"Lovely ship, nice tex mex food, v filling. Lamb chop's good."
Is it really too much trouble to spell out the word "very" when doing a restaurant review? What happened to verbal spit and polish? Can't be bothered? English writing skills are in decline. V much so.
I always thought the 'v' meant versus as in Ali v Foreman.
ReplyDeleteActually, what you are protesting is a Wodehousism, one of the practices of the British humor writer P.G. Wodehouse.
ReplyDeleteIt was his habit to sometimes allow his narrative to abbreviate a word, for purposes of style rather than brevity. Hence, "plunging a fork through the eggs and b.," or "This cocktail is v.g." It's a form of slang. Certainly not worth protesting; in the age of the wireless text, there are worse crimes.
It does, so the first time I read this review I misread it. Context indicates it must mean very here. People are importing their texting habits into other forms of writing. Not a good sign!
ReplyDeleteVW. A very erudite comment, but I expect a Wodehousism would have been beyond this commentator. And it doesn't quite follow the "rules" of a Wodehousism. Did you know Wodehouse used to work for HSBC?
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