An example of an "I accidentally a coca-cola bottle"-ism.

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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It was in some paper or oth…wait, it was the Right-win… no it was in a magaz… no I… oh I can’t remember where it was, but wherever it was it was being quoted from a probably right-wing newspaper. See if you can spot the error…

*“If you find the idea of a dwarfish person with a high forehead releiving himself in a motel pool (this, a man who feigns a wheelchair-bound handicap), then Little Britain USA is for you.”
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The author probably doesn’t know he’s done it. In fact he would probably struggle to spot the mistake if someone told him it was in error.

I put this in the pit because this type of language-laziness annoys me.

Upon reading this the question “If you find it… what?, Good?, Bad? Entertaining?, Appealing?, Tasty?.. WHAAAAT!” formed itself in my head and would not go away.

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Mini-rants thread is right below ya, dude.

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And what is it with airline food?

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A missing word?..offensive, appealing?
If you find the idea of a dwarfish person with a high forehead releiving himself in a motel pool (this, a man who feigns a wheelchair-bound handicap)funny, then Little Britain USA is for you."

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correct. It’s as if he hasn’t finished his

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Moved to MPSIMS.

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Oh! :smack: I thought he had actually “found a dwarfish person with a high forehead releiving himself in a motel pool (this, a man who feigns a wheelchair-bound handicap)”. Hope he wasn’t planning on a swim soon.
just kidding.

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i before e?

And depending on where “Little Britain” is, it may need a comma between it and “USA”.

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I keep finding ideas, but not that one, so I guess the show’s not for me.

The parenthetical looks a bit odd, too. The motel pool might well be the one feigning. And speaking of pedantry, what sort of handicaps are bound to wheelchairs?

It is a spectacular fiery crash of a sentence.

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“My friend and I are going out to the bar. Do you want to go with?”
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with WHAT?!?!? :mad:

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I LOOOVE Little Britain! Especially the weight-loss club meetings in the community center. :smiley:

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Me too. I haven’t seen any of LB USA but it sounds and looks (from pictures in the newspaper) like it might be worth a look.

I am the first to admit that parodying Americans is likely to go down better with a British audience than an American one.

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That’s a standard construction in some dialects of English. Even if you pointed it out directly to your friends, they probably wouldn’t see any error.

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That makes me grr as well. One of my friends uses it. It’s even worse than “anymore” for “nowadays” or “presently.”

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It’s as if his train of was lost in a blizzard of words.

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Ye gads, they’ve Americanized Little Britain? Ugh. I always thought Little Britain was British comedy dumbed down to American levels…the British equivalent of Mad TV, if you will. I can’t imagine something that stupid being dumbed down further to be an import. Bleh.

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Actually, that is so last century. Currently that sentence is :“My friend and I are going to the bar. Go with?”

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And I can’t imagine U.S. viewers tuning into something that’s that Britain-centric. I know Keeping Up Appearances draws some viewers on PBS, but as a big network show? “Little Britain USA?” Seriously?

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Pay for? :smiley:

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And, as implied by an earlier poster, the word “relieving” is misspelled.

Little Britain just hasn’t clicked for me, though I do admire the British talent for grotesqueries.