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 ...

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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".