Player names spelt wrong

[Harry's Game]

I always misspelled that manager we used to have who came from Derby as Nigel Cunt for some reason.

 

[LoughboroBlade]

I was guilty back in the day of spelling Nilsen as “Nilson”. Inexcusable. However, at the same time I used to get extremely annoyed when media would write “Hutchinson” for Hutchison.

 

[sitwell]

Colquhoun ,started it.

 

[mattbianco1]

Not sure you're entire right with the naming of the eastern community.

Koreans for example have about 3 or 4 different surnames - Park, Kim, Lee etc.

That's why they use their given names e.g Park Ji-Sung, his surname is Park so in England on his Man Utd shirt they put J.S. Park. Because of the naming traditions and lack of surnames when they play internationally he has his given name, "Ji Sun" on the shirt to differentiate between the other Parks in the squad.

Sun Jihai has worn "Sun" for City and "Sun Jihai" but for United he wore "Jihai"

I've spelt "sung" without a "G".

In my defence, I was thinking about Sun Jihai

 

[sheffielder]

How many of us have usernames without a capital letter. I am ashamed of myself.

 

[100% part time blade]

Its not just players names spelt incorrectly that gets on my tits, but the horrendous grammar used by certain folk. I suppose that it doesn't really matter as there are obviously different levels of education and intellect across the broad spectrum of people using the site..... however certain basics really wind me up. I'm positive this has been well covered before though.

I know what you mean. I have to repeatedly stab myself with a fork to release some of the rage experienced when a poster starts using a random number of dots to attempt to represent an ellipsis. If I see a conjunctive adverb without a semi-colon preceding it, I have to punch myself in the kidneys. I can’t even describe what happens when a possessive adjective is used instead of a contraction.

 

[snootyfenooty]

Not sure you're entire right with the naming of the eastern community.

Koreans for example have about 3 or 4 different surnames - Park, Kim, Lee etc.

That's why they use their given names e.g Park Ji-Sung, his surname is Park so in England on his Man Utd shirt they put J.S. Park. Because of the naming traditions and lack of surnames when they play internationally he has his given name, "Ji Sun" on the shirt to differentiate between the other Parks in the squad.

Sun Jihai has worn "Sun" for City and "Sun Jihai" but for United he wore "Jihai"

Oriental names are written and spoken surname first. The shirts should therefore be "Park JS" or "Sun JH" to get it correct and afford them the respect they're entitled to. In most cases due to the monosyllabic nature of the words, you could put their entire name on the shirt. Sun Jihai would still be no longer than, say, Henderson.

 

[Hamburg Blade]

Oriental names are written and spoken surname first. The shirts should therefore be "Park JS" or "Sun JH" to get it correct and afford them the respect they're entitled to. In most cases due to the monosyllabic nature of the words, you could put their entire name on the shirt. Sun Jihai would still be no longer than, say, Henderson.

I sort of agree, but don't you think the players themselves have had a hand in the decision?

 

[Hamburg Blade]

Its not just players names spelt incorrectly that gets on my tits, but the horrendous grammar used by certain folk. I suppose that it doesn't really matter as there are obviously different levels of education and intellect across the broad spectrum of people using the site..... however certain basics really wind me up. I'm positive this has been well covered before though.

It gets mentioned from time to time, though usually the poster gets slapped down for raising it. I don't think anyone expects degree-level English on here, but it winds me up when I'm trying to decipher a load of words thrown together in the hope of producing a sentence. Obviously I'm not talking about the odd mistake, or just a basic style, but I have a general rule for myself that if someone can't be arsed to make an effort and write properly, I can't be arsed to wade through it. There are a couple of posters whose posts I just skip over.

 

[Newbury Blade]

I sort of agree, but don't you think the players themselves have had a hand in the decision?

I think the players give up all hope of British people getting it right, so are forced to accept it. Like Nade (correctly pronounced something like "Naddd", not "Narday") – he just gave up and went with it.

 

[snootyfenooty]

I sort of agree, but don't you think the players themselves have had a hand in the decision?

It's unlikely because even though the anglicised version makes sense to you and I it would be impossible to make sense of it translating it back the other way. Oriental people don't get uptight about this kind of stuff so I think its more likely they couldn't care less.

Edit: see also Newbury's post above, beat me to it.

 

[MightyBlades]

Player names spelt wrong

Should be -

Player names spelt 'incorrectly'

 

[Sean Thornton]

Its not just players names spelt incorrectly that gets on my tits, but the horrendous grammar used by certain folk. I suppose that it doesn't really matter as there are obviously different levels of education and intellect across the broad spectrum of people using the site..... however certain basics really wind me up. I'm positive this has been well covered before though.

It's not actually "certain basics" that wind you up us it? It's posters not knowing them.

 

[snootyfenooty]

It's not actually "certain basics" that wind you up us it? It's posters not knowing them.

I think we could rectify that by starting each post with "basically".

 

[Sean Thornton]

I think we could rectify that by starting each post with "basically".

I of to say I agree.

 

[sitwell]

Oriental names are written and spoken surname first. The shirts should therefore be "Park JS" or "Sun JH" to get it correct and afford them the respect they're entitled to. In most cases due to the monosyllabic nature of the words, you could put their entire name on the shirt. Sun Jihai would still be no longer than, say, Henderson.

Thought that when I had suey chop pork after the match on Tuesday at Saigon Vietnamese café on London Rd. recommended btw.

 

[Newbury Blade]

Shameless plug: my book For Who the Bell Tolls covers this kind of thing, with the emphasis on using language to communicate effectively, not showing off because you know what a gerund is and the other poor fucker doesn't. (It also contains a number of favourable references to the Blades, and one or two disparaging ones to our suburban rivals.)

 

[Sean Thornton]

Thought that when I had suey chop pork after the match on Tuesday at Saigon Vietnamese café on London Rd. recommended btw.

Capital letter after full stop please.

 

[snootyfenooty]

Thought that when I had suey chop pork after the match on Tuesday at Saigon Vietnamese café on London Rd. recommended btw.

The squid balls are better!

 

[Newbury Blade]

Player names spelt wrong

Should be -

Player names spelt 'incorrectly'

Admit it: you don't like James Brown because he sang "I Feel Good" and not "I Feel Well".
And "I Only Have Eyes for You" should have been "I Have Eyes for Only You".

 

[sitwell]

Capital letter after full stop please.

fuck.that.

 

[mattbianco1]

Sure there used to be a rule in the Premier League which was later lifted.

Jordi Cruyff used to wear "Jordi" in the CL, but "Cruyff" in the PL.

 

[Hamburg Blade]

Admit it: you don't like James Brown because he sang "I Feel Good" and not "I Feel Well".
And "I Only Have Eyes for You" should have been "I Have Eyes for Only You".

I hate the Americanised "I'm good". I asked how you were, not whether you thought you'll be going to Heaven.

 

[PeterNdlovu081]

Just seen Freeman mentioned as Freemon on another thread.

 

[Geordie Blade]

Tommy Cowans
Don Hutchinson
Peter Ndlove
Nigel Atkins

 

[Scooter_mcgavin]

Kev Gauge
Paul Beardsley

 

[sitwell]

Just seen Freeman mentioned as Freemon on another thread.

I was being iranic. Cotch up.

 

[PeterNdlovu081]

I was being iranic. Cotch up.

Where's the irony?

 

[Hamburg Blade]

Where's the irony?

Next to the ironing boardy, darling.

 

[stringer]

Winds me up as well mate. I mean, how dense must you have to be to not put a simple comma after using the word 'however' eh?

And the apostrophe in it’s William Large