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A national newspaper today.
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Dreadful, it should be 34 000 less plastic, bottles... .
That's definitaly not correct.
Dreadful, it should be 34 000 less plastic, bottles… .
Fewer is correct as the bottles are countable entities.
You perhaps missed the false outrage about the use of "less" on a thread a couple of weeks back, Mister-P. It was just someone being a nob about spelling/grammar as usual.
Not quite sure why but whenever I make a deliberate error in jest people pick up on it as a genuine error but but don't seem to notice the hundreds of typos and abuses of language I make without intention.
Being ernest I came to the conclusion that Internet spelling and grammar pendantry was just being a social nob back on BM in the days when people with spell-checkers thought themselves superior, so steered away from it myself. Thing is spellcheckers don't pick up many errors so it was pretty obvious that it was a spell checker at work rather one of the rare human beings capable of retaining the correct spelling of every word in the language. It still is.
I used to have to produce perfect prose and have a shelf load of redundant dictionaries and grammar books, because I can't remember the correct spelling of every word in one language and speaking several compounds the problem. It's kinda liberating not to have to give a ****.
Not all teachers teach English Language. I can't spell so don't teach English and don't need to grade spelling etc. It's a myth that all teachers should have perfect spelling and grammar.
Also hate when people tell me I've "miss spelled" a word. No, that's how I aimed to spell it and I succeeded. It might be spelled incorrectly but I didn't miss my intention.
Missing punctuation in thread title ? 🤔
I don’t see a problem, I’d have used exactly the same wording.
You lot can actually read the article? The writing is tiny.
It's not tiny, it's just far away
You don't need to read the tiny writing to see the spelling mistake in the headline.
F7
On a phone so no F7 and zoom results in blur.
Lol, didn’t even read the bloody headline. Too busy trying to read the article.
I know of someone who’s child got their school report back a short while ago containing the line ‘he could of done much better...’
I know of someone who’s child got their school report back a short while ago containing the line ‘he could of done much better…’
That is pretty cringey but I don't know that we need all our teachers to have perfect spelling/grammar. I'd much rather they were enthusiastic / inspiring.
For example, I reckon I'd be great at correcting students' spelling mistakes. But I doubt I'd be a good teacher overall.
P.S. Any spelling mistakes in this post are intentional.
MY old English teacher was ace and she immensely resented being treated as a walking dictionary by her friends. Last thing she wanted was to be asked "how do you spell...?" when out for a glass or Rioja.
That headline is just a failure of the writer, editor and software... surely there should have been a squiggly red line underneath?
'Add to dictionary' makes those annoying red lines go away *taps forehead*
I know of someone who’s child got their school report back a short while ago containing the line ‘he could of done much better…’
Whose child. Who's is a contraction of who is.
You perhaps missed the false outrage about the use of “less” on a thread a couple of weeks back, Mister-P. It was just someone being a nob about spelling/grammar as usual.
Shame I missed that. Sounds right up my street.
It's not just pedantry, language is power and to empower people give them the skills to do it well and accurately. You're much less convincing if you don't understand that the LP is a proper noun or can't spell 'ideological' or do apostrophes. This is not egghead tinfoil sixth-form stuff, it's Yr 9!
Teachers and spelling pedants assemble.
Assemble what?
surely there should have been a squiggly red line underneath?
And a deadline...It's a process failure rather than a software failure.
And fewer.
Assemble what
A newspaper headline please.
You've done it again!
/pedant