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Post by theglenbucklaird on Oct 5, 2017 18:08:33 GMT
I'm fairly sure I was taught that approach, I remember being taught it on a BBC Education programme. Can't remember which, though. Words and pictures. The one with Wordy, deffo |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2017 6:18:16 GMT
"He was sat in the stalls." "He was stood in the aisle." Why? Did someone pick him up and put him there? Where has this come from? I don't think we can blame the Americans or the Aussies for this one. Phew, that's a relief. I've just double-checked the seat review I gave @theatremonkey for the Phoenix Theatre. More by luck than judgement, it seems I passed the Tibidabo test. Do I get a gold star, Miss? Alas, I’ll be telling Miss Tibbs that you need to stay in over playtime to go over this again... The gold star looks very unlikely, TallPaul, as when I was looking through the recent posts in the ‘Bad Behaviour’ thread I came across this: Apparently, whilst he's in Chichester, Sir Ian went to see one of the Norman Conquest plays on Tuesday afternoon. So everyone is sat there when, suddenly, a mobile phone starts ringing. Yes, you've guessed it.It's in today's paper, so it must be true!Miss Tibbs is known to be one of our stricter teachers on here; she’ll probably stand you in the corner and get her cane out...  |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2017 11:59:21 GMT
Miss Tibbs is known to be one of our stricter teachers on here; she’ll probably stand you in the corner and get her cane out... ![;)]() Yes, but how will she punish him? Lines. All over the back of his legs. |
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Post by Tibidabo on Oct 6, 2017 13:18:07 GMT
@caiaphas you are a naughty little stirrer. I want you to apologise immediately to TallPaul and offer to give him your ration of pink custard at lunch time for the entire term. Now, whilst I sharpen my wit I want you to sit in silence and think about your actions......make yourself comfortable as I could be some time....📚✂️ |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2017 13:28:42 GMT
You know how there's always one in every class who's the Tell Tale Tit? Hello!  Sorry, TallPaul.  |
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Post by TallPaul on Oct 6, 2017 13:32:52 GMT
Quilty as charged @caiaphas . Believe it or not, me actually woke up in the middle of last night knowing I'd made a right a Charlie of onself. It was either that, or the rodents in the loft. Do you know theglenbucklaird and @theatremonkey that Wordy is also Brain Alridge? |
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Post by Tibidabo on Oct 6, 2017 15:45:10 GMT
Extracts from an email from my payroll department today:-
We did receive a P45 but unfortunately we wasn't able to use the information regarding your tax code.
Once we have received the correct information regarding you tax code, we able to change it to the correct tax code for you.
This literary wonder took a whole week for them to compose.
Please tell me this person is not responsible for deciding how much tax I pay....*headdesk*
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Post by Dawnstar on Oct 6, 2017 18:00:47 GMT
Tibidabo I hope that, should your school need substitute English teachers, they would not borrow them from the payroll department! Today I read an article from 1916 "On slipshod English" so people have clearly been complaining about the misuse of English for a long time. Given the author's views on abbreviations & missing out words like "a" and "the" I found myself thinking that it's a good thing she would have died well before the advent of text messages & Twitter!
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Post by ptwest on Oct 8, 2017 10:16:18 GMT
I get driven mad with the use of "like" as a space filler. Last week one of my pupils asked if they "could have, like, a football." I sent them out with a plastic airflow with the logic that it's like a football, but just smaller and with holes in it.
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Post by Tibidabo on Oct 8, 2017 10:45:58 GMT
I get driven mad with the use of "like" as a space filler. Last week one of my pupils asked if they "could have, like, a football." I sent them out with a plastic airflow with the logic that it's like a football, but just smaller and with holes in it. Brilliant!  When my kids say "I'm done," I ask them if they're medium rare or burnt. |
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Post by ptwest on Oct 8, 2017 11:44:42 GMT
I'll remember that one!
