Anonymous wrote:I’ve never seen that, but it drives me nuts when people drop “to be” from expressions. For example, the car needs washed. His shirt needs cleaned.

I hate this too!

LMK if Qs

Anonymous wrote:I don't think it's grammatically incorrect.

It might be grammatically correct but it makes no sense.

I don't think it's grammatically incorrect.

Anonymous wrote:I’ve never seen that, but it drives me nuts when people drop “to be” from expressions. For example, the car needs washed. His shirt needs cleaned.

Best stay out of the south then.

I have a friend who does this all the time in group emails and FB posts. I assume she does it at work too. It’s annoying.

Kinda like thx over txt

U r cool

My boss does this all of the time. I always just assumed it was because he's lazy.

Anonymous wrote:I probably do it. I type very quickly and my brain sometimes fills in words that aren't there.

This. Or autocorrect removes it if you mistyped part of the word. I’d be surprised if it was intentional.

I probably do it. I type very quickly and my brain sometimes fills in words that aren't there.

I’ve never seen that, but it drives me nuts when people drop “to be” from expressions. For example, the car needs washed. His shirt needs cleaned.

Probably a cut-and-paste error. Or an auto-fill error.

I've literally never seen that, so I vote your coworkers are weird, or it's just a typo/casualty of speed.

Anyone? Are my coworkers the only weird ones?

Has anyone else noticed people leaving out words from this sentence? It should be “Let me know if you have questions.” The first time I noticed it I figured it was a mistake, but now I’ve seen it multiple times and from multiple people. What’s the point of leaving out words that are necessary to a sentence? Aside from laziness of course...