Stay Home?

[EFLImpudence]

Yes, things do get decided by the 'stupid' (cough, Trump, cough!) but if it occurs often enough and the use is so high, then it becomes the new norm.

Is that not a very defeatist attitude perhaps encouraged by the modern view that no one shall be corrected for fear of upsetting their feelings?

 

[EFLImpudence]

An explanation of the use of 'do'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do-support#In_questions

 

[fillyboy]

no one shall be corrected for fear of upsetting their feelings?

Doesn't stop me EFL.

 

[IT Minion]

Obviously it is too late for those examples. Perhaps someone should have corrected it at the time.


I don't know when 'fast' came to mean 'hard to move'.

Around the 15th century.

https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/fast.html

 

[sodthisforfun]

Is that not a very defeatist attitude perhaps encouraged by the modern view that no one shall be corrected for fear of upsetting their feelings?

Not defeatist at all. Acceptance (and sometimes amusement) as it has always happened. It's a living language, there is no definitive English. Yes, good to have rules etc but languages belong to the users. If the users start to change things then..

I don't think upsetting any feelings has anything to do with it at all.

 

[IT Minion]

Is that not a very defeatist attitude perhaps encouraged by the modern view that no one shall be corrected for fear of upsetting their feelings?

So, you wish to stand by the sea and order the tide to stop? The French have tried that and are steadily losing.

 

[sodthisforfun]

The other thing I was thinking - the 'should of' instead of 'should have' doesn't bother me. I knew what the person meant. It's used in context really because that's how it sounds & it's perfectly easy to understand. I do sometimes struggle with some posters on here, the English, spelling and grammar are just too rubbish to follow what they say. I guess that's what I mean by communication. Language is to communicate. I'm quite accepting that it's not always written perfectly (esp on a chat forum). I choose my battles over what annoys me!

 

[Munroast]

is this 'worrying about words' a side effect of the plague?

 

[EFLImpudence]

So, you wish to stand by the sea and order the tide to stop?

Know.

 

[motorbiking]

anyway - back on topic.
https://www.college.police.uk/What-we-do/COVID-19/Documents/What-constitutes-a-reasonable-excuse.pdf

I think plod are starting to get the hang of this now that someone has dumbed it down for them.

 

[EFLImpudence]

"Not likely to be reasonable".

Oh dear.

 

[fillyboy]

hehe. 'Not likely to be reasonable'

A person knocking on doors offering to do cashin-hand work.

 

[HERTS P&D]

'No likey - No lighty!' Bring on the girls!

Andy

 

[Munroast]

anyway - back on topic.
https://www.college.police.uk/What-we-do/COVID-19/Documents/What-constitutes-a-reasonable-excuse.pdf

I think plod are starting to get the hang of this now that someone has dumbed it down for them.

"It is lawful to drive for exercise."

I noticed that last night, quite a few of the local boy-racers seemed to be out exercising that right foot

 

[JohnD]

I heard a rumour that people with CV19 symptoms were supposed go stay at home and self-isolate.

And I heard a rumour that people working for the Goverment who, during lockdown, drove hundreds of miles had been forced to resign.

Just go check, were those rumours true?