Because apparently, speaking your native language is just too difficult...
I've been steadily paying more attention to the way people talk the last few years. In doing so, it's occured to me just how depressingly bad at talking people are. When I say talking, I don't mean making sounds and forming audible words with those syllables. I mean taking words of the english language and trying to put them in an order that creates a coherent, intelligible sentence that remotely resembles something that makes sense.
1) There is no such word as irregardless. I don't care that it's on dictionary.com. That damn site has sammich, so its credibility is certainly lacking. More syllables does not equal a smart word.
2) I will seriously tear out with a rusty spoon the liver of the next person who "axes a pacific question." I'm pretty sure that questions are asked and if you have a particular one in mind, that means you want to focus on it specifically.
3) "Jane and I went to the park." "My mom visited Jane and me." If you're ever confused about which one to use, just take out the secondary subject. "Jane and I went to the park" is grammatically the same as "I went to the park."
4) "Where you at?" is quite possibly the worst would-be sentence to ever come out of an english-speaker's mouth. For the same effort and syllables, you could just as easily ask "Where are you?" and actually be correct.
5) From, At, Of, With, By, Through, Over, Under, In, On, To, Since, From, and About are all prepositions and should not end sentences. I've pretty much given up on fighting this one, though, as it has idiomatically taken over the english language and that common usage has since trumped grammatical correctness.
6) Sentences need, at bare minimum, a verb and a subject. Without either, you simply sound like an idiot.
7) Conjugate your fucking verbs, people! "Where be he?" makes you look too lazy or stupid to change "be" into "is." Don't be that person.
8) When using contractions, your verb still has to match its subject. "There's 2 birds" is wrong. "There're 2 birds" is right. If you get confused, separate your contraction and see if it still makes sense. If that's too much work, STOP USING CONTRACTIONS.
9) Nine times out of ten, nor requires neither to precede it. Most people are better off not using nor because of this.
10) For purposes of clarity, please, please, please, please refrain from using more than one possessive pronoun in a given sentence. "Mary borrowed her mother's car and went to her house after picking up her sister from her friend's house." It's amazing how much confusion can be cleared up by even a little bit of clarity.
Sorry, all... that was just me venting.
1) There is no such word as irregardless. I don't care that it's on dictionary.com. That damn site has sammich, so its credibility is certainly lacking. More syllables does not equal a smart word.
2) I will seriously tear out with a rusty spoon the liver of the next person who "axes a pacific question." I'm pretty sure that questions are asked and if you have a particular one in mind, that means you want to focus on it specifically.
3) "Jane and I went to the park." "My mom visited Jane and me." If you're ever confused about which one to use, just take out the secondary subject. "Jane and I went to the park" is grammatically the same as "I went to the park."
4) "Where you at?" is quite possibly the worst would-be sentence to ever come out of an english-speaker's mouth. For the same effort and syllables, you could just as easily ask "Where are you?" and actually be correct.
5) From, At, Of, With, By, Through, Over, Under, In, On, To, Since, From, and About are all prepositions and should not end sentences. I've pretty much given up on fighting this one, though, as it has idiomatically taken over the english language and that common usage has since trumped grammatical correctness.
6) Sentences need, at bare minimum, a verb and a subject. Without either, you simply sound like an idiot.
7) Conjugate your fucking verbs, people! "Where be he?" makes you look too lazy or stupid to change "be" into "is." Don't be that person.
8) When using contractions, your verb still has to match its subject. "There's 2 birds" is wrong. "There're 2 birds" is right. If you get confused, separate your contraction and see if it still makes sense. If that's too much work, STOP USING CONTRACTIONS.
9) Nine times out of ten, nor requires neither to precede it. Most people are better off not using nor because of this.
10) For purposes of clarity, please, please, please, please refrain from using more than one possessive pronoun in a given sentence. "Mary borrowed her mother's car and went to her house after picking up her sister from her friend's house." It's amazing how much confusion can be cleared up by even a little bit of clarity.
Sorry, all... that was just me venting.