Mocking Poor Grammar
Since 2007
A noun that is formed from a verb and which describes an action. In English it ends in -ing, eg 'the baking of bread' and 'Smoking damages your health'.
Today Tesco Customer Support provided me with this juicy number:
“I’m sorry that the item you received an email referring to a refund for your recent order.”
I don’t care who you are, that’s some astonishing gibberish. In case you’re wondering what the man was trying to establish, it was, in fact, that we had been mistakenly refunded for some items that we hadn’t actually bought. Well done them.
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