Horizontal safe zone with 'dry lining' back boxes

[JohnW2]

Would you be correct in so doing?

I obviously think so - do you disagree?

However, who cares what sort of error it is, particularly given that there are some 'grey' (or 'overlapping') areas? What about "there"/"their" - would you call that a matter of spelling or grammar?

It's rather fascinating that so many threads in this 'Electrics' forum slide into discussions about linguistics!

 

[EFLImpudence]

However, who cares what sort of error it is,

I thought you would as you corrected Ebee.

It's rather fascinating that so many threads in this 'Electrics' forum slide into discussions about linguistics!

Yes, isn't it?

134 posts to date of cable exiting plasterboard back boxes and other things you think are important.

 

[EFLImpudence]

'Electrics' forum

 

[JohnW2]

I thought you would as you corrected Ebee.

You seem a little obsessed about 'correcting' people. I didn't 'correct' him but merely commented that I would personally call misplaced apostrophes grammatical, rather than spelling, mistakes. Others, perhaps including you, may well feel differently.

134 posts to date of cable exiting plasterboard back boxes and other things you think are important.

I wouldn't say particularly 'important' but, yes, a fair bit has been fairly 'relevant' to an Electrics forum.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

In the case you mention, it might not be totally the fault of the signwriter, since they will often do "exactly what they have been told to do".

We saw a good one today, brand-new van, all carefully sign-written, with the words 'Auto Recoverys Specialists' plastered, large and clear on three sides.

 

[EFLImpudence]

You seem a little obsessed about 'correcting' people. I didn't 'correct' him but merely commented that I would personally call misplaced apostrophes grammatical, rather than spelling, mistakes.

I see.

I am a little obsessed (?) with correcting people while you merely comment on such things.

 

[JohnW2]

I see. I am a little obsessed (?) with correcting people while you merely comment on such things.

Yes, you could put it that way.

 

[morqthana]

In the case you mention, it might not be totally the fault of the signwriter, since they will often do "exactly what they have been told to do".

I remember a joke about an Irish signwriter asked to paint a tree on the doors of a landscape gardener's pickup....

 

[morqthana]

I only recently noticed that the paper slip that comes when I pick up a prescription from the pharmacy includes this section:

I count 11 errors.

Or 12 if you believe the Oxford comma to be mandatory.

 

[JohnW2]

I only recently noticed that the paper slip that comes when I pick up a prescription from the pharmacy includes this section: .... I count 11 errors. .... Or 12 if you believe the Oxford comma to be mandatory.

At first quick read-through I've got to 8 (assuming that the capitalisation, presumably 'for emphasis', is not counted as and 'error').

I can foresee scope for potential debate about "... CARER'S form ....", since it is presumably available to all carers, but will only be completed by one carer on any particular occasion.

 

[ebee]

Would you be correct in so doing?

I would think so, being actually a grammatical error does not effectively rule it out as being a spelling mistake, at lest the way I see it anyway.
Such as the usual expression of day and night - people often use the terms day and night to signify night and not night yet in reality a day is 24 hours long and includes night as well.
Like arithmetic is maths yet maths is not necessarily arithmetic I suppose.
There is the concept of proper use and the concept of normal use which are not always both in true alignment.
So both views might be considered correct dependant upon the criteria within which you use it.

In Johns example ref the "American English" I view our English (The Queens English I was brought up upon) I believe to be the correct one. If Americans or others want to use a corrupted pronunciation or spelling then should specify.

In my particular example with the signwriters then it is my opinion that a signwriter firm should take due diligence and produce the correct version (or ask if this deviation was indeed intended for) therefore the firm was making a professional error.
If you or I might make such a mistake whether common or not and it is not our profession then we might readily be forgiven, someone taking money for that service should have been more robust and the situation be avoided.

We all are aware of people, supposedly professional in some instances, calling a Ring Final Circuit a Ring Main and calling a Fused Connection Unit a Spur, even though theses terms are wrong and actually mean something else.

 

[ebee]

I only recently noticed that the paper slip that comes when I pick up a prescription from the pharmacy includes this section:

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I count 11 errors.

Or 12 if you believe the Oxford comma to be mandatory.

Not very professional is it?

 

[ebee]

I remember a joke about an Irish signwriter asked to paint a tree on the doors of a landscape gardener's pickup....

pray do tell sir

 

[BS3036]

pray do tell sir

Just say it to yourself in a fake Irish accent...

 

[ebee]

Just say it to yourself in a fake Irish accent...

Hah Git it thanks. I was slow on that one. A used to live near some Irish and we noticed them saying three trees, was a whizz to hear it