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Clive55



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PostPosted: Mon Oct 11, 2010 8:42 am    Post subject: Awful GrmmaR Reply with quote

The new tune by Bon Jovi is pretty forgettable. The only memorable thing about it is the awful grammar in the nonsensicle title "What do you Got". They taught grammar when he was a kid back in the stone age. What's his problem?
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AgProv



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PostPosted: Mon Oct 11, 2010 9:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

If we're going to go down this road....

...for me, a pet hate are song titles that take the form

Don't you just hate people who put (bits of song titles) in brackets (for no readily identifiable or sensible) reason?

Ie (Don't fear) The Reaper - great song, silly way of putting the title, most people ignore the brackets.
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 11, 2010 10:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

As my old headmaster used to say when any pupil was guilty of a grammatical error

'That am not quite English'
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Clive55



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PostPosted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 7:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

AgProv wrote:
If we're going to go down this road....

...for me, a pet hate are song titles that take the form

Don't you just hate people who put (bits of song titles) in brackets (for no readily identifiable or sensible) reason?

Ie (Don't fear) The Reaper - great song, silly way of putting the title, most people ignore the brackets.

Yep. I never saw the point of bracets in song titles. It seems a bit pretentious to me
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SantaFefan



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PostPosted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 8:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's not considered bad grammar in the USA though is it? I've read or heard this and similar variations in US mags and TV shows several times over the years. Maybe it's a regional thing over there but I don't think it's incorrect as far as they are concerned.
Another thing I see several times on the US Ebay Classic car section is " It needs chromed"... missing out "to be".

I noticed many moons ago how, when entering a car, our US cousins will say " You get in back" which we would say is missing the word "the" - "you get in the back"..



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