Grammar Police "anymore"

Sad Max said:
I'm reasonably sure that it's an improper use of the carat symbol, too.
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No sorry... wrong again foo. That is the only non mathematical purpose. Look it up, even the British use it like that and they drink tea like mad. :costumed-smiley-047
 
The carat can also be used as an accent mark, a la the old-school spelling of paper mache. A non-mathematical usage.
 
Hawk Teflon said:
"We need to carry these boxes to the other closet anymore."
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I'm not a grammar Nazi, far from it, but I am a writer and this just isn't right.

Hawk Teflon said:
"I used to eat cereal, but I eat eggs anymore."
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What the hell does that even mean?

Hawk Teflon said:
It's driving me up a freaking wall. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong, and I'll correct my dialect. Otherwise, I will be informing others of the correct form. I've googled it, and I've found nothing. Please help. I can't take it ... anymore.
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Keep correcting people. This is too wrong, to the point it doesn't even make sense. Anymore = from this point on, but in a negative sense.

-Nate
 
Hawk Teflon said:
"We need to carry these boxes to the other closet anymore."

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

It's driving me up a freaking wall. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong, and I'll correct my dialect. Otherwise, I will be informing others of the correct form. I've googled it, and I've found nothing. Please help. I can't take it ... anymore.
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Never heard anyone use "anymore" in that context,

those people should be tied to a grammar tree and beaten to death with a syntax club.

Anhar
 
"we need to carry these boxes to the closet anymore." would work if if it were a question...

ie "(Do) we need to carry these boxes to the closet anymore?"

I'm still trying to wrap my brain around the eggs one....

Slightly off topic, I took a voice and diction class in college with a man named Dr. Dye... A lot of people hated it and found it so difficult... We learned standard american dialect (spoken and written)... I thought it was the best and easiest freaking class... he taught it like it was an elementary school class... Learning the sounds of all of the letters, and words, and we had little workbooks where we had to do our lessons and turn them in :) I wish all college classes would have been like that.
 
Jason Ramsey said:
"we need to carry these boxes to the closet anymore." would work if if it were a question...

ie "(Do) we need to carry these boxes to the closet anymore?"

I'm still trying to wrap my brain around the eggs one....
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Both the American Heritage and Random House dictionaries acknowledge this use of "anymore" in positive statements as a synonym to "nowadays."

Honestly, I've watched this thread from the start, and shortly after it started I caught myself using it in this manner, and then remembered that I'd grown up around that usage here in East Tennessee. It was something like "I'd much rather brew my own sweet tea anymore." (... which I would, and do, as bottled sweet tea simply doesn't cut it for me. If you'd like a good recipe and method for some of the best sweet tea you'll ever drink, please ask.)

Now, the statement that "we need to carry these boxes to the closet anymore" makes absolutely no sense, and I have never heard it used that way.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/anymore
 
One that I see around dvxuser way too much is when people spell "lose" as "loose".

"I'm going to loose my mind."

When I see someone type that it's hard not to assume that they're retarded.
 
Finally! Someone else chimes in on the misuse and reversal of the words lose and loose. Dammit Janet, you are in for it now, ever since I have been noticing and seeing it here on DVX User, I am now seeing it EVERYWHERE! I would say that I can find at least one case of it per day, sometimes three or four. And not just in e-mails and threads on boards, I am finding it in legitimate articles even in print publications! It is almost always substituting loose for lose, it is like the word "lose" has ceased to exist.

My favorite one I have seen here a lot is "loosing". Like that is a word? Not in English.

I agree 100%, misusing the two words makes the writer seem mentally defiicient.

Dan
 
So how do you e-mail your boss back and say, "Um, it's 'lose' you dolt," without getting fired?

Maybe there should be a website where you can give them someone's e-mail address, the offense, and they send out a nice letter saying something like:

"Dear Dr. xxxxx,
It has come to our attention that you may not know the difference between 'lose' and 'loose' usage.

Lose: fail to keep or maintain; cease to have
Loose: not compact or dense in structure; not tight

We want to thank you for all you do in life, and the many contributions you have made to our planet. Thank you for your time!

Sincerely,
Society"

That would be nice.
 
Hawk Teflon said:
Maybe there should be a website where you can give them someone's e-mail address, the offense, and they send out a nice letter saying something like...
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That is a truly outstanding idea.

If you want real grammar fun, search Craigslist classifieds – lots of dinning room tables and rod iron beds.
 
Damn if you aren't right. But yes, people are still always using it incorrectly. I have never heard a person use it in the correct manner noted below. Probably because they aren't in the 13th century ;-)

From the Merriam-Webster Dictionary...

loosing
One entry found.

Main Entry:
2loose
Function:
verb
Inflected Form(s):
loosed; loos·ing
Date:
13th century

To cast loose; detach: hikers loosing their packs at camp.
 
When typing fast I tend to write "sell" when I mean "sale". Irked someone really bad with that one. LOL.

-Nate
 
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