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OwlsFan
11/12/2007, 4:44 PM
Doing a job yesterday and this wan came up to me talking about it. She then goes, 'It gets very monogamous' instead of monotonous;)
Was she a wolf in cheap clothing?
sligoman
11/12/2007, 4:48 PM
Was she a wolf in cheap clothing?No?:confused:
pineapple stu
11/12/2007, 5:42 PM
You should emphasis your point next time using a balister, which is a type of cross-bow (from the Latin ballein - 'to throw').
Greek, not Latin. You should know all Latin infinitives end in -re. ;)
No?:confused:
It's a joke based on the thread title. Read it again...
OwlsFan
12/12/2007, 9:13 AM
It's a joke based on the thread title. Read it again...
Obviously wasted as he doesn't have extra-century perception ;)
Obviously wasted as he doesn't have extra-century perception ;)
"waisted", surely.
OwlsFan
12/12/2007, 10:11 AM
"waisted", surely.
:confused:
Apologies. I didn't signpost my joke. Let me re-try:
"waisted", surely. ;);):rolleyes: etc. etc.
pineapple stu
12/12/2007, 4:23 PM
Now THAT'S ironing! :D
osarusan
12/12/2007, 4:43 PM
Well, I think this thread is dumb and dusted.
One that really bugs me, though it's a mispronunciation, rather than using the wrong word, is people who say tremendjus. Let me say this for the benefit of such people .. there.is.no.****ing.J in.tremendous. Got it ? Grrrr.
Oh, and one for our northern contributors please. Why do you use "whenever" instead of the correct word, "When" e.g "whenever I had my dinner yesterday" How many times did you have your dinnner ? Very annoying.
kingdom hoop
12/12/2007, 10:37 PM
Oh, and one for our northern contributors please....
Northerners do have their own quare dialect. Not sure, being from Kerry (mind you the first thing Lim till i die said to me when he met me was that I was very well spoken for a Kerryman!) that I'm in a position to complain though.
But anyway, a Donegal friend of mine used to always say 'but' at the end of a sentence when I would use 'though'. Like, 'Tim, are you going to the shop?' 'Aye, it's raining but.' Used to really annoy me, I think usage has abated recently but.
In general Irish people's pronunciation is pretty poor I think, but it adds variety so I try not to get too caught up in any nerdishness. (but over emphasising the -ise at the end of words such as compromise, or emphasise itself, is one I can't go left unsaid though, a little beat noire of mine) Likewise, jumbling metaphors should be embraced. One fine example came from An Seanad in 1961 when it was said that parent-teacher committees might prove to be "the thin edge of the wedge which opens the floodgates and torpedoes the whole system of education." :D
Jerry The Saint
13/12/2007, 10:04 AM
I'm pretty sure this was deliberate but it's a fine example from the thread on Padraig Harrington :)
(I know he's always been class, but he didn't rest on his lauras)
Having more than one Laura to rest on is just being greedy :D
gustavo
13/12/2007, 10:08 AM
Their can be no doubt in my opinion that this thread should of been started earlier but fare play to all concerned for highlighting there annoyances.
osarusan
13/12/2007, 1:33 PM
Gustavo, I guess you're post will be in vein.
OwlsFan
13/12/2007, 1:38 PM
That's a pigment of your imagination.
sligoman
13/12/2007, 6:46 PM
Lads enough talk, be quite now!;)
ramsfan
13/12/2007, 7:03 PM
ear or year?
big debate bewteen a mate of mine and my girl friend.... i have to agree with my mate on this one i think its play it by year but the gf thinks otherwise..... come lads join my gang... or shoot my theory to pieces :D
oh and how do they get the fig into the horrible fig rolls?
shocked to find mojopin has a girlfriend,and are wetalking about the biscuit or some kinky thing you have goin on:D
kingdom hoop
13/12/2007, 7:05 PM
I'm pretty sure this was deliberate but it's a fine example from the thread on Padraig Harrington
Having more than one Laura to rest on is just being greedy :D
:) Yeah it was deliberate. Honest! Pretty funny one, if I may hail so myself. Oh God, this is all going down like a lead baboon. :D
strangeirish
13/12/2007, 7:41 PM
Yep, fair Jews to one and all!
sligoman
13/12/2007, 7:54 PM
This thread is a big turnip for the books!
OneRedArmy
13/12/2007, 10:11 PM
Northerners do have their own quare dialect. Probably true, but. But I still chuckle every time someone asks me to "pass me a scissors". WTF?:confused:
sligoman
13/12/2007, 10:32 PM
Presuming they actually want a scissors...what's wrong with that?:confused:
kingdom hoop
13/12/2007, 10:37 PM
Probably true, but. But I still chuckle every time someone asks me to "pass me a scissors". WTF?:confused:
Hmmm, strange one alright. All I can of is that you were in a gay bar, and were in fact, seemingly unbeknownst to you, being asked to give a two-fingered variation of a hand job - as in passing the scissors, or two fingers if you will, up and down, up and down, up and down, until satisfaction was secured, and thus the scissors passed sufficiently.
That's the only explanation I can think of. :D
OwlsFan
14/12/2007, 7:15 AM
Here here!!
Presuming they actually want a scissors...what's wrong with that?:confused:
I presume he means it's they can want a scissors all they like, they won't be getting any. The scissors, on the other hand...
