Posted on 03/06/2018 7:00:56 PM PST by huckfillary
Drives me crazy! I see it in advertising a lot.
"The use of gift as a verb is not new, at least according to the Oxford English Dictionary, which lists examples of gift used to mean to make a present of from as early as the 17th century. "
There're differences of opinion on it. Words can become correct through common usage. Oops. My introductory contraction may be ok through common usage but it's better to just write or say "There are".
Marshall law irritates me no end, but sometimes I write things automatically. I don't think I've ever pounced on anyone for that one though. And it's useless to protest that I knew better. Sometimes I don't know better, but sometimes I do.
It's embarrasing to be corrected personally or be "called out" on things. Feels like one-upmanship. Impersonally as you have done as a point of discussion or teaching is fine.
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I often had students turn in essays using “texting” abbreviations instead of the full word. I always returned such “work” for revision. They don’t teach English grammar any more in schools. Too many schools use this “whole language” garbage instead of teaching how to parse a sentence, when to use apostrophes, etc. I see very intelligent people’s writings with grade-school grammatical errors. It makes one look very ignorant.
It’s only Tuesday, and already I have read three articles that use the word ‘breath’ when they really mean the active verb of ‘breathe’. It’s like wearing a shirt saying
“I Can’t Breath!”
People afflicted with diarrhea?
I understand we have far more pressing problems in this country than periods and commas. But the deterioration of English and grammar is just another example of the overall breakdown of discipline in our country. —Artful Dilettante
* Attorney-Generals. Sorry—it’s ATTORNEYS-GENERAL, just like MOTHERS-IN-LAW
Too many students don’t learn to diagram sentences or read recreationally.
I Can’t Breave
The grammatically uncertain eschew ‘me’ for ‘I’ because ‘I’ sounds high-toned. It’s become so common, it can’t be much longer before it is required.
That one makes me LOL!!
As attributed to William Safire, "You can verb anything".
I get a chuckle out of grammar/spelling nazis correcting a typo someone made, then makes a typo themselves within the same sentence.
;^)
Good point... I made it a habit (starting back in the ‘80s) to allow the marking of misspells, but I correct it myself instead of allowing for auto-correct or right click correct.
I am glad I started, and have kept, that habit.
Thanks, but sadly it is too common. A co-worker can’t even manage “ambulamps” (as in the infamous “bring the ambulamps”); she gets as far as “ambulam”...
wat’s up wif yu!?
It's another parallel to the Roman Republic/Empire. After a time, only the aristocracy spoke Classical Latin. Everyone else spoke Vulgar Latin. Before a century had elapsed after the final collapse of Rome, bastardized versions of Vulgar Latin were spoken throughout the Empire, to the extent that many communities could not even communicate with one another.
Irregardless, I could care less about these loosers.
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