Assume v. Presume

[Deleted member 473]

Shit, shat, whatever.

 

[Trev]

I think you are confusing a participle with a tense.

I actually meant to edit my post and add "Or has my inadequate grasp of English grammar let me down", but goy got sidetracked. In this case it obviously had. Thanks for clearing that one up BH.

 

[Deleted member 473]

Who is goy?

 

[af123]

So what is it, sitted?

Seated, surely?

 

[Trev]

Who is goy?

It's a simple typo for got.
But thanks for pointing it out. Now corrected.

 

[Black Hole]

Seated, surely?

That works, assuming you want the intransitive form because you were directed to that particular table rather than having selected it yourself.

 

[RobH1]

That works, assuming you want the intransitive form because you were directed to that particular table rather than having selected it yourself.

Life's too short-go to another restaurant! (One with a pedant-free zone.)

 

[Deleted member 473]

Pedant: we could argue forever about the shades of meaning of that word.

 

[Black Hole]

It would have been soooo much easier had the table placard simply said "Table 2" (or even just "2"). The attempt to be fancy landed the hot water. If in doubt, leave it out!

 

[af123]

Apart from the fact that it's completely unecessary - there are only about 8 tables in the place.

 

[EEPhil]

The attempt to be fancy landed the hot water.

Prefer my hot water in some tea or coffee.

If in doubt, leave it out!

Something I often do when I'm note quite sure where to put the apostrophe.

The @ isn't needed. I'm not going to Twitter the table or email it. "at" would do.

 

[prpr]

Just "2" or "Table 2" would do.

 

[Trev]

Why 'Table' ? Isn't it bleeding obvious it's a table?

 

[Black Hole]

Yes, but just placing a "2" on it leaves you to guess that it means table 2. Pretty obvious, I agree, but the full title of the particular table is Table 2.

 

[gomezz]

Heard an item on the radio news about a wine that won a prize for being the best from a single grape. Unless it is a gigantic grape you are not going to be able to make much wine from it!

 

[Deleted member 473]

How do they know the grape wasn't married?

 

[Trev]

And had loads of kids.

 

[EEPhil]

How do they know the grape wasn't married?

Heard an item on the radio news about a wine that won a prize for being the best from a single grape.

And had loads of kids.

Out of wedlock? An illegitimate wine?

 

[Deleted member 473]

Islamic writing on the wall? That would be Arabic, then.

And why would anti-Islam be racist? Islam is not a race!

(Getting fed up with inaccurate coverage of Manchester.)

 

[Trev]

"Black flag with Islamic writing" was another one I noticed. But at least it was from a passer by, not a member of the BBC.
I'm surprised that there isn't more portrait footage. And why is digital video called footage?