Hamilton... You Knob

This thread is about Ham Nobs, I think you'll find.

 

when i seen you tagged me on this i thought how did you know i had been reading about ian hamilton Q.C this week.? as for the grammar don't blame me, blame darden.

 

not sure who or what "darden" is. But older people like you and me were either taught well in school or not. I went to a good state school. Others were not so lucky. And I have every sympathy with them.

However the yoof of today however well taught are completely under the spell of the Internet and the Estuary English of celebs - even the two princes - which is a shame and leads to a degradation of expression.

We have a great language that's as close to a world language as it gets. I for one would like to celebrate that fact without being called names like Grammar Nazi and Pedant.

What's wrong with that?

 

nowt wrong with it. and will be fine for the stage in a few years. personally i find regional dialect and words are far more interesting. :smile:

 

I had hoped you'd tell me what darden was. Assume it's a predictive pita!!

 

name of the school i went to.

 

Thanks. Bad memories?

 

private school. v.strict even at the age of 5 i wasn't keen on conformity.

 

I don't like private education. In England it creates divisiveness. Both my children did brilliantly in the state sector.

 

i managed to do badly in both the private and state sector.

 

Not a lot

 

You can be as pedantic as you please with your own writings, and nobody will mind at all. It is getting pedantic about other peoples' choices of words which gets up their noses.

 

You are being modest as usual - you told me that you did terribly

 

it's all relative. :smile:.
done quite well in the things i was interested in.

 

Girls..

 

do we ever become expert with wumin? there strange. fun to study tho.