fuzzyjay ([personal profile] fuzzyjay) wrote2009-07-08 12:14 am
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More grammar Nazism

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 ...

Re: the bad influences of King James English

[identity profile] danthered.livejournal.com 2009-07-08 05:00 pm (UTC)(link)
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".