Good Grammar... please come back

[INQUISITOR63]

Is it I ( Not is it Me !)....or ........... are there any other people out there ......who hate/s bad grammar ? ------{ perhaps that should be.... "is there ....people" ( sing noun )...but it doesnt sound right.}
it is so prevalent these days especially on the telly. Even news readers say "I was SAT there, or I was STOOD there instead of, what we were all taught at school , i.e. "seated" and "Standing". The BBC announcers are no exception to this either. --- what a dreadful inheritance this is from what was always regarded as the pillar of English excellence.
Perhaps its because so many interfering govt education departments have seen in their wisdom to eradicate all proper grammar from school curricula over so many years. Also when we were greeted with "how are you?" we always said "fine thank you ". where /when did this Americanism crawl in from ? -- " Im good !" Surely this latter was meant to signify how excellent you were at something ......... but certainly not Grammar , it seems .

[hogbody]

Thank you mike, for you answer...'neither' or 'either' Mike: Both are correct depending on context. I understand now thank you.

[ludwig]

'it must be pronounced 'weed''

No it mustn't. I never pronounce it like that.

[ludwig]

..and I've never been in trouble about it yet.

[NazNomad]

Isn't it from 'wyrd'?

[mike11111]

Precisely my point. Because you don't pronounce it as a monosyllable it must be therefore disyllabic. QED.

[WhiteBears]

my grammer etc isnt great, but i dont understand when people say something like ' i thoroughly enjoyed myself' (sorry terrible spelling), what does that mean when they say that? they carefully enjoyed themself? someone please explain.

[vivandorron]

I am not at all interested in all the semantics. However, it would be interesting to hear further from the questioner.

Ron

[NazNomad]

"Because you don't pronounce it as a monosyllable it must be therefore disyllabic. QED. "

But you do pronounce it as one syllable ... Quod non erat demonstrandum.

[tiggerblue10]

Many words have several meanings and can be used in many different ways. The word bear for instance means an animal and it can also mean to "bear a heavy burden" etc.

The word thoroughly may mean completely in this instance but sounds better than "completely enjoyed themselves".

[mike11111]

If you can pronounce weird as a monosyllable, then there must be seriously wrong with your gob. Do you come from Norfolk?

[tiggerblue10]

Anyway, I have a headache now. I think my brain cell is shutting down.

Goodnight :o)

[WhiteBears]

thanks tigger,
feel sorry for those who are leaning english, must get soo confused. i get confused all the time :-P

how about ppl saying 'somethink' instead of 'something' :-P

[vivandorron]

I give up and am going to bed.. Good night folks.

Pleasant Dreams .....Ron

[NazNomad]

Your argument comes to this ... "If you can pronounce weird as a monosyllable, then there must be seriously wrong with your gob".

Have a good debate ... In true Dragon's Den fashion, "I'm out".

[mike11111]

'Enjoying oneself' was a euphemism for self-abuse, but 'Thoroughly enjoying oneself' was better.

[hogbody]

so did I, Mike, So did I... shame the OP didn't come back and post anything. (or did he and I missed it?)

[stewey]

A tempest in a teapot really; and much ado about nothing. I agree with numerous others who have stated that the function of language is to communicate: that's it. Who really cares about the present pluperfect subjungtive participle agreeing with the past tense of the plural adjective prepositioned prior to the apostrophide singular non-regular pronoun?

[mike11111]

Stewey - if I weren't a linguist I'd be almost impressed by your answer. Very clever :-)

[stewey]

Well, Mike; I was sat here and thought I should of replied to the post, know where I'm coming from? So I done it. So, G'night...whatever. Cheers.