Morrissey makes an accidental grammatical error on a song???

[Not Right in the Head]

Well he clearly sings 'if you will allows it'. I quite like it as a quaint acknowledgement of love not being restricted to the intelligent - that's how I percieve it anyway. But who am I to say?

I think that the confusion stems from the British mispronunciation of "your" as "yoh."

I agree, except there's also the strange (but weirdly suggestive) interpretation that the boy racer "has been stood" at the urinal-- i.e. placed there like a statue-- implying he's like an object that can be manipulated.

Or that he's incapable of taking a leak by himself. A nursing home or hospital patient, perhaps? If that's the case, then I recommend that Morrissey find himself a younger or more capable boy racer.

 

[Not Right in the Head]

Why can't Stood At The Urinal mean Standing At The Urinal, which is what it was intended to be? I'm off to bed to do strange things with a lady.

Like standing her at a urinal?

 

[The Cat's Mother]

Well he clearly sings 'if you will allows it'. I quite like it as a quaint acknowledgement of love not being restricted to the intelligent - that's how I percieve it anyway. But who am I to say?

Soz, Rainy, but the lyrics on the RotT booklet say "your".

(I'll leave you alone now - it's just not your day. *pets you*)

 

[Not Right in the Head]

The term is "participle abuse". I despair of having to correct my children in this matter. Sometimes their unsuspecting friends receive a lecture, too - and once, the head teacher of the village primary school. She was never the same with me afterwards....

I've never heard anyone abuse a participle like this. Maybe it's a British thing?

 

[The Cat's Mother]

Like standing her at a urinal?

Ladies do that sitting. Or sat, if you're a bit slack on the grammar front....

 

[Not Right in the Head]

Ladies do that sitting. Or sat, if you're a bit slack on the grammar front....

Some people would really say "ladies do that sat"?

 

[raincoated lover]

Soz, Rainy, but the lyrics on the RotT booklet say "your".

(I'll leave you alone now - it's just not your day. *pets you*)

Ahhhhhhh I can hear it now.
I am open to personal improvement lol.

 

[The Cat's Mother]

Some people would really say "ladies do that sat"?

Alas, yes.

 

[Worm]

Some people would really say "ladies do that sat"?

Ha! This could tie in with the "strangest places you have peed" thread. Golden showers of delight await!

 

[Not Right in the Head]

Alas, yes.

 

[The Cat's Mother]

....aaaaaaand the thread-killing award of the night goes to.....

 

[Danny_]

"Stood at the urinal" is what most people say, whatever tense it is. Remember, Morrissey is singing it, not writing it in an academic essay.

 

[raincoated lover]

 

[The Cat's Mother]

"Stood at the urinal" is what most people say, whatever tense it is.

Speak for yourself! I would never say that.

Remember, Morrissey is singing it, not writing it in an academic essay.

Well yes, I think we all know the correct form wouldn't scan.

 

[Worm]

Come to think of it, "long done do does did" has always bothered me a bit, too. Any theories?

 

[The Cat's Mother]

I like the way the dogs look as if they're contemplating a game of chess. Meanwhile, Mozzer's cheerfully failing his 11+ re-take.

 

[The Cat's Mother]

Come to think of it, "long done do does did" has always bothered me a bit, too. Any theories?

He had a cold when he noted it on his dictaphone?

 

[raincoated lover]

I like the way the dogs look as if they're contemplating a game of chess. Meanwhile, Mozzer's cheerfully failing his 11+ re-take.

They really do!!

 

[Worm]

They're thinking: "Pssst...Mr. Photographer...don't go! Things may look normal here but the minute you leave he'll kick us off the couch and subject us to Timi Yuro for hours on end".

 

[Vauxhall95]

I think he gains some perverse delight in mutilating the English language at times. Recall the recall the recent drum cover: "Some of us is getting nasty?" Or "we knows" when the school bus comes and goes.

I think he's just having a bit of fun.