If you say "sip on" rather than "sip," why?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

I’ve lived all over and the only people I hear say it that way are middle-aged Black folks...of all socioeconomic statuses and geographic backgrounds. I always figured it was some part of AAVE.

My co-worker from Baltimore says that so I was assuming it was just a Baltimore thing.

[Anonymous]

I hate when kids say "i'm on punishment" or "i'm on my period".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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?

It’s just less educated ways of talking, like “I’m gonna get me a Coke” or saying “shook” when you mean “shaken.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sippin' on gin and juice
Laid back
With my mind on my money and my money on my mind

It's not new.

No no no! You mind money. On is unnecessary.

-Grammar Nazi

I am actually a Grammar Nazi too, but that's Snoop Dogg you need to counsel.

ZOMG! He can't spell!

[Anonymous]

"Leave out" is another horrible phrase. We're going to leave out of here. Just leave already.

[Anonymous]

PARTY ON DWAYNE

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sippin' on gin and juice
Laid back
With my mind on my money and my money on my mind

It's not new.

Sipping on a chili dog
outside the tastee freeze


It's not a matter of bieng new. It's new to here.

It’s “sucking on a chili dog,” you Philistine!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sippin' on gin and juice
Laid back
With my mind on my money and my money on my mind

It's not new.

Sipping on a chili dog
outside the tastee freeze


It's not a matter of bieng new. It's new to here.

It’s “sucking on a chili dog,” you Philistine!

You do you. Where I come from we sip chili through those little plastic coffee stirrers, the ones next to the Coffee Whitener at the gas station convenience store. Then we chew on the stirrers until they're dented and misshapen then transfer them to the sides of our mouths, where they bob up and down while we talk. Dudes only, obviously.

[Anonymous]

How about “search up” instead of just search?

[Anonymous]

or where is it at?
instead of just
where is it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don't forget "welcome in."

+1

Awful and ubiquitous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm welcoming on.

“ welcome”
“Welcome in”
“Welcome on in”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:“I want something to sip on” makes more sense than “I want something to sip”

Who says this? If I’m thirsty I say I’m thirsty.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:or where is it at?
instead of just
where is it?

Also “how does she look like?”

[Anonymous]

I find it’s a linguistic trend to sound less educated than you are, particularly among Black people.