Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady.
Hey
– sorry to have been away for so long. Lots of other things on my
mind recently – apart from Brexit - and that will be the last time
I mention it in this post.
But
it's a funny world – I looked on line yesterday and saw that a
luxury hotel in Pakistan had been invaded by a couple of gun toting
terrorists. I looked on TV, at the news, and the only piece of news
that mentioned Pakistan was the fact that they were playing cricket
against India – no mention of the gun battle.
Just
how many tiny wars are going on around the world without us knowing
about them, or even having heard of the country and just who is Big Pharma
the mysterious conspiracy of nut cases who run the world from some
cave in some desert in some place hard to pronounce.
I
looked the other day at the figures for this blog and guess what? I
have clocked over 200,000 page views – or hits – since I started.
So you see, even though I haven't been active with new material the
blog still gets red. I have often wondered how to spell the past
tense of read and I think its the same, read; I put red in so you
don't confuse it.
Pageviews
today
|
79
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Pageviews
yesterday
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40
|
Pageviews
last month
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1,155
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Pageviews
all time history
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200,132
|
Sorry
I can't change the font there so it remains tiny.
Here
are some figures for now 2.31 pm. May 12th:
Posts
Entry
|
Pageviews
|
|---|---|
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Oct
24, 2011, 2 comments
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79
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Feb
21, 2012, 4 comments
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15
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Jan
29, 2011, 2 comments
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13
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Oct
7, 2011
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11
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Jan
5, 2016, 2 comments
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5
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The
above are for the week – there are also advertisements placed
somewhere within the post – and not many of you are clocking in to
them.
Another
thing: have you noticed how the word so is used
these days to start sentences. By politicians, contestants of Quiz
Shows . . in fact nearly everybody.
QUIZ
SHOW HOST.
What
is your name and what do you do?
CONTESTANT.
So:
my name is George and I'm an attorney.
Silly
isn't it? It's like saying very fun – just bad! Plain bad
English. It's either very funny or fun! Do you know why? Because fun
is a noun, believe it or not, and very is an adverb and you can only
put an adverb in front of a verb – it 's a bit like saying very table,
very chair, but it still gets used, has been in America for a long
time, and now it's creeping in over here.
I think they're very fun.
I
know, I know I point out these little things out about the language
and that you should say you and me and not you and I
and I go around misusing the language as much as the next but – the
people who misuse it, saying different to instead of
different from are the professional
broadcasters, who should know better, and we don't have Clive James
to point these things out any more. Basically, in essence, you know
what I mean. But you will know more when my people talk to your
people!!!
So
that's it for now and I won't leave it so long before the next piping
hot piece of pure poetical particularization.
Yes - I have been back in, for early readers, to correct a few typos. Sorry.
ReplyDeleteI think the preamble “so” is infinitely better than some goon chanting “that’s right, that’s right” before going onto the answer etc. But there again anyone with their brain cells correctly aligned does not not need a preamble. Please do get me onto “um” and “er”. In military wireless telephony, saying either will get you in serious trouble!
ReplyDeletewell I'll have to disagree with you there, my friend, as I am talking of trained speakers, Broadcasters, politicians and announcers who should know better. Um and er is fine as they are used in every day speech; it allows you to think whereas the police and the military write and speak like robots and usually use bad English because they have to stick to a format for example 'I was proceeding along the A38 at 25 MPH . . ' how would you like books written like that?
ReplyDeleteBut 'so' is bad: Rory Stewart is using it and many others - it has taken over from 'look.