Paul Francis opened this issue on Sep 15, 2010 · 50 posts
SamTherapy posted Fri, 17 September 2010 at 1:39 PM
Quote - > Quote - ... piss-poor analysis and writing? I mean, I'm not perfect but FFS....
Err... I have no comment to make on the journalist's analysis, but on a purely linguistic level the above partial quote contains more to make me cringe than the whole of the article! Tut tut, Paul!
(written with a smile, not a scowl)
As another Paul - and fellow Yorkshireman - I have do defend the gent here. If he'd written the above in a news feature I'd be somewhat taken aback but within a forum it's fine and dandy.
There's not really much to complain about in terms of linguistic quality anyhow. The vernacular use of "I mean" is fine in conversational use and "FFS" is now a widely used abbreviation. The only thing I'd take exception to is the unnecessary hyphen between "piss" and "poor". Fowler's Guide to Modern English Usage states hyphens should be avoided unless their absence causes confusion.
:biggrin:
Coppula eam se non posit acceptera jocularum.