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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=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? [/quote] It’s just less educated ways of talking, like “I’m gonna get me a Coke” or saying “shook” when you mean “shaken.”[/quote] Can't me openly bragging about my ignorance of linguistics [/quote]
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