KevB76
14/12/2007, 5:51 PM
Does anybody remember a KitKat ad from years ago, it ended with the phrase "no rest for the wicked". I thought it said "no rest for the weekend" :o
One really annoying word I remember from my primary school days was "bokkel" instead of bottle. I've even heard adults pronounce it this way :eek:
There was a kid in my class named Hugh, but everyone called him You :D
sligoman
15/12/2007, 12:55 PM
I presume he means it's they can want a scissors all they like, they won't be getting any. The scissors, on the other hand...Ah whatever, pedantic Pat:p
Pedantic Pat should have two capital Ps! :p :D
Nah was just explaining for ORA. Personally it's not something that gets my ghost. Wahey! We're back on track! :D
OwlsFan
30/12/2007, 8:59 AM
I heard Ronnie McFaul, the manager of Portadown, being interviewed on BBC NI about him being awarded an OBE in the Queen's New Year's Honours List. He said he was "humiliated by the award" as opposed to, I think, "humbled by the award". :D
I presume he means it's they can want a scissors all they like, they won't be getting any. The scissors, on the other hand...
But what if there's two scissors in the room. How can both be referred to as the scissors:p
Wolfie
15/04/2009, 12:58 PM
"Almost always" - Isn't always a definitive way of describing something?
You either always do something or you don't.
pineapple stu
15/04/2009, 1:15 PM
Eh, no you don't.
I almost always ignore this thread, but I made an exception this one time.
Wolfie
15/04/2009, 2:02 PM
Eh, no you don't.
I almost always ignore this thread, but I made an exception this one time.
In keeping with the thread - I was referring as to whether "almost always" is gramatically correct!!
pineapple stu
15/04/2009, 2:15 PM
But almost always is just a little bit short of always, surely? My post used a practical example to highlight this. (An example which I'm making more redundant by the reply...)
What about "almost never"?
Wolfie
15/04/2009, 2:26 PM
But almost always is just a little bit short of always, surely? My post used a practical example to highlight this. (An example which I'm making more redundant by the reply...)
What about "almost never"?
I think "almost never" is gramatically incorrect also.
In gramatical terms, I think words like "always" and "never" are classed as definitive and cannot be qualified with words like almost and nearly.
pineapple stu
15/04/2009, 2:43 PM
Going to have to disagree with you on that. Almost always simply means 99 times out of 100, for example. Don't see any grammatical problems with that.
Rovers1
15/04/2009, 3:44 PM
Ah whatever, pedantic Pat:p
:eek:
osarusan
15/04/2009, 10:25 PM
- I was referring as to whether "almost always" is gramatically correct!!
In gramatical terms, I think words like "always" and "never" are classed as definitive and cannot be qualified with words like almost and nearly.
Not so. "Almost" is an adverb, and adverbs can be used to modify other adverbs, in this case "always" and "never", which are adverbs of frequency.
Wolfie
16/04/2009, 12:11 PM
Not so. "Almost" is an adverb, and adverbs can be used to modify other adverbs, in this case "always" and "never", which are adverbs of frequency.
So, to be clear, its gramatically correct to use "almost always" , "nearly never", "almost forever" in a sentence.
Good God. I sit corrected so. I'm off to re-think my entire life and all assumptions within it.
osarusan
16/04/2009, 12:16 PM
its gramatically correct to use "almost always" , "nearly never"
Both are grammatically correct.
"almost forever"
This one is wrong. "Forever" is an adverb of time, not frequency.
Gramatically, it is the same kind of word as "tomorrow".
You can't modify them with "almost".
Wolfie
16/04/2009, 12:22 PM
Both are grammatically correct.
This one is wrong. "Forever" is an adverb of time, not frequency.
Gramatically, it is the same kind of word as "tomorrow".
You can't modify them with "almost".
Interesting. I knew the law of averages would dictate that I'd eventually learn something on this site :).
pineapple stu
16/04/2009, 12:29 PM
This one is wrong. "Forever" is an adverb of time, not frequency.
Gramatically, it is the same kind of word as "tomorrow".
You can't modify them with "almost".
Wouldn't that imply that I can't say that it's "almost 2 o'clock"?
osarusan
16/04/2009, 12:34 PM
Wouldn't that imply that I can't say that it's "almost 2 o'clock"?
If the sentence or example you are thinking about is along the lines of "It is almost 2 o'clock", then "o'clock" is modifying the noun, or pronoun "it", it is not referring to the time any action is being done.
"I'll do it at 2 o'clock" would be using "o'clock" as an adverb of time, referring to the time "it" will be done. You couldn't put "almost" into that sentence.
EDIT : But when I said "almost" can't be used to modify "forever" and "tomorrow", I was talking about them specifically, rather than examples of a general rule.
Wolfie
16/04/2009, 1:25 PM
Nice one.
To paraphrase "Blazing Saddles" - "Never mind that sh*t!!! - Check out Totty Watch!!!!!!!!!!" :D :D
kingdom hoop
16/04/2009, 11:12 PM
To paraphrase "Blazing Saddles" - "Never mind that sh*t!!! - Check out Totty Watch!!!!!!!!!!" :D :D
So does that thread keep 'The Wolf from the Whore' then - for a while at least?
Wolfie
25/11/2010, 12:45 PM
Someone just explained to me that they are being used as "an escape goat".
It threw me for a few seconds.
They meant "scape goat".
that reminds me i heard one last week. Not the worst offence in the world but worthy of a mention
"perverting the courts of justice"
DeLorean
25/11/2010, 3:03 PM
To my eternal shame, I also used the wrong expression for a while. I would tell ye what it was, but I don't want to upset the apple tart.
thischarmingman
25/11/2010, 3:51 PM
"...all my talk of food was only a dead herring"
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5kCTazFFt0M/RpRIZ593jVI/AAAAAAAAArA/Tf7AUfA3V8o/s320/Baldrick_series_3.jpg
Someone just explained to me that they are being used as "an escape goat".
It threw me for a few seconds.
They meant "scape goat".
http://images.icanhascheezburger.com/completestore/2008/9/2/escapegoatis128648410209322532.jpg
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