"Look", "Listen"

[243ack]

13 hours ago, steve_b_wales said:

I hate in when someone is asked a question and they reply by saying 'So' .....  .. .. .. .. 

Thats my pet hate too. Why start a sentence with a conjunction?.

 

[London Best]

Not so noticeable when spoken, but awful to see written down, is the use of “must of done” when they mean “must’ve done”, or more correctly, “must have done”. 
 

(sorry! Benefit of a grammar school education)

[Old Boggy]

6 minutes ago, London Best said:

 
 

(sorry! Benefit of a grammar school education)

I too, had one of those. Not my happiest days and whilst Latin has come in quite useful, I feel that I would have benefited more from learning woodwork and metalwork.

[London Best]

Just now, Old Boggy said:

I too, had one of those. Not my happiest days and whilst Latin has come in quite useful, I feel that I would have benefited more from learning woodwork and metalwork.

Certainly not my happiest days!

I skipped the Latin for German, but sixty years later I can remember very little of it’s I’ve never used it.

[Old Boggy]

1 minute ago, London Best said:

Certainly not my happiest days!

I skipped the Latin for German, but sixty years later I can remember very little of it’s I’ve never used it.

It would have been compulsory if WW2 had a different outcome.

[JohnfromUK]

7 minutes ago, Old Boggy said:

whilst Latin has come in quite useful, I feel that I would have benefited more from learning woodwork and metalwork.

I agree entirely over woodwork and metalwork - and would add simple 'electrics' and related practical DIY relevant skills/awareness.

I have never found Latin useful.  The argument is that it helps English spelling/grammar, but I think the spelling is largely irrelevant as relatively few words derive from Latin - and grammar in Latin is quite different with (if I remember right) the verb usually placed at the end of the sentence.

[TIGHTCHOKE]

Luckily I was allowed to drop French and spend the time doing more physics and maths.   

 

 

 

Has made counting red cartridges easier!   

[amateur]

2 hours ago, Old Boggy said:

I too, had one of those. Not my happiest days and whilst Latin has come in quite useful, I feel that I would have benefited more from learning woodwork and metalwork.

When I reached the 6th form, I found that I had a spare period, so persuaded the woodwork master, who only taught the B streams, to let me have a go at making something. 

I turned a teak fruit bowl, which rather trumped the pipe racks that my B stream brothers had made and our mother still kept up to her death.

I can still quote the opening lines of Caesar's Gallic Wars, but apart from that, Latin hasn't been much use to me.

[Old Boggy]

35 minutes ago, amateur said:

When I reached the 6th form, I found that I had a spare period, so persuaded the woodwork master, who only taught the B streams, to let me have a go at making something. 

I turned a teak fruit bowl, which rather trumped the pipe racks that my B stream brothers had made and our mother still kept up to her death.

I can still quote the opening lines of Caesar's Gallic Wars, but apart from that, Latin hasn't been much use to me.

When I was in a form that they called `Remove` before being let loose on the outside world, I also pleaded to go into the B stream woodwork class and made a Stevenson screen. That was the happiest time ever at that school.