| I am loath to point this out because I don't want to come across as a spelling 21:10 - Jan 3 with 2799 views | Cafe_Newman |
nazi but...
It's NOT "I am loathed to change..."
NOR is it "I am loathe to change ..."
It is "I am loath to change ..."
While I'm at it, I loathe seeing our glorious leader's name spelt with an "e" before the "y" as in "horsey, horsey". It's Morsy. |  | | |  |
| I am loath to point this out because I don't want to come across as a spelling on 21:16 - Jan 3 with 2470 views | NedPlimpton |
You're aiming too high
There's some on here that can't tell the difference between to, too and two! |  | | |
| I am loath to point this out because I don't want to come across as a spelling on 21:41 - Jan 3 with 2393 views | solemio |
| I am loath to point this out because I don't want to come across as a spelling on 21:16 - Jan 3 by NedPlimpton |
You're aiming too high
There's some on here that can't tell the difference between to, too and two! |
Delete 'some'.
Insert 'many'. |  | | |
| I am loath to point this out because I don't want to come across as a spelling on 21:51 - Jan 3 with 2360 views | GlasgowBlue |
You're not being a spelling nazi. You are being a grammar nazi.
loathed is the past simple and past participle of loathe.
If you are attempting to belittle somebody then at least get it right. |  |
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| I am loath to point this out because I don't want to come across as a spelling on 22:00 - Jan 3 with 2329 views | Cafe_Newman |
| I am loath to point this out because I don't want to come across as a spelling on 21:51 - Jan 3 by GlasgowBlue |
You're not being a spelling nazi. You are being a grammar nazi.
loathed is the past simple and past participle of loathe.
If you are attempting to belittle somebody then at least get it right. |
If I was trying to belittle anyone, I would have done so in the couple of threads where people have got it wrong today.
In both instances they were talking about a team being reluctant to make changes, so in fact the grammar was fine, but not the spelling. | | | |
| I am loath to point this out because I don't want to come across as a spelling on 22:05 - Jan 3 with 2304 views | Swansea_Blue |
| I am loath to point this out because I don't want to come across as a spelling on 21:16 - Jan 3 by NedPlimpton |
You're aiming too high
There's some on here that can't tell the difference between to, too and two! |
That’s two bad. Too be fair though, there can only be to of them. |  |
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| I am loath to point this out because I don't want to come across as a spelling on 22:06 - Jan 3 with 2299 views | fabian_illness |
Their should be more posts like this. |  | | |
| I am loath to point this out because I don't want to come across as a spelling on 22:08 - Jan 3 with 2291 views | Cafe_Newman |
| I am loath to point this out because I don't want to come across as a spelling on 22:06 - Jan 3 by fabian_illness |
Their should be more posts like this. |
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| I am loath to point this out because I don't want to come across as a spelling on 22:21 - Jan 3 with 2247 views | Oldsmoker |
I understand your angst.
Isn't Cafe spelt with an accent?  |  |
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| I am loath to point this out because I don't want to come across as a spelling on 23:10 - Jan 3 with 2148 views | GlasgowBlue |
| I am loath to point this out because I don't want to come across as a spelling on 22:21 - Jan 3 by Oldsmoker |
I understand your angst.
Isn't Cafe spelt with an accent? |
You are correct. It should be Café_Newman.
This thread hasn’t gone quite how Chorley expected. | |
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| I am loath to point this out because I don't want to come across as a spelling on 23:16 - Jan 3 with 2138 views | Wacko |
| I am loath to point this out because I don't want to come across as a spelling on 21:51 - Jan 3 by GlasgowBlue |
You're not being a spelling nazi. You are being a grammar nazi.
loathed is the past simple and past participle of loathe.
