June & July Observations
The Daily Mail is masterful when it comes to outrageous fuck-ups in the English language. Headlines in the Online version commonly display a complete lack of awareness, and a dumbing down to a denominator I did not think even existed. For Example:
Police say: 'think of her family' as they urge driver to give themselves up
Suddenly a driver becomes "themselves" - only really appropriate if the driver is schizophrenic. This is a regular kind of mistake, and just a part of the complete ignorance of the difference between singular and plural, something that shows the cunts who write cannot even count let alone display basic grammar skills. Collective nouns seem to present journalists will real problems nowadays; but more of that in a moment. First, let's have another example from the Daily Mail.
Ray Quinn practices skating manoeuveres with a surf board.
In English, the noun is practice with a 'c' whereas the verb form needs an 's'. Anyone who things the longest word above is spelled correctly is beyond help, even if they don't know that in English, it is 'manoeuvres'.
Report blasts them for negative affects of tourism.
Another classic last week from the Mail Online, with the writer ignorant on the difference between 'affect' and 'effect'.
Radio throws up some verbal tripe as well. Dr Chris on Radio 2 talked about "eating healthier" rather than eating "more healthily" - in other words, he used an adjective instead of an adverb or adverbial phrase. Jonathan Edwards managed to commentate with: "He has absolute no chance" and I'll leave you to decide if that's right or wrong.
On to the singular/plural aspect, and mass nouns, there are so many examples of stupidity that it proves the English language is not so much evolving as being fucked over by thick cunts. The Mail Online leads the way, as you'd expect. For example:
Prince Charles calls for more affordable homes for young people and less tower blocks just for the rich.
As ever, there is complete ignorance and unawareness that whilst 'more' and 'less' are indeed opposite, the former can attach itself to mass nouns and count nouns, while 'less' is only appropriate for mass nouns. 'Fewer' is the equivalent for count nouns. So, more chairs, more sugar; less sugar, but FEWER chairs. There would soon be an outcry is people said "fewer sugar", or "I'd like fewer coffee in my cup, please".
What do the underdog need to do?
This was the pathetic utterance by Dan Walker recently, on Saturday Sport. This bloke is paid to present, yet cannot manage seven words that make sense!
A brief visit today (Sunday) to a garden centre threw up a couple of things; the first was courtesy of the radio; the DJ on the station TFM managed to say:
Today's criteria is xxxx
Obviously a level of ignorance has established itself rather well in the DJ fraternity. I was so disappointed slightly later on to find that the ability of people to cope with words derived from Latin is in very short supply. At the garden centre, there was attached to it the obligatory aquatic centre, were people can purchase overpriced fish and all the supplies necessary to create a paradise for tropical fish in any urban home. Sadly the retailer has managed to use signage that I found deplorable. I refer NOT to the useless labels that referred to the "Mangers Special", which was an apostrophe short of proper English, but to the criminal dumbing down whereby the signs confirmed a new plural of aquarium as "aquariums" instead of "aquaria". I have no idea why were are all suppose to be happy to cope with 'bacteria' (even though many forget it is a plural) and yet 'aquaria' is apparently beyond anyone in modern Britain. Do we all talk about "cleaning the bacteriums in the bathroom" then? Of course we fucking don't. A retailer of aquaria should have some cunting self esteem and pride in referring to its products properly!
In a news item recently, I acknowledged the efforts of the presenter who was in a crematorium talking about the 'crematoria' when it came to the plural. If such and effort can be made for this word, why the fuck are football stadia now 'stadiums' then?
She Ate
A complete wanker on the radio last week decided to reinvent the pronunciation of "differentiate" and I wanted to strangle him. The normal and proper "differ-en-she-ate" became the preposterous "differ-en-see-ate". I wondered if this was the same cunt whom I'd heard on the radio a couple of months back uttering "ray-see-o" instead of "ray-she-o" [ie. ratio]. This obsession with fucking words to hell by deciding a letter can be re-interpreted is abysmal. It all started twenty five years ago with the first cunt who said "ne-go-see-ate" instead of "ne-go-she-ate". It this a fucking abomination or what! [NO, not "abomin-a-see-on"]
Radio 4
This station is now to be avoided, if the listener is expecting any quality to the standard of English employed by its presenters, newsreaders or guests. As for someone by the name of 'Amy' whom I listened to at the end of June, I can only say 'what a twat'. She referred to someone "humming and harring".
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