Unpunished look?

[white.rose]

Hi,

I would like to check this sentence whether it is correct or not, and what does "unpunished look" mean?

Unpunished look from my last trip to Spain.

Thanks in advance.

 

[white.rose]

yes. It came after a post in Instagram. Is it considered grammatically correct?

 

[Rover_KE]

Yes. it came after a post on Instagram.

It means nothing to me.

What was the context?

 

[jutfrank]

yes. It came after a post in Instagram. Is it considered grammatically correct?

Yes, it's fine. There are two things to note here:

1) It's not a sentence, but a noun phrase.
2) The article An at the beginning has been omitted. This omission creates a very casual style.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

Hi,

I would like to check whether this sencence is correct or not. And what does "unpunished look" mean?

Unpunished look from my last trip to Spain.

Thanks. [Don't use "in advance." Of course it's in advance. How could it not be?

It's not a sentence.

I don't know what it means. Maybe seeing the picture would help. Maybe not.

 

[Tdol]

It means nothing to me.

Nor to me, but it sounds like something I am too old to get on social media.

 

[jutfrank]

I suppose it refers to the facial expression of somebody who smugly looks like they've gotten away with something.

 

[Rover_KE]

'gotten', jutfrank? Have you gone over to the other side?:-(

 

[jutfrank]

No, I've always used that. It's generally better, and clearer than got as it's distinguished from the possessive have got form. There are cases where I think only gotten really works.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

No, I've always used that. It's generally better, and clearer than got as it's distinguished from the possessive have got form. There are cases where I think only gotten really works.

You've just managed to shatter all my ill-informed, preconceived stereotypes.

 

[jutfrank]

You must be one of a tiny majority of speakers of BrE who thinks that.

A tiny majority?

It may be that it hasn't ever really crossed hardly anyone else's mind. People are not generally aware of the language they use. I imagine, though, it's more common than you think.

 

[GoesStation]

It may be that it hasn't ever really crossed hardly anyone else's mind. People are not generally aware of the language they use. I imagine, though, it's more common than you think.

I know a number of British people and watch quite a lot of British television and film. When I hear gotten in these contexts, it's invariably from a Scot.

 

[Tdol]

I know a number of British people and watch quite a lot of British television and film. When I hear gotten in these contexts, it's invariably from a Scot.

That could possibly be the source- many AmE forms are directly derived from the BrE, including dialects and regional forms. Apparently, fall is an older form than autumn. Bill Bryson is good on digging these up.

 

[jutfrank]

I know a number of British people and watch quite a lot of British television and film. When I hear gotten in these contexts, it's invariably from a Scot.

Yes, I think you're right that gotten is typical of Scottish usage.

I'm exposed to an awful lot of American English, and always have been. It seems reasonable that my natural use of gotten (and I'll point out that it is natural) is a result of this exposure. If that's the case, since there are people in the British Isles who are exposed to just as much AmE influence as I am, I can only imagine this word will increase in frequency in these parts.

 

[SoothingDave]

Could they have meant "unpublished"?

 

[Tarheel]

It's hard to tell what "unpunished look" means. Does the person not look as guilty as somebody thinks they should look?

 

[emsr2d2]

Could they have meant "unpublished"?

I'm starting to suspect two typos:

Unpublished book from my last trip to Spain.

Perhaps the speaker wrote a book based on their last trip to Spain but it has not been published yet.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

I had a peak typo day yesterday. I should be OK for a mnoth or so now.

;-)

I'm always getting my mords wixed and my tangue tungled.

 

[Tdol]

It hanpens to teh bets of us.

 

[probus]

The perfidious autocorrect is always a suspect in such cases.