If you say "sip on" rather than "sip," why?
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Anonymous
| I've noticed a trend of adding "on" to verbs that don't really require it. My fitness instructor tells us to "grab on" our weights, a newspaper article I just read described someone as "sipping on" a matcha latte. "Grabbing" your weights and "sipping" your matcha latte is just as grammatically correct (if not more so), and simpler, so why has this linguistic trend appeared? |
Anonymous
| I am sitting a chair. |
Anonymous
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I am going to start doing this so I can annoy people like you who think their dialect is superior to anyone else’s.
Almost anything in English can be expressed in multiple ways. |
Anonymous
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It's because people come from different parts of the country. There are a lot of variations of simple things like this, depending on where you live (or are from).
My least favorite right now is "On tomorrow" "On yesterday." So stupid sounding. Not sure what part of the country this is from but not a very well educated one. |
Anonymous
Sadists have so many tools in their toolboxes, don't they. |
Anonymous
| It's all the dumb MAGAs who moved to town to work for Trump. |
Anonymous
| Don't forget "welcome in." |
Anonymous
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Sippin' on gin and juice
Laid back With my mind on my money and my money on my mind It's not new. |
Anonymous
Sipping on a chili dog outside the tastee freeze It's not a matter of bieng new. It's new to here. |
Anonymous
| I'm welcoming on. |
Anonymous
| Sip on and sip have different meanings and uses. |
Anonymous
It's actually "suckin' on a chili dog." But I'm not here for a thread about the linguistics of "suckin' on a..." vs. "suckin' a..." |
Anonymous
| To me they have different connotations. Sipping something is happening right now. If I'm sipping on something it implies a longer, extended period of time. |
Anonymous
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Graduate high school.
Graduate college. Stand on line. Yuck. |
Anonymous
| Loving on |