Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

[Serial_Apologist]

"Exactly what role the couple will have going forwards is not clear" - reporter on the BBC1 lunchtime news today.

Most reports give the impression that "the couple" are going backwards.

[cloughie]

Did they really say "going forwards", as opposed to forward? With an 's' means physically relocating oneself in a forwardly direction, but with regard to a future time, I would have thought no 's'. Not that BBC News has particularly good standards of grammar.

Maybe as this seemed to arise at Christmas they have decided that backwards is not a good idea!

[verismissimo]

Wakeup call.

[teamsaint]

Anybody else get a bit irritated by some or all of those concert titles in marketing material ?

This sort of thing.

https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/125700-liszt-wagner-mad-bad-and-dangerous-know-2020?utm_source=wordfly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Classicalemail20%2F01%2F20&utm_content=version_A

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Anybody else get a bit irritated by some or all of those concert titles in marketing material ?
This sort of thing.
https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/wh...tent=version_A

- puerile tripe.

Like Mozart & Friends & most R3 website blurbs.

[burning dog]

- puerile tripe.

Like Mozart & Friends & most R3 website blurbs.

"Like the Sex Pistols or Black Sabbath, Liszt and Wagner were controversial musical figures in the 19th century – even doctors thought they were dangerous to be around."

[teamsaint]

"Like the Sex Pistols or Black Sabbath, Liszt and Wagner were controversial musical figures in the 19th century – even doctors thought they were dangerous to be around."

Manages to insult both the existing and potential audiences.
At least Suzi Klein only insults the existing audience.

[zola]

"Like the Sex Pistols or Black Sabbath, Liszt and Wagner were controversial musical figures in the 19th century – even doctors thought they were dangerous to be around."

The Sex Pistols and Black Sabbath ? Arguably as much historic figures now as Liszt and Wagner.

[teamsaint]

"Like the Sex Pistols or Black Sabbath, Liszt and Wagner were controversial musical figures in the 19th century – even doctors thought they were dangerous to be around."

It may be a while since their heyday, but Sabs and the Pistols were surely C20 bands ?

[kernelbogey]

Anybody else get a bit irritated by some or all of those concert titles in marketing material ?....

Yes! The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra has been doing it for some years, not quite at the 'mad, bad...' level, but I find it offensive. Presumably the idea is to lure those who don't normally go to 'classical' music events .

[Nick Armstrong]

Manages to insult both the existing and potential audiences.
At least Suzi Klein only insults the existing audience.

[kernelbogey]

...At least Suzi Klein only insults the existing audience.

A pedant writes:
At least Suzi Klein insults only the existing audience...?

[teamsaint]

A pedant writes:
At least Suzi Klein insults only the existing audience...?

You can always tell a FOR3 Forum pedant.

You just can’t tell them much.......

[kernelbogey]

You can always tell a FOR3 Forum pedant.

You just can’t tell them much.......

[oddoneout]

You can always tell a FOR3 Forum pedant.

You just can’t tell them much.......

However one chooses to phrase it I would ask "how do we know"?