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Re: The surprising lack of prepositions.
« Reply #35 on: April 28, 2011, 06:17:54 PM »
I also want to hurt any body that says, "I seen it."

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Re: The surprising lack of prepositions.
« Reply #36 on: April 28, 2011, 06:42:33 PM »
I haven't heard any of the examples given in this thread.

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Re: The surprising lack of prepositions.
« Reply #37 on: April 28, 2011, 06:49:10 PM »
I've gotten used to the general butchering of the English language to the point where it rarely bothers me.  I try to speak/write well just on FUCKINGHOMOPHONESHOWDOTHEYWORK, but I generally just accept that other people don't want to do the same. 
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Re: The surprising lack of prepositions.
« Reply #38 on: April 28, 2011, 06:55:29 PM »
I don't know if it's due to my location, an upper middle class suburb, but I rarely find the English language to be overly butchered.

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Re: The surprising lack of prepositions.
« Reply #39 on: April 28, 2011, 06:56:20 PM »
I live in a urban city. Pretty big, but the area I live in is pretty ok. My school on the other hand...ugh.

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Re: The surprising lack of prepositions.
« Reply #40 on: April 28, 2011, 06:57:59 PM »
Poor numbers, he has to deal with people's faults.

Oh wait, we all do. :(

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Re: The surprising lack of prepositions.
« Reply #41 on: April 28, 2011, 07:35:52 PM »
I've gotten used to the general butchering of the English language to the point where it rarely bothers me.  I try to speak/write well just on principal, but I generally just accept that other people don't want to do the same. 

I mean you no disrespect but I think it's hilariously ironic that you used the wrong "principal."

Fuckin' homophones, how do they work?

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Re: The surprising lack of prepositions.
« Reply #42 on: April 28, 2011, 07:36:50 PM »
God dammit it's late I'm tired stop it

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Re: The surprising lack of prepositions.
« Reply #43 on: April 28, 2011, 07:38:56 PM »
I was gonna point that out but dtismajesty is cool and doesn't afraid of homophones.

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Re: The surprising lack of prepositions.
« Reply #44 on: April 28, 2011, 07:40:08 PM »
But yeah, I get the irony.   :lol

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Re: The surprising lack of prepositions.
« Reply #45 on: April 28, 2011, 07:45:24 PM »
God dammit it's late I'm tired stop it

Pfft, that's no excuse.  I've been running on two hours of sleep all day and I haven't hippopotamus a single word wrong the entire time.

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Re: The surprising lack of prepositions.
« Reply #46 on: April 28, 2011, 11:47:33 PM »
I was gonna point that out but dtismajesty is cool and doesn't afraid of homophones.
So he's not homophonobic?
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Re: The surprising lack of prepositions.
« Reply #47 on: April 29, 2011, 03:00:48 AM »
What I hate is when someone says something like "I've BEEN done my homework."  I've noticed that lately.  "Been" can now be used as any part of speech in any part of the sentence.

Actually, it's not so much a part of speech as an assertion that something has happened a long time ago.  Except that all you have to do is put it in the sentence to make yourself clear.  It doesn't matter where in the sentence.

Been = be = am. "I've been done with my homework." is just a different tense of "I am done with my homework."

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Re: The surprising lack of prepositions.
« Reply #48 on: April 29, 2011, 03:21:39 AM »
I haven't heard any examples of people not giving a fuck in this thread.

I don't give a fuck.

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Re: The surprising lack of prepositions.
« Reply #49 on: April 29, 2011, 07:09:09 AM »
What I hate is when someone says something like "I've BEEN done my homework."  I've noticed that lately.  "Been" can now be used as any part of speech in any part of the sentence.

Actually, it's not so much a part of speech as an assertion that something has happened a long time ago.  Except that all you have to do is put it in the sentence to make yourself clear.  It doesn't matter where in the sentence.

Been = be = am. "I've been done with my homework." is just a different tense of "I am done with my homework."

But they don't say "with."  I guess this is similar to what Numbers was complaining about in the first place.  :lol

Some of the kids I work with are terrible at this.  I'll ask them if they punched in yet, and the response will be, "I BEEN did that."

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Re: The surprising lack of prepositions.
« Reply #50 on: April 29, 2011, 08:14:29 AM »
Well that's fucking stupid :lol
Two verbs, no conjunction, different tenses, one object... lol

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Re: The surprising lack of prepositions.
« Reply #51 on: April 29, 2011, 10:14:40 PM »
Just happened again today.  I had to send one of my employees home sick the other day.  When she came in to work this morning, I asked her if she'd brought in a doctor's note in to say she wasn't actually deathly ill and horribly contagious.

Her response?

"I BEEN brought that in."

WTF?

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Re: The surprising lack of prepositions.
« Reply #52 on: April 29, 2011, 10:48:28 PM »
I was good at English in school, but nowadays I play it by ear and make sure it sounds right...I don't really pay much attention to every little detail. Still, stuff like Phant is talking about still boggles my mind.

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Re: The surprising lack of prepositions.
« Reply #53 on: April 29, 2011, 11:02:06 PM »
Just happened again today.  I had to send one of my employees home sick the other day.  When she came in to work this morning, I asked her if she'd brought in a doctor's note in to say she wasn't actually deathly ill and horribly contagious.

Her response?

"I BEEN brought that in."

WTF
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That's god awful.

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Re: The surprising lack of prepositions.
« Reply #54 on: April 30, 2011, 08:19:12 AM »
I accidentally this whole thread.

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Re: The surprising lack of prepositions.
« Reply #55 on: April 30, 2011, 02:09:26 PM »
Just happened again today.  I had to send one of my employees home sick the other day.  When she came in to work this morning, I asked her if she'd brought in a doctor's note in to say she wasn't actually deathly ill and horribly contagious.

Her response?

"I BEEN brought that in."

WTF?

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Re: The surprising lack of prepositions.
« Reply #56 on: April 30, 2011, 03:57:48 PM »
Just happened again today.  I had to send one of my employees home sick the other day.  When she came in to work this morning, I asked her if she'd brought in a doctor's note in to say she wasn't actually deathly ill and horribly contagious.

Her response?

"I BEEN brought that in."

WTF?

Are you sure it's not a reference to this?

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq08yOneY_0&feature=youtube_gdata_player

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Re: The surprising lack of prepositions.
« Reply #58 on: May 05, 2011, 08:49:45 PM »
Kind of simliar....what do you guys think when someone tells a story, and speaks in the present tense?  For example, "she says to the guy."
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Re: The surprising lack of prepositions.
« Reply #59 on: May 05, 2011, 08:59:10 PM »
Kind of simliar....what do you guys think when someone tells a story, and speaks in the present tense?  For example, "she says to the guy."
Stylistic choice. Present tense and past tense are both applicable.

I'd only tend to use present tense with a time specifier beforehand - e.g., "By this point, I am absolutely dumbfounded, so I tell the bugger where he can stick his trumpet," but I don't mind whether anyone does or not.

"By this point, I was absolutely dumbfounded" makes just as much sense and keeps the past tense consistent, so while I wouldn't personally just leap in with "so I say to the guy..." it's not something that I abjectly don't do.