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ashling

(25,771 posts) Thu Dec 6, 2012, 05:22 PM Dec 2012

R Grammar Gaffes Ruining The Language? Maybe Not [View all]

http://www.npr.org/2012/08/02/157616528/r-grammar-gaffes-ruining-the-language-maybe-not

Good grammar may have came and went.

Maybe you've winced at the decline of the past participle. Or folks writing and saying "he had sank" and "she would have went." Perhaps it was the singer Gotye going on about "Somebody That I Used to Know" instead of "Somebody Whom I Used to Know." Or any of a number of other tramplings of traditional grammar — rules that have been force-fed to American schoolchildren for decades — in popular parlance and prose.

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R Grammar Gaffes Ruining The Language? Maybe Not [View all] ashling Dec 2012 OP

Yes CJCRANE Dec 2012 #1

Stephen Fry Kinetic Typography - Language Xipe Totec Dec 2012 #2

Nearly killed myself bpositive Dec 2012 #7

Ha! I'll try. Xipe Totec Dec 2012 #13

As an ESL tutor I predict that we will see a change in the 3rd person singular, present tense CTyankee Dec 2012 #3

You and me show up in these threads all the times. MANative Dec 2012 #8

My students often tell me that they have RULES in their language and why don't WE? CTyankee Dec 2012 #14

Tsk, tsk. Complex and richly beautiful is one way to describe it Xipe Totec Dec 2012 #15

Some of that is interlanguage. Igel Dec 2012 #11

If somebody hadn't gotten lazy and sloppy somewhere along the line Speck Tater Dec 2012 #4

You have made the ultimate grammar mistake RebelOne Dec 2012 #10

Haha! You're right. Sort of. Speck Tater Dec 2012 #12

Punctuation ? Lokey Dec 2012 #16

Something like this, and not the influx of non-English speakers, will push me to... sadbear Dec 2012 #5

Does anyone know if the French allow this to happen to their language? sadbear Dec 2012 #6

Think about it this way. ananda Dec 2012 #9