From The Daily Mash:
3am in the morning
‘AM’ means ‘in the morning’, cockwad. Saying them both is like asking ‘would you like some gravy meat sauce on that chop’ or ‘are you seriously smoking a cannabis drugs spliff before work?’ For f**k’s sake just choose one.
Agreed. But they overlook the next iteration:
Could you pop in your pin number for me?
Who else would I be doing it for? I’m the only person in the shop, my card is in the machine, I’m talking to you and only you. Save your breath.
It's not "PIN number". It's "PIN". The "N" in "PIN" stands for "number". That's the crime here, the rest of the sentence, while largely superfluous, is just general politeness and friendliness. In some places, they just point vaguely in the direction of the card reader.
Ah well, it is what it is, just saying etc.
Monday, 19 October 2020
Daily Mash out-pedants itself
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See also -
ATM machine, THORP reprocessing plant, HIV virus, etc.
All of which cause me to bite my tongue.
Vfts, add them to the list :-(
D Day.
AC current
(and likewise, DC current)
Dh, I don't think that counts. In a military operation, there is a "D-Day" and an "H-Hour", it doesn't just mean "day" or "hour". Likewise "T-total" (or "teetotal"), means something different to "total".
JT, good one :-(
M, is that actually a word?
@MW not a word but a trap for pedants to point out that it isn't a word :-)
M, it very much is a word because we know what it means. It's just not one acceptable to pedants.
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