Forums may have already said this but

before the doctor and Amy get in the tardis at the end the doctor says:

Some we've forgotten or rather you have.
You didnt know them Amy.
You've never seen them before and you should of done.
You Should.

Any Ideas what this could mean?

simple planets in the sky everybody on earth should of witnessed it.

i know that but does this mean that the amy is more than she seems

might be, she has always had something missing about her.

Actually, he says "you should have done". Because "should of" makes no grammatical sense.


Yes, everybody on Earth should have witnessed it. But Amy didn't remember it because the Dalek invasion had been erased from history by the cracks at that point in time. That was kind of the point.

There were several threads about this last year.

Really appreciate what you're doing but i don't think anyone cares about grammar. Stop playing the teacher.

I'm afraid you are wrong. Quite a lot of people care very much about grammar. More than they care about Doctor Who, even.

And the use of the phrase "should of/would of" etc is extremely annoying to such people.

Hasn't anyone who uses that phrase instead of the correct form ever read anything? Did they sleep through English lessons at school?

I am not a teacher, btw.

I care about grammar.


Which is teaching's loss, frankly. I don't know what they're paid for these days' but teaching English certainly doesn't seem to be part of it.

my school never tought punctuation to me, I had to learn it quite recently, thats how bad education these days is slipping.

I love the grammar. It's the kids I couldnt stand.

Yep, this was the Doctor being tipped off that things were disappearing from space and time.

I like grammar - she always gives me Werther's

Quite. I think the ghastly "should of" has eclipsed "different to" as my own private Hell.

Though that is also very annoying.

I passed my English exams with flying colours, but I won't go rushing to correct everybody who makes a mistake on a forum. It's slightly snobby, at the very least.

If having standards makes one a snob, I'm more than happy to be one.

Likewise. Earl Grey, DB5?

how come all forums go off in another direction

I care as well. However, this isn't grammar, it's just using the wrong word, like saying elephant instead of Tardis.

Brilliant

I don't know, but to slip into PG Wodehouse mode, I think it's just Capital-full stop.


Actually, it's mistaking a conflation of two words-'should' and 'have'-for a nonsense phrase comprised of two separate words.

'Could/would/should of' is surely one of the most understandable slips in written English, simply because 'could've' is pronounced exactly the same as 'could of'.


It cracks me up that people who correct others on the internet inevitably make some sort of slip themselves in the same thread. In this case it's 'just' a stray apostrophe, but, still, it makes the sentence completely nonsensical. No doubt I'll have made a slip myself in this post, thereby completing the circle



Perhaps you should both brush up on accepted English usage - 'different to' is completely acceptable in British English, and as far as I know always has been. Fowler’s Modern English Usage (Oxford University Press) would be your best bet.

Brace yourselves before you read it though - Wikipedia is quite correct that Fowler 'opposed all pedantry, and notably ridiculed artificial grammar rules not warranted by natural English usage'.

It's not a 'conflation' at all, it's a 'contraction'. Basic English grammar...

Written English is not the same as spoken English.

"Different to" was not acceptable when I was learning English grammar. Perhaps standards have relaxed since then?

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