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Are estate agents au fait with the English Language?

17 replies

LadyLauraStandish · 14/11/2008 17:54

Would you be interested in renting a property in a "peaceful culder sack"?

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MaryBS · 14/11/2008 17:57

It's not English, it's French

Tigerschick · 14/11/2008 17:58

That is bad!
I've been shuddering at 'The accommodation comprises of ...' in a lot of the particulars we've had lately ... but 'culder sack' really is bad!

Tigerschick · 14/11/2008 17:59

LOL MBS - but it has been assimilated into the English language now so it counts as English.

LadyLauraStandish · 14/11/2008 18:00

Ha, ha - of course it's French but nonetheless it should be in an estate agent's vocabulary!!

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LynetteScavo · 14/11/2008 18:01

Please link us!

Do you think they have just taken on a new trainee?

LadyLauraStandish · 14/11/2008 18:04

Just to prove I am not making this up!!!

nice house in peaceful culder sack

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Tigerschick · 14/11/2008 18:07

It's not even in a culder sack, it's down a culder sack!

Bink · 14/11/2008 19:42

Estate agents are the glory clowns of the English language, we all know that, with their "comprises of" and "deceivingly spacious"

My very favourite not being a solecism but a typo, but anyway:

"entrance lobby with frosted glass doors leading to hell"

UnquietDad · 15/11/2008 16:22

Our local ones don't seem overly bothered about punctuation, either.

"A beautifully appointed three bedroomed semi detached residence with a pleasing aspect located in catchment for desirable schools and within reach of local amenities offering huge investment potential to the discerning buyer-"

BREATHE!
BREATHE!

jemglasgow · 15/11/2008 16:28

Having had the misfortune to put chez nous up for sale recently, I've been collecting estate agents' gobbledegook. Some choice example:

a well-tendered garden
a garden with well-stocked boarders
a pagola

but best of all...

a one-and-a-half-bowel sink

Not much point wasting your time on cleaning products there, innit?

edam · 15/11/2008 16:36

at the digusting sink. Yikes. And culder sack is hilarious.

Swedes · 20/11/2008 16:18

In all fairness to the estate agent, it doesn't say culder sack does it? It says cul de sack? So he/she (probably a he ) has one letter wrong: a rogue k.

BarcodeZebra · 20/11/2008 20:24

A recent personal favourite of mine runs as follows:

"Morningside is a highly sought-after residential suburb some 3 miles south west of the City Centre offering a very high quality of residential amenity. The area is renowned for its proximity to excellent educational facilities."

It has nice houses and is near some schools.

Does "highly sought-after" mean hard to find?

And, in reference to the lack of punctuation, this comes from a different set of particulars:

"Providing flexible and versatile accommodation formed over two levels access is gained into a bright welcoming reception hallway, which allows access to the lower apartments to include a well proportioned lounge with feature fireplace and gas fire, family room with French doors allowing access to the privacy of the rear garden, third bedroom which is currently being utilized as a dining room, breakfasting kitchen with modern base and wall mounted units with integrated double fan assisted electric oven, halogen hob, fridge, freezer, dishwasher,and washing machine, and bathroom with modern white three piece suite, shower, glass screen, wall and floor tiling,"

This odyssey of a sentence then ends with a comma (gah!) before starting a new paragraph with a capital letter, thus:

"On the upper level are two double sized bedrooms with excellent storage space provided."

I thank you...

RustyBear · 20/11/2008 20:27

Swedes - that link definitely said culder sack when LadyLaura posted it.

Which means they have edited it - and still got it wrong....

nigglewiggle · 20/11/2008 20:31

Have they amended it? Still wrong though!

Swedes · 20/11/2008 22:40

I wish I lived in a culder sack.

Tommy · 20/11/2008 22:45

shouldn't be shocked but I'm really at culder sack

when I was buying a house I went to lots of estate agents. I am very used to spelling my surname but one guy asked me how to spell my first name - it has 4 letters - not unusual or strange and he looked like he'd never heard of it.

They are not the brightest bunnies are they?

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