I cling to hope that Southern will eventually provide a badly-needed loanword to English: the very serviceable and utterly uncontrived second-person plural "yall" (hold the apostrophe, please), which can be made really plural for large groups by prepending "all".
I've found such terrible grammar and spelling is getting worse, both online and in print. Various magazines I get are chock full of errors these days. I know most of it is probably relying too much on computerized proofing and all, but some of what gets printed is Simply. Not. Words.
Speaking of participles, what're your thoughts on the construction, unique to certain parts of the U.S., that puts "needs" or "wants" before the past particple? "the dishes need washed", "the carburetor needs replaced", etc.
If you Google "slown him down," you get lots of hits, and it strikes me as something common in my Midwest-South variant, but mostly in the phrase "slown down."
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Date: 2009-07-08 07:34 am (UTC)Bad analogy
Date: 2009-07-08 08:26 am (UTC)Know, knew, has known.
Slow, slew, has slown?
Re: Bad analogy
Date: 2009-07-08 03:50 pm (UTC)Ring, rang, have rung.
Bring…
(Yes, I really wish "brang" were legitimate. But then again, I also think the adjective form of "migrate" ought to be "migratious" — say it out loud.)
the bad influences of King James English
Date: 2009-07-08 01:49 pm (UTC)I took the test you linked so and passed - I was worried but it seemed to be effortless to get the answers right.
Does this make me gay? :-)
Re: the bad influences of King James English
Date: 2009-07-08 03:53 pm (UTC)Some people think this book is a laugh riot. Me, I recognise it for what it is: a perfectly serious English-Southern dictionary.
Re: the bad influences of King James English
Date: 2009-07-08 04:42 pm (UTC)Keep cool!
Re: the bad influences of King James English
Date: 2009-07-08 05:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-08 01:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-08 05:26 pm (UTC)"but some of what gets printed are Simply. Not. Words."
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Date: 2009-07-08 06:03 pm (UTC)This will teach me not to think (and type) through a medicinal haze.
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Date: 2009-07-08 03:49 pm (UTC)Have I shown you the list before?
Speaking of participles, what're your thoughts on the construction, unique to certain parts of the U.S., that puts "needs" or "wants" before the past particple? "the dishes need washed", "the carburetor needs replaced", etc.
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Date: 2009-07-08 05:08 pm (UTC)