Manx Radio

[dilligaf]

Andy Wint WAS good. Andy Mac was excellent and Stu Peters is not far behind him

He does not need to worry about his job while he Is away

Edited August 12, 2018 by dilligaf

[John Wright]

Andy Mac, now there’s a name from the past.

[dilligaf]

1 hour ago, John Wright said:

Andy Mac, now there’s a name from the past.

Andy Mac was a class act

Not sure if he is still with us but a real character and ace radio personality 

Edited August 12, 2018 by dilligaf

[GreyWolf]

Had to look up what encomium means, must of had poor English teachers in my day or maybe i should of payed more attention at school which I hated every minute of incidentally. 

[Declan]

15 hours ago, GreyWolf said:

Had to look up what encomium means, must of had poor English teachers in my day or maybe i should of payed more attention at school

Yes, you must have and should have. 

Edited August 13, 2018 by Declan

[gettafa]

To say nothing of the dreadful decapitalisation of the first person pronoun.

[the stinking enigma]

Only those of late middle age and above care about that sort of thing nowadays. 

[Neil Down]

1 hour ago, the stinking enigma said:

Only those of late middle age and above care about that sort of thing nowadays. 

Yes we do!!!!

[lezayre]

Andy Mac is still with us and residing in Nice I believe.

[slinkydevil]

NIce.

[the stinking enigma]

One of the greatest council house biscuits ever devised.

[Stu Peters]

Thing is Stinky, many of us DO care about that sort of thing. It's a framework for communicating accurately. Punctuation, spelling and capitalisation remove uncertainty and standardise the written form. I understand the argument that 'as long as you can make it out, it's fine' but it shows an alarming disregard for abiding by rules and making your written points properly. It also increases the chance of the reader deciding (possibly unfairly) that you're as thick as pig shit and spent your entire education wagging school or smoking behind the bike sheds.

I blame social media - at one time you only saw things written by people who could do it, now anyone with a computer can and happily does display their illiteracy for all to see. And society in general where our young people are taught more about gender fluidity, safe spaces and self-empowerment than about the basics.

I once worked with a very good writer who eschewed punctuation in emails because he thought it hip and trendy. His publisher disagreed when it came to books.

[P.K.]

^   ^   ^

What he said.

We were forced to take in some work placements from the local "university".

Their written work was so poor we could only use them for menial tasks like binding reports down the right hand side, supervising them moving up from the two-hole punch to the four-hole etc etc.

The foreign OpCos used better English than they did....

[the stinking enigma]

I'm not neccesarily disagreeing but you both are past late middle age so essentially neither are yous disproving my point. 

[the stinking enigma]

If  anyone below the age of 60, la colombe and wrighty excepted (borderline ocd mental problems). oh, and bobbo takes genuine umbrage with my writing style then i shall change to a more classical style forthwith.