Maureen Lipman: Cancel culture could wipe out comedy

[farfromtheland]

Do you work for the MET?

No, but I've been assured by their officers that I am street legal as long as I give hand signals and preferably use high-Viz.

 

[matticus]

n.b. Is an apology using American English - if in fact you're a native English speaker - the equivalent of saying sorry with your fingers crossed behind your back.??

I would be dishonest if I apologised apologized for being a slave to the spellchecker.

Your thinking was far more sofisticated than mine

 

[glasgowcyclist]

n.b. Is an apology using American English - if in fact you're a native English speaker - the equivalent of saying sorry with your fingers crossed behind your back.??

Sorry to be the pendant here...

Apologize is correct as the root of the word is Greek but the -ise suffix became standard in British English making it simpler by not needing to know which words came from Greek and would take -ize and which came from Latin/French and would take -ise.

 

[Rusty Nails]

No, but I've been assured by their officers that I am street legal as long as I give hand signals and preferably use high-Viz.

And use the correct handshake.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Sorry to be the pendant here...

Apologize is correct as the root of the word is Greek but the -ise suffix became standard in British English making it simpler by not needing to know which words came from Greek and would take -ize and which came from Latin/French and would take -ise.

As explained in an episode of Morse!

 

[swansonj]

Sorry to be the pendant here...

Apologize is correct as the root of the word is Greek but the -ise suffix became standard in British English making it simpler by not needing to know which words came from Greek and would take -ize and which came from Latin/French and would take -ise.

So what, in your mind, is the difference between "standard" and "correct"?

Massive thread diversion, apologies to anyone who still cares about Maureen Lipman

 

[farfromtheland]

Standard is an upright stance whereas correct is a broken motor vehicle

 

[Unkraut]

Apologize is correct as the root of the word is Greek but the -ise suffix became standard in British English making it simpler by not needing to know which words came from Greek and would take -ize and which came from Latin/French and would take -ise.

An excellent defence of the spelling convention.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

So what, in your mind, is the difference between "standard" and "correct"?

Massive thread diversion, apologies to anyone who still cares about Maureen Lipman

Standard = acceptable in BE.
Correct = not wrong, etymologically accurate.

Just my opinion of course, I’m no linguist.

 

[Rusty Nails]

Standard = acceptable in BE.
Correct = not wrong, etymologically accurate.

Just my opinion of course, I’m no linguist.

Just cunning

 

[Beebo]

Jimmy Carr is the target of Cancel
Culture today.
His joke about gypsies was crass but I believe the bigger picture was to reflect the fact that no one seems to care about the other holocaust victims.
But only he knows.

 

[winjim]

Jimmy Carr is the target of Cancel
Culture today.
His joke about gypsies was crass but I believe the bigger picture was to reflect the fact that no one seems to care about the other holocaust victims.
But only he knows.

I see that the cancelling is being threatened by woke lefty snowflake Nadine Dorries.

 

[winjim]

Dorries on Gypsies and travellers:

https://www.ministryoftruth.me.uk/2007/04/17/a-rich-vein-of-ignorance/

 

[Hitchington]

Nadine Goebbels is a proper racist fruitcake.

 

[winjim]

Nadine Goebbels is a proper racist fruitcake.

This was evident fifteen years ago and look where she is now.