Anyway or AnywayS?- Page 3

[bdwaygirl]

Posted: 7/29/09 at 10:37pm

Valentime's Day. A girl I used to work with always said that. She also said 'supposofbly'. Not really sure how to spell it.

[Eris0303]

Posted: 7/29/09 at 10:49pm

I used to know someone who always had "ideals". "I have an ideal! Let's go to the movies!"

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 7/29/09 at 10:52pm

Are these friends speaking English as a second language? That would at least make a little more sense.

[Eris0303]

Posted: 7/29/09 at 11:13pm

Not the person I was talking about. She was a born and bred American as were her parents. We went to the same high school though I think the education may have been wasted on her.

[danmag]

Posted: 7/30/09 at 8:05am

Valentime's Day is classic.

[StockardFan]

Posted: 7/30/09 at 8:20am

Henry calls a hamburger a "hangabur".

But he's 6.

[madbrian]

Posted: 7/30/09 at 8:24am

Among my many grammatical pet peeves that drive my kids mad is the non-word 'irregardless'. 'Regardless' is a word, as is 'irrespective'.

I am also a stickler for proper pronoun use. For some reason, most of my in-laws use 'I' imporperly, as in "Do you want to go to the movies with Ellen and I". As you might expect, this filters down to my kids, and it drives me nuts.

[StockardFan]

Posted: 7/30/09 at 8:27am

That's my dad's major pet peeve as well, MadBrian....

[madbrian]

Posted: 7/30/09 at 8:32am

Great, like I didn't feel old already...

[StockardFan]

Posted: 7/30/09 at 8:33am

LOL! You are nowhere near as old as my dad!

[Yero my Hero]

Posted: 7/30/09 at 1:57pm

YOU DO NOT END A SENTENCE ON A PREPOSITION.

Actually, most modern grammarians would disagree with you on that.

The only reason that was ever a rule in the first place is because one guy decided that English should be more like Latin, and since you can't end a sentence with a preposition in Latin, you shouldn't do it in English.

Nearly everybody now understands and agrees that it is ridiculous to hold a Germanic language to Latin standards, so ending a sentence with a preposition is no longer widely considered incorrect.

Until you know how your English teacher feels about it, though, I'd still avoid it in formal papers if you can. Or do your linguistics research and be ready to fight her on it.

My pet peeve is when people misuse "comprise." EVERYONE does it, and it drives me nuts, especially since all you have to do is open a dictionary to see if you're using it correctly!

For future reference: The whole comprises the parts. The parts do not comprise the whole. Nothing is EVER "comprised of" something else.

Updated On: 7/30/09 at 01:57 PM

[HellsBells2]

Posted: 7/30/09 at 2:02pm

I worked with someone who was deaf and every word she said would have an "s" on the end of it.

Stock, my son would say hangaburger when he was little.

[dramadude2]

Posted: 7/30/09 at 2:15pm

I wasn't taught about the proper use of "Someone and I" until the 7th grade... I felt robbed.

[Taryn]

Posted: 7/30/09 at 3:02pm

I went to high school in Johnstown, PA, a little city in central to western Pennsylvania (famous for lots of floods). I was only there the four years, but they BY FAR have the MOST frustrating dialect habit I have ever come across. People from this area routinely drop the phrase "to be" from sentences. Some examples:

"These clothes need washed."

"Those videos need returned."

WTF.

W. T. F.

Drove me CRAZY. Especially when a girl in my class that I HATED argued about it being grammatically correct.

[dramadude2]

Posted: 7/30/09 at 3:08pm

Just reading that ripped out a little piece of my soul.

[Jane2]

Posted: 7/30/09 at 3:26pm

Something I've noticed lately is perplexing to me. A friend of mine has always pronounced the plural of the word "woman" the same as the singular. In other words, she never says "women." example-she might say "All the woman I know feel that way."

When I corrected her, she adamantly maintained that I was wrong.

Well, lately, I hear public pronunciations of that word from various people as "woman" also. Is "woman" as the plural form correct? Am I wrong?

[Yero my Hero]

Posted: 7/30/09 at 3:27pm

No.

I never understand why people stubbornly insist they are right when a simple visit to a dictionary would prove otherwise. People would rather sound like morons than be proven wrong?

Updated On: 7/30/09 at 03:27 PM

[HellsBells2]

Posted: 7/30/09 at 3:41pm

Jane, your post reminded me that last night I went to a Mexican Restaurant and the restrooms were labeled "Women" and "Man".

[Jane2]

Posted: 7/30/09 at 3:53pm

haha!

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 7/30/09 at 4:03pm

Yero - but it makes no sense. It's like if a bunch of people are on their way to the pool and someone says, "Yeah, I wanna" to the folks. You wanna....what? I mean, I know it's understood that the person wants to go swimming but at the same time he could mean, "I wanna stand up and pull this wedgy out of my ass." It's leaving a sentence wide open. Just finish it!

[dramadude2]

Posted: 7/30/09 at 4:07pm

I guess there was only room for one man.

[StockardFan]

Posted: 7/30/09 at 4:08pm

Taryn that would drive me insane too!

good one dramadude!

[TheatreDork2]

Posted: 7/30/09 at 4:09pm

My cousin still insists that 'mostly' is not a word.

[StockardFan]

Posted: 7/30/09 at 4:15pm

I read that wrong and thought it said "mostly is a word".

I was like, "wait. Isn't it?"

[Yero my Hero]

Posted: 7/30/09 at 4:34pm

spiderdj - I didn't say that if you end a sentence with a preposition, it's correct no matter what. But it does not make the sentence automatically INcorrect.

The entire point of grammatical rules is to increase understanding and improve communication.

In your example, "I want to" is easily understood to mean "I want to go swimming." If there is a misunderstanding, it is not simply because the sentence ends in "to." Anyway, "I want to" is technically grammatically correct as a sentence, just unclear.

My point is that "Who do you want to go with?" is no more or less correct than "With whom do you want to go?"