twighlight zone music) :chin:. You must be dreaming Chrisj

When the GP interject, best to merely retort with "there their they're"

However my favourite is :

 

[Ciaran Trainor]

Great thread hijack.
Despite attending a Grammar School my English is pretty poor, I hated the subject.
My one pet hate is "Can I get a ...." instead of "Please can I have a ...." (usually a skinny latte frappuccino or other such crap)

 

[The Fat]

I cnduo't bvleiee taht I culod aulaclty uesdtannrd waht I was rdnaieg. Unisg the icndeblire pweor of the hmuan mnid, aocdcrnig to rseecrah at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mttaer in waht oderr the lterets in a wrod are, the olny irpoamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rhgit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whoutit a pboerlm. Tihs is bucseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey ltteer by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Aaznmig, huh? Yaeh and I awlyas tghhuot slelinpg was ipmorantt! See if yuor fdreins can raed tihs too.

 

[menace]

Fcuk taht was birliant Ftaty!

So not olny do I lkie turtles, but I like trutels too!

 

[The Fat]

Yro'ue wcolmee

 

[OB..]

I cnduo't bvleiee taht I culod aulaclty uesdtannrd waht I was rdnaieg. Unisg the icndeblire pweor of the hmuan mnid, aocdcrnig to rseecrah at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mttaer in waht oderr the lterets in a wrod are, the olny irpoamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rhgit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whoutit a pboerlm. Tihs is bucseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey ltteer by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Aaznmig, huh? Yaeh and I awlyas tghhuot slelinpg was ipmorantt! See if yuor fdreins can raed tihs too.

The explanation is false. People actually rely heavily on the shape of a word. I remember one experiment where the Prime Minister's name and address was flashed briefly on a screen. Everybody recognised it immediately even though there were numerous misprints - all of which had roughly the same shape as the correct letter eg "e" for "o" or "c".

Note that the mini-anagrams leave most grammatical markers unchanged. The restriction means that all 3-letter words (and, the, for, are) are unaffected, and four-letter words (that, what, only) are easy anagrams. This gives you a head start on the structure of the sentences. However I bet everyone had to slow down to solve the longer words.

 

[RobLev]

The explanation is false. People actually rely heavily on the shape of a word. I remember one experiment where the Prime Minister's name and address was flashed briefly on a screen. Everybody recognised it immediately even though there were numerous misprints - all of which had roughly the same shape as the correct letter eg "e" for "o" or "c".

Note that the mini-anagrams leave most grammatical markers unchanged. The restriction means that all 3-letter words (and, the, for, are) are unaffected, and four-letter words (that, what, only) are easy anagrams. This gives you a head start on the structure of the sentences. However I bet everyone had to slow down to solve the longer words.

...or even the shorter ones: can anyone decode "fdreins" without looking back at the context and spending a few seconds working it out?

Regardless: misspelling may not make the meaning indecipherable, but it slows down the deciphering process.

It's a matter of common courtesy for me; if I want to be understood, it's up to me to make the effort to ensure that my message is clear, and I shouldn't force my audience (such as it may be by now) to do the work.

 

[crossref]

people should of course try and communicate clearly.

 

[Daftmedic]

Turtles?

 

[Dickie E]

Great thread hijack.
Despite attending a Grammar School my English is pretty poor, I hated the subject.
My one pet hate is "Can I get a ...." instead of "Please can I have a ...." (usually a skinny latte frappuccino or other such crap)

or even "Please may I have a ..."

 

[Dickie E]

Great thread hijack.

Indeed. Even the title has been hijacked

 

[Lee Lifeson-Peart]

Great thread hijack.
Despite attending a Grammar School my English is pretty poor, I hated the subject.
My one pet hate is "Can I get a ...." instead of "Please can I have a ...." (usually a skinny latte frappuccino or other such crap)

HONNNNNKKKKKKKK!!!!!!

 

[L'irlandais]

Re: Re : I suggest we trial dropping TMO “Protocols”.

...didn't Robbie take a stance over this a while ago by asking for a stop to all grammar pedanticism biggrin?

Something like that ; He asked if "referees always need to be so pedantic?" Though he was speaking about leggings/black boots ; others quickly mentioned the "local" grammar police.

also worth a browse :
Change in Forum Rules.

Remember please, it's a simple rule, if you can't say it, post it or write it at your work, or in your society newsletter/Website, then it probably shouldn't be posted here either.