Rees-Mogg's "rules"

[TheHoodedClaw]

I regret writing that sentence and, I expect, I'll regret writing it tomorrow too.

Looks wrong to me

It's more like rendering a common speech pattern rather than something you'd write from scratch, I think.

 

[Favelado]

Also "Organisations should be SINGULAR" brings joy to my heart. It boils my piss when I hear (or read) that "The
Football Association are going to stop being homophobic". There is only one Football Association! It should be
"The Football Association is going to stop being homophobic".

See above. We can think of organisations as a collection of people, or a single entity. Much higher authorities on grammar than JRM say this. In addition, use outweighs prescriptivist cocks like him. Finally, if JRM is insisting that people write "The Metropolitan Police is looking for the suspect", he's going to look a 'nana because that's just wrong.

 

[Supine]

Or road distances, pizza sizes, people's weight and height, TV and monitor screen sizes, shoe sizes. There's probably others.

Edit: weed

It's OK to use those. But he's banning people from using litres and kg. Seems a bit petty.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

It's OK to use those. But he's banning people from using litres and kg. Seems a bit petty.

He's just a total fanny. He's younger than me, and he was sure as fuck primarily taught in metric at school, even at School. Someone should ask him if he knows how even the American imperial units are defined these days.

Edit: and in any case some Civil Service Sir Humphrey will no doubt write an elegant memo to him making clear the importance of precision and interoperability in the use of units. In flawless Attic Greek if that's what it takes.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

an intellectual TITAN like Rees-Mogg

two letters more than needed to describe him...

 

[Gromit]

• I note/ understand your concerns

Wait! What?

How are you meant to answer whackjobs?
Noting your concerns etc. was the only tool in my arsenal aside from 'Your comments have been placed on the appropriate file".

Often the appropriate file was the bin as we didn't have a file for 'Ban green jelly because your daughter doesn't like it' or whatever wackadoddle thing they were banging on about.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Noting your concerns etc. was the only tool in my arsenal aside from 'Your comments have been placed on the appropriate file".

i think the most extreme used to be

"thank you for your most interesting comments which have been noted, however I do not think it would be appropriate to comment further at the present time"

 

[equationgirl]

I loathe two spaces after a full stop. I used to do a lit of report proofreading and two spaces makes the text look shit. Not as shit as three spaces, mind, and I used to work with a researcher who would have to edit them out after his boss put them in. His boss was a dick though.

Rees-mogg has to be first up against the wall come the revolution. He so fucking deserves it, not least for giving his kids ridiculous names.

 

[Poi E]

Bourgeois twat laying down the rules.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Did he mean the Oxford comma?

What the hell is an Oxford comma? Surely a comma is just a comma.

Two spaces after a full stop is for people who don't yet have a word processor and a personal computer. People who live pre-1989ish.

I loathe two spaces after a full stop.

Two spaces look better.

 

[hash tag]

Is this JRM's version of political correctness?

 

[Baronage-Phase]

What's his stand on bullet points....at close range?

 

[Poi E]

Why can't the lickspittle get a suit that fits? England does have good tailors FFS.

 

[rutabowa]

What the hell is an Oxford comma? Surely a comma is just a comma.

Oxford comma is a comma before "and" in a list. So the last comma here: "chips, beans, and gravy." If you didn't use an oxford comma it would be "chips, beans and gravy." Neither way is right or wrong; organisations/publishers tend to stick to one or the other. As long as it's consistent it's fine, it doesn't affect meaning at all. It is mainly used in American english.

 

[Baronage-Phase]

Why can't the lickspittle get a suit that fits? England does have good tailors FFS.

Making Sense Of Jacob Rees-Mogg's Extremely Wide Suit

 

[Baronage-Phase]

I figure he has sandwiches on the left side and a flask on the right.

 

[LDC]

E2A Bah, my Oxford comma meme is too small.

