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What happened to English grammar?

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Greatnan Tue 06-Aug-13 07:15:56

Headline in The Daily Mail:
The death of the man who sunk the Belgrano: Falklands Navy hero Sir John 'Sandy' Woodward dies aged 81

Nonu Tue 06-Aug-13 22:01:07

There well may be a gransnetter feeling distressed for all we know !!

There are a great number out there !!

j08 Tue 06-Aug-13 21:54:51

You are actually helping to turn it into a mountain. It had pretty well died a death! grin

absent Tue 06-Aug-13 21:47:01

j08 Thank you for suggesting that I have a superior brain. I am deeply flattered. Lord Carrington, who I am sure you remember resigned over his mistakes about the Falklands, explained it very clearly.

Just for the record - is there a single gransnetter out there feeling distressed because criticism of a sub's grammar in the Daily Mail has reopened their sense of loss concerning the death in the Falklands campaign of someone they knew? Alternatively, has this whole thread turned something rather smaller than a molehill – a pimple, perhaps – into a mountain?

Stansgran Tue 06-Aug-13 21:28:16

Churchill said Jaw,jaw,jaw was better than war,war,war. But then he died before he could join Gransnet. Might have changed his mind.

Ana Tue 06-Aug-13 21:27:15

I still think this thread should have been in Pedants' Corner and not in Chat. If it had to be started at all...

j08 Tue 06-Aug-13 21:24:26

"albeit with the intention of returning".

grin Right. They should have just waited. hmm

JessM Tue 06-Aug-13 21:23:41

absent grin
Probably having a bit of a party in Buenos Aires tonight then.

j08 Tue 06-Aug-13 21:22:57

Just oput of interest, how would you have avoided it? Given them the Falklands. Even though the islanders didn't want that.

Please allow us to benefit from your superior brain absent.

j08 Tue 06-Aug-13 21:19:47

Of course, in any war it's much more sensible to turn away and let the enemy kill you, isn't it? hmm

j08 Tue 06-Aug-13 21:17:57

It was a campaign. And people died. And were horribly wounded.

j08 Tue 06-Aug-13 21:16:34

Oh God. I'm too tired for more claptrap. hmm

Ana Tue 06-Aug-13 21:13:32

Oh, absent, your post actually made me laugh out loud! grin

The whole thread is ridiculous really, isn't it?

absent Tue 06-Aug-13 20:53:23

I don't bloody believe it! I have never read anything so ridiculous as all this nonsense about insensitivity. Can't you people find something meaningful to argue about rather than a hypothetical gransnetter who had a hypothetical close relative or friend killed in a stupid and wholly avoidable skirmish (that's what it was officially) in 1982 and who is deeply wounded by comments about a sub-editor's grammar in an article about someone designated a naval hero who is best remembered, if remembered at all, for killing lots of other people by sinking a ship that was, at the time, sailing away from so-called British waters (albeit with the intention of returning).

Bags Tue 06-Aug-13 20:24:35

We didn't have a mobile phone either, jings. Not sure they'd even been invented. But we were also lucky to spot someone within shouting distance — me stuck on a four inch ledge and him lying below in agony. We hollered and were lucky yet again because it happened to be a park ranger (also in Snowdonia, you see) who had a walkie-talkie radio with him. Phew. It could have been much worse without such luck!!

Ana Tue 06-Aug-13 20:05:22

It's catching! grin

Ana Tue 06-Aug-13 20:04:20

We grows up, Jing? confused

Galen Tue 06-Aug-13 20:02:52

No! GROWN UPS!!!!!!!

Galen Tue 06-Aug-13 20:01:48

Did! Fat finger!

j08 Tue 06-Aug-13 19:58:39

I think you mean grows up (we). Not "grow ups".

j08 Tue 06-Aug-13 19:57:21

absolutely!!! smile

Galen Tue 06-Aug-13 19:56:40

Quite!
I suggest (note only suggest) that we, grow ups, stop this childish bickering.

j08 Tue 06-Aug-13 19:54:31

You were luckier than my son Bags! Twisted his knee out of socket up Snowdon. No phone signal. On his own. hmm Had to scramble down on his bum. Crawled to house near bottom of mountain, asked if they could call an ambulance for him. They refused and shut the door! His tutor finally came out for him and took him off to hospital.

j08 Tue 06-Aug-13 19:51:32

I'm not entirely sure I was wro................. never mind!

Bags Tue 06-Aug-13 19:51:24

Well I was lucky. It was my companion who had a broken ankle, but since they had to strap him to a stretcher, the pilot offered to take me back to where I'd parked the car, which was quite a few miles away, off road on a forest track. This meant I could take both our rucksacks. I'd have struggled carrying both.

The precision of the flying was utterly impressive. So was the noise!! Then he went back for the fallen climber and uplifted him to Bangor hospital where he had to have pins put in his ankle.

j08 Tue 06-Aug-13 19:50:22

Obviously I did mean emotionally thick. Phrased it bdly. Shouldn't have said it anyway. Norty j08.

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