What happened to English grammar?

Presumably the use of the word 'sunk' is deemed to be wrong....

Joined the Navy at the age of 13, worked his way up through the ranks, both subs and ships, sounds pretty "Boys Own" to me, but in the best possible sense.

Don't ask me. I haven't a clue.

Um... terrible admission here... but what's wrong with the headline? I mean, grammatically?

PS are newspaper headlines obliged to be grammatical anyhow? If so, who sez?

or even

[laugh]

Seriously, am I the only one on here who remembers the Falklands "campaign" as being a terrible shock to the system? We actually sent out a fleet, and soldiers, to war. I don't remember the Korean war.

Not too keen on SW being referred to as a "Boys' Own" hero. tbh.

I don't believe you are ever taken aback Bags. Never!

Traditional is what I meant. As for the apostrophe I checked where it went on Wikipedia . Just testing.

You have . ---Laugh

Well it was originally called Boy's Own Paper so yes! I am being jocular obviously. I just hope I have got the spelling of jocular right.

Surely the point is that at least the sub editor could get it right for a hero. Would it matter if it were a trivial subject? In my opinion yes but we have few enough heroes of the tradional Boys Own Paper so they should make an effort. Now pedants should I have an apostrophe?

But this thread isn't about someone dying, it's about grammar!

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.

There's trivial, and there's trivial.

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

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

#moneywheremouthis

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

Thanks for the laugh.

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

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.

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

We knew what you meant Elegran

Think I thought I was in pedants' corner!

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.