Always ahead of his time.
"Ask" as a noun
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As aforesaid and heretofore... this generation has almost always used language to differentiate themselves from the one before. Until they come to their senses and realise that it is more useful to be understood by a wider number of people than just their immediate cohort.
That said, my pet peeve now is alright being written instead of all right. I even had one person dare to email me to say I'd got it wrong throughout the website! I just pointed them to several places online where it was made clear that one was for casual speech and the other for formal writing.
I think the trend to turn verbs into nouns started Stateside? Possibly Wall-Street-Speak trying to pretend gerunds do not exist any more. Whatever, just more evidence of us being two nations divided by a common tongue.
(And ask was a noun in the 13th century, but we grew out of it.)
That said, my pet peeve now is alright being written instead of all right. I even had one person dare to email me to say I'd got it wrong throughout the website! I just pointed them to several places online where it was made clear that one was for casual speech and the other for formal writing.
I think the trend to turn verbs into nouns started Stateside? Possibly Wall-Street-Speak trying to pretend gerunds do not exist any more. Whatever, just more evidence of us being two nations divided by a common tongue.
(And ask was a noun in the 13th century, but we grew out of it.)
As aforesaid and heretofore... this generation has almost always used language to differentiate themselves from the one before. Until they come to their senses and realise that it is more useful to be understood by a wider number of people than just their immediate cohort.
That said, my pet peeve now is alright being written instead of all right. I even had one person dare to email me to say I'd got it wrong throughout the website! I just pointed them to several places online where it was made clear that one was for casual speech and the other for formal writing.
I think the trend to turn verbs into nouns started Stateside? Possibly Wall-Street-Speak trying to pretend gerunds do not exist any more. Whatever, just more evidence of us being two nations divided by a common tongue.
(And ask was a noun in the 13th century, but we grew out of it.)
"Alright" has been in use for over 150 years [https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/alright].
I think it's more than alright to use it. Spell-check has no objection.
That's genius.
(context: this song is a parody made partly to poke fun at how the English language sounds to non-native speakers).
One that puts a bug up my ass is "anymore" instead of "any more." "Anymore" is an adverb referring to time, e.g. "Alice doesn't live here anymore." "I'm sorry, we don't have any more widgets, because the company doesn't make them anymore."
Or the similar misuse of "everyone" and "anyone." Both pronouns properly refer only to people.
It's annoying as hell.
Right up there with "It needs fixed" rather than "It needs to be fixed."
Right up there with "It needs fixed" rather than "It needs to be fixed."
Is that one actually common? It's the kind of thing I'd expect a toddler to say.
I heard that used in the Upper Midwest ad nauseum. Along with, "Do you want to come with?"
A friend was confused when visiting relatives in the South, and they kept asking her, "Jeetyet?" (Did ya/you eat yet?)
I'm somewhat annoyed by the increasing tendency to write "apart" to mean "a part," when it actually has a completely different meaning. As in, "We're so glad you're apart of our team."
I tried explaining it to a coworker, and I was met by blank stare.
Kor
I'm somewhat annoyed by the increasing tendency to write "apart" to mean "a part," when it actually has a completely different meaning. As in, "We're so glad you're apart of our team."
I tried explaining it to a coworker, and I was met by blank stare. Kor
Or "alot." A lot means a large number or amount of something (or a parcel of real estate). Allot means to designate or assign portions of something. There's no such word as alot!I'm somewhat annoyed by the increasing tendency to write "apart" to mean "a part," when it actually has a completely different meaning. As in, "We're so glad you're apart of our team."
"Alot" is a monster.
http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html
Kor
That's like the British usage "I've never been."I heard that used in the Upper Midwest ad nauseum. Along with, "Do you want to come with?"
They say Spain is pretty
But I've never been . . .
Uh, never been what? Pretty?
"Alot" is a monster.
http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html
Kor
Thanks Alot! That was hilarious and right on target!
I heard that used in the Upper Midwest ad nauseum. Along with, "Do you want to come with?"
We've even got it right here on the board. Check out this thread title from General Discussion:
Missed Opportunities That Need Rectified...
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