When he was younger he ran the family pub but left it to flirt briefly with the restaurant trade before returning to his true calling – pulling pints. And so he became know as the Re-publican. A master of malapropism and maladroit with words generally, he has always been good for a giggle. On slow [...]
The Fat Controller returned my thesis, suggesting some changes and correcting some errors. One of my frequent “errors” was using the phrase these data show instead of the data shows. My reply: | Thanks for getting back to me so quickly, FC. I will work on this over the weekend. | In the meantime, I [...]
Having promised not to repeat the conversation to the parties concerned, I was asked by Goshia how her new friends, Aisling and Ellen, managed to hold down their jobs seeing as both were illiterate. Ireland, she surmised, was amazingly tolerant of people with serious learning difficulties. The reason for her concern: Text messages she received [...]
I had EuroNews on the TV this morning. Every 5 minutes or so they made the following announcement. Boris Yeltsin will be buried live here on EuroNews today. If they go ahead with it, it will be the best reality TV ever. It reminds me of years ago when a work colleague sent out an [...]
This week, Din-do ran an article by Kim Bielenberg about literacy levels amongst Irish students. He quoted economist Moore McDowell (yeah, yer man’s brother) who described some of his own students as barely semi-literate. Dr. Martin O’Grady was also quoted: It is a big problem. Many students don’t even put capital letters at the start [...]
Something that really bugs me is when journalists use their instead of they’re or there; your instead of you’re and its instead of it’s. Ok, I admit, the latter case is so common that it can be excused, however there should be no confusion with the other two. Their and your denote possession. e.g. Your [...]
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