A Viscous Attack #4

[Whosthetabbynow]

Here we are on the fourth instalment of crazy misspellings, misuse of words and all the other topsy-turvy attempts at literacy from the illiterate.
Post your observations. Lady’s the flaw is youre’s…

Living in a box

AIBU to have an an epiphany at 40 years old | Mumsnet
(look in the URL)

Must have been amended

Yes but the link is https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5588956-aibu-to-have-an-an-epitome-at-40-years-old

Yes, that’s the one.

I was just reading that one. I'm still struggling to understand what the poster was actually trying to say, as all this box talk has me confused.

It doesn't make sense because 'epiphany' wasn't even the right word. She hasn't had an epiphany she's in a quandary (and has been ruptured).

I feel like my brain has been ruptured!

You’ve all lost me I’m afraid.

Someone has just bought a waste coat for their wedding..

Well that's money in the bin!

Somebody's heckles are rising, though they're not at a comedy show or a hustings.

Just seen another post mentioning Bare Grills.

I just spied this.

He brang my daughters sex life in an argument

I think more people are looking at the thread for that than the content.

At least there was an 'r' in it, the poster missed a trick there.

I came to this thread specifically to mention this. I haven't read the thread but it looks like a serious one and I wouldn't dream of mentioning it on there but ... brang!

Not a SPAG observation but we've had a safety related work email today (construction industry) which made me smile, where the subject line is:

Rope access activities suspended

I'm not sure the sender intended to amuse!

”brang” and “brung” aren’t standard English (or American) but they’re not that uncommon as dialect forms.

Where do people say brang out of interest? I've lived all over the place but haven't heard this. I've also never seen it 'written' anywhere and surely the person who posted must be aware of the standard English version.

Edit: I've read the thread now and the rest of it seems perfectly grammatical so it's a bit odd.

@CaptainMyCaptain , I've heard a very young child (with well-educated parents) say it. The child was clearly intelligent and when his teacher parent corrected him, he explained why it was brang.
I've seen it on SM.

I’ve come across it in ‘reported speech’ renderings of American dialects whereas ‘brung’ is the variant more likely to occur in England.

It makes a certain kind of sense like ring/rang but I never heard in 30 years teaching. It was more likely to be bringed or brung or a confusion with brought/bought.

@CaptainMyCaptain , the child wasn't yet school age.

Yes, it seems a likely candidate for small children to come up with when they’re at the stage of being logical rather than conventional in their grammatical constructions. It’s not obvious why ‘bring’ has the past tense ‘brought’ when ‘ring’ doesn’t become ‘rought’, is it? (FFS autocorrect, why doesn’t it have the nous to make it so hard to type that even in quotes?) Or why not ‘bringed’?

“I wouldn’t trust him as far as I could through him”