I See Bad English, It’s Everywhere
I should make clear, right away, that I’m not one of these people who go through life wryly picking on everyone who doesn’t know their split infinitives from their erse hole – in fact they kind of bother me, although we laugh at the same things sometimes. But lately, wrecklessly bad use of the English language appears to stalk me, dog my every paw fall. The thing of it is this: It’s all connected to soldering. I’m learning a new skill or, more accurately, kind of reviving an old one – I’m making myself more self-suffish as an Apple repair guy – motherboard repairs. Anyway yeah, what the hell? The solderers of this world, one may safely assume, will not soon be giving Garcia-Marquez or Dan Brown restless nights if this lot is to be held against them…..
“Use your Exact-o knife and gently scrape the dry solder from the hole. And WALLA!! You will have a clean open hole” Walla! Wallup! OohWallawallawallaooh! Great!
“1. Initial use, there is a some smoke temporary but it will soon diminish. No more smoke after all.” – well! What a lovely wee story with a beautifully encapsulated ending! “Diminish,” if you don’t mind, ladiesangennulmen! Gorgeous!
“Heater is having a very high temperature, suggest to use soldering to get burnt or fire” – Succint! ? The writer has done away with several very widely used conventions of the thirdmost popular language on the globe there and yet I find I almost know what he’s saying. He may be onto something or, should I say “may on to something”.
“Used hardly wea-out long, life iron plated tip and simply replicable” And yea! Verily I say the comma after “long” was his!
