[Tax-chick]

“Haz listo.” My father would say “make ready,” and he was a native of Missouri, so you just never know.

[steve86]

I think one of the comments to the article -- can't find it now -- spoke of the perfect aspect largely having disappeared from the oral verbal usage of young Americans. I can confirm that I don't hear it from my own girls and this is disturbing to me. Seems that everything has been dumbed down to a simplified Tic-Tok grammar, although I don't actually let them use that. You have any comments on the devolution of mainstream grammar?

Also, the same comment or another pointed out the rapid blurred-together character of girls' speech nowadays. One of the workers at McDonald's the other day spoke to me that way (she actually mistook me for another customer and went on about something) and I barely got one or two words from the whole thing.

A bit ago I texted my GF and asked what she was up to: "Fixing the kitchen". Then "Make ready for Mass tomorrow" (getting clothes ready).