Posted on 02/24/2007 10:03:44 AM PST by rhema
Not to mention your's and her's.
the worst one is laying and lying
Al Capp started that ball rolling over 50 years ago.
The rumor was that he loved to sneak something past the prissy editor.
That may become necessary as gender confusion assumes its proper role.
"I'm going to the movies."
"What happened?"
"I said, I'm going to the movies."
It really bugged me until I realized that the Dominicans use 'que pasa?' the same way and the local culture just co-opted it in translation.
The main reason they should be mentioned is to show how the smug Left makes fun of his intelligence while making similar errors of their own.
Okay, so here is a semi-grammatical-only-slightly-off-topic question for southern California experts on the "thuh" and/or "thee" word.
Here in the midwest we refer to Interstate Hwy. 57 as "I-57", Interstate Hwy. 80 as "I-80", etc. When I lived in SoCal, I noticed insertion of "the" as in "the I-5", "the I-15", "the I-8", etc. What gives with that?
I'd put it in my top five, to be sure. Lying is rarely used (except by those who invoke the name of Bill Clinton). Poor little old whom is just about extinct,too, at least in spoken English.
I was leaning toward, "The idea expressed by..."
With laying, the lying usually comes first...
I'd probably type, "For many posters on Free Republic, the idea of a good conservative candidate is. . . ."
Whom deserves to die, if it were a living being, its corpse would be so mangled that it would be necessary to use a Hefty bag as a shroud.
I'd agree; the past participle works well there.
"One grammatical error that's been grating on me in recent times is the use of the word "less" when the word "fewer" is the correct choice."
I was hoping that someone else would mention this one; it has been abused by most media outlets.
Call me sentimental, but I can't countenance relegating that fine old pronoun to the ash heap of grammar history.
My pet peeve is the constant use of the word "bring" instead of "take".
I first noticed this misuse in the late 70s during the play "Seven" when Maureen McGovern exclaimed to Raul Julia's character, "Bring her some clothes!"
In the dark, I actually let out a gasp that the people seated around me heard. I often wonder what response I might have received had I written to the producers and asked them to correct the phrases to "Take her some clothes!" :)
Here are my pet peeves.
"I can't speak to that," said by someone answering a journalist's question.
"The Smith's invite you to their home." The apostrophe is cropping up in wrong places in all sorts of ads. IT IS ONLY FOR POSSESSION, PEOPLE! You don't need it for plurals.
My never done thunk us'ns orta bug we chilluns wif al them detales uv grammer. S'long as thu content uv there brillant thowts are cleer, why git bogged down wif trivier?
Showing my age here, but I have always believed our spiral into semi-literacy began with our having abandoned sentence diagramming in school. It sharpened verbal skills and taught logic simutaneously, great exercize.
By the way, I also believe we need to put the missing gerund case on the side of milk cartons. Anyone seen one lately?
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