What happened to English grammar?

Every generation does it, Jings. WW1 was the "war to end wars" but there has been war going on in some part of the globe ever since. Each time, both sides believe that they are justified, and they are only defending themselves against something.

My mother was born just at the start of WW1, I was born a few months before WW2, my brother just before the Korean war, and when each of my children and grandchildren was born there was fighting going on somewhere. I think we have all looked at our children and hoped that they would be spared.

No I don't like playing wars j08, but I do lapse into irony occasionally.

Actually I thought the problem with the sentence was describing Sir John Woodward as being of the Falklands Navy . Oh dear.

You're right Elegran. You would have thought the world would have grown up by now.

It did actually say that Del! Rubbish journalism all round!

I'm sorry my Kindle Fire insists on calling you Del.

Wow!! I don't look at Gransnet for a day and come back to a lot of fuss about nothing. And before anyone starts up again, I'm not referring to the Belgrano et al, but the grammar reference. I would have thought we all had better things to do than get our knickers in a twist over trivia. Let's hope everyone has kissed and made up by now!

Very helpful post.

j08 hmmmm. As in boy or Delia? Neither applicable but I don't mind a bit of a change. Delilah..

No. I think it meant Del-boy! Sorry.

Ah. Well I have done a bit of wheeler dearlering in my time...wrong appendages though

Janthea - I did not 'get my knickers in a twist' - I simply pointed out a grammatical error, which annoyed me.

And some of us who have spent a considerable part of our career teaching others the basics of our beautiful language would not regard it as trivia . Our foreign students often put us to shame in their desire to speak "correct English".

As a lifelong animal lover, could I respectfully request that this dead horse is spared further flogging?

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MiceElf

To be pedantic (again), shouldn't that be 'hear, hear'? I ask because I often see both versions these days, but was always led to believe it was short for 'hear him'.

Mea maxima culpa

Apologies. I mistakenly thought that it was acceptable to reply to comments from other posters. I won't fall into that trap again.

I'm not kissing anybody.

Thank God for that J08

gorki feel free to reply to my posts. No-one else does