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Bought and brought.........

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DesolateWaist · 02/12/2016 23:50

are two different fucking words!!!

Has everyone on MN fucking well forgotten this? I have seen 'brought' for 'bought' on three different bastard threads today.

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VintagePerfumista · 05/12/2016 14:15

And no-one, ever, in the history of t'interweb, started a thread like this because they wanted to chat.

They start them to feel superior about how clever they are, compared to the poor sod who doesn't know the difference.

Think about it for a minute, you're one of the people who writes "could of" (for example) You're not writing "could of" to wind clever people on MN up, are you? You're doing it because, for whatever reason, you think it's correct.

And then you open the nth Groundhog Day thread on MN saying "Hee haw, hee haw, if I see one more "could of" I'll simply explode, thicko illiterates, do schools teach the plebs nothing these days?"

That OP is then followed by the inevitable 7,000 people who think they are genuinely being original by hee-hawing about "Chester Drawers".

It's just tiring and unpleasant, really.

But if anyone is genuinely interested in language, and its nuances, and why "less" is OK in Tesco, then do come and join us in PC. Just don't imagine you'll get any supporters from regulars over there when you start to take the piss out of people who may not be as "clever" as you are.

SenecaFalls · 05/12/2016 15:20

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badtime · 05/12/2016 16:23

But this thread isn't nasty.

It seems more like 'Pedants Anonymous' where people are confessing their top irritants. There has always been an element of venting on Pedants' Corner.

If you assume that people are saying these things to be smug, that is how it will always seem to you, whether that is the poster's intent or not. I think it is a little bit sad that that is how you view your fellow posters.

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