Reply to: There's only one o in losing!

[HairyArsedBloke]

Even heard one Brit saying they were having a 'side bar' instead of a separate discussion!

When I am out in the colonies (past and present) I hate being called a ‘Brit’.

In response to me saying “I’m going outside, where’s me titfa?”, I had a septic once say to me, “You Brits! You’ve got funny words for every fang”. What is wrong with “I do so admire the many wonderful colloquial expressions that the British Isles contributes to the world. That one is an example of Cockney? By the way, your hat is over there, my Lord”?

[Diver]

aspirational/aspiring
Americans
Briton

Please, please, your weeping with gratitude is too kind.

Aaargh! My eyes, my eyes

[Bob Dalek]

Where I work there [is] a lot of wannabe americans. Always saying 'reachout' instead of contact, skedule instead of shed - ule (schedule), FYI instead of for your information.

Even heard one Brit saying they were having a 'side bar' instead of a separate discussion!

aspirational/aspiring
Americans
Briton

Please, please, your weeping with gratitude is too kind.

[BolshieBastard]

Where I work there a lot of wannabe americans. Always saying 'reachout' instead of contact, skedule instead of shed - ule (schedule), FYI instead of for your information.

Even heard one Brit saying they were having a 'side bar' instead of a separate discussion!

[Diver]

Exacerbate & exasperate. Where were these morons schooled?

[Bob Dalek]

Exacerbate & exasperate. Where were these morons schooled?

[oracleslave]

Yes! I would have bought that to your attention earlier.

He's not biting

[Diver]

and brought and bought.

Yes! I would have bought that to your attention earlier.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

and brought and bought.

[Diver]

I hate people who don't know the difference between averse and adverse or affect and effect

I'm not adverse to receiving criticism for improper use. I have found that a minor slip in their usage has no averse affect.

I don't want to appear to be effecting an aura of tolerance though.

[oracleslave]

Oh, and gits who don't know the difference between advise and advice and can't spell licence or defence

Yes those are indefencible errors

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Oh, and gits who don't know the difference between advise and advice and can't spell licence or defence

[oracleslave]

I hate people who don't know the difference between averse and adverse or affect and effect

Hate is such a strong word.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

I hate people who don't know the difference between averse and adverse or affect and effect

[swamp]

Nah, only for persistent offenders. Grammar transient blindness is interesting though. For instance you can write something that appears grammatically acceptable at the time, only to discover 10 or minutes later that that once reasonable looking prose has begun to transform into its final illiterate form. Transient grammar and spelling blindness doesn't appear in works of others though, or in older works of one's own making where even the smallest of grammatical and spelling errors leap out from the page. A Dutchman once told me there was a word for it in Dutch, or perhaps it was German. It wasn't autism.