What happened to English grammar?

There well may be a gransnetter feeling distressed for all we know !!

There are a great number out there !!

You are actually helping to turn it into a mountain. It had pretty well died a death!

j08 Thank you for suggesting that I have a superior brain. I am deeply flattered. Lord Carrington, who I am sure you remember resigned over his mistakes about the Falklands, explained it very clearly.

Just for the record - is there a single gransnetter out there feeling distressed because criticism of a sub's grammar in the Daily Mail has reopened their sense of loss concerning the death in the Falklands campaign of someone they knew? Alternatively, has this whole thread turned something rather smaller than a molehill – a pimple, perhaps – into a mountain?

Churchill said Jaw,jaw,jaw was better than war,war,war. But then he died before he could join Gransnet. Might have changed his mind.

I still think this thread should have been in Pedants' Corner and not in Chat. If it had to be started at all...

"albeit with the intention of returning".

Right. They should have just waited.

absent
Probably having a bit of a party in Buenos Aires tonight then.

Just oput of interest, how would you have avoided it? Given them the Falklands. Even though the islanders didn't want that.

Please allow us to benefit from your superior brain absent.

Of course, in any war it's much more sensible to turn away and let the enemy kill you, isn't it?

It was a campaign. And people died. And were horribly wounded.

Oh God. I'm too tired for more claptrap.

Oh, absent, your post actually made me laugh out loud!

The whole thread is ridiculous really, isn't it?

I don't bloody believe it! I have never read anything so ridiculous as all this nonsense about insensitivity. Can't you people find something meaningful to argue about rather than a hypothetical gransnetter who had a hypothetical close relative or friend killed in a stupid and wholly avoidable skirmish (that's what it was officially) in 1982 and who is deeply wounded by comments about a sub-editor's grammar in an article about someone designated a naval hero who is best remembered, if remembered at all, for killing lots of other people by sinking a ship that was, at the time, sailing away from so-called British waters (albeit with the intention of returning).

We didn't have a mobile phone either, jings. Not sure they'd even been invented. But we were also lucky to spot someone within shouting distance — me stuck on a four inch ledge and him lying below in agony. We hollered and were lucky yet again because it happened to be a park ranger (also in Snowdonia, you see) who had a walkie-talkie radio with him. Phew. It could have been much worse without such luck!!

It's catching!

We grows up, Jing?

No! GROWN UPS!!!!!!!

Did! Fat finger!

I think you mean grows up (we). Not "grow ups".

absolutely!!!

Quite!
I suggest (note only suggest) that we, grow ups, stop this childish bickering.

You were luckier than my son Bags! Twisted his knee out of socket up Snowdon. No phone signal. On his own. Had to scramble down on his bum. Crawled to house near bottom of mountain, asked if they could call an ambulance for him. They refused and shut the door! His tutor finally came out for him and took him off to hospital.

I'm not entirely sure I was wro................. never mind!

Well I was lucky. It was my companion who had a broken ankle, but since they had to strap him to a stretcher, the pilot offered to take me back to where I'd parked the car, which was quite a few miles away, off road on a forest track. This meant I could take both our rucksacks. I'd have struggled carrying both.

The precision of the flying was utterly impressive. So was the noise!! Then he went back for the fallen climber and uplifted him to Bangor hospital where he had to have pins put in his ankle.

Obviously I did mean emotionally thick. Phrased it bdly. Shouldn't have said it anyway. Norty j08.

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