Immigration.

[David Johnson]

"Since when has sticking up for British law and our way of life been racist?"

Our way of life? What is your way of life, Hamish? Going to work in the public sector and moaning about your customers all day long on this forum? Complaining about everything as if a red hot poker has been stuck up your arse? Just filling in the meaningless years until your pension clicks in?

Playing a round of golf at the weekend ever hopeful that the local bank manager will say "Hello" to you?

By the way, remind me to send a couple of Demis Roussos albums around to your place, just in case the bank manager is daft enough to take up your offer for cocktails. Think Abigail's Party!!

[Flat_Eric]

David Johnson wrote:

>>I am certainly no grammatical expert, but there are standards, dear boy.<<<


Clearly you're not and yes indeed there are.

Strictly speaking it should be "expert in grammar" or "grammar expert". Not "grammatical expert".

I reckon you should have a word in your own EFL teacher's shell-like as well David. Or Max Tranmere's !wink!.

- Eric

[David Johnson]

Well Eric, if you had attended the advanced course in English as a Foreign Language available to chaps from Buto Buto land, you would have realised that there are a number of ways to express meaning in English.

That is the joy of the English language which, with time, you will learn to appreciate.

"Grammatical" - adjective of or relating to grammar.

"Grammatical expert" - expert "of or relating to grammar". A lovely adjective and noun combination that has me salivating at the mere thought of it.

"you're" - good use of an apostrophe, Eric. Please try and help your dad out a bit more.

However as I stated previously I am no expert on the subject. Isn't grammar a noun, by the way?

All the best

DJ, insolence poster

!wink!

[Flat_Eric]

David - you're both right and wrong.

Let me give you another example: Astronomical is also an adjective.

Hence you can have "astronomical charts", an "astronomical clock" or "astronomical prices".

However: You can be an "expert in astronomy". Or an "astronomy expert". But not really an "astronomical expert".

Some other adjectives (like "grammatical") work in the same way.

Except perhaps in Blackpool !wink!.

- Eric

[Sam Slater]

Must be boring over at The Rock for you to come on other people's forums just to troll.

[Essex Lad]

David Johnson wrote:

> "Fucking New Labour disaster, and to think there are some thick
> cunt's still willing to vote for them"
>
> "Cunt's" does not require the apostrophe.
>
Nor does 1970s but it still doesn't stop you writing it when you refer to that decade or any other for that matter.

[Flat_Eric]

Sam Slater wrote:

> Must be boring over at The Rock for you to come on other
> people's forums just to troll.
>
>


Check above Sam and remind me who it was who started the grammar lessons?

- Eric

[David Johnson]

"Nor does 1970s but it still doesn't stop you writing it when you refer to that decade or any other for that matter".

Did I say I was an expert? No, indeedy I didn't.

Nuance isn't your thing really, is it?

[David Johnson]

I'll take the right option you put on offer.

Ta

!wink!

[David Johnson]

Read Lizard's opening post and then you will understand what trolling is.