Grammar Police "anymore"

Sad Max said:
Dictionaries don't establish correct usage; they just track common usage. So no matter how apparently wrong or stupid a given connotation or pronunciation for a word might be, if enough people use it it will eventually be included as a standard. Which is a pity; it means that the worse people get at using a language, the worse the quality of the basic guidebook for using that language becomes.
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Truer words were never spoken...er...typed.

btw, Joe Pesci pronounces it, "aks"...
 
I dont like people saying prolly instead of probably.

Also people that say 'dis' and 'dat' instead of this and that drive me nuts.
 
Prolly? Ughh. Dis and dat? Wow.

The ones that drives me crazy are the corporate wieners who think that "impactful" is a real word. Just in my short 45 years on the planet, I have heard leaders of the most powerful companies and administrations in the world use this non-word in speeches on national television, (Hello Bill Gates, how are you doing Al Gore?) and because powerful people have mis-used this term, it is now listed in many dictionaries. So this is an example of the language changing, but definitely not for the better.

I am still also gnashing my teeth over all of the "lose"/"loose" misuse on this board and most of the others I frequent. I cannot believe that native English speakers do not know and understand the difference between these two words.

Battuta, great post, I loved it.

Dan
 
Hawk Teflon said:
"I used to eat cereal, but I eat eggs anymore."
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That's just a shuffle of syntax. I use "anymore" like that all the time, but just not at the end.

"I used to eat cereal, but anymore I eat eggs."


Bad grammar drives me up a freakin wall too. Hawk, if that kind of thing bothers you, what about the most recent tidal wave of not using periods (let alone commas) or capitals when writing multiple sentences? It makes my eyes hurt.
 
puredrifting said:
I am still also gnashing my teeth over all of the "lose"/"loose" misuse on this board and most of the others I frequent.
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This IS one of the worst. But don't forget 'weather' and 'whether', 'there' and 'their', and perhaps the most misunderstood: 'two', 'too' and 'to.'

Did everyone sleep through twelve years of English class?
 
A local SafeWay had an express lane with a hand written sign saying "10 items or less". Somebody had crossed out "less" with a magic marker and written "FEWER".
Thought is was so great that I told a 70 year old co-worker about it. Turns out HE was the one who made the correction. Seems unusual to find anyone that recognizes the incorrect grammar.

Other than that:
"Bolth" or "Bofe" instead of "Both"
"Hi-Larious" instead of "Hilarious"

Then there is this little beauty of a marketing cliche for Chicken Out restaurants: EAT GOOD!
Maybe I just shouldn't care anymore!
 
The following two cases bother me:

The misuse of your vs. you're as in "Hawk your sure right"

and people pronouncing wash with an "R" as in "I have to do the wersh"


I sure hope the use of anymore in this new "interesting" way doesn't catch on.
 
Things that bother me:

Subjunctive. "I wish I was a dog."

Who vs. That. "I met a kid that played violin."

Further vs Farther. "He was able to throw a football further than anybody."
 
gco said:
A local SafeWay had an express lane with a hand written sign saying "10 items or less". Somebody had crossed out "less" with a magic marker and written "FEWER".
Thought is was so great that I told a 70 year old co-worker about it. Turns out HE was the one who made the correction. Seems unusual to find anyone that recognizes the incorrect grammar.
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Those Gardasil commercials drive me up the wall for the same reason.
 
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