Grammer

[tandh]

hey, which of these is correct please?
I should have told him
I should of told him

[Peter Pedant]

// Can somebody remind me what (sic) is used for in a sentence?//

it is Latin for 'so'
and it shortish for 'that is so' as in "did he really say that ?"
"yes that is so =yes he did "

Lawyers use it to ridicule each other and to high light typos and literals in their scripts. So if they get the date of an act wrong, you write "sic" after the quotation to show what dock heads they are - they dont even know when the act was passed ( and you do)

could of been used quite alot in the recent stateside presidential election

agree mushie
language changes - not according to the academics prescription

NJayz cont reminds me of someone on skis hanging onto a horses tail as it marches forward....
the horse represents the onward march of the English language

Dictionaries record use and not correct use and this accounts for finding 'wrong' meanings for words. Disinterested does NOT mean uninterested but fair or unbiased but the meaning of 'uninterested' is given as a second meaning in a dictionary.

Language is hell as Sartre [ pourrait avoir dit ]

[Cloverjo]

Yes, I know what you mean, jackdaw. As in
'I got a bike for Christmas.' But 'Can I get a bike for Christmas?' Still sounds wrong to my old ears.

[Jackdaw33]

I agree, Clover. I would never say, 'Can I get' when asking for something, just 'Can I have'. I would also never say, 'May I have' as it sounds far too precious today.

[Tilly2]

Does no one else find 'bored of' irritating?

Perhaps it's just me?

[Peter Pedant]

well neither of you were at prep school ....

can I go to the lavatory
yes you can ( = you are able to ) but you may not ....

I dont like
'I'm arn it already,'
you hear so often on CSI / NCIS

[Peter Pedant]

or....
will you stop that already ?

could of been used for trump a lot recently
like Pence might have said it to the actor addressing him a few days ago

[Jackdaw33]

I don't see any real difference between 'bored of' and 'tired of'/'sick of'.

[Jackdaw33]

Already is just used as a synonym for 'now'.

[Tilly2]

'Bored with' sounds better, I think.

[Peter Pedant]

// Already is just used as a synonym for 'now'.//

thank you jacko - I had kind of realised that already

[Jackdaw33]

I agree, Tilly.

[Peter Pedant]

// I don't see any real difference between 'bored of' and 'tired of'/'sick of'.//

yeah I agree with the majority this time
bored means - tired of - or with a sense of ennui
fatigue ( fatty-gay - that one)
longing for another stimulus .....

[jno]

Tilly, I think "bored with" gets confused with "tired of". And there's no actual reason why one should be "with" and the other "of", so I won't complain if they somehow merge; there's no obvious right or wrong there.

[Tilly2]

Bored with, tired of, similar to, different from.

[Tilly2]

I wish I'd never started this......Bored with it now........:-)

[jno]

I can see a sort of logic at work in similar to/different from: similar things might move together and different things away from each other. (So" close to" but "apart from".)

[Tilly2]

You hear 'different from' used a lot. Another irksome thing.

[ichkeria]

There's a huge difference between being tired of sex, for example, and tired by it :-)

[jno]

isn't "different from" correct?

[Tilly2]

'to', I meant! Damn!

Off for some coffee........:-)