Anyway or AnywayS?- Page 4

[Yero my Hero]

Posted: 7/30/09 at 4:39pm

Restating this (because I think I confused myself):

Ending a sentence in a preposition is not automatically wrong or right.

It is the type of sentence in which people shift words around just to avoid the ending preposition I was talking about. ("with whom", etc.)

You're talking about a sentence that is simply unclear because vital information is omitted.

[Marianne2]

Posted: 7/30/09 at 5:12pm

I think I'm just driving myself crazy over this one, but it's something a former roommate of mine would say. When she was going to take a shower, she would say she was going to get one.

[HellsBells2]

Posted: 7/30/09 at 5:15pm

Ummmmm.......was it a massage shower?

[Marianne2]

Posted: 7/30/09 at 5:48pm

No, it was in our dorm, and they sucked.

[StockardFan]

Posted: 7/30/09 at 5:53pm

LOL, Hells!!!!

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 7/30/09 at 6:01pm

You know what my dad always says? "Darn rights!" I keep telling him it's not plural...

OK, he was born in China, but he came here when he was 11, so I don't think he can use the ESL excuse.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 7/30/09 at 7:01pm

Howsabout when people say things like howsabout?

[Taryn]

Posted: 7/30/09 at 11:19pm

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."

I was in a play with a girl recently who had trouble with that. The playwright had to correct her a few times before she got it in her line. She was from Korea--though she had grown up enough in Boston that she didn't have a Koran accent. I don't know if it had anything to do with her family's linguistic history or not.

[dramadude2]

Posted: 7/30/09 at 11:20pm

Maybe they are just a whole lot of woman.

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 7/30/09 at 11:38pm

JerseyGirl, she only has one ovary?

Punching her in both ovaries would just be silly and impractical. My fists aren't that big.

[dramadude2]

Posted: 7/31/09 at 12:34am

Oh, of course.