@Hitsuzen @Nicmizer
This is not a pop at the author.
“Snuffhouse membership is limited to resistants aged 18 or over.”
This was the first line of the new terms and conditions, before being amended.
When I typed it in just now resistants becomes underlined in red as a faulty spelling does.
Resistant is in my dictionary but not resistants.
In either case, singular or plural, it didn’t make sense to me.
I thought it may have been an American word.
Of late, when I watch modern American News programs I am amazed at the way new words are being created by running two words into one. It is a shame that I cannot recall any at the moment, but they jar when you hear them.
As for my own English, I know it is atrocious. I had plenty of red ink comments in my exercise books at school.
The education system was appalling when I went to school. Lots of the teachers we had were just coasting along, treading water, building up a pension and some running a business on the side. Totally uncommitted to the job in hand. If you asked them a half decent question, even in the junior school, they often said they would get back to you, but never did.
They thought that they had achieved something if on leaving school, we would be able to read, and add up the figures on a payslip.
I sometimes wonder if WW2 had given us a shortage of skilled teachers.
Good teachers lost in the violence, or not wanting to go back to their old humdrum routine, seeking more exiting careers on their return home.
So you see, I never maliciously knock a persons spelling ,grammar etc… As I think it would be very hypocritical of me to do so.
Anyone who has had a decent grounding in English can very easily knock holes in my writing abilities.
To get that off my chest would probably have cost me a couple of hundred dollars with shrink in America.
:-@