 

[Steel Icarus]

 

[Rivendelboy]

ITV News exclusive: Jacob Rees-Mogg issues style guide to staff

Style rules:

• Organisations are SINGULAR
• All non-titled males — Esq.
• There is no . after Miss or Ms
• M.P.s — no need to write M.P. after their name in body of text
• Male M.P.s (non-privy councillors) — in the address they should have Esq., before M.P. (e.g. Tobias Ellwood, Esq., M.P.)
• Double space after fullstops
• No comma after 'and'
• CHECK your work
• Use imperial measurements


Banned-words/phrases:

• Very
• Due to
• Ongoing
• Hopefully
• Unacceptable
• Equal
• Too many 'I's
• Yourself
• Lot
• Got
• Speculate
• 'invest' (in schools etc)
• No longer fit for purpose
• I am pleased to learn
• Meet with
• Ascertain
• Disappointment
• I note/ understand your concerns


Clearly some rules are Good (e.g. no full stop after Miss/Ms) and some are barking mad (e.g. "Use imperial measurements")

Some of the banned words/phrases appear to be driven by a desire for plain English ("meet with", "ascertain", etc.) but without context it's difficult to ascertain (ha ha, just joking) to know why "lot", "got", "very", etc. are included.

Whatever your view of the top-hatted one I am pleased to learn of the insistence on (naughty! "I think it is good he insists on") checking your work.

Also "Organisations should be SINGULAR" brings joy to my heart. It boils my piss when I hear (or read) that "The
Football Association are going to stop being homophobic". There is only one Football Association! It should be
"The Football Association is going to stop being homophobic".

What are your views? (apart from him being a swivel-eyed loon)

Tedious attention seeking bore or risible fragile anachronism

 

[strung out]

I loathe two spaces after a full stop. I used to do a lit of report proofreading and two spaces makes the text look shit. Not as shit as three spaces, mind, and I used to work with a researcher who would have to edit them out after his boss put them in. His boss was a dick though.

Rees-mogg has to be first up against the wall come the revolution. He so fucking deserves it, not least for giving his kids ridiculous names.

Find and replace is useful for sorting double spaces out in one fell swoop.

 

[JuanTwoThree]

No rule in there about calling Rees-Mogg a massive cunt. He should have put that in.

He wouldn't like to be called a

''No longer fit for purpose 60 kilo
very unacceptable cunt
and, disappointment"

though. But not because of the 'cunt' presumably.

 

[Spymaster]

Why can't the lickspittle get a suit that fits? England does have good tailors FFS.

Double breasted suits rarely look great on skinny fuckers. His tailor seems to think he's a couple of sizes larger than he actually is.

 

[eoin_k]

[...]
Two spaces look better.

You and Jacob might think so, but it's just a hangover from when typewriters were still used. Only people of a certain age think that it is a rule. While the first generation to learn to type on computer still learned to do so, you won't find it in any modern style guide. Practically everything that is published will have a single space. This sums up how anachronisitic Mogg's style of politics is: keep following the old rules even when they are obsolete.

 

[JuanTwoThree]

keep following the old rules even when they are obsolete.

A good definition of 'conservative'

 

[Proper Tidy]

Double spacing is shit

 

[eoin_k]

At his age it's fair enough for most people to think double spacing is a rule. Without a reason to keep up to date, we all keep applying lessons learned when we were younger. Moggs is a published author though. It marks him out as someone set in his way, who doesn't listen, or who others are reluctant to challenge when wrong. Of course, this just confirms the blindingly obvious about the entitled prat.

 

[steveo87]

At his age it's fair enough for most people to think double spacing is a rule. Without a reason to keep up to date, we all keep applying lessons learned when we were younger. Moggs is a published author though. It marks him out as someone set in his way, who doesn't listen, or who others are reluctant to challenge when wrong. Of course, this just confirms the blindingly obvious about the entitled prat.

But... He's fifty!

 

[pesh]

I figure he has sandwiches on the left side and a flask on the right.
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i much prefer his earlier work.

 

[Poi E]

Into the blue again, after the money's gone
Once in a lifetime, water flowing underground

 

[weltweit]

Can people stop posting to this thread please?

The sight of this old Etonian's name keeping cropping up I find quite upsetting!