What happened to English grammar?

Perhaps it sank in the Atlantic.

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There is a butcher's shop in our village which is for sale as a going concern but is, currently, only being ran part-time!

My God! Is that all you can comment on between yourselves in that headline? The grammar? #littleminds

Well, the subject of the headline is "Grammar". WYSIWYG.

The headline is about the death of Sandy Woodward.

(Don't know what those letters stand for)

What you see is what you get jingl - we have missed you!

The heading is about grammar, not the death of Sandy Woodward, but you could start another one about his demise.

The subject of this thread is about grammar, though. If you want to comment on the death of Sandy Woodward, that could have a different title.

WYSIWYG = What You See Is What You Get, or that is what it says on the tin.

Snap.

jingl's right, the headline is about the death of Sandy Woodward!

The title of the thread is concerned with Grammar...

Crossed posts!

OK! My mistake, I typed Headline where I should have typed Title.

There is a sign outside our local florists 'we cater for funeral's, wedding's
etc'. It is written in chalk and it takes all my willpower not to rub out the apostrophes.

Think I thought I was in pedants' corner!

We knew what you meant Elegran

The pedants' corner of the Chat Forum, ana? There! Sorted

I am just surprised that anyone would bother with anything so trivial when the main subject is what it is. Whatever your feelings about the sinking (is it really something to joke about?), the man was a war hero.

Hence the hashtag.

Coming from some who has never trivialised a serious thread, that's priceless, jings!

Thanks for the laugh.

Oh, I did enjoy that, jings! Chuckled my way through some ironing and some vacuuming on the strength of it.Thank you again

Ok! Point me to a serious thread I have trivialized. I'm fed up with these accusations.

#moneywheremouthis

I'm not sure I could, jings, without a great deal of detective work which I don't want to do, and I'm pretty certain I shouldn't even if I wanted to.

Sorry if my comments bothered you. I wasn't complaining about your flippant remarks. Mostly I find them amusing and can see where you're coming from, even if they take me aback rather.

I'm not complaining. No, I just felt you were one of the last people I'd expect to criticise others for making trivial remarks, or for commenting on trivial things since, from my perspective anyway (which may be completely wrong, I grant you), you do both those things quite often.

So I really did enjoy the irony (as I saw it) this morning

There's trivial, and there's trivial.

Indeed. And different people will judge triviality in different ways. If one person has to make allowances for another, that goes the other way too. Nobody's perfect.