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My grammatical pet peeve is the phrase "should of" as in "I should of gone to school and learned to read">
People honestly don't know that should've is a contraction of "should have" and is pronounced in a way that the ignorati think the phrase is "should of"
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For the record, I'm not saying that "I'll do the ______" when ordering is either incorrect or off-putting to me. It's just grammatically interesting to me. I don't eat out very often, but I was ordering take-out Chinese food today and overheard a seated customer ordering his lunch as "I'll do the _____" as I've overheard others do the same.
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Actually, I believe that "No problem" is an instance of ellipsis, where words are omitted from a phrase, but implied. In this case, if I said "No problem" my meaning would be "It was no problem to serve you".
Another common example is the end of many interviews. The interviewer says "Thank you" and the guest replies "Thanks for having me," which on the surface sounds odd, but is actually shorthand for "Thanks for having me on your program." |
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Have not so far ever heard "I'll do ___".
Commas? I say yes to the Oxford Comma. https://www.scribbr.com/commas/oxford-comma/
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Two recent trends strike me as weird. First, this dialogue: Clerk- "What's your address?"; me- "XXXX West XX Avenue"; clerk: "Perfect." So what if I lived next door- would that be perfect, too?
That's one I hear from service workers under thirty. The second oddity suddenly started being said by all ages, once I recognized it: "No, yeah,..."as a reply to some statement. It seems used equally in agreement and disagreement. Either it's a garble of "Yeah, I know," or it's intentional ambiguity, where one refuses to take a side.
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What drives me up the wall is the improper use of the reflexive pronoun 'myself' instead of 'me', as in "if you have any questions, ask John or myself". Somehow that only happens when there is an additional subject: no one ever says "if you have any questions, ask myself".
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"No problem"
same as Spanish "de nada" & French "de rien" means "please do not feel indebted to me at all, I was glad to help you" does not mean "yeah whatever" mkay?
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And that sounds like you're asking permission. Is there a proper way to order? I mean, is it really that important how one orders a meal?
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Let's face it. Text talk is quickly doing away with the proper grammar that we learned in school a long time ago.
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It is the way of things, since the dawn of time. In 7000 B.C., Thagg wanted to sound cooler than his peers so he substituted a high pitched grunt where a low pitched grunt was called for. Being a musician, he also tried a pork pie hat. He was stoned by his peers for his indiscretion but paved the way for language mangling by his martyrdom. I think Gary Larson of The Far Side uncovered that bit o' history.
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Cooler than his piers?
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Language that strictly adhered to only grammatical meaning would be pretty boring, IMO. |
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Where is it AT? Answer: Between the A and the T! LOL
What HAD HAPPENED. Both irritate the bageebees out of me. |