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To: TBP

Does it bother you when you hear “off TEN” which seems to be happening more and more? Now I am even hearing people say “sof TEN” for soften!

Does it bother you when you hear people say “did DENT”, “could DENT, or “would DENT” for didn’t, couldn’t or wouldn’t?

Does it bother you when you hear people misuse “myself”? (You can only use myself, herself, himself, etc., if you first use “I”, “she” or “he” in a sentence. If you can use the word “I” or “me” in that place in the sentence, “myself” is wrong.

Does the phrase “me and her” bother you?

And most of all, does it bother you to hear people use singular subject and plural object? (example: Tell that person they need to improve their grammar.)

Mixing up “who” and “whom” is forgivable, I suppose.

What is happening to the pronunciation of our language, let alone grammar? What offense against the Queen’s English will occur next?


90 posted on 04/12/2019 2:02:18 AM PDT by erkelly
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To: erkelly

I want to know who came up with “I know, right?”


120 posted on 04/12/2019 5:40:03 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it")
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To: erkelly

Yes, all of that. And split infinitives and ending sentences with prepositions. and using apostrophes to indicate plural. (The apostrophe is for possessives, humans.) And any of a hundred other little violations. If I were an SJW, I would probably call them “microaggressions against the English language.”


142 posted on 04/12/2019 10:31:32 AM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: erkelly

Or plural subject after singular object. Using “they,” “them,” or “their” to denote a singular of uncertain gender. Him or her. His or hers. if it’s one of those, then it’s not both. Therefore, it’s not “theirs.”


154 posted on 04/12/2019 11:02:33 AM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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