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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1173150 Netherlands 06/09/2011 12:22 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | he>> heard it wrong [link to webcache.googleusercontent.com] Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly, Though its answer little meaning little relevancy bore; For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door Bird or beast above the sculptured bust above his chamber door, With such name as "anymore"? |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1379204 United States 06/09/2011 12:26 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I've noticed the same thing anymore. It bother's the shit out of me anymore. People just put anymore at the end of their sentences anymore for no reason at all anymore. Long form summar: People that barely understand the English language are posting on the internet causing other people who barely have an education or understand English to pick up terrible habits and spread these ridiculous abuses around. All you can do is just consider that the person probably doesn't speak English as their native language and is just repeating bad form and improper usage when they type online. The net is a big place full of people who speak English out of necessity and don't care one bit about it's proper usage and only want to get their point across regardless of how bad it pisses of native speakers to read those abominations. |
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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 689695 United States 06/09/2011 12:29 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1364022 From your link: Although both anymore and any more are found in written use, in the 20th century anymore is the more common styling. Anymore is regularly used in negative <no one can be natural anymore — May Sarton>, interrogative <do you read much anymore?>, and conditional <if you do that anymore, I'll leave> contexts and in certain positive constructions <the Washingtonian is too sophisticated to believe anymore in solutions — Russell Baker>. In many regions of the United States the use of anymore in sense 2 is quite common in positive constructions, especially in speech <everybody's cool anymore — Bill White> <every time we leave the house anymore, I play a game called “Stump the Housebreaker” — Erma Bombeck>. The positive use appears to have been of Midland origin, but it is now reported to be widespread in all speech areas of the United States except New England. Hearing people talk this way and reading it, even though I'm in the midwest, makes my brain flip into a paradoxical state of infancy. Please everyone, help me stop people from using the word this way anymore, by slapping everyone who does it. |
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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 689695 United States 06/09/2011 12:37 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ppl often mistake "anymore" for "any more" as well. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1421292But who cares, typos and misuses should be ignored on the internet as long the point is understood. I'm not talking about typos and misuses on the internet. People all around me are suddenly misusing and abusing the word. It started just a couple years ago. Anymore = any longer. It should only be used with a negative. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1179273 South Korea 06/09/2011 12:43 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ppl often mistake "anymore" for "any more" as well. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1421292But who cares, typos and misuses should be ignored on the internet as long the point is understood. I'm not talking about typos and misuses on the internet. People all around me are suddenly misusing and abusing the word. It started just a couple years ago. Anymore = any longer. It should only be used with a negative. just as irksome as sick or oh snap |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1344543 United States 06/09/2011 12:44 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | right Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1364022That's the one that's currently driving me bonkers... Maybe it's just me but when I am speaking or listening to others speak people interject.... right.... as if in approval of the conversation?? I don't get it. right dude.. right? |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1421292 Norway 06/09/2011 12:48 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ppl often mistake "anymore" for "any more" as well. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1421292But who cares, typos and misuses should be ignored on the internet as long the point is understood. I'm not talking about typos and misuses on the internet. People all around me are suddenly misusing and abusing the word. It started just a couple years ago. Anymore = any longer. It should only be used with a negative. I agree with you. But, since the advent of spell checkers, texting abbreviations and the like, people don't give a shit about speaking English properly anymore. Hell, I live in Memphis and English has been almost entirely discarded and replaced by the more modern speak of Ebonics. Even the white people use this new and advanced language. I can't hardly order a biscuit with some orange juice anymore because nobody can fucking understand what the fuck I am asking for. English is becoming increasingly outdated. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1413109 Canada 06/09/2011 12:59 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | they think they are speaking the queen's english so there's no correcting them i mentioned that a good english teacher would be teaching english to english speakers not wogs you could see where it would be difficult to mount a proper argument after that |
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Greg_B. User ID: 1259308 United States 06/09/2011 01:00 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I LOVE listening to Indian accented people! Everything is musical and has a cadence, and when they flip the occasional word around in structure, it tickles the brain. Like Yoda-speak. I'm not too fond of Signatures. Why would I want to end every post the same way? |
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