2thumbs Posted April 15, 2013 Share Posted April 15, 2013 Hardly surprising as there is no investigative journalism on the island. IoM Today is nothing more than a government message board. The island has a great many things of which it can be proud its media aint one of them. Inept obnoxious Media Today. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slinkydevil Posted April 15, 2013 Share Posted April 15, 2013 Hardly surprising as there is no investigative journalism on the island. Investigative journalism doesn't equal accuracy though. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2thumbs Posted April 15, 2013 Share Posted April 15, 2013 Maybe not, but sure beats 'cut and paste' reporting. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Declan Posted April 16, 2013 Share Posted April 16, 2013 Is this stuff written on the island or is it all typed up by monkeys in India In retrospect do you think you could have found an alternative comparison? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muttley Posted April 16, 2013 Share Posted April 16, 2013 Pocket balls? I'm old-fashioned; I become annoyed at people who use the word 'get.' Ha! My old English teacher, Ernie (pocket-balls) Entwistle, at Balla used to go mad if one used 'get'.How are ya Ern...? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah 01 Posted April 16, 2013 Share Posted April 16, 2013 Whilst in pedant mode..... It's.....................short for 'it is'.............the apostrophe replaces the missing 'i'..........eg it's a lovely day. Its..............possessive...............eg its engine failed to start. The BBC, an organisation that one would hope would attempt to uphold the highest standards of the English language, fails abysmally these days. In its defence, it would probably say that it reflects the English as it used by 'the British Public'. It would neglect to admit that poor standards also reflect upon the calibre of its journalists and the poor grounding they have received courtesy of the education system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManxTaxPayer Posted April 16, 2013 Share Posted April 16, 2013 I'm old-fashioned; I become annoyed at people who use the word 'get.' Get lost. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donald Trumps Posted April 16, 2013 Share Posted April 16, 2013 Pocket balls? I'm old-fashioned; I become annoyed at people who use the word 'get.' Ha! My old English teacher, Ernie (pocket-balls) Entwistle, at Balla used to go mad if one used 'get'. How are ya Ern...? Yep, it was his trademark approach to teaching Eng Lang Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaybs Posted April 16, 2013 Share Posted April 16, 2013 Sadly it's common across the board these days - even MF is not immune..... I get annoyed at the number of people who don't know when to use there, their, or they're. Use ect instead of etc, que instead of queue, sence for sense, license when it should be licence, and many more....... The big difference is staff at IOM Today are supposed to be professional! people here often post quickly & yes errors, if you get so annoyed at something so trivial time to take a break perhaps! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2thumbs Posted April 16, 2013 Share Posted April 16, 2013 Whilst in pedant mode..... It's.....................short for 'it is'.............the apostrophe replaces the missing 'i'..........eg it's a lovely day. Its..............possessive...............eg its engine failed to start. Thank you. I have corrected my error. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cabbyl ushtey Posted April 16, 2013 Share Posted April 16, 2013 How about should of, would of , could of. Grrrr 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolley Posted April 16, 2013 Share Posted April 16, 2013 The tautologous "meet with" annoys me. It seems to be almost universal now. Americans meet with people. We meet them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempus Fugit Posted April 16, 2013 Share Posted April 16, 2013 made me think the other day when someone (on the radio) mentioned 'telephone me' and I wondered whether they used to say 'typrwriter me' or 'pen me' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
In fact . . . Posted April 16, 2013 Share Posted April 16, 2013 (edited) made me think the other day when someone (on the radio) mentioned 'telephone me' and I wondered whether they used to say 'typrwriter me' or 'pen me' "To telephone" is a verb. "To pen" and "to typewriter" are not. http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/telephone_2 Edited April 16, 2013 by In fact . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2thumbs Posted April 16, 2013 Share Posted April 16, 2013 Is 'fuck' a verb then? ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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