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timwilky
15-05-10, 12:17 PM
Bloody foreigner bosses. Yank and then a Pole.
I have had to produce a presentation about software licence issues and they have returned it for me to correct the spelling mistakes. What mistakes?
They do not get it. The piece of paper etc is a licence. when applying a licence, you license.
Aghhh this is driving me mad. The companies official language is English. Not American.
CoolGirl
15-05-10, 12:47 PM
Bloody foreigner bosses. Yank and then a Pole.
I have had to produce a presentation about software licence issues and they have returned it for me to correct the spelling mistakes. What mistakes?
They do not get it. The piece of paper etc is a licence. when applying a licence, you license.
Aghhh this is driving me mad. The company's official language is English. Not American.
Corrected for you :D
DarrenSV650S
15-05-10, 12:48 PM
Corrected for you :D
:smt082
Milky Bar Kid
15-05-10, 12:53 PM
Corrected for you :D
Ahhh but should there be an apostrophe? Should it just be companys because he isn't saying the company is, which would be company's. I'm quite possibly wrong though, just using the rules we were taught when I did my higher English, so there may be more to it!!
timwilky
15-05-10, 01:02 PM
OK, guilty as charged.
As for the use of the apostrophe. As it is possessive, then I would say it applies. As in, the official language of the company is. I had used the plural form
Then again I did not study English, it seemed to be assumed that fodder for the factories did not need to know anything more than basic literacy, numeracy and knowledge would be dangerous. Make us start to question our place in the pecking order.
thedonal
15-05-10, 02:20 PM
Ahhh but should there be an apostrophe? Should it just be companys because he isn't saying the company is, which would be company's. I'm quite possibly wrong though, just using the rules we were taught when I did my higher English, so there may be more to it!!
Nope- it's a possessive singular. Would have an apostrophe.
Like The Doctor's Surgery for 1 doctor, or The Doctors' Surgery for a group of doctors.
CoolGirl
15-05-10, 06:40 PM
Ahhh but should there be an apostrophe? Should it just be companys because he isn't saying the company is, which would be company's. I'm quite possibly wrong though, just using the rules we were taught when I did my higher English, so there may be more to it!!
No such word as 'companys'. Perhaps they should call it the Higher Scottish?
singular: company
plural: companies
posessive, belonging to one company: company's
posessive, belonging to more than one comapny: companies'
simples.;)
Ahhh but should there be an apostrophe? Should it just be companys because he isn't saying the company is, which would be company's. I'm quite possibly wrong though, just using the rules we were taught when I did my higher English, so there may be more to it!!
Mmmm, English lessons from a Scot...;)
Only kidding MBK but I just couldn't resist.
P.S. I went to school in Ireland, so pot calling kettle...
timwilky
15-05-10, 06:45 PM
The good old possessive plural. That apostrophe at the end gets them every time.
It is no wonder that johnny foreigner thinks English is a difficult language. However, they would probably study English grammar far more than most English schoolkids do.
As for language, I was taught French by an Irishman. No wonder I could never get the pronunciation right
As for language, I was taught French by an Irishman. No wonder I could never get the pronunciation right
To be sure.
-Ralph-
15-05-10, 07:50 PM
Nothing the wrong with the English skills of many educated Scots. It's nothing to do with any failing of MBK's or anything to do with her being a Scot. It's a consequence of her age and the state of our education system.
so there may be more to it!!
Where to put apostrophes should have been covered before the age of 16, at least in the three most simplistic terms of use. Higher English should be covering it in much more detail than that. MBK having studied Higher English should know that there is much more to it than just "company is".
MBK would only have finished her Higher English about 4 years ago, and this is fairly typical of the standard to which English is now taught. English A' level would be no better. We are churning out millions of young adults who despite having specifically studied English, haven't got a full grasp of the language. Imagine the written work of one of MBK's peers, who did not study English, or indeed did not continue past Standard grade or GCSE.
Corrected for you :D
Damn, I was just about to do that too. :D
Milky Bar Kid
15-05-10, 10:00 PM
Bloody hell, I did say I wasn't sure!
thedonal
15-05-10, 11:43 PM
Well we hope you are now!!!
:D
No such word as 'companys'. Perhaps they should call it the Higher Scottish?
singular: company
plural: companies
possessive, belonging to one company: company's
possessive, belonging to more than one comapny: companies'
simples.;)
Corrected for you:)
BanannaMan
18-05-10, 02:13 AM
Bloody foreigners need to learn English
+1
Especially those damn yanks!
;)
timwilky
18-05-10, 07:17 AM
+1
Especially those damn yanks!
;)
;) indeed.
I had said it was a damm yank that caused my annoyance. He described my presentation boring with inconsistent spelling. I had to ask him what spelling and he said you keep spelling "license" incorrectly.
Still I gave him a little lesson of noun=licence, verb=license. as in :-
You license the use of a software product by applying a licence.
ThEGr33k
18-05-10, 07:22 AM
;) indeed.
I had said it was a damm yank that caused my annoyance. He described my presentation boring with inconsistent spelling. I had to ask him what spelling and he said you keep spelling "license" incorrectly.
Still I gave him a little lesson of noun=licence, verb=license. as in :-
You license the use of a software product by applying a licence.
So you got him told? Hope so, they somehow think English language = American :confused:
martianskippy
18-05-10, 09:49 AM
+1
Especially those damn yanks!
;)
No mate, Poles are even worse ;)
Sir Trev
18-05-10, 11:43 AM
In a previous life I wrote regional reports for a global company that got reviewed and "standardised" by a central team. I took great delight in changing the spelling back to standard English after they'd messed it up. No matter how many times we told them the UK-based regional management team would throw out the report if it was not written in "local language" they never listened...
Bloody hell, I did say I wasn't sure!:lol:
I always thought it was kumpony init!
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