BDOTGNZA work programme for 2008

[MisterD]

Here's an extra 'special' sign for BDOTGNZA's consideration and opprobrium - on the side a bus purporting to teach 'English for migrants'

Are you suggesting that "migrants" should not be capitalised (as I would deduce from the above quote)...I would assume that "English for Migrants" is the title of a course, and therefore properly has a capital 'm'.

I can only spot the missing 'd'...but then I've only had one coffee so far today.

[Hitcher]

I can only spot the missing 'd'...but then I've only had one coffee so far today.

An apt, perhaps ironic, observation, MisterD.

[idb]

It's the mi's'sing apo'strophe's I tell's ya!!!

[MisterD]

An apt, perhaps ironic, observation, MisterD.

Irony? That means "a bit like iron" doesn't it? It's funny how as soon as you step into one of these grammar threads, you start second-guessing yourself and all certainty vanishes....

[MSTRS:Me]

Irony? That means "a bit like iron" doesn't it? It's funny how as soon as you step into one of these grammar threads, you start second-guessing yourself and all certainty vanishes....

Or all vanishes, certainly...

[Wolf]

Which educational institution does this belong to?

I am sure you mean, "To which educational institution does this belong?"

[Edbear]

I'm not sure that's quite what The Bard had in mind when he penned the immortal line "Once more into the bleach, dear friends, once more!"

I thought it was "bleacher's", or was it "bleachers'", maybe "bleachers", or should they be capitalised like the Migrants/Migrant's/Migrants'...?

Are you suggesting that "migrants" should not be capitalised (as I would deduce from the above quote)...I would assume that "English for Migrants" is the title of a course, and therefore properly has a capital 'm'.

I can only spot the missing 'd'...but then I've only had one coffee so far today.

I believe all migrants should be capitalised! What a capital idea!

I am sure you mean, "To which educational institution does this belong?"

Take your pick, these days! All of them are lacking somewhat in general knowledge of the English language...

[Phurrball]

Are you suggesting that "migrants" should not be capitalised (as I would deduce from the above quote)...I would assume that "English for Migrants" is the title of a course, and therefore properly has a capital 'm'.

I can only spot the missing 'd'...but then I've only had one coffee so far today.

Was bound to happen in this thread. Should indeed be title case as it clearly is in the original photo. Error corrected, bling awarded.

HOW could they get title case correct, but miss the 'd'?? Especially on the word 'advanced' referring to English language skills - that was what really peturbed me.

[Hitcher]

"Title case" should be banned. It is a hangover from secretarial schools (like other antique conventions such as two spaces after full stops). The only place title case is used is in office environments (by people who don't know any better), where it causes no end of angst when professional editors remove it in preference for the more acceptable and widely used "sentence case".

Title case is problematic in its application as, like apostrophe usage, most people don't get its purpose in the first place.

Sentence case rules!

[Wolf]

"Title case" should be banned. It is a hangover from secretarial schools (like other antique conventions such as two spaces after full stops). The only place title case is used is in office environments (by people who don't know any better), where it causes no end of angst when professional editors remove it in preference for the more acceptable and widely used "sentence case".

Title case is problematic in its application as, like apostrophe usage, most people don't get its purpose in the first place.

Sentence case rules!

I use title case and two spaces after the full stop all the time. I'm pretty sure I know when to use title case and the two spaces separate the sentences to help aging bastards like me tell if the dark smudge after the word is a full stop or a comma.

[mynameis]

Got an interesting project for you guys, edit every single post on KB and get it right to BDOTGNZA standard!

Bwahaha!

[jrandom]

Got an interesting project for you guys, edit every single post on KB and get it right to BDOTGNZA standard!

90% of them would end up blank.

[Hitcher]

There are not enough hours in the day. And the offenders would learn nothing.

[Grub]

It's the mi's'sing apo'strophe's I tell's ya!!!

Now how on earth are "English for Migrants" students going to make sense out of that

The english language is a shit to learn as it has so many common words with different meanings but apostophes get even those with Unglish as a First Language. {Hitcher Bait - in Title Case too}

"The farmer's stock" we are taught, is singular because of the apostrophe i.e. belonging to the farmer. Try and use that with "its" and "it's" and you fall flat on your face. I think most people make the error because of that rote learned at school about who it belongs to as it applies to the possesive (like farmer's).

However the possessive form of "it" has no apostrophe, while the contraction of "it is" or "it has" does have an apostrophe (it's).

Blardy confusing - but interesting.

[MSTRS:Me]

"The farmer's stock" we are taught, is singular because of the apostrophe i.e. belonging to the farmer. Try and use that with "its" and "it's" and you fall flat on your face. I think most people make the error because of that rote learned at school about who it belongs to as it applies to the possesive (like farmer's).

However the possessive form of "it" has no apostrophe, while the contraction of "it is" or "it has" does have an apostrophe (it's).

So you are saying...for the possessive ' , one uses it with a noun, but not with a pronoun?
In the example you gave, that would be the stock belonging to one farmer. But if there were two or more farmers owning stock, then it would be the farmers' stock ??