Speech/quotation marks are an enduring cunt representing the bottomless pit of declining journalism.
Above link as an example, even the last bastion (chuckle) of the English language, the BBC is at it, low grade non journalists churning out probable AI powered stories absolutely full of speech marks.
Turning the blandest of non story into something supposedly newsworthy with the overuse of speech marks along the way, is it a mere reflection of the loss of English amongst English speakers or is it cunts thinking they are clever? I suspect both but leaning towards the former.
I also suspect saying “the former” would confuse em.
Nominated by : Cunt of the Isles
“Hello” and “goodbye”
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The BBC should show the example of how the English language should be spoken and written.
They don’t.
I was a horrible cunt as a school boy.
I preferred to spend my time in the local snooker hall rather than a classroom.
I think that it’s true to say that I was absent for more than half of the time that I should have spent learning.
But it amazes me on how bad the English language is spoken, and I am often appalled by how it is written.
I was watching a documentary recently on the BBC.
The presenter started talking about going north in the country that he was in, to where there was frozen ice.
I changed channels.
Cunts like him have nothing of interest to offer me.
Good morning.
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I bumped into Remrats and shouted “you cunt” and he didn’t bat an eye.
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I agree that this BBC article is a grammatically poor load of “wanky, old piss”; 0/10 for Oscar Edwards.
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yes, im often awake all nigjt worrying about the use of “quotation marks”.
im surprised people dont riot in the streer.
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street.
“”fuckin phone.””
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Korean phone speaky no Engrish, Mis?
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Morning LL.
the buttons are tiny!
i cant turn off the predictive text
and it has a mind of its own.
bag of shite
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Can you imagine having a conversation with one of these arseholes:
“So like yeah “he” called me like yeah a like “cunt” yeah like. I was like “oh really” well you’re like a “far right bigot” like yeah, and erm so yeah, like.”
The whole time they’d be doing that shit with the two fingers to mimic the inverted commas.
As Christopher Hitchens said, if you can’t talk properly you can’t think properly. The BBC is self evidently a pot of inarticulate morons.
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The incorrect use of punctuation mark’s infuriate’s me.
Full stop.
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People who ignore using the apostrophe annoy me. After using it briefly on whatever device they are communicating on, it will automatically do it for them after a while.
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i dont use apostrophies Sammy.
theyre full of female hormones.
knew a bloke used em all the time an now hes a 38 double D cup an sits down for a piss.
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What a shame, Mis.
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All punctuation is far-right, Rodney is looking to ban all under 16s from using it after 8 o’clock..
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At my school splitting an infinitive earned you a clip round the ear.
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As did ending a sentence with a preposition!
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True.
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Me too. I was taught never to use a preposition to end a sentence with.
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Does this mean we have been given “Carte Blanche” to correct everyone’s speech.
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Didn’t she play an elf in lord of the rings..
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You forgot the question mark Sammy. Naughty boy.
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Thought that was optional, arfurbrain ?
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Apropos Mr. Morgan, I think he is a bit of a cunt for growing fucking Xmas trees. Fuck Xmas, especially in June.
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Yes, I noticed that WC, along with keeping reindeer.
What’s he running, a farm or a fucking Christmas amusement park?
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I fucking despise it, but I understand why newspaper website articles are written like this.
The longer it takes to get to the actual core of the story, the more seconds you’ve been viewing and the more ads have been scrolled past.
But you’d think the BBC, despite all its well publicised faults, would be slightly above such cheap journalism.
They bang on about their editorial standards, but I often wonder if anyone actually edits at all.
In fact, I’d go as far as to say I’ve been “blindsided”.
Or I would if I knew what the fuck it meant.
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They are only ever inverted at the beginning of the quotation, just like the Spanish ¿ & ?
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It would be interesting to find out if any of you have that irritating inflection in your speech. I think we blame the yanks for this, besides that other irritation of replacing the T for a D.
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In Spanish a statement is almost always the same as a question.
The difference when talking is a rising intonation to indicate a question.
This can’t be achieved in writing so…..
You use quotation marks (statement).
¿You use quotation marks? (question)
There is no real reason to start the written question with the word do…
Do you use quotation marks?
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