Postby sahona » Sat Jan 07, 2012 6:13 pm
Sorry your lairdship, you're* trolling again, trying to confuse the masses while exercising you spirtle.
"Matt's off" is correct as taught when Scottish education was second to none, as you well know. (a long time ago, granted)
The ' replaces the missing 'i' in "is". (similarly the 'a' in "are" at the *.) So now we understand "Matt is off"
Having said that, the statement is admittedly ambiguous. Should he have been kept in a fridge? Has he fallen from some perch? Has he behaved unsociably? What, in fact, was he "on" to start with?
However, it's (here we go again) people that splat 'possessive' apostrophes all over the place that are poisoning the language and causing confusion.
While I'm ranting, how many lyrics in a song ?
Maybe the word all these jumped-up showbiz pundits are looking for is, in fact, 'word'...
I refuse to leave my paradigm when progress is in the wrong direction.
Bring back the tawse...
Rant over - - but you don't need to go far in these yotti forums to find diabastrically poor English. (from Brits, not furriners.)