Transfer Tweets - Summer 2017 | Keep it on topic

prateik said:
Just checked his wiki. In his last 4 seasons, he has played 22,28,24,18 premier league games for Spurs.

Injuries might be a reason for some of his time out.. but Spurs havent exactly struggled without him. He missed more than half of last season and they were fine.
They might want to cash in on him before someone like Dier.
Click to expand...
I'd be very surprised if they thought that Rose was more expendable than Dier. Surprised and pleased as, when fit, he's the best left back in country.
 
Robertd0803 said:
Right......I didn't do GCSE's in English and pretty sure my English teachers would have put a giant red cross through me writing ''an LWB''. Not sure they would have been too impressed if I was using acronyms either.
Click to expand...
He used an acronym because there's a character limit on twitter.

I'm pretty sure your English teachers are wrong then. Might be something worth creating a thread in general forum about as opinions seem split.

Buchan said:
When I see 'LWB', I immediately think 'left wing-back', and not 'LWB'. When I see 'WTF', I think 'What the feck?' but when I see 'LOL', I think 'LOL'.

Acronyms/initialisms are weird.
Click to expand...
I'm exactly the same.
 


Dalbert is having medical at Inter.
 
Last edited:
Damien said:
http://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2012/04/using-a-or-an-with-acronyms-and-abbreviations.html

It is pronounced ell-double-ewe-bee so is fine to use 'an'. I'm probably wrong but that is how I was taught in English GCSE - if the acronym begins with a consonant whose sound begins with a vowel, use 'an'.
Click to expand...

Never knew this but pretty ironic he got slated for being a paid writer that used an an wrong while being right all along.

That said, I automatically converted it left wing back too and thought it looked wrong
 
Robertd0803 said:
Taking the piss of Delaneys United are interested in Rose/an LWB tweet.

The Twitter should have an Edit button refers to if it had then an actual ''journalist'' wouldn't be tweeting with shocking grammatical errors.
Click to expand...
"An LWB" is correct when you say it out loud with the abbreviation. Not really a shocking grammatical error
 
Robertd0803 said:
Taking the piss of Delaneys United are interested in Rose/an LWB tweet.

The Twitter should have an Edit button refers to if it had then an actual ''journalist'' wouldn't be tweeting with shocking grammatical errors.
Click to expand...
But he was correct.
 
Robertd0803 said:
Right......I didn't do GCSE's in English and pretty sure my English teachers would have put a giant red cross through me writing ''an LWB''. Not sure they would have been too impressed if I was using acronyms either.
Click to expand...
They'd be wrong.

If the word starts with a consonant, but is pronounced with a vowel sound, you should write 'an', eg. it's an honour

If you write the initialism, then it's read out letter by letter.

You've got an STD (ess tee dee)
You've got a sexually transmitted disease.
 
Garethw said:
How else would it be pronounced?
Click to expand...

Pronounced is probably the wrong word, my point was who the feck actually says LWB? It's not like it's a acronym where people shorten it universally - it's more a FM term. We don't say CB, CF or W, do we?
 
ValenciasDrilledCrosses said:
"An LWB" is correct when you say it out loud with the abbreviation. Not really a shocking grammatical error
Click to expand...
PoTMS said:
Pronounced is probably the wrong word, my point was who the feck actually says LWB? It's not like it's a acronym where people shorten it universally - it's more a FM term. We don't say CB, CF or W, do we?
Click to expand...

Exactly.

Anustart89 said:
They'd be wrong.

If the word starts with a consonant, but is pronounced with a vowel sound, you should write 'an', eg. it's an honour

If you write the initialism, then it's read out letter by letter.

You've got an STD (ess tee dee)
You've got a sexually transmitted disease.
Click to expand...

I don't :lol::lol: but yeah this actually makes sense now that its a better example. Same logic would apply to ''an MBE'' as well so I guess.

Still no one will pronounce as the letters instead of left wing back when the read it.

Think we have derailed the thread enough so instead of me (incorrectly or otherwise) taking the piss out of Delaney saying an LWB, I'll instead call back in to question his unreliability as a source and call bs on his latest nonsense.

There we go back on topic. :boring:
 
PoTMS said:
Pronounced is probably the wrong word, my point was who the feck actually says LWB? It's not like it's a acronym where people shorten it universally - it's more a FM term. We don't say CB, CF or W, do we?
Click to expand...
Fair point, but people do say DM weirdly.
 
PoTMS said:
Pronounced is probably the wrong word, my point was who the feck actually says LWB? It's not like it's a acronym where people shorten it universally - it's more a FM term. We don't say CB, CF or W, do we?
Click to expand...

I actually say CM, DM, AM, CB.
 
Lots of chit chat about us and Inter being in for Rose this morning across various media outlets.
 
MaxiPaxi said:
50% is not massive? If a company, a better more prestigious company offered me a 50% pay rise I'd be on my fecking bike. No doubt about it.
Click to expand...
Not me. But then, I was a boyhood fan of my company and they sing "He's one of our own" every time I turn up for work
 
MaxiPaxi said:
Click to expand...

We've been rumoured to be interested in Bale to ages and he's rumoured to never have given a shit about us as his destination. If any of that was true, I don't Bale now wants to move to United unless Madrid tells him he's no longer required. Neither does that look very likely nor would it leave a very interested (or fit) player possibly coming to United.
 
PoTMS said:
Pronounced is probably the wrong word, my point was who the feck actually says LWB? It's not like it's a acronym where people shorten it universally - it's more a FM term. We don't say CB, CF or W, do we?
Click to expand...

Should this not be an fm term :D:cool:

Sorry :wenger::wenger:
 
Buchan said:
When I see 'LWB', I immediately think 'left wing-back', and not 'LWB'. When I see 'WTF', I think 'What the feck?' but when I see 'LOL', I think 'LOL'.

Acronyms/initialisms are weird.
Click to expand...
What is smh? Always wondered but have never been added enough to ask.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.