Correction for typo:
Sorry, too early in the day!
OT: The ampersand invasion
Jan 04, 2023
Last reply: 3 years ago
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More likely to say "My brother came to visit myself" nowadays :-(
In programming ! is often called a bang.
It is striuctly the correct form
Nobody does plurals any more, we is always getting that wrong
Please explain.
Indeed. I wasn't 100% sure of the latin so omitted it for brevity, but perhaps should have mentioned the derivation.
And then there's those that don't know that 'criteria' is already plural, being the plural of 'criterion'. But that's mostly non-English-mother-tongue speakers so one should be generous in that direction.
And then there's 'lose' spelled as 'loose'.
Only the Indian commentator (Karun Chandhok) on Sky F1 knew that the plural of of 'apex' and 'vortex' were 'apices' and 'vortices'
Still have proper schools in India
a friend tried to use engine breaking to slow his car down - and the engine broke
Don't forget the singular use of 'criteria'.
I'm usually pretty hot on that, but the one which sounds wrong is comparisons "he is bigger than me" versus "he is bigger than I". We're so used to sentences having a subject and an object that we forget that both "he" and "I" have to be nominative in this case.
I wonder what the situation is in other languages. German uses "er is grosser als ich" (nominative) but French uses "il est plus grand que moi" (accusative) and I *think* that Italian and Spanish also use the accusative (if I've understood the output of Google Translate correctly).
Breaks is one that particularly annoys me. I understand that people make mistakes, but that one is so common in forums that are populated solely by car enthusiasts and who should know the correct word.
I'd have got vortices correct (in the past, I have had to describe how vortex shedding flow transitters work). I would not have known apices.
Not according to the British English spell checker built into Pan News Reader.
I've also heard it called "bang" in programming.
my unfavourite is the use of "drawa" for "drawers"
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I couldn't care fewer.
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I use &c so people think I'm inteligant.
It was two words in Latin
Yes, we Italos used to call it "chiocciolina" back in the days but it sounds too "boomer" nowadays.
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