I saw this and thought it kinda funny...
Reminds me of some on here that are kinda anal in this regard...
Where's the verb? Labour slammed for bad English
LONDON (AFP) - The Labour Party stood accused of improper English usage after it rolled out a new slogan aimed at wooing voters ahead of an expected general election.
"Britain forward not back" goes the slogan, which according to Labour's election supremo Alan Milburn neatly sums up the mood and desire of the nation as Prime Minister Tony Blair shoots for re-election.
But the Plain English Campaign, a lobby group that wages war on linguistic gobbledegook, said the slogan misses a verb, and ought to read: "Britain forwards not backwards".
"The verb seems to have been abolished by New Labour," said John Lister, a spokesman for the group.
"It sounds like a grammatical nicety, but it means you can put across a message with no specific action in it so you can't be tied down to anything," he said.
"It should say 'forwards not backwards' just for the sake of linguistic consistency."
A Labour Party spokesman declined to comment.
Blair is widely expected to call a general election for May 5, with Labour forecast to win a third straight term in office, though likely with a reduced parliamentary majority.
Last month Labour provoked controversy when it rolled out two posters on the Internet depicting opposition Conservative leader Michael Howard, who is Jewish, as a flying pig and, apparently, as Shylock.
Both images were withdrawn amid allegations of anti-Semitism.
Reminds me of some on here that are kinda anal in this regard...
Where's the verb? Labour slammed for bad English
LONDON (AFP) - The Labour Party stood accused of improper English usage after it rolled out a new slogan aimed at wooing voters ahead of an expected general election.
"Britain forward not back" goes the slogan, which according to Labour's election supremo Alan Milburn neatly sums up the mood and desire of the nation as Prime Minister Tony Blair shoots for re-election.
But the Plain English Campaign, a lobby group that wages war on linguistic gobbledegook, said the slogan misses a verb, and ought to read: "Britain forwards not backwards".
"The verb seems to have been abolished by New Labour," said John Lister, a spokesman for the group.
"It sounds like a grammatical nicety, but it means you can put across a message with no specific action in it so you can't be tied down to anything," he said.
"It should say 'forwards not backwards' just for the sake of linguistic consistency."
A Labour Party spokesman declined to comment.
Blair is widely expected to call a general election for May 5, with Labour forecast to win a third straight term in office, though likely with a reduced parliamentary majority.
Last month Labour provoked controversy when it rolled out two posters on the Internet depicting opposition Conservative leader Michael Howard, who is Jewish, as a flying pig and, apparently, as Shylock.
Both images were withdrawn amid allegations of anti-Semitism.
