People Are Misusing "Anymore" Anymore
People are totally misusing the word anymore anymore. And it's driving me crazy. And for some reason, it seems the gays are spearheading this trend towards misuse.
Officially speaking, you can't use anymore without a negative, like when you are describing something that used to happen but that doesn't happen anymore. You can't use it to describe stuff that's only now happening, like the current trend towards misuse of the word anymore. However, you can use nowadays or lately for both positive or negative clauses. You can find good and bad examples of anymore and nowadays below the fold.
Perhaps language is fluid and ever changing, and trying to impose rules on it is anti-evolutionary. Or perhaps I'm just a snob.
Here are some examples:
Has anyone else been picking up on new common grammatical errors that drive them up trees? "Where's it at?" "Anyways?" And what do you think? Should we protect language? Or let it change as our culture changes?
4 Comments:
I HATE when people drop the "to be" verb in certain clauses, like "my shoes need fixed," or "I'm having so much sex with my boyfriend that my lube needs replaced again." It drives me crazy. I'd only heard native Ohioans use this before, but now its been popping up around the district. Is it creeping east?
how have i never heard this before?
sometimes i find bad grammar cute but this is just ridiculous.
I haven't heard of this. Maybe its because I only hang out with people who speak in complete sentences. I think this is a slippery slope argument if i've ever heard one. It starts with leaving out a word or two, but ends up with people speaking incomprehensible gibberish to one another, sort of like how many poor blacks and whites speak now, only on a wider scale. It's reflective of a gradual dumbing down of the population. Soon our language will be a system of grunts and snorts, followed by beatings and beheadings, mostly due to the frustration from not being able to understand each other.
I really hate abbreviated words. I've noticed that people from Pennsylvania in particular tend to do this. "Whatev" is not a word. It makes me want to pick up a club.
I've never heard of it either. Nor have I heard the dropping "to be."
My personal pet peeve is dropping the "g" at the end of "-ing" words.
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