The correct contraction of "would have" is "would've" which of course sounds like "would of".
One that annoys me is using "most well" instead of "best" as in "He was the best known cyclist of his generation"
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Reflexive pronoun abuse
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Posted 1 hour ago #
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people seem to think they sound more business-like/well-educated - far from it!
This.
I can't stand off of either. It's so clunky, it doesn't sound right at all.
That's because it's not. It generally should be 'from'.
Posted 1 hour ago # -
Yeah I hear a lot of people using that sort of weird language on the phone:
"Ourselves will contact yourselves by close of business."
"Myself and Andy have been working on this for yourself."Themselves clearly think it is some kind posh/formal business speak, but really it just makes themselves sound like moronselves.
What's wrong with "I", "we", "you"?
Posted 1 hour ago # -
Isn't it short for "me, myself, personally"?
Posted 42 minutes ago # -
Personal pet hate is the complete perversion of the phrase 'I couldn't care less' because stupid Americans couldn't understand it, instead saying 'could care less' even though they are trying to indicate that they care so little, it wouldn't be possible to care less. This one has spread back across the Atlantic I've noticed...
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Posted 35 minutes ago # -
I would've thought this:
He was the best known cyclist of his generation
could imply he was the 'best' of the 'known cyclists'.
ie: Many cyclist's were known, but he was the best (cyclist) among them.But could equally be read as best known among a group of cyclists. There's some room for ambiguity in interpretation even if in the strictest literal sense if means what you say.
Where as this:
He was the most well known cyclist of his generation
most definitely says he was the one that was best known, but not necessarily the best (cyclist) of the lesser known cyclists.
Or have I got exposed my own misunderstanding there?
Posted 34 minutes ago # -
Bugger, there was me thinking I'd made an original observation! Bloody literate comedians...
Posted 24 minutes ago # -
I use "most well" in something like: "Most well known professional cyclists use periodisation training". I.e. the majority.
In your first interpretation I'd write "He was the best, known, cyclist of his generation.". If spoken then that sentence would have a pause then stress on the "known"
Posted 24 minutes ago # -
Wood have
Can be either I am in possession of a quantity of timber
Or
I would like to acquire a forest.
Then again I no 0.Posted 23 minutes ago # -
I'd write "He was the best, known, cyclist of his generation."
Posted 21 minutes ago # -
Also: "I have ran it"
This is an Americanism, I looked it up as I wanted to correct the person using it. Apparently, it's "correct".
Pah!
Posted 17 minutes ago # -
myself. most overused word in the workplace!
Count how many times you hear it in a week/ day. then work out hoe many times it was needed: I'm not sure it's the correct word 90% of the instances I hear it.
Posted 16 minutes ago # -
Count how many times you hear it in a week/ day. then work out hoe many times it was needed: I'm not sure it's the correct word 90% of the instances I hear it.
I've done this myself. Enlightening.
Posted 14 minutes ago # -
The abuse of the reflexive pronoun is made even worse by the addition of the entirely superfluous 'at all'. As in the now standard question from the server "would you like any desserts for yourself at all?". It's a wonder I haven't killed anyone for that. Yet.
Oh, and 'off of' is deliberately clumsy and wrong, it's a joke.
Posted 8 minutes ago # -
comma splices get my goat, they don't really.
Posted 6 minutes ago # -
Hasn't "would of" evolved from "would've" ?
Posted 3 minutes ago #
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