Reply to: What a lot of people on this forum need ...

[malvolio]

Siarad Cymraeg, os gwelwch yn dda?

No chance - I'm originally from Sir Benfro...

Hwyl mawr

[wc2]

Change hands after 99, stops you getting cramp!

Bloody good idea these things get really cold.

[SupremeSpod]

Excellent !
Well done on finding a link.
Thoes were the days!

Right then I'm off to do something less boring instead.

Change hands after 99, stops you getting cramp!

[s2budd]

Excellent !
Well done on finding a link.
Thoes were the days!

Right then I'm off to do something less boring instead.

[wc2]

S2budd.

You must be too young to remember

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/ti...ydontyou.shtml

[wc2]

A life ?
Some people post far too much on this forum.
Why don't you... Go and do something else less boring instead.

That sounds a good phrase for a TV program!

So Why don't you

[s2budd]

What a lot of people on this forum need ...

A life ?
Some people post far too much on this forum.
Why don't you... Go and do something else less boring instead.

That sounds a good phrase for a TV program!

[wc2]

I think that the Welsh are taking over this forum.

As we only speak in English I would like to take the contractoruk forum to a tribunal "My feeling have been hurt"

Where I duh live people duh do things like say who's coat is that jacket

"Is that the sun or the moon"? - I don't know I'm from Port Talbot.

They all star in films like - Fist full of Giro's

[threaded]

2 additonal smart cards

Is that a do-it-yourself national ID kit?

[RSoles]

Here's what's needed, check out the description :-

http://www.lidl.ie/ie/home_ni.nsf/pa....20051212.p.PC

[wendigo100]

It might be a "living language" - whatever the feck that means, but hey, just because you lack the education to be able to construct a sentence, why should I waste my time trying to decode it?

Quite. Employers, customers, and anyone else we need to communicate with on a professional level are entitled to be of the same opinion.

[SupremeSpod]

It might be a "living language" - whatever the feck that means, but hey, just because you lack the education to be able to construct a sentence, why should I waste my time trying to decode it?

This is a local forum, for local contractors!

[malvolio]

Point proven, perhaps, dear boy, but to quote OED:

There is little difference in sense between different from, different to, and different than. Different from is generally regarded as the correct use in British English, while different than is largely restricted to North America.

However I'm Welsh. Out in the wilds where I come from, we say "different to"

[thunderlizard]

different from


hth

tl

[malvolio]

but not eating, shooting and leaving...

Let's face it, anyone under about 35 years old will not have been taught to construct and deconstruct English, so we can't really complain that they can't do it proper like what us old farts prefer.

But hey, it's a living language. What we use now is different to what I was taught, to what the Victorians used (go read Dickens) and what the elizabethans used (go read Shakespeare). I write properly because I can and because I get a degree of pleasure out of it. It doesn't make my generation right and modern English wrong.