PSA it’s not “graduating college or high school” it’s “from”

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Anonymous wrote:Irregardless, you probably understand their short-hand explanation.

I’m assuming you’re joking, as ”irregardless” is very poor grammar. The proper word is “regardless”.

Is this the OP? LOL

OP why not go old school and say you don't "graduate from college", you "are graduated from college"

This. “I was graduated from college in 1995.”

Except the only people who say it that way were graduated from college in 1955.

I was graduated from college in 2001 and married in 2004 my engagement and wedding announcements used this language per the newspaper guidelines.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Irregardless, you probably understand their short-hand explanation.

I’m assuming you’re joking, as ”irregardless” is very poor grammar. The proper word is “regardless”.

Is this the OP? LOL

OP why not go old school and say you don't "graduate from college", you "are graduated from college"

This. “I was graduated from college in 1995.”

Except the only people who say it that way were graduated from college in 1955.

I was graduated from college in 2001 and married in 2004 my engagement and wedding announcements used this language per the newspaper guidelines.

Did the newspaper require you to use separate sentences for two different statements?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Actually you are wrong.

There are 3 grammatically acceptable ways to say it.

She was graduated from college.
She graduated from college
She graduated college.

While #1 is originally grammatically correct since "graduated" was a transitive verb meaning to bestow a degree.
But since language is evolving (maybe you are not) it eventually came to mean to receive a degree, intransitive. Though most grammarians disagreed with the move from transitive to intransitive evolution won that battle.
Finally, graduated is now both transitive and intransitive so it does not have to "take an object".

Hence both are correct.

https://www.merriamcollege."webster.com/dictionary/graduate

Alas, you missed out on a candidate more evolved than yourself you maybe that was your intention.

I chose not to hire a job candidate because she said she "graduated

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Actually you are wrong.

There are 3 grammatically acceptable ways to say it.

She was graduated from college.
She graduated from college
She graduated college.

While #1 is originally grammatically correct since "graduated" was a transitive verb meaning to bestow a degree.
But since language is evolving (maybe you are not) it eventually came to mean to receive a degree, intransitive. Though most grammarians disagreed with the move from transitive to intransitive evolution won that battle.
Finally, graduated is now both transitive and intransitive so it does not have to "take an object".

Hence both are correct.

https://www.merriamcollege."webster.com/dictionary/graduate

I chose not to hire a job candidate because she said she "graduated

Alas, you missed out on a candidate more evolved than yourself you maybe that was your intention.

[Anonymous]

Ah, yes, "Language is evolving" to justify laziness.

Language evolves to reflect new ways of thinking: we say "died by suicide" rather than "committed suicide," "people of color" rather than "nonwhite."

But all those people who manage to throw an unnecessary preposition into "change out" ought to be able to use "graduate from."

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When someone dies they didn’t pass. They died.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When someone dies they didn’t pass. They died.

+1

I hate the term "pass" - sounds like a weird old auntie from Alabama.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ah, yes, "Language is evolving" to justify laziness.

Language evolves to reflect new ways of thinking: we say "died by suicide" rather than "committed suicide," "people of color" rather than "nonwhite."

But all those people who manage to throw an unnecessary preposition into "change out" ought to be able to use "graduate from."

Sure they are able to do so.

Thing is, you are not the arbiter of whether they must.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Irregardless, you probably understand their short-hand explanation.

I’m assuming you’re joking, as ”irregardless” is very poor grammar. The proper word is “regardless”.

Did you also know that "flammable" and "inflammable" both mean the same thing?

Maybe you should get on the case of clearing up stuff like this.

[Anonymous]

BTW... all new uses of words at some point in time were "incorrect"... then incorrect-ish, then acceptable.

Irregardless is a combination of irrespective and regardless ... a portmanteau, like smog.... and in the midst of evolution... kinda like a tadpole with it's hind legs... it's not pretty but it will be one day, well as pretty as a frog can be.

It's origin is from Indiana which is why city folk think it shows "ignorance".

Either way, some dictionaries have accepted irregardless as a word, some have not.

BTW... it does have a meaning ... it is the emphatic of regardless.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Irregardless, you probably understand their short-hand explanation.

I’m assuming you’re joking, as ”irregardless” is very poor grammar. The proper word is “regardless”.

If you're assuming I'm joking, then why point out the poor grammar?

No woman no cry

[Anonymous]

You probably don’t have many friends, OP.

[Anonymous]

OP shivers when sentences end in prepositions. Also, go find some interesting crap to worry about.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I always thought the “graduated high school” usage was regional. I never heard it until I moved to the northeast and then mid Atlantic. I grew up in the West and never heard it there.

Same here - noone said this in the midwest. I didn't hear it until I moved to Virginia.

Actually, "no one" is made of two words, not one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thank you OP, this is a huge pet peeve of mine. I am another NYer who never heard this until a few years ago and it now seems to be ubiquitous.

When I hear just “prom” it’s like nails on a chalkboard.

Americans are too lazy to use articles these days.

Prom.

What do you mean?