If you are attempting to belittle somebody then at least get it right. |
They could be either a spelling nazi or a grammar nazi. The loath in "I am loath" is an adjective, pronounced with a voiceless "th" sound as opposed to "loathe", the verb which has a voiced "th". The text-based nature of this board means we have no idea how those in error were pronouncing their mistakes. | |
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| I am loath to point this out because I don't want to come across as a spelling on 23:17 - Jan 3 with 2133 views | Pinewoodblue |
| I am loath to point this out because I don't want to come across as a spelling on 22:08 - Jan 3 by Cafe_Newman |
deffinatly |
Sum should of gramma and spilling lesson's. |  |
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| I am loath to point this out because I don't want to come across as a spelling on 23:34 - Jan 3 with 2111 views | Ryorry |
| I am loath to point this out because I don't want to come across as a spelling on 22:08 - Jan 3 by Cafe_Newman |
deffinatly |
Well at least you're not 'H', definate info (unless double-bluffing of course). |  |
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| I am loath to point this out because I don't want to come across as a spelling on 09:55 - Jan 4 with 1855 views | Keno |
Their are a lot of posters who dont get there grammar right and your right in calling them out, you should stand you're ground on this |  |
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| I am loath to point this out because I don't want to come across as a spelling on 10:07 - Jan 4 with 1813 views | Cafe_Newman |
| I am loath to point this out because I don't want to come across as a spelling on 09:55 - Jan 4 by Keno |
Their are a lot of posters who dont get there grammar right and your right in calling them out, you should stand you're ground on this |
*poster's | | | |
| I am loath to point this out because I don't want to come across as a spelling on 11:14 - Jan 4 with 1742 views | Cafe_Newman |
| I am loath to point this out because I don't want to come across as a spelling on 23:10 - Jan 3 by GlasgowBlue |
You are correct. It should be Café_Newman.
This thread hasn’t gone quite how Chorley expected. |
Regarding my moniker, anyone thinking it should feature a diacritic means that they suppose the pronunciation to be "caffay". That being the case, the accent is almost superfluous - and therefore optional - in contemporary English because there is no need to distinguish the word from cafe (rhyming with safe) because there is no such word in English.
In insisting on an accent (in accordance with the word's French roots) you're coming across as a bit of a spelling nazi yourself. So I'm going to trump your spelling nazism with pronunciation nazism and ask you why British people (like you and I) put the stress on the first syllable of the word (KA-fay) when they say café, rather than on the second (ka-FAY) as they do in American English, or (ka-FEH) in France?
Furthermore, anyone insisting on the correct spelling of anyone's surname (other than their own) in order to prove a point, is on shaky if not infertile ground.
Finally, I'd say this thread has gone almost completely as I expected, with you doubling down on an error in a field where you have no expertise but have grasped at other posters' knowledge to challenge me in the very area I studied and have made my living for decades.
Seeing that you have outed yourself as one of the culprits that brought this ridiculous thread into existence, we now need to clear up whether I am in fact being a grammar nazi or a spelling nazi (we'll leave my pronunciation nazism aside for now).
So, when you said "I'm loathed to change a winning team." did you mean to say you are reluctant to change a winning team or you are hated for changing a winning team?
Of course it's the former and I think you're right  , it is a grammatical error of gargantuan proportions rooted in deep ignorance resulting from a lifetime of reading texts no more challenging than Noddy and Topsy and Tim books. Your life-line is of course to pass it off as a simple typo, a spelling error, thus outing me as a spelling nazi - probably the nicer of the two text-based, linguistic nazis. Needless to say, having been schooled in this way, you will understandably have other names for me. I welcome your predictable down-vote, the down-votes of anyone coming to nurse your wounds, those who just dislike me and those who have mistaken the light-hearted nature of this post for pomposity. I will delight in them all.
By the way, the only unexpected event in this whole thread to date has been the upvote in the thread opener, which I assume was given because of (rather than despite) the poster's age - learned fellow that he is.
Remember, it's match day, so please keep any replies "classy" as they say.
