Nigel Farage Launches New Brexit Party (Vol. 2)
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These days, the language wallahs tend to subscribe to the descriptive school of grammar rather than the prescriptive one and want to follow actual usage to describe how grammar works; in other words, the notion of 'riules' is a bit out of date.
So, although I personally deplore gooner's use of "yourself" instead of "your", I must accept that what I (and clearly others here) see as a solecism is actually now a common usage and, as such, perfectly legitimate.
So, although I personally deplore gooner's use of "yourself" instead of "your", I must accept that what I (and clearly others here) see as a solecism is actually now a common usage and, as such, perfectly legitimate.
psi310398 said:
These days, the language wallahs tend to subscribe to the descriptive school of grammar rather than the prescriptive one and want to follow actual usage to describe how grammar works; in other words, the notion of 'riules' is a bit out of date.
So, although I personally deplore gooner's use of "yourself" instead of "your", I must accept that what I (and clearly others here) see as a solecism is actually now a common usage and, as such, perfectly legitimate.
Not commonplace at all (yourself gave no examples) and it was instead of 'you'. So, although I personally deplore gooner's use of "yourself" instead of "your", I must accept that what I (and clearly others here) see as a solecism is actually now a common usage and, as such, perfectly legitimate.
Roman Rhodes said:
Not commonplace at all (yourself gave no examples) and it was instead of 'you'.
If you want an example, off the top of my head, how about day-to-day Irish English where it is routinely used, not just as an emphatic pronoun, but as a substitute for the personal pronoun? "Who painted that?"
"Himself"
Roman Rhodes said:
gooner1 said:
Now we're all laughing and shaking our heads.
Yes, but that’s at you posting up proof that you don’t understand the correct usage of ‘you’ and ‘yourself’ and still claiming you are correct!psi310398 said:
Roman Rhodes said:
Not commonplace at all (yourself gave no examples) and it was instead of 'you'.
If you want an example, off the top of my head, how about day-to-day Irish English where it is routinely used, not just as an emphatic pronoun, but as a substitute for the personal pronoun? "Who painted that?"
"Himself"
Roman Rhodes said:
Not commonplace at all (yourself gave no examples) and it was instead of 'you'.
You've not had many conversations with Irishmen have you Cecil.Tbh, I'm amazed BV did not recognise the context it was used in, if in fact he didn't.
Scousers use it a lot too, though perhaps it may have been far more common in past years.
gooner1 said:
You've not had many conversations with Irishmen have you Cecil.
Tbh, I'm amazed BV did not recognise the context it was used in, if in fact he didn't.
Scousers use it a lot too, though perhaps it may have been far more common in past years.
Adding cultural appropriations to your bag of tricks I see, fitting I suppose Tbh, I'm amazed BV did not recognise the context it was used in, if in fact he didn't.
Scousers use it a lot too, though perhaps it may have been far more common in past years.
citizensm1th said:
Adding cultural appropriations to your bag of tricks I see, fitting I suppose
catch yourself on smithyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_yNlvIRz9c
Edited by anonymous-user on Thursday 5th December 12:20
citizensm1th said:
gooner1 said:
You've not had many conversations with Irishmen have you Cecil.
Tbh, I'm amazed BV did not recognise the context it was used in, if in fact he didn't.
Scousers use it a lot too, though perhaps it may have been far more common in past years.
Adding cultural appropriations to your bag of tricks I see, fitting I suppose Tbh, I'm amazed BV did not recognise the context it was used in, if in fact he didn't.
Scousers use it a lot too, though perhaps it may have been far more common in past years.
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-irishman-s-d...
Mrr T said:
JagLover said:
Think the Tories should sign up Annunziata Rees-Mogg as a future MP candidate now she is free.
I agree the tories need more working class candidates with the common touch. 
She seems a smart, well presented, woman who knows how to deliver a good speech.
gooner1 said:
Cultural appropriation smithy? My father was a Scot and Mother from Co Clare so no appropriation occurring here yer donkeys waistcoat ye.
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-irishman-s-d...
Yeah well my father's Welsh but as I have never lived there I don't claim to be Welsh nor do I fake talking like a Welsh man yah big faker youhttps://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-irishman-s-d...
gooner1 said:
Cultural appropriation smithy? My father was a Scot and Mother from Co Clare so no appropriation occurring here yer donkeys waistcoat ye.
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-irishman-s-d...
Conclusive proof that Goon is indeed a four letter word beginning with C and ending in T !https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-irishman-s-d...
JagLover said:
Mrr T said:
JagLover said:
Think the Tories should sign up Annunziata Rees-Mogg as a future MP candidate now she is free.
I agree the tories need more working class candidates with the common touch. She seems a smart, well presented, woman who knows how to deliver a good speech.
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