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“The Picker of English Nits” |
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| From: | Seth Dillingham | In Response To: | Top of Thread. |
| Date Posted: | Monday, May 7, 2007 1:58:44 PM | Replies: | 4 |
| Enclosures: | None. | ||
The crazy overuse of the word "get" is still bugging me, though having reread this old conversation on that topic was thrilling. We once conversed most intelligently here on Truer Words!
Months ago I told Brian Andresen that a new corruption of English was bothering me, and then he started to hear it and I'm pleased to report that, for a time, it bothered him almost as much as it did me.
Which corruption is that? Rather than just state it, I'll offer a hint. The clue is here. Try and find it by rereading this message very carefully. I'll give a gold star to the first person to describe it.
Even NPR, that bastion of Good English, has committed this faux pas on a regular basis in the last half year.
Yes, Greg, I know that you believe there is no such thing as Good or Proper English. That may or may not be true, but the definition of Poor or Improper English is (In My Opinion) when choice of phrasing is senseless.
Maybe I'm an old-fogey-conservative-English-professor type, but (again, IMO) not all Improper English should become accepted just because it's common.
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