COYB
EDIT. It's not match day until tomorrow. [Post edited 4 Jan 11:54]
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| I am loath to point this out because I don't want to come across as a spelling on 11:45 - Jan 4 with 1682 views | leitrimblue |
| I am loath to point this out because I don't want to come across as a spelling on 23:17 - Jan 3 by Pinewoodblue |
Sum should of gramma and spilling lesson's. |
My grandma can barely spell lessons |  | | |
| I am loath to point this out because I don't want to come across as a spelling on 11:46 - Jan 4 with 1685 views | factual_blue |
Presumably the downvotes come from a couple of limp-witted cereal offenders. |  |
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| I am loath to point this out because I don't want to come across as a spelling on 11:50 - Jan 4 with 1664 views | GlasgowBlue |
| I am loath to point this out because I don't want to come across as a spelling on 11:14 - Jan 4 by Cafe_Newman |
Regarding my moniker, anyone thinking it should feature a diacritic means that they suppose the pronunciation to be "caffay". That being the case, the accent is almost superfluous - and therefore optional - in contemporary English because there is no need to distinguish the word from cafe (rhyming with safe) because there is no such word in English.
In insisting on an accent (in accordance with the word's French roots) you're coming across as a bit of a spelling nazi yourself. So I'm going to trump your spelling nazism with pronunciation nazism and ask you why British people (like you and I) put the stress on the first syllable of the word (KA-fay) when they say café, rather than on the second (ka-FAY) as they do in American English, or (ka-FEH) in France?
Furthermore, anyone insisting on the correct spelling of anyone's surname (other than their own) in order to prove a point, is on shaky if not infertile ground.
Finally, I'd say this thread has gone almost completely as I expected, with you doubling down on an error in a field where you have no expertise but have grasped at other posters' knowledge to challenge me in the very area I studied and have made my living for decades.
Seeing that you have outed yourself as one of the culprits that brought this ridiculous thread into existence, we now need to clear up whether I am in fact being a grammar nazi or a spelling nazi (we'll leave my pronunciation nazism aside for now).
So, when you said "I'm loathed to change a winning team." did you mean to say you are reluctant to change a winning team or you are hated for changing a winning team?
Of course it's the former and I think you're right , it is a grammatical error of gargantuan proportions rooted in deep ignorance resulting from a lifetime of reading texts no more challenging than Noddy and Topsy and Tim books. Your life-line is of course to pass it off as a simple typo, a spelling error, thus outing me as a spelling nazi - probably the nicer of the two text-based, linguistic nazis. Needless to say, having been schooled in this way, you will understandably have other names for me. I welcome your predictable down-vote, the down-votes of anyone coming to nurse your wounds, those who just dislike me and those who have mistaken the light-hearted nature of this post for pomposity. I will delight in them all.
By the way, the only unexpected event in this whole thread to date has been the upvote in the thread opener, which I assume was given because of (rather than despite) the poster's age - learned fellow that he is.
Remember, it's match day, so please keep any replies "classy" as they say.
COYB
EDIT. It's not match day until tomorrow. [Post edited 4 Jan 11:54]
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You're coming across as somebody who should spend less time on a football message board following people around to correct their grammar and/or spelling mistakes, and more time trying to get laid.
Just a friendly observation. [Post edited 4 Jan 11:59]
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| I am loath to point this out because I don't want to come across as a spelling on 11:58 - Jan 4 with 1624 views | Cafe_Newman |
| I am loath to point this out because I don't want to come across as a spelling on 11:50 - Jan 4 by GlasgowBlue |
You're coming across as somebody who should spend less time on a football message board following people around to correct their grammar and/or spelling mistakes, and more time trying to get laid.
Just a friendly observation. [Post edited 4 Jan 11:59]
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Don't cry mate. It's not a serious thread.
EDIT: Sent in reply to your original, now edited, reply. [Post edited 4 Jan 12:09]
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| I am loath to point this out because I don't want to come across as a spelling on 12:04 - Jan 4 with 1593 views | Cafe_Newman |
| I am loath to point this out because I don't want to come across as a spelling on 11:50 - Jan 4 by GlasgowBlue |
You're coming across as somebody who should spend less time on a football message board following people around to correct their grammar and/or spelling mistakes, and more time trying to get laid.
