Posted on 08/30/2015 10:38:18 AM PDT by B4Ranch
I think that one is an American idiom, so it's not exactly the same class as other grammatical errors. Most Americans know what it really means. Even people who have otherwise perfect grammar might occasionally use it. Using this expression accentuates the idea of how little you care because you are not even caring enough to have perfect grammar. So it is a little bit clever in that way and sort of likable that it is a peculiarly American expression.
And I dropped a “ch.” Typing and posting too fast is a grammar and spelling error intensifier.
Speeifyings. You need a little more time.
... or an “a”
... and a “c”
... and an “h”
and an decoder ring for your reply?
Furthur was Ken Kesey's' bus'.
If you can lay out the specifications for constructing a dam or an automobile chassis or even a circuit, you should be able to construct a sentence.
Despite that, there seems to be a tendency for 'engineerese' to dominate writing styles...
I could/couldn’t care less. Either way to say it is correct. They mean slightly different things.
A german teacher told Hitler admirer David Duke that he doesn't like to request "Mein Kamp" in German for his class, in part, because it is written in a lower grade of German.
Just the very subject of advice causes my mind to remember the best advice from Mark Twain: "I never give advice. Wise men don't need it and fools won't heed it".
No, it is plural.
It is simply a clarification of which sense of “you” is being used. In the King’s English they are exactly the same word but can be either singular or plural. Southerners merely emphasize it is the plural version.
As do, in worse for, NYers with “yous” and western PAs with “younz” (you-uns, like young-uns).
Excellent points. I learned long ago, as a teaching assistant in the English Dep’t at The Univ of Connecticut, that some of my students with the worst writing skills were on their way to becoming very successful business owners.
In the early 1980’s I had a student who couldn’t write a paragraph without a couple of dozen spelling errors and virtually zero punctuation, but he had recently negotiated the sale of a registered Holstein for $225,000. I was living in a cockroach infested apartment for married students at the time making $200/mo and eating rice and beans. I figured out pretty quick that knowing the difference between “”your” and “you’re” wasn’t my ticket to living a life of prosperity....
Certainly not a grammar error, but I really get bent out of shape when people use the term “clip” for a “magazine”.
Shhhh. That is one of the easiest ways to cull out the Southern accents which are merely affectation. A child of the South would have grown up knowing the difference.
This is hugh and series.
Never mind trying to use an iPad for this.
“Grammar Nazis do that alot...”
Idiots don’t.
I coulda of said “Kesey’s’s’” if’n I’d a wanted ta.
#7 Capitalization. I don’t read posts where the writer doesn’t have enough respect and is too lazy to use the Shift key. Only childish teenager mentalities think not capitalizing is acceptable, so why would I read such comments from a child?
Your example, though, works grammatically; this "that" isn't simply gratuitous.
As in: “Chris Gender”....
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