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Post by pepperhead212 on Mar 22, 2022 13:51:28 GMT -5
I remember that "Right" thing many years ago. Like people were waiting for your approval, for every sentence they would say.
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Post by Wheelgarden on Mar 22, 2022 14:15:17 GMT -5
I'm guilty of the "just saying" thing. I don't say "right?", but I do sometimes finish with "or something". Or something.
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Post by martywny on Mar 22, 2022 14:25:51 GMT -5
One word that should be removed from the English language is "basically."
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Post by reuben on Mar 22, 2022 15:25:18 GMT -5
Ending every sentence with rising pitch, as if asking a question.
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Post by Wheelgarden on Mar 22, 2022 15:37:46 GMT -5
Ending every sentence with rising pitch, as if asking a question. John Cleese (referring to Terry Jones) said that was a sure sign of a Welshman.
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Post by emmsmommy on Mar 22, 2022 16:20:15 GMT -5
Right? is equally annoying as using super as an adjective. Seems everything is super easy or super exciting nowadays. I can deal with just sayin' most of the time, but there's a few people I know who end just about every sentence with it (then it gets annoying). Of course living in Appalachia subjects one to all sorts of bad grammar, my absolute favorite one is "ain't got no" to which I usually reply "you mean you don't have any?" My uncle adds "ya know" at just about the end of every sentence and ironically he used to constantly get onto my other uncle for doing the same thing. As far as y'all (there's another one) on the forum, it doesn't bother me at all. As binnylou said it's added personality. When hearing it from friends and family it does get rather annoying, though I'm sure I can be equally annoying. After almost eighteen years of marriage, I'm actually picking up some of hubby's annoying grammatical habits.
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Post by gardendmpls on Mar 22, 2022 19:27:56 GMT -5
Of course living in Appalachia subjects one to all sorts of bad grammar, Actually, according to experts in linguistics, the typical language spoken in Appalachia is one of the closest dialects to Shakespearean English.
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Post by Wheelgarden on Apr 13, 2022 13:59:41 GMT -5
If I may wax pedantic...using the word "infamous" to describe something famous. "Famous" is fame for good reasons, "infamous" means fame for mean and nasty reasons. The two opposite words are being used interchangeably more and more often, and it drives me nuts. Mr. Merrill and Mr. O'Shee (my two best English teachers) are frowning from above. So there.
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Post by reuben on Apr 13, 2022 14:20:26 GMT -5
Wheel, my Pedantic Pal.
Writing that someone is "imminently qualified." Eminent. The adverb is eminently.
"I couldn't care less." Uh, that doesn't mean what you think it means.
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Post by gardendmpls on Apr 14, 2022 0:17:59 GMT -5
I don't get the order of "you want to have your cake and eat it, too". Shouldn't it be "you want to eat your cake and have it, too"? The first is doable. You have your cake. Then you eat it. The second is not. You want to eat your cake and then still have it. The phrase is used to mean that you want to use something up and yet still have it, which would be impossible. The second phrase fits this meaning more precisely.
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Post by emmsmommy on Apr 14, 2022 6:48:19 GMT -5
gardendmpls, I often drive people crazy questioning stuff like that. For instance how did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled peppers when peppers need to be picked before they're pickled? So should it be Peter Piper picked up a peck of previously picked and pickled peppers?
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Post by Mumsey on Apr 14, 2022 9:06:04 GMT -5
And why is taco pronounced with short “a” and Waco a long “a”??? Inquiring minds wanna know.
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Post by gardendmpls on Apr 14, 2022 11:18:07 GMT -5
And why is taco pronounced with short “a” Taco is a Spanish word with a Spanish pronunciation while Waco is the name of an Indian tribe in the area before the Spanish came. Because English is a composite language with a lot of imput from other languages, pronunciation is often problematic.
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Post by claude on Apr 16, 2022 7:34:45 GMT -5
It delights me to find so many grammar police in one spot 😁 I’m usually alone. “Talk English!” No. “Speak English”
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Post by pepperhead212 on Apr 16, 2022 11:30:07 GMT -5
Something I hear ALL OF THE TIME around here is people saying they seen something, instead of have seen it, or saw it. Other misuses of this verb are frequently heard, but this is the most common.
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