Yes, grammar bitching. Shush.
Sep. 12th, 2008 01:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brightlotusmoonSomething else that bears repeating.
http://www.linguaguide.com/articles/36/1/Whats-right-The-most-common-grammatic-mistakes-in-English-Pronouns/Page1.html
On a random television interview, some middle-aged actress said, "He went with my friend and I." And I almost cried. Because, see, Grammar, Ur Doin' It Wrong.
People are so worried about how to properly apply "me" and "I" in various possessive contexts that they're constantly misplacing them anyway. What annoys me is that people who knew the correct contexts years ago no longer know them today, because the mistakes are so commonplace.
I'm also seeing the very upsetting loss of plurals when it comes to words ending in Y. The suffix "-ies" seems to be dying slowly. Now, we have the "apostrophe S" invasion. Berries become berry's. Stories become story's. Skies become sky's. You get the point. Oh, I beg that you get the point.
Pretty soon, the Apostrophe Esses will have slaughtered all the Suffix Eees and set up camp over the graves. We should campaign to, I dunno, save the Suffix Eees or something. But I'm lazy. I'm almost ready to say, "Fuck it all, the future of grammar and vocabulary is changing anyway. I mean, they're publishing adult fiction novels in which characters say and think acronyms like OMG and WTF and BFF. At least we old grammar whores can gather in secret meetings in dark underground bunkers and read passages from the sacred texts of the Chicago Manual of Style and The Elements of Style and the Oxford Dictionary. By LED-powered candlelight."
Yeah, I'm being a bitch. *middle finger*
Don't mind me. Lots of things are irritating the fuck out of me today. I'm still aggravated about my dead phone service, after all, and it's all just snowballing.
But, hey, weekend.
http://www.linguaguide.com/articles/36/1/Whats-right-The-most-common-grammatic-mistakes-in-English-Pronouns/Page1.html
On a random television interview, some middle-aged actress said, "He went with my friend and I." And I almost cried. Because, see, Grammar, Ur Doin' It Wrong.
People are so worried about how to properly apply "me" and "I" in various possessive contexts that they're constantly misplacing them anyway. What annoys me is that people who knew the correct contexts years ago no longer know them today, because the mistakes are so commonplace.
I'm also seeing the very upsetting loss of plurals when it comes to words ending in Y. The suffix "-ies" seems to be dying slowly. Now, we have the "apostrophe S" invasion. Berries become berry's. Stories become story's. Skies become sky's. You get the point. Oh, I beg that you get the point.
Pretty soon, the Apostrophe Esses will have slaughtered all the Suffix Eees and set up camp over the graves. We should campaign to, I dunno, save the Suffix Eees or something. But I'm lazy. I'm almost ready to say, "Fuck it all, the future of grammar and vocabulary is changing anyway. I mean, they're publishing adult fiction novels in which characters say and think acronyms like OMG and WTF and BFF. At least we old grammar whores can gather in secret meetings in dark underground bunkers and read passages from the sacred texts of the Chicago Manual of Style and The Elements of Style and the Oxford Dictionary. By LED-powered candlelight."
Yeah, I'm being a bitch. *middle finger*
Don't mind me. Lots of things are irritating the fuck out of me today. I'm still aggravated about my dead phone service, after all, and it's all just snowballing.
But, hey, weekend.
