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Who said men can't multi task? "MAN SNAPPED DRIVING WHILE USING THREE DEVICES AT ELEPHANT & CASTLE"
LuckyReds
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Police are hunting a driver who was filmed using a cycle lane in Elephant and Castle while using three phones at once.Southwark News
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For the grammar nazis: "while using three phones at once", or "whilst using three phones at once"?0
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Whilst is archaic I think. At least the Americans think so. They don't like stuff like that and 'learnt' or 'earnt'.0
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3 phones shouts dealer to me9
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Southwark NewsLuckyReds said:Police are hunting a driver who was filmed using a cycle lane in Elephant and Castle while using three phones at once.
3 phones? How many ears has this bloke got then?
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3 phones? How many ears has this bloke got then?man_at_milletts said:
Southwark NewsLuckyReds said:Police are hunting a driver who was filmed using a cycle lane in Elephant and Castle while using three phones at once.
3 the same as Spock, the left ear, the right ear and the final front ear.7 -
3 the same as Spock, the left ear, the right ear and the final front ear.Greenie said:
3 phones? How many ears has this bloke got then?man_at_milletts said:
Southwark NewsLuckyReds said:Police are hunting a driver who was filmed using a cycle lane in Elephant and Castle while using three phones at once.
Oh come on, Greenie. I was at least expecting a 'Pardon?'
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I believe the CL grammar police will be summoning you to a tribunal for that little faux-pas Lucky...LuckyReds said:
Remember two copies of Horse and Hounds down the back of your underpants, these boys take a run up!3 -
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Oh come on, Greenie. I was at least expecting a 'Pardon?'man_at_milletts said:
3 the same as Spock, the left ear, the right ear and the final front ear.Greenie said:
3 phones? How many ears has this bloke got then?man_at_milletts said:
Southwark NewsLuckyReds said:Police are hunting a driver who was filmed using a cycle lane in Elephant and Castle while using three phones at once.
Sorry mate! honestly, I really am.........!
In fact if I could flag myself, I would......!1 -
Just finished listening to an audio book on language and have completely changed my attitude to grammar.LuckyReds said:For the grammar nazis: "while using three phones at once", or "whilst using three phones at once"?
Real language is the spoken variety, not what appears in print. Writing down an account for others to read is no different to translating from one language to another. Many of our grammar rules are arbitrary rules set down by 18c academics raised on Latin and Greek and infatuated with its grammatical rules for declining verbs and changing object and subject prepositions.
They thought English had decayed from its Latin roots, had stopped obeying rules of grammar and they needed to be reinstated, like preposition "whom" for the object and "who" for the subject. "Whom" was an invented word that never before had been spoken, "who" works perfectly well. "While" and "whilst" mean the same, whilst sounds posh, but is just a later version of the old English word "while" and no one is going to misunderstand what you are saying either way.
Grammar as needed for spoken language to be understood is learnt intuitively and need never be written down except for helping foreigners learn the language. We are just slaves to the whim of some fossilised old farts who wrote some arbitrary rules down 200 years ago which genteel society took to heart allowing them to distinguish themselves from the illiterate hoi polloi.
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YEH!Dippenhall said:
Just finished listening to an audio book on language and have completely changed my attitude to grammar.LuckyReds said:For the grammar nazis: "while using three phones at once", or "whilst using three phones at once"?
Real language is the spoken variety, not what appears in print. Writing down an account for others to read is no different to translating from one language to another. Many of our grammar rules are arbitrary rules set down by 18c academics raised on Latin and Greek and infatuated with its grammatical rules for declining verbs and changing object and subject prepositions.
They thought English had decayed from its Latin roots, had stopped obeying rules of grammar and they needed to be reinstated, like preposition "whom" for the object and "who" for the subject. "Whom" was an invented word that never before had been spoken, "who" works perfectly well. "While" and "whilst" mean the same, whilst sounds posh, but is just a later version of the old English word "while" and no one is going to misunderstand what you are saying either way.
Grammar as needed for spoken language to be understood is learnt intuitively and need never be written down except for helping foreigners learn the language. We are just slaves to the whim of some fossilised old farts who wrote some arbitrary rules down 200 years ago which genteel society took to heart allowing them to distinguish themselves from the illiterate hoi polloi.0 -
Yeah... but why did he have three phones?Dippenhall said:
Just finished listening to an audio book on language and have completely changed my attitude to grammar.LuckyReds said:For the grammar nazis: "while using three phones at once", or "whilst using three phones at once"?
Real language is the spoken variety, not what appears in print. Writing down an account for others to read is no different to translating from one language to another. Many of our grammar rules are arbitrary rules set down by 18c academics raised on Latin and Greek and infatuated with its grammatical rules for declining verbs and changing object and subject prepositions.
They thought English had decayed from its Latin roots, had stopped obeying rules of grammar and they needed to be reinstated, like preposition "whom" for the object and "who" for the subject. "Whom" was an invented word that never before had been spoken, "who" works perfectly well. "While" and "whilst" mean the same, whilst sounds posh, but is just a later version of the old English word "while" and no one is going to misunderstand what you are saying either way.
Grammar as needed for spoken language to be understood is learnt intuitively and need never be written down except for helping foreigners learn the language. We are just slaves to the whim of some fossilised old farts who wrote some arbitrary rules down 200 years ago which genteel society took to heart allowing them to distinguish themselves from the illiterate hoi polloi.
(Edit, just kidding: that's actually a great post, and one I shall use in defence whenever my grammar is picked on!
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I hope thy catch him. Take away his licence for a very long time. And give careful consideration to locking him up over Christmas.0
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If he's found, something makes me think the texting whilst driving issue maybe the least of his concerns.Chizz said:I hope thy catch him. Take away his licence for a very long time. And give careful consideration to locking him up over Christmas.
As @cabbles has pointed out, having 3 phones is a bit of an alarm bell in itself.0 -
Picked upon.LuckyReds said:
Yeah... but why did he have three phones?Dippenhall said:
Just finished listening to an audio book on language and have completely changed my attitude to grammar.LuckyReds said:For the grammar nazis: "while using three phones at once", or "whilst using three phones at once"?
Real language is the spoken variety, not what appears in print. Writing down an account for others to read is no different to translating from one language to another. Many of our grammar rules are arbitrary rules set down by 18c academics raised on Latin and Greek and infatuated with its grammatical rules for declining verbs and changing object and subject prepositions.
They thought English had decayed from its Latin roots, had stopped obeying rules of grammar and they needed to be reinstated, like preposition "whom" for the object and "who" for the subject. "Whom" was an invented word that never before had been spoken, "who" works perfectly well. "While" and "whilst" mean the same, whilst sounds posh, but is just a later version of the old English word "while" and no one is going to misunderstand what you are saying either way.
Grammar as needed for spoken language to be understood is learnt intuitively and need never be written down except for helping foreigners learn the language. We are just slaves to the whim of some fossilised old farts who wrote some arbitrary rules down 200 years ago which genteel society took to heart allowing them to distinguish themselves from the illiterate hoi polloi.
(Edit, just kidding: that's actually a great post, and one I shall use in defence whenever my grammar is picked on!)
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