More grammar Nazism

[fuzzyjay]

I found another weird past participle here:

His dad told Action News today that Isaiah is normally an active kid, but this has slown him down ...

Comments

[canadad.livejournal.com]

That's . . . that's just terrible.

Bad analogy

[fuzzyjay.livejournal.com]

Grow, grew, has grown.
Know, knew, has known.
Slow, slew, has slown?

Re: Bad analogy

[danthered.livejournal.com]

Sing, sang, have sung.
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

[redbearmark.livejournal.com]

Living in the south, I know many of the quirky ways people conjugate verbs. I do think that the King James Bible has some effect.

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

[danthered.livejournal.com]

Living in the [S]outh

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

[redbearmark.livejournal.com]

nice! we either elide everthing together or stretch it out, making a single syllable word a three or four syllable one.

Keep cool!

Re: the bad influences of King James English

[danthered.livejournal.com]

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".

[greatbearmd.livejournal.com]

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.

[watchingitburn.livejournal.com]

*ahem*

"but some of what gets printed are Simply. Not. Words."

[greatbearmd.livejournal.com]

Touche'.

This will teach me not to think (and type) through a medicinal haze.

[danthered.livejournal.com]

Slown?! Interesting.

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.

[dr-scott.livejournal.com]

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."