What happened to English grammar?

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Thanks jane .I do actually enjoy reading your posts.

Thank you Gorki - and I yours

You are amazing - being able to remember who posted what.

I enjoy finding out about people. Some you "get to know" quite quickly especially if they post regularly and if some have a visible profile I will sometimes look them up to see the kind of threads they contribute to and what they say. I hope this does not make me sound too nosy but I find it fascinating. Such a variety of different types of people !

So do I! I'd like to know more about you?

Oh, I thought I was fairly visible. I do have a profile but no photo as I am not sufficiently computer literate to upload/download(?)one.

'One picture is worth a thousand words'

Thank god that currently the only pictures on my profile are of my cats!

Oh oh, perhaps that does speak a thousand words!

" I'd like to know more about you"

Why does that sound creepy?

(only joking Galen)

I should B- well think so jing
Cross emoticon!

I'm sorry.

Forgiven!

I'm the same Gorki; I liken peoples profiles to being in someones house and looking at the books they read or the cd's they own [although that doesn't really happen any more with kindles and whatever it is that people play music on now].

Sorry gorki Of course I didn't mean you shouldn't reply to a post, just felt that 9 pages rambling through whether or not anybody should have sunk the Belgrano/Graf Spee/Bismarck and whether or not anybody might be upset by this man's demise (or celebrating because they were on the other side) or might have been upset by even mentioning the Falklands war might not be stretching the credulity a bit when all it was, was a point about use of language in that paper.

I understand your point absolutely gracesmum and I too was amazed how long the thread went rambling on for. Apologies for being prickly about it.

Oh heck/feck about time I changed the pictures! Combination of lack of technical ability and when I can -be arsed- have the time.

Just knew I'd get it wrong! Bugger!

Even worse, wrong thread! Sorry sorry sorry.

On the naughty step for me.

No, Phoenix, never the naughty step for you!
I must say that I would have been equally sad to see bad grammar in any newspaper - this particular headline just happened to catch my eye.
As I cannot find any English language papers in my area, I usually read as many on-line as I can, and often find grammatical errors. The Gruniad , as Private Eye calls it, is notorious for typos, and I ask myself what happened to proof readers or sub-editors.

The Grauniad has always been full of typos. I think it's part of its 'persona' now — certainly its reputation.

Does anyone remember the headline that said,"monty flies back to front"?

Not personally deserving but anyway

I thought it was Eisenhower who "flew back to front". What about "British army push bottles up Germans" or was that equally an early urban myth?

And I thought it was a reference to Monty's trousers. Recently DGS (3) solemnly told me when I was helping him out of PJs and into pants "Daddy says the label goes at the back."