What happened to English grammar?

Janthea - I did not 'get my knickers in a twist' - I simply pointed out a grammatical error, which annoyed me.

Ah. Well I have done a bit of wheeler dearlering in my time...wrong appendages though

No. I think it meant Del-boy! Sorry.

j08 hmmmm. As in boy or Delia? Neither applicable but I don't mind a bit of a change. Delilah..

Very helpful post.

Wow!! I don't look at Gransnet for a day and come back to a lot of fuss about nothing. And before anyone starts up again, I'm not referring to the Belgrano et al, but the grammar reference. I would have thought we all had better things to do than get our knickers in a twist over trivia. Let's hope everyone has kissed and made up by now!

I'm sorry my Kindle Fire insists on calling you Del.

It did actually say that Del! Rubbish journalism all round!

You're right Elegran. You would have thought the world would have grown up by now.

Actually I thought the problem with the sentence was describing Sir John Woodward as being of the Falklands Navy . Oh dear.

No I don't like playing wars j08, but I do lapse into irony occasionally.

Every generation does it, Jings. WW1 was the "war to end wars" but there has been war going on in some part of the globe ever since. Each time, both sides believe that they are justified, and they are only defending themselves against something.

My mother was born just at the start of WW1, I was born a few months before WW2, my brother just before the Korean war, and when each of my children and grandchildren was born there was fighting going on somewhere. I think we have all looked at our children and hoped that they would be spared.

Oh God, were n' t they all heroes, poor sods. I remember going and standing by my one year old son's cot the night it kicked off and praying that he would never have to get involved with anything like that. I hope and pray the same thing about the grandsons now.

You can give me the wooden spoon back now, petallus

I don't regard him as a hero. He was just doing his job as he thought best. There's no conscription in this country so people choose to enter the armed forces in order, presumably, to do the jobs armed forces require them to do. Some of those jobs may end up being heroic but no more so than, say, a surgeon's job would – especially surgeons who work for an outfit like, for instance, Médecins sans Frontières, and clean up the mess left by, among others, armed forces various.

If he was a hero, then his memory deserves that he be reported in the best possible English.

It was calling the 'the man who sunk the Belgrano' a hero!

You certainly haven't caused any upset between any of my friends and myself, jingle, but it is nice of you to be concerned.

Did anyone celebrate it petallus. God, I hope not.

Oh dear. I hope this thread, and my contribution to it, hasn't caused upset between RL friends. To be honest, I was worrying about this in the small hours.

And my first post on this thread expressed my feelings.

I was rather amazed myself, jingle, at the ridiculous attack on my sensitivity - not by you.

My OP was about a grammatical error that a journalist should not have made. Nothing else.

No personal feelings involved here Greatnan. I was simply "gobsmacked".