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Actually, it's good enough for me.
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My current pet peeve is the use of "perfect", often pronounced "PURR-fect".
As an example, I place on order at a coffee shop. The young cashier tells me "Your total is six dollars and fifty cents." I give her a ten-dollar bill. "PURR-feect" she replies. I think "No. Perfect is when I give you a five-dollar bill, a one-dollar bill, and two quarters."
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Oh golly, I would trade everything Tom Wolfe ever churned out for almost any one song by Kris Kristofferson in a heartbeat.
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And I would think that I was experiencing a perfect example of inflation, unless of course you were talking about a coffee shop in Amsterdam (in which case I have no further comments)
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And of course Webster's has now declared the dangling proposition no longer a a crime - whatever
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That rule has always been arbitrary, made up by some 17th-century pedants who thought English should aspire to being Latin. Well, it's not. A preposition, in English, is perfectly fine to end a sentence with. |
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There are some things up with which I will not put!
- how's that for good grammar?
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Word inflation I do hate: "insanely" for "very". "Our pure cotton shirts are insanely comfortable!" So, as comfortable as ?
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Indeed the song Gimme some lovin' would be pretty dam stiff an boring
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My neighbor across the street pontificated for twenty minutes on pretty much on this very same subject just last week and he brought up farther and further. I was duly impressed with his wealth of knowledge and his aversion to pretty much everything that isn't "proper." I'm thinking I will look out my window and try not to be outside picking up my mail if he is out and about this summer.
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I think we could probably get you permission to dangle a preposition...
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I see what you did there, Chipotle. Well done!
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I can’t even.
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Stuff like that was good enough for Yoda...
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