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Post by Rozzi Rainbow on Oct 8, 2017 17:18:20 GMT
I love this thread! My gripes, along with the already mentioned incorrect use of apostrophes and of instead of have, are:
I would of went
Bradley Walsh on The Chase asking contestants "what would you do if you was to win a lot of money today?"
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2017 18:18:03 GMT
Rather grisly one today - the news websites have been talking about the decapitated head of journalist Kim Wall which has been causing me some linguistic grief, as you CANNOT HAVE A DECAPITATED HEAD. "Decapitated" refers to the body that is having/has had its head removed, not the other way round! Heads can be severed, or disembodied, but they cannot be decapitated!
Also I'm reasonably confident the submarine owner murdered her and I hope they find sufficient evidence to send him down HARD.
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Post by showgirl on Oct 9, 2017 3:41:54 GMT
Mention of crime reports reminds me how I cringe when police officers describe events in that bizarre tense they seem all to use habitually, eg "He's gone along here and he's done x" rather than using a normal past tense.
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Post by TallPaul on Oct 9, 2017 13:01:16 GMT
Mention of crime reports reminds me how I cringe when police officers describe events in that bizarre tense they seem all to use habitually, eg "He's gone along here and he's done x" rather than using a normal past tense. I've got out of the habit now, but for a while I used to read South Yorkshire Police's appeals for information. Two of the ones I remember for all the wrong reasons were: "The woman was attacked as she walked her dog along the bridal path." "The man was hit after being beckoned across the road by a stationery vehicle." |
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Post by Tibidabo on Oct 9, 2017 13:43:15 GMT
for a while I used to read South Yorkshire Police's appeals for information. Hmm. The pre-internet version of googling yourself TallPaul...😜😈 |
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Post by TallPaul on Oct 9, 2017 13:45:47 GMT
for a while I used to read South Yorkshire Police's appeals for information. Hmm. The pre-internet version of googling yourself TallPaul ...😜😈 You and your double entendres!! |
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Post by Tibidabo on Oct 9, 2017 13:50:10 GMT
Shouldn't they be in the Strictly thread? |
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Post by TallPaul on Oct 9, 2017 13:59:50 GMT
Shouldn't they be in the Strictly thread? Depends if they're in the rules! |
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Post by tmesis on Oct 25, 2017 21:47:56 GMT
I'm particularly sensitive to this as it is my job, but I have just been reading a forum intended for music teachers and more often than not these instructors are failing to use the correct spelling of practice / practise.
It's really easy:
practice - noun
practise - verb
So
'Mavis must practise her bagpipes more frequently.'
but
'Doris must do her sousaphone practice when she gets home.'
That's made me feel so much better, I think I'll write a duet for Mavis and Doris...
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2017 22:03:00 GMT
I'm particularly sensitive to this as it is my job, but I have just been reading a forum intended for music teachers and more often than not these instructors are failing to use the correct spelling of practice / practise. It's really easy: practice - noun practise - verb So 'Mavis must practise her bagpipes more frequently.' but 'Doris must do her sousaphone practice when she gets home.' That's made me feel so much better, I think I'll write a duet for Mavis and Doris... I agree: it’s easy! Unless Mavis and Doris live and learn in the U S of A, in which case they can practice until they’re blue in the face! With the influx of American books for children as well as adults now, it’s no wonder there is confusion... But I agree. If Mavis and Doris are Over Here, they can jolly well practise! |
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Post by tmesis on Oct 26, 2017 10:33:09 GMT
...and then there's the distinction of licence / license which I don't think exists over the pond.
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Post by showgirl on Oct 26, 2017 11:02:47 GMT
And people speaking of a "registry" office when it's "register". Doubt many genuine registries remain but the Civil Service had them.
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Post by TallPaul on Oct 26, 2017 12:11:13 GMT
I know 'old' names are back in vogue, but what are parents thinking of naming their children Mavis and Doris?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2017 12:27:44 GMT
They're thinking "I would hate my child to get to school and be the fifth Olivia/Ella/Ava in her class, now what names are there that would be quite cute on a baby but still suit her when she's elderly?", at a guess.
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