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John Scalzi@scalzi.com |
(Caveat that "standard grammar" in English is generally bullshit made up to sell books to status-conscious Victorians, even if it has some use in communication. Perhaps a more accurate way of putting it is "common usage.")
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Trey Lawson
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I see it increasingly with my students. Also “casted,” - best read is that a lack of focus on grammar in K-12 has led to confusion regarding irregular verb tenses
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Auld Dick
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I'm sure that if I traveled 200 years into the future I would be hard put to understand "standard grammar". The rules I worked so hard to learn as a child now mean very little. Right or wrong, they still shade my snap opinions.
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Django Wexler
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"Costed" does have a pretty standard usage already in the sense of "estimated the cost of", as in "The accountants costed the project at $9 million."
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Dr. Word Person
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I'm just going to go ahead and mention my offering for the Romancing The Vote auction! Seems topical! www.32auctions.com/organization...
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Michael Fuss
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If you'd be like the French, you could have an American Academy (of language) as the French have their "académie française" to settle such disputes.
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Mark Major
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One of my biggest linguistic pet peeves is the notion that the only participants in linguistic drift are the people who want things to change, that everyone who pushes back because they think it's a bad change just needs to sit down and shut up.
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Tade Thompson
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It's business/management speak creeping into general use.
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Dayna Abel
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In fairness (and speaking as a copyeditor), some of us do need to adhere to standards in order to facilitate clear communication between creator and audience.
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@isotopak.bsky.social
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I think it's important to praise Teenage Girls for their contributions to the evolution of language everywhere.
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...
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Ed Crotty
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Should only be used in a business context. preply.com/en/question/...
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Sharonopolis
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Shouldn't that be "common use"? ;)
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Val Dobson
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Heard it plenty of times, in relation to estimating a price. i.e. "I've costed out your widget at around 10p per unit - how does that sound?"
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Em Fleming
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One of the joys of my undergrad degree was reading a grammar by Robert Lowth and finding places in which he did exactly the things he was telling people not to do, often in the same paragraph, because the "rules" of grammar are bloody awkward to use in some cases.
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greg munsill
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Thank you for grammaring us!
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