Posted on 08/23/2020 5:36:22 PM PDT by IrishPennant
Okay...I haven't posted in some time but just thought this was funny and had to post somewhere.
I'm a bereaved father and author of several grief recovery and support books. I'm working on my sixth book now - this one discussing the return to work following the loss of a loved one.
Regardless, I was just curious about the proper use of the words "toward" and "towards" and of course went off to the interwebs to research.
There I came across the website Learner's Dictionary and got what I wanted (both correct - writer's choice...just use them the same throughout your work) and for some reason I scrolled down to comments section...
And of all places, the apparent frequent users/commenters in the forum start off helpful, but then migrate from discussions of correct usage of toward, to how they hate the English language, to "And that's why Trump got elected."
Bwahahahaha...Love it! PDJT is just absolutely everywhere...even in the most unexpected places!
LoL
He lives in their heads rent free.
Brits use “sport” as the singular/plural/infinitive catchall. Americans use “sports” as plural/inf to sport singular. I think Toward/Towards is used like the Brits use “sport”. Some language uses are traditional, not necessarily grammatical. Ask the Germans!
In ALL heads....everywhere!!!!
Yeah...I did my first fiction book last year....enjoyed getting out of the “process writing mode and into more dialect and less concern for my poor grasp of English :)
Trump gets in the heads of the most contemptible people and that’s what makes him so great.
Yeah...but one unfortunate outcome is that most of cable news would be out of business by now if it weren't for our Prez! WOULD BE...
Trump rules. 8>)
And trumps the Queen's English every time!
Pun fully intended...
8>)
I would question whether they, and not we, are grammatically incorrect in every case.
I think there are a lot of words like this that Americans and Brits treat differently, grammatically.
English has become the ‘lingua franca’ of the world. It’s a very flexible language, and English words are used, pronounced and spelled differently all over the world. But the language did begin somewhere.
(I like the way the Brits pronounce ‘weekend’, and have adopted it. It makes more sense than our American way. I also like their pronunciation of ‘privacy’, but haven’t adopted that. It would seem affected and would not be understood, here...not to mention that we have none, anymore. :-)
You mean you went to the hospital!"
Apparently, it depends upon why you went there:
https://www.quora.com/Which-one-is-correct-I-went-to-hospital-or-I-went-to-the-hospital
Reminds me of University..."I went to University."
Hell, I'll never master the English language. I can't even get Alexa to turn out my damned lights. Apparently she doesn't like turn "out" the lights, like I was raised to say...she wants "off"...turn off the freakin' lights. Oh well!
Try it with ‘jail.’ ;-)
Qwazy!
I never heard of the Learner’s Dictionary, but “toward” is standard American-English usage, and we always corrected “towards” in American books and left it alone in British books.
Did you study maths?
Great. Huge difference between “I went to the jail” and “I went to jail.”
Perfect.
Yeah...it was just one of many sites that popped up while I was looking - they all said American is Toward and English is Towards...
Valid point
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