Woolworths shopper sparks frenzy with wild self-serve register overcharge claim
7news.com.au
‘Was annoyed that the amount due on my Woolies purchase did not equate to the individual items I purchased.’

Supermarket responds after Reddit user’s warning about self-checkout overcharge — ‘Was annoyed that the total amount due on my supermarket purchase did not equate to the individual items I purchased.’::‘Was annoyed that the amount due on my Woolies purchase did not equate to the individual items I purchased.’

    • Schmidtster@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      437·
      10 months ago

      In-store is, and language is fluid. If you understood what I meant we succeeded in communicating, anything else is you just trying to be better than someone else.

        • abbotsbury@lemmy.worldEnglish
          71·
          10 months ago

          Except language is demonstrably fluid, meanwhile it seems like your grasping of prescriptive pedantry is coincidentally just a lazy reason to try and be correct when everyone knew what “instore” meant.

          Do you say “God be with you” when departing, or just goodbye?

        • Kachilde@lemmy.worldEnglish
          73·
          10 months ago

          Thefact thatyour commentcan stillbe understood kindof disprovesyour point.

          Beingpedantic aboutspaces andhyphens in anonline comment-section doesn’t makeyou a better-person.

            • Schmidtster@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
              43·
              10 months ago

              So where do we draw the line on when new words can’t be created anymore? Shakespeare? Wassup? Crunk? Your username even has LOL in it, I don’t think we should be taking language lessons from someone who parades that around….

              An online forum lacking in content and engagement isn’t the place to make a stand against minor mistakes that don’t detract from the conversation.

              • lolcatnip@reddthat.comEnglish
                27·
                10 months ago

                What I’m making a stand against is the position that there’s no such thing as bad grammar because it’s all just language evolution.