I want to murder people who say or write...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A PP with another addition....."where are you AT?" Why the need for the extra word? Why not just "where are you?"

That's a totally regional thing, but yes, unnecessary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A PP with another addition....."where are you AT?" Why the need for the extra word? Why not just "where are you?"

True, but sometimes it's used in the context of asking about the status of something in progress (i.e., What stage have you reached? How far along are you? etc) ...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A PP with another addition....."where are you AT?" Why the need for the extra word? Why not just "where are you?"

wow this is news to me. Eng is not my first language and I learned that this is the proper way to ask the question...

[Anonymous]

Never end a question with a preposition, PP. It is easy to remember when you think of it that way. I am from DE though, and EVERYONE ends a question with a preposition, and it sounds even worse:

Who yoo wit?

Where yoo bin at?

Wheair yoo frum?

Ugh.

[Anonymous]

I'm not a native speaker, either.. but what's wrong with "Where are you from?"

[Anonymous]

D.C. area people CONSTANTLY correct others grammar without knowing about what they are talking. They also constantly end their sentences in prepositions. WTF?

[Anonymous]

I'm not a native speaker, either.. but what's wrong with "Where are you from?"

'from' is a preposition. In textbook high English, you do not end a sentence with a preposition.

[however, certain prepositions definitely sound much worse at the end of a sentence to educated native speakers. Where are you at / Where are you going to? / What should we serve it with? Will you come with? are somehow sounds worse than 'I hope they will let us in.' ]

[Anonymous]

argh, > are somehow worse

[Anonymous]

I'm an English teacher, and I don't think I can ever ask, "From where are you? or - "From where do you originate?"

Anonymous wrote:

I'm not a native speaker, either.. but what's wrong with "Where are you from?"

'from' is a preposition. In textbook high English, you do not end a sentence with a preposition.

[however, certain prepositions definitely sound much worse at the end of a sentence to educated native speakers. Where are you at / Where are you going to? / What should we serve it with? Will you come with? are somehow sounds worse than 'I hope they will let us in.' ]

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here's one I can't stand:

"I graduated high school." NO, you graduated FROM high school.

Maybe that calls for the follow up question: "Did you graduate FROM college?"

I was graduated from high school. I was graduated from college.

I hate "the xxx in general and the yyy in particular." It's so, I don't know, predictable.

[Anonymous]

Suffice it to say I would not rely on people in this area to correct anyones grammar. LMAO!

[Anonymous]

I hate that the Oxford publishers bought up Fowler's book on English Usage(,) and got rid of his rant about using commas before the word "and" in lists. The "oxford comma" involves using the comma with "and" in a list of x, y*,* and z.

Not that I care that much about the comma itself. Plus I have to use it in work environments where it's the standard. Which doesn't bother me. But I am bothered by the fact that the Oxford publishers bought up this great, standard book with entertaining rants, and changed it to fit their own ideas.

Yes, I'm a nerd....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Suffice it to say I would not rely on people in this area to correct anyones grammar. LMAO!

Too easy.... I'll let somebody else do it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:on here, "preggers" or "preggo". "We are 5 mos. pregnant."

If you are mature enough to fuck, and then plan to raise another human being, you are a big enough girl to say "pregnant." They guy with a penis and testicles is not pregnant.

Thank you, Thank you. God, it is like hearing fingernails scrape on a blackboard when someone says "we're pregnant."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hate that the Oxford publishers bought up Fowler's book on English Usage(,) and got rid of his rant about using commas before the word "and" in lists. The "oxford comma" involves using the comma with "and" in a list of x, y*,* and z.

Not that I care that much about the comma itself. Plus I have to use it in work environments where it's the standard. Which doesn't bother me. But I am bothered by the fact that the Oxford publishers bought up this great, standard book with entertaining rants, and changed it to fit their own ideas.

Yes, I'm a nerd....

Love this!

As a former English teacher, I would have many a fight about the Oxford comma with my fellow English teachers!

But I will admit to asking others where they are FROM....just laziness, I guess.