Re: Grammar Police : Sat Jan 28, 2017 5:07 pm  

Ferocious Aardvark wrote:

It's important to people who believe in education and learning. It isn't to those who think that education, like life, is "do the minimum you can get away with".

Not knowing the difference between "no" and "know" or "between your" and "you're" is embarrassing to the former group, but irrelevant to the latter. Or they say it is, but probably it's just too hard and so like science and facts, maybe in the new era it's easier to just make up your own version and claim your alternative is equally valid.

This debate is actually just a small backwater of the active dumbing-down that has been going on for decades, and has now reached frightening levels, we even have had guys on here who believe, or at least are prepared to consider, that the earth is flat. The disregard for learing spelling is a less important part of the general disregard for teaching and science, and the rise of religious and superstitious nutjobbery.

What!

HUGE announcement - according to F A the earth is not flat!

Ger owta ere - no wuns gunna belleve that!

Everyone nose the earth is square

Re: Grammar Police : Sun Jan 29, 2017 11:02 am  

Ferocious Aardvark wrote:

It's important to people who believe in education and learning. It isn't to those who think that education, like life, is "do the minimum you can get away with".

Not knowing the difference between "no" and "know" or "between your" and "you're" is embarrassing to the former group, but irrelevant to the latter. Or they say it is, but probably it's just too hard and so like science and facts, maybe in the new era it's easier to just make up your own version and claim your alternative is equally valid.

This debate is actually just a small backwater of the active dumbing-down that has been going on for decades, and has now reached frightening levels, we even have had guys on here who believe, or at least are prepared to consider, that the earth is flat. The disregard for learning spelling is a less important part of the general disregard for teaching and science, and the rise of religious and superstitious nutjobbery.

Yet many people who are not in the former group have gone on to achieve many great things, maybe they are embarrassed that those people spend more time checking grammar than actually fulfilling their potential.

Re: Grammar Police : Sun Jan 29, 2017 8:22 pm  

Greg Florimos Boots wrote:

Yet many people who are not in the former group have gone on to achieve many great things, maybe they are embarrassed that those people spend more time checking grammar than actually fulfilling their potential.

Complete non sequitur. Or do you seriously propose "checking grammar" leads to failure to fulfil potential? That's pretty head scratching stuff.

Re: Grammar Police : Sun Jan 29, 2017 10:33 pm  

Lose and loose.

Am instead of I'm.

Re: Grammar Police : Sun Jan 29, 2017 11:18 pm  

Has anyone covered "I 'brought it' from the club shop" yet ?

Re: Grammar Police : Sun Jan 29, 2017 11:46 pm  

Ste100Centurions wrote:

Has anyone covered "I 'brought it' from the club shop" yet ?

Ste, yer can't whack a Good Circus.Charlie knows.

Re: Grammar Police : Tue Jan 31, 2017 10:30 am  

Damp squid. Damp squib.

Re: Grammar Police : Sat Feb 11, 2017 2:03 pm  

Bradford Bulls ‏@OfficialBullsRL

REMINDER: The Team Shop is open until 5PM today!

Come down and collect your Season Ticket to avoid big cues tomorrow!

Good to see the new owners finally making more use of Odsal's facilities, looks like the Gigantism World Snooker Championship is being held there tomorrow.

[Bulliac]

Re: Grammar Police : Sat Feb 11, 2017 3:58 pm  

le penguin wrote:

Good to see the new owners finally making more use of Odsal's facilities, looks like the Gigantism World Snooker Championship is being held there tomorrow.

Haha, the curse of the spellchecker!
Unless he's using a sodding phone, in which case he has my sympathies!

Re: Grammar Police : Sun Feb 12, 2017 1:00 pm  

Bulliac wrote:

Haha, the curse of the spellchecker!
Unless he's using a sodding phone, in which case he has my sympathies!

Whoever that is controlling it has made the same mistake more than once. It seems to be the same person doing the website stories too. I assume it's some kind of office junior who didn't do A-Levels and failed his GCSE English.