Just a friendly observation. [Post edited 4 Jan 11:59]
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Oddly enough I wrote that long post between orgasms. Mrs Newman has just come round, sends her love and hopes you get a sense of humour in the post-Christmas sales. She's terrible. [Post edited 4 Jan 12:07]
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| I am loath to point this out because I don't want to come across as a spelling on 13:00 - Jan 4 with 1507 views | Meadowlark |
| I am loath to point this out because I don't want to come across as a spelling on 11:14 - Jan 4 by Cafe_Newman |
Regarding my moniker, anyone thinking it should feature a diacritic means that they suppose the pronunciation to be "caffay". That being the case, the accent is almost superfluous - and therefore optional - in contemporary English because there is no need to distinguish the word from cafe (rhyming with safe) because there is no such word in English.
In insisting on an accent (in accordance with the word's French roots) you're coming across as a bit of a spelling nazi yourself. So I'm going to trump your spelling nazism with pronunciation nazism and ask you why British people (like you and I) put the stress on the first syllable of the word (KA-fay) when they say café, rather than on the second (ka-FAY) as they do in American English, or (ka-FEH) in France?
Furthermore, anyone insisting on the correct spelling of anyone's surname (other than their own) in order to prove a point, is on shaky if not infertile ground.
Finally, I'd say this thread has gone almost completely as I expected, with you doubling down on an error in a field where you have no expertise but have grasped at other posters' knowledge to challenge me in the very area I studied and have made my living for decades.
Seeing that you have outed yourself as one of the culprits that brought this ridiculous thread into existence, we now need to clear up whether I am in fact being a grammar nazi or a spelling nazi (we'll leave my pronunciation nazism aside for now).
So, when you said "I'm loathed to change a winning team." did you mean to say you are reluctant to change a winning team or you are hated for changing a winning team?
Of course it's the former and I think you're right , it is a grammatical error of gargantuan proportions rooted in deep ignorance resulting from a lifetime of reading texts no more challenging than Noddy and Topsy and Tim books. Your life-line is of course to pass it off as a simple typo, a spelling error, thus outing me as a spelling nazi - probably the nicer of the two text-based, linguistic nazis. Needless to say, having been schooled in this way, you will understandably have other names for me. I welcome your predictable down-vote, the down-votes of anyone coming to nurse your wounds, those who just dislike me and those who have mistaken the light-hearted nature of this post for pomposity. I will delight in them all.
By the way, the only unexpected event in this whole thread to date has been the upvote in the thread opener, which I assume was given because of (rather than despite) the poster's age - learned fellow that he is.
Remember, it's match day, so please keep any replies "classy" as they say.
COYB
EDIT. It's not match day until tomorrow. [Post edited 4 Jan 11:54]
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"British people like you and I..." 😮
"you and me..." |  | | |
| I am loath to point this out because I don't want to come across as a spelling on 13:04 - Jan 4 with 1492 views | _clive_baker_ |
I defiantly agree. In other news what are you’re thoughts on Morsey saying Muric has become an escaped goat? |  | | |
| I am loath to point this out because I don't want to come across as a spelling on 13:31 - Jan 4 with 1437 views | Cafe_Newman |
| I am loath to point this out because I don't want to come across as a spelling on 13:00 - Jan 4 by Meadowlark |
"British people like you and I..." 😮
"you and me..." |
Sorry fella, you need a subject pronoun here but I can't go into details right now, my wife wants more. [Post edited 4 Jan 13:34]
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| I am loath to point this out because I don't want to come across as a spelling on 13:44 - Jan 4 with 1414 views | Cafe_Newman |
| I am loath to point this out because I don't want to come across as a spelling on 13:04 - Jan 4 by _clive_baker_ |
I defiantly agree. In other news what are you’re thoughts on Morsey saying Muric has become an escaped goat? |
Both me and the missus think he's rite but if the escaped goat can deal with the handfull of turnips in the stands giving him greaf, then a sort of ironic justice pie will be served to the boo boy's. | | | |
| I am loath to point this out because I don't want to come across as a spelling on 14:29 - Jan 4 with 1354 views | Meadowlark |
| I am loath to point this out because I don't want to come across as a spelling on 13:31 - Jan 4 by Cafe_Newman |
Sorry fella, you need a subject pronoun here but I can't go into details right now, my wife wants more. [Post edited 4 Jan 13:34]
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You are correct. I apologise. Me jumped in too early. (Didn't read the complete sentence!!) | | | |
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