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Dear Casualty writers - please don't do that! |
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Over the years we Brits have put up with a lot of bad habits crossing 'the pond' but the camel's back was finally broken in last week's episode of Casualty.
Noel was talking about the price of train fares and his present for his daughter, Honey. He said, "I had intended to 'bring' it to her". NO, NO, NO, Noel! You weren't there with her, you weren't talking to her or someone in the immediate vacinity of your daughter, so you wanted to TAKE it to her. It's bad enough in books & films set in the states but this is step too far. I've flinched everytime I've heard daytime presenters talking about taking goods to 'ockshun'. If they're going to start 'bringing' things there, it's quite possible my head might explode. So, Casualty writers, I don't know what you were thinking of, but, please, stamp it out now! Many things get up my nose such as "aksk" instead of "ask" but that's just how some people say things. |
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Gawdon Bennet! Many people speak differently an' what makes us all distinctive. Some writers'll write fer da character not fer perfect English. For example some speak cockney, an' would yew 'ave perfect English in Poldark fer everyone. OK?
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Another real head exploder is starting a sentence with the word 'SO' - truly truly dreadful grammar.
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So you wouldn't recommend it then? Oops. What am I like?
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What rubbish - they can't even spell the words correctly - tire as in car 'tyre', color instead of colour and where does nite come from? The list is almost endless. We are not discussing the use of Anglo Saxon english rather the more modern version.
I already explained about the spelling of 'colour'. 'Nite' is a variant spelling arising in the advertising and entertainment industries. It is not the standard US spelling of night any more than revue is the standard British spelling of review. |
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any more than revue is the standard British spelling of review.
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But that is correct usage of 'So' as a sentence starter, meaning "As a consequence..." or "In which case...".
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But revue and review have different meanings.
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But revue and review have different meanings.
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Nope. 'Revue', meaning review, was borrowed from the French to give the entertainment a bit of class and pizzazz. The entertainment meaning was then re-imported by France. There are also some examples prior to that of English using 'revue' specifically as a variant spelling of 'review' in the sense that we know it.
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Indeed, and historical irrelevances aside, 'revue performance' and 'review performance' are not things you really want to be mixing up! Not without a generous expense account at least.
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This must be the most ironic post I've ever read on the forum.
We ARE still using some of Shakespeare's English as he is well known for inventing new words, and if there was any one person who contributed more to the evolution of the English language it might be Shakespeare himself. |
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I shall choose the response that best reflects my own vue.
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If it wasn't clear, I was referring to the evolution of speech/writing since Shakespeare's day. As far as I know not many people say "Peace, ho" these days when they mean "Quiet, please".
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Don't make me bring Susie Dent into this. Cos I will. You see if I don't!
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Yes, if there is anything that does irritate me its that.
It has infuriatingly caught on. I was almost ready to put my foot through the TV.
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Nope. 'Revue', meaning review, was borrowed from the French to give the entertainment a bit of class and pizzazz. The entertainment meaning was then re-imported by France. There are also some examples prior to that of English using 'revue' specifically as a variant spelling of 'review' in the sense that we know it.
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My pet hate is 'kiLOMetre' for kilometre - kilo meaning thousand.
Other irritants are the misuse of the word 'random' and the tendency, particularly the young, to say the word 'like' in the wrong context. For example: 'I was like ...' |
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Other irritants are the misuse of the word 'random' and the tendency, particularly the young, to say the word 'like' in the wrong context. For example: 'I was like ...'
So I was like basically.......... ![]() ![]()
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This isn't a debate about the origins of words in the english language, it's more about grammar and how words are used.
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