Was that an old prop from the Kevin Eldon thing?
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Quote: zooo @ March 25 2011, 12:04 PM GMTWas that an old prop from the Kevin Eldon thing?
It was. Expect to see the Time Hat make an appearance in a low budget sketch soon!
Quote: zooo @ March 25 2011, 12:04 PM GMTWas that an old prop from the Kevin Eldon thing?
It sits on my mantlepiece
Aw. I think that's what many houses are missing - a massive fishy claw.
A lot of linguistic pedantry is just that. The purpose of grammar and punctuation is to clarify; so long as the meaning is obvious that is all that matters. For instance fewer or less are both antonyms of more; if more can serve without confusion in either context, then it follows that it does not really matter if you use less instead of fewer, the meaning is clear.
Nor do I worry too much about obvious typos based on homophones; I talk estuary, so occasionally I am going to type 'of' instead of 've". It is not good, but it happens.
Sloppy punctuation is less excusable, but there are worse crimes. I do get irritated where words have their meaning distorted through sheer ignorance. It literally makes me quite cross.
Neologisms, back formations, business metaphors etc, I like; they are about the playful use of language, thinking outside the box if you will. And grist to the mill of the humourist, who is always trying to find new and surprising ways of saying things (it is a reason so much humour ages so badly).
What does piss me off enormously is management speak where a string of quasi-technical terms and half-understood buzzwords are strung together into a chain of incomprehensible gobbledygook.