Anonymous
Post 04/24/2019 12:41     Subject: PSA it’s not “graduating college or high school” it’s “from”
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?
Anonymous
Post 04/24/2019 12:40     Subject: Re:PSA it’s not “graduating college or high school” it’s “from”
Anonymous wrote:
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
Post 04/24/2019 12:37     Subject: PSA it’s not “graduating college or high school” it’s “from”
OP shivers when sentences end in prepositions. Also, go find some interesting crap to worry about.
Anonymous
Post 04/24/2019 12:35     Subject: PSA it’s not “graduating college or high school” it’s “from”
You probably don’t have many friends, OP.
Anonymous
Post 04/24/2019 12:02     Subject: PSA it’s not “graduating college or high school” it’s “from”
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
Post 04/24/2019 12:00     Subject: Re:PSA it’s not “graduating college or high school” it’s “from”
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
Post 04/24/2019 11:46     Subject: PSA it’s not “graduating college or high school” it’s “from”
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”.



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
Post 04/24/2019 10:03     Subject: PSA it’s not “graduating college or high school” it’s “from”
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
Post 04/24/2019 10:03     Subject: Re:PSA it’s not “graduating college or high school” it’s “from”
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
Post 04/24/2019 09:59     Subject: Re:PSA it’s not “graduating college or high school” it’s “from”
When someone dies they didn’t pass. They died.
Anonymous
Post 04/24/2019 07:50     Subject: PSA it’s not “graduating college or high school” it’s “from”
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."
Anonymous
Post 04/24/2019 07:40     Subject: Re:PSA it’s not “graduating college or high school” it’s “from”
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
Post 04/24/2019 07:39     Subject: Re:PSA it’s not “graduating college or high school” it’s “from”
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


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
Post 04/23/2019 23:05     Subject: PSA it’s not “graduating college or high school” it’s “from”
Anonymous wrote:
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
Post 04/23/2019 22:56     Subject: PSA it’s not “graduating college or high school” it’s “from”
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.