Comments on: Football English http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/11/30/football-english/ Scattered values and the chance of philosophy. May contain funny. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:51:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: Cliff http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/11/30/football-english/#comment-3250 Sun, 03 Dec 2006 10:37:41 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/11/30/football-english/#comment-3250 Know the feeling. I clam up at: "I love you way you guys talk". Or when someone links to your blog and says: "He's brilliant! Look at what he says!" Apparently. Know the feeling. I clam up at: “I love you way you guys talk”.

Or when someone links to your blog and says: “He’s brilliant! Look at what he says!”

Apparently.

]]> by: sooz http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/11/30/football-english/#comment-3249 Sun, 03 Dec 2006 09:47:38 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/11/30/football-english/#comment-3249 No can do. I've now got stage fright! Everyone will be looking at this and saying 'well that's not witty' so the moment has gone. It's tant amount to being drunk and thinking you're so very funny. The next day you wish you hadn't been quite so err 'comical'! No can do. I’ve now got stage fright! Everyone will be looking at this and saying ‘well that’s not witty’ so the moment has gone. It’s tant amount to being drunk and thinking you’re so very funny. The next day you wish you hadn’t been quite so err ‘comical’!

]]> by: Cliff http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/11/30/football-english/#comment-3220 Sat, 02 Dec 2006 09:48:32 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/11/30/football-english/#comment-3220 Weird. Probably because I changed the title of the post of something. hmm - Can you reply wittily here? Weird. Probably because I changed the title of the post of something.

hmm - Can you reply wittily here?

]]> by: Sooz http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/11/30/football-english/#comment-3210 Sat, 02 Dec 2006 00:41:22 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/11/30/football-english/#comment-3210 Cliff - there seems to be something wrong with the comments thingy on the next post - it says 'page not found' and I wanted to reply wittily! Cliff - there seems to be something wrong with the comments thingy on the next post - it says ‘page not found’ and I wanted to reply wittily!

]]> by: Cliff http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/11/30/football-english/#comment-3158 Thu, 30 Nov 2006 13:47:13 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/11/30/football-english/#comment-3158 Cheers Mike. See, a lesser man might correct his mistakes and delete all these comments. Cheers Mike. See, a lesser man might correct his mistakes and delete all these comments.

]]> by: mike http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/11/30/football-english/#comment-3157 Thu, 30 Nov 2006 12:34:59 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/11/30/football-english/#comment-3157 Also - and I hate to kick a man while he's down, but - the past tense of "have" is "had", not "has". "Has" was correctly being used as part of a present perfect construction, as in: "he has made a challenge". http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/presentperfect.html Also - and I hate to kick a man while he’s down, but - the past tense of “have” is “had”, not “has”. “Has” was correctly being used as part of a present perfect construction, as in: “he has made a challenge”.

http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/presentperfect.html

]]> by: Cliff http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/11/30/football-english/#comment-3156 Thu, 30 Nov 2006 10:32:40 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/11/30/football-english/#comment-3156 Gordon - That's hypothetical. James Beatty doesn't have a little look or take the bal around defenders. Gordon - That’s hypothetical. James Beatty doesn’t have a little look or take the bal around defenders.

]]> by: Cliff http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/11/30/football-english/#comment-3155 Thu, 30 Nov 2006 10:31:26 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/11/30/football-english/#comment-3155 Shit * - I think you're right. How about "he've" and "she've" Bugger. Now I'm angry and wrong. Shit * - I think you’re right.

How about “he’ve” and “she’ve”

Bugger. Now I’m angry and wrong.

]]> by: Gordon http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/11/30/football-english/#comment-3154 Thu, 30 Nov 2006 10:31:06 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/11/30/football-english/#comment-3154 He has had a little look. He's had a little look. The English language is built on flexibility, this is one such example surely. Such things evolve, for good or bad. Would it have been different if the commentator had been talking about James Beattie?? ;-) He has had a little look.
He’s had a little look.

The English language is built on flexibility, this is one such example surely. Such things evolve, for good or bad.

Would it have been different if the commentator had been talking about James Beattie?? ;-)

]]> by: * (asterisk) http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/11/30/football-english/#comment-3153 Thu, 30 Nov 2006 09:48:12 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/11/30/football-english/#comment-3153 I'm not convinced by this argument. I think the verb "to have" may be contracted in all its forms: I've You've He's We've You've They've. Surely? I’m not convinced by this argument. I think the verb “to have” may be contracted in all its forms:

I’ve
You’ve
He’s
We’ve
You’ve
They’ve.

Surely?

]]> by: Salvadore Vincent http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/11/30/football-english/#comment-3150 Thu, 30 Nov 2006 09:36:50 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/11/30/football-english/#comment-3150 Lynne Truss thinks he's right. Lynne Truss thinks he’s right.

]]> by: Ed R http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/11/30/football-english/#comment-3148 Thu, 30 Nov 2006 08:42:23 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/11/30/football-english/#comment-3148 So CLiffs, what's the proper contraction for He has? I was thinking "he's" is valid in that usage. But then again, I never studied words or their usage much beyond 'The Bridge over San Luis Rey'. So CLiffs, what’s the proper contraction for He has? I was thinking “he’s” is valid in that usage.
But then again, I never studied words or their usage much beyond ‘The Bridge over San Luis Rey’.

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