It just get's worse for the Royal Navy
It appears Ebay have pulled their advert :E
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...51#description Thanks to RichardM on BM for the screen shots :p http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u.../arkroyal1.jpg http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u.../arkroyal2.jpg http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u.../arkroyal3.jpg |
Oh well, as no-one else is adding to this thread I'll have to jump in.
It just get's worse for the Royal Navy get's? get's?? :confused::confused::eek::eek: Apostrophes are now in danger of taking over the world. Having escaped from their restricted role as indicators of possession and rampaged through plural nouns (e.g. potato's, tomato's), they now appear to be attacking verbs. Where will it all end? Who noe's? Funny ebay listing, btw :ok: |
Perhaps it's short for GETS HIS
. . . like you're going to get yours if you keep this up :=:= |
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Just like Exclamation Marks, Question Marks ought never to be used in multiples. There is no significance imparted by doubling them up, apart from displaying a lack of awareness regarding the rules of punctuation. |
Pardon????????
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Just like Exclamation Marks, Question Marks ought never to be used in multiples. There is no significance imparted by doubling them up, apart from displaying a lack of awareness regarding the rules of punctuation. The implied increase in intonation for the second "get's??" was quite clearly intended and successfully interpreted by this reader. The is the internet old chap - get with the program(me). |
A true pedant would never use capitals in question marks or exclamation marks.
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The get's was aded as I new it wood attract the atenshun of the speling polece and heance vewers, still, I can undastand yor fustrason Tankertrashnav aving bean replaiced buy a sattelight fingie and a litle black box, yu must not have a lot else to do.. :p
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All the times I've seen it spelled on the back of multiple cars around here, it's spelled "GETZ".
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