Reply With QuoteWe're not loaning a player from Celtic, they are loaning a player to us.
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It’s only borrowing if it doesn’t cost you financially…loaning if it means you pay out. We are loaning a player from Celtic.Originally Posted by donsdaft
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We're not loaning a player from Celtic, they are loaning a player to us.
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It’s only borrowing if it doesn’t cost you financially…loaning if it means you pay out. We are loaning a player from Celtic.
What???
They are loaning a player to us
We are borrowing a player from them.
It's pretty basic English.
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Donsdaft min .... If yer lookin' for a loan o' a brick waa tae bang yer heid against repeatedly, ye can borrow one fae Stewarty Milne
Wee correction tho if we're usin' proper English .... Celtic player are nae 'loaning' us a player .... they are lending
Loan is generally a noun ... Lend is a verb
Last edited by NaeMairNeeps; 07-08-2022 at 07:23 PM.
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Good point.
They are lending us a player.
We are borrowing a player.
The whole deal is a loan.
It's still s'hite though.
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Aye agree it's sh!te ... and Ah' totally wi ye on fkn correct use o' loan/lend/borrow.
Us 'loaning a player fae Celtic' is as bad as sayin' we're keen on selling him fae Celtic ... maks nae fkn sense.
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We borrowed him from Celtic
Celtic loaned him to us
Verbs
We have taken him on loan from celtic.
Noun phrase
Easy
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The twa DDs ken grammar, right!
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Although the other DD is the original DD of course!
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Awfa funcy spik inicht, here me thinking we’d just gotten a shottie o the boy!
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