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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Correct, one is graduated from an educational institution.

In the US, however, if incorrect use of a word or incorrect grammar sticks around long enough, one day it becomes acceptable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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...

In correct English, sentences do not end with a preposition. There is a story of Churchill, when manuscript was edited, editor changed a sentence which idiomatically ended with a preposition and WSC wrote in the margin, "This is the sort of impertinentce up with which I will not put."

There is also "consesus" rather than "consensus of opinion" and "whether" as opposed to "whether or not." My 8th grade english teacher would be rapping some knuckles with a ruler if she were around today..

[Anonymous]

so please save me!!!
how do I ask where one is from without sounding like a complete ignorant????

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Ha, go DE!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Correct, one is graduated from an educational institution.

In the US, however, if incorrect use of a word or incorrect grammar sticks around long enough, one day it becomes acceptable.

But if it happened 20 years ago, most people don't say "I am graduated from X" but "I was graduated from X". Sort of like splitting an infinitive: even though you're aware that it's wrong, sometimes you have to do it for the sentence to scan. You get partial credit for making the graduation a passive act, but you don't look like a prickly doofus by using the present tense instead of the past. YMMV.

[Anonymous]

Does anybody else have a problem with *happily,* an adverb, used in the following sentence:

Happily, I have a good understanding of grammar.

I'm not sure if I care. But it is wrong, grammatically, just like "sadly" is wrong in this context. Another one of those things that has become acceptable.

[Anonymous]

"Going forward" - as in, "It will be important to make sure we stay within our budget going forward."

Totally extraneous words. We know what you mean. You're just talking without saying anything.

Another one - "price point" "As in, we're looking for a house at that price point."

Folks, let's just say "price." If you want to say price range ("a house in the $700k to $800k price range"), then I get it. But a "price point" is just a price.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Correct, one is graduated from an educational institution.

In the US, however, if incorrect use of a word or incorrect grammar sticks around long enough, one day it becomes acceptable.

But if it happened 20 years ago, most people don't say "I am graduated from X" but "I was graduated from X". Sort of like splitting an infinitive: even though you're aware that it's wrong, sometimes you have to do it for the sentence to scan. You get partial credit for making the graduation a passive act, but you don't look like a prickly doofus by using the present tense instead of the past. YMMV.

Isn't it "I graduated from high school"?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Ha! Maybe the PP was too busy laughing her ass off to notice the obvious error?

[Anonymous]

"It is what it is." HATE it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Just LOVE this post!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"It is what it is." HATE it.

So do I. I want to say, so get off your butt and fix "it"!!!

[Anonymous]

I hate the phrase "Me, personally" as in "I don't know about you, but me, personally I would... it really irks me.

Then there are those who say you "know what I mean" after every sentence. Particularly if they have just said something offensive, no, I don't know what you mean!

[Anonymous]

"Not that it matters" or "not that there's anything wrong with that" following something that obviously matters or is wrong to the person saying it.

[Anonymous]

"It's all good," I hate this turn of phrase.