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WASP's are the new blacks
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beau-jolly
offlineMemberPosted 1 year ago # -
greg various
offlineMemberWhy the apostrophe Jolly Chappie? You work in an off licence not a grocer's. After your unprovoked insult of last week I had a brief glance at your self-congratulatory life history. The one where you call yourself a smarty pants for getting a B+ in an HNC exam for shelf stacking. The same junior schoolboy error occurs when you write 60's and 70's. These are just ordinary plurals and should be written as such. If you feel the need to use an apostrophe put it in front, as in '60s, to show the omission of the century.
Posted 1 year ago # -
Phlegm
offlineMemberI don't think the joke is concerned with those little black & yellow buzzing beasties, but with White Anglo-Saxon Protestants.
Technically the wine merchant should be right with the apostrophe which seems to indicate an abbreviation of the word 'Protestants', however he has neglected the . between each of the other letters which would have made it W.A.S.P's
I'm sure someone with a greater understanding of the finer details of the English language, and quite probably a much smaller penis, will give us the benefit of their superior knowledge ere long.
Posted 1 year ago # -
greg various
offlineMemberThe attempted cross-reference of stinging insects and white Anglo Saxons was very obvious Snotty but no matter how it's read there's no apostrophe. And you don't need to be an expert in Grammar to know that. It's pretty basic stuff.
I hope the ' in Protestants is your attempt at a joke.
I also hope you don't mind me calling you snotty. It's just that I can't spell FlemPosted 1 year ago # -
beau-jolly
offlineMemberAh, so much better than tumbleweed.
Hey ho! Shit joke anyway, just wanted to combine the 2 stories in one short headline.
WRT the grammar: Tricky one as it is really a double pleural owing to the double meaning. “Wasps” would not require an apostrophe. Neither would “Protestants”. Written as W.A.S.P. the pleural is implied but only if you expand the acronym. Read as the insect, it requires pluralising. The apostrophe acts as an either/or option. WASP(s) may have been correct but doesn’t read well. Wasps would have been correct but the acronym may have been missed. I have no specialism in linguistics and would be happy to be educated if there is an expert handy.
Oh and Greggy boy: It is true that I stack shelves, but then I also own the shelves I stack and the stuff I stack on them. I must say though, I was thrilled that you have visited my web site.
Phlegm: I wish mine was 3 inches; So much easier to handle than this bloody great thing.
Posted 1 year ago # -
greg various
offlineMemberRikkor, my little wet tongued chum, as an American you do what you want, and always do, with our language. Over here the use of the apostrophe in a plural and in decades a la 60's 70's is wrong. Fin,
Anyways up, as they probably say somewhere in the country, the thread's more about this twat throwing unprovoked insults at me and my come back. I'm not really interested in educating the arsehole.Posted 1 year ago # -
beau-jolly
offlineMemberI like Rikkor, he's one of the 60's best, and I agree it was a shit joke. BTW there was a story about a woman being kiiled by wasp stings at the same time as the "whites are the new blacks" headline.
English probably evolved faster at home than in ex-pat. colonies. It is a strong arguement that American English is often correct. For example. Vitamin pronounced VITE-emin is in line with vitality, vital etc. The way it is pronounced in England would require a double t.
Can you remind me of what I said to originally diss you Greg? I can't find it. Should I be looking at an alias?
Posted 1 year ago # -
beau-jolly
offlineMemberOh, and Greg you are right about the '60s and '70s thing but its hardly the omission of the century!
Posted 1 year ago # -
http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=29115
Greg has clearly taken the implication that he is Garry very, very badly. Garry's heyday was a bit before my time, but I gather he wasn't many people's favourite contributor. Didn't realise he was so unpopular that being accused of being one of his aliases would provoke this much of a reaction though.
On the point of apostrophe's, I pretty much know how to use them myself, but other people getting it wrong does'nt really bother me.
(Edit: Having just made this comment about knowing how to use apostrophes I then noticed that my sub which has been made into a NiB has an incorrect use of an apostrophe in it. Whoever edited it didn't pick it up either though, and now I've changed it in my sub so that it looks like it was edited from being right to being wrong. But then I wrote this, so now I'm rumbled.)
Posted 1 year ago # -
greg various
offlineMemberYou are partly right, VCG. How would you like it if you were lumped together with the barely literate ordinary sort of bloke that is Garrry? I hardly ever notice his subs and whatever his opinions are I ignore but he's 10 times less bigoted than people like Nelson.
What really rankles, though, is to be accused of something you're not by a fool. Yes, that's you Jolly Chappie.Posted 1 year ago # -
beau-jolly
offlineMemberCan we take this outside please?
http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=29393Posted 1 year ago #
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