As backlash against the Galway Girl hitmaker continues, Classic Hits Radio, which is based in Ireland, announced its decision to remove Ed’s music in response to “reaction from our listeners.” Dave Kelly, group program director at Bay Broadcasting, which runs the station, said in a statement, "Our decision to remove Ed Sheeran’s music from the Classic Hits Radio playlist has been carefully considered.
"It is not intended as a personal judgment on Ed Sheeran, and we acknowledge his own explanation of the circumstances surrounding recent events. As an independent Irish-owned radio station, however, we believe it is important to listen to our audience and to stand alongside Irish artists who have made what is undoubtedly a significant professional decision based on their own convictions.
“Ultimately, our position is a simple one. We believe in peace, humanity and respect, and in the right of people and artists to express and act upon their sincerely held views. In light of the strength of feeling expressed by our listeners and the decisions taken by Irish artists involved in the tour, we believe removing Ed Sheeran’s music from our playlist is the appropriate decision for Classic Hits Radio at this time.”
“who had to of called in”
I don’t even know what you were trying to write there, but you failed real bad.
Really? It’s a very very common error. “Had to’ve” being a contraction of “had to have” is a less common version of “could of” or “should of” instead of “could’ve” or “should’ve”, because the “'ve” part sounds like “of” when spoken.
So they are saying the listeners “who had to have called in for this to happen”.
To be fair, it’s a pretty epic failure not to know the difference.
Firstable, alot of people make innocent errors and mispellings, when they type fast, haven’t learned good language yet, use and hear phrases but never seen them written out, ect. Irregardless, they mustard up the courage and took their time to share they’re thoughts, which were rather clear and understandable, for all intensive purposes. I imagine your original response to this misunderstanding was an attempt to nip it in the butt, but most Lemmings who understood the message could care less.
Categorizing this example as “a pretty epic failure” is prohibitively harsh, and only serves to make Lemmings less likely to post if they aren’t totally confident in their mastery of whichever language they’re using. In fact, I’d argue that your use of “to be fair” is inaccurate as it is not a fair assessment, mainly due to your overexaggerated condemnation of an error that plenty of other users easily parsed.
More to the point, to be fair, “had to have [past participle],” or a past modal, is a rather unintuitive part of speech, and I’d argue that its clunky nature is why people are less likely to read it than to have heard it conversationally. As a child, people heard “you shouldn’t’ve done that,” and adopted it as a part of speech, but many people never took the time to break down the meaning of the phrase. English isn’t exactly the easiest language (e.g., our obsession with inverting sentences for dramatic effect), so it’s unsurprising when malapropisms appear in the wild, or are all smashed into one mildly irritating paragraph like the first one in this comment.
If your goal is to educate other users and attempt to slow down the ever-evolving nature of language, simple suggestions and courteous comments tend to work better than labeling an innocent comment as a failure. If you truly didn’t understand part of a comment, insulting the commenter is unlikely to garner a response. Your comments only serve to restrict how approachable users find Lemmy, or to prove that you are indeed the smartest one in the conversation.
You lost me at “mustard up the courage”, but thanks for the chuckle.
It’s really not an epic fail, no. We learn by reading, by speaking. If you hear someone say “could’ve”, it sounds identical to “could of”. It’s a very understandable mistake.
It sounding similar doesn’t change the fact HAVE and OF are not synonyms.