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 Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 9:51 am
I have a complaint.
I was not really sure where to put it: no one would pay attention if I posted it in ED, GD is just a can of spam, and there is no grammar forum. Then I remembered back to my days as a Grammar Nazi, and thought, "perfect!"
People don't use adverbs. They have apparently been unanimously dropped from the English language. Television shows, people on my college campus, even professors are modifying their verbs with adjectives. The horror!
I can't decide if people are attempting to make their sentences shorter, or if they are lazy, or if they are stupid. Any of these three excuses is unacceptable. You never finish "quick," always "quickly." That annoying old person in front of you isn't driving "slow," they're driving "slowly." It drives me absolutely up the wall that people have stopped using such an important part of the English language.
One or twice is an honist mistake; any more and you're making a disgusting mockery of the English language.
What do you think? Have you experienced this lack of adverbs in your every day life? On television? In casual speech?
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Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 9:34 pm
duh u kin speek gud wif uot advurbs hel u kin speke rite iwf out gud gramer n spelin g2
i hav a hapy feelign in m3 pantz0rz now hurr durr
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Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 1:45 pm
I've generally been taught to use a stronger, more precise verb rather than adverbs, unless such a verb does not exist.
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Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 6:46 am
AlexDitto I have a complaint. I was not really sure where to put it: no one would pay attention if I posted it in ED, GD is just a can of spam, and there is no grammar forum. Then I remembered back to my days as a Grammar Nazi, and thought, "perfect!" People don't use adverbs. They have apparently been unanimously dropped from the English language. Television shows, people on my college campus, even professors are modifying their verbs with adjectives. The horror! I can't decide if people are attempting to make their sentences shorter, or if they are lazy, or if they are stupid. Any of these three excuses is unacceptable. You never finish "quick," always "quickly." That annoying old person in front of you isn't driving "slow," they're driving "slowly." It drives me absolutely up the wall that people have stopped using such an important part of the English language. One or twice is an honist mistake; any more and you're making a disgusting mockery of the English language. What do you think? Have you experienced this lack of adverbs in your every day life? On television? In casual speech?
I hear it in casual speech a lot. My whole school uses words you wouldn't find definitions for in your average dictionary, and phrases just like it. I'll list a few:
- Jacked up. (As in, "That junk is jacked up!" More then a pixelated item, sadly.)
- Junk.
- Ain't. (I hear you can find that in some dictionaries, but it's still bad grammar.)
- Gay. (Ricey says that this word comes from the English language evolving. Personally, I hate it.)
I'm sure I could think of more if I wanted to, but I don't.
I have to say those four words piss me off. Next adverbs, but for now, I want whole WORDS out of English slang. talk2hand
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Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2005 7:06 pm
I noticed that the word "whom" is fast becoming one of those obsolete words in the English language like "bestrid" and "begat". No one uses that one or even knows where to use it. As a matter of fact, I get really impressed whenever I do hear it.
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Posted: Sun Nov 27, 2005 12:40 am
SpazLink I've generally been taught to use a stronger, more precise verb rather than adverbs, unless such a verb does not exist. Your siggy is soo cool eek
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Posted: Sun Nov 27, 2005 12:53 am
Raishin AlexDitto I have a complaint. I was not really sure where to put it: no one would pay attention if I posted it in ED, GD is just a can of spam, and there is no grammar forum. Then I remembered back to my days as a Grammar Nazi, and thought, "perfect!" People don't use adverbs. They have apparently been unanimously dropped from the English language. Television shows, people on my college campus, even professors are modifying their verbs with adjectives. The horror! I can't decide if people are attempting to make their sentences shorter, or if they are lazy, or if they are stupid. Any of these three excuses is unacceptable. You never finish "quick," always "quickly." That annoying old person in front of you isn't driving "slow," they're driving "slowly." It drives me absolutely up the wall that people have stopped using such an important part of the English language. One or twice is an honist mistake; any more and you're making a disgusting mockery of the English language. What do you think? Have you experienced this lack of adverbs in your every day life? On television? In casual speech?
I hear it in casual speech a lot. My whole school uses words you wouldn't find definitions for in your average dictionary, and phrases just like it. I'll list a few:
- Jacked up. (As in, "That junk is jacked up!" More then a pixelated item, sadly.)
- Junk.
- Ain't. (I hear you can find that in some dictionaries, but it's still bad grammar.)
- Gay. (Ricey says that this word comes from the English language evolving. Personally, I hate it.)
I'm sure I could think of more if I wanted to, but I don't.
I have to say those four words piss me off. Next adverbs, but for now, I want whole WORDS out of English slang. talk2hand
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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 8:53 am
That's one of the only grammatical errors I ever make. I'm not good with "than" and "then" usage.
It's "than". If you have any other way to try to make me look stupid, I'll be sure to not have sympathy for your cause.
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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 4:16 pm
Raishin That's one of the only grammatical errors I ever make. I'm not good with "than" and "then" usage.
It's "than". If you have any other way to try to make me look stupid, I'll be sure to not have sympathy for your cause.
Anyway I thought it was nicer than to say that it was just screaming at me.
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Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 12:50 am
As far as adverb usage goes I have not really noticed the lack of this much though I have hardly been looking for it. What has started to really bother me in modern speach is slang, especially the use of the word 'gay.' That word would have to be the one slang word that bothers me the most. Most slang words today seem to be to be nothing but a lazy attempt at being different. I think that, if insted of using slang, people recovered some of the lost words of the English language to use as slang we would have a much more intelligent society.
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Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 7:54 am
Actually I haven't noticed a lack or adverbs.
Then again I live in an 'old community' and go to a boarding school. The students there are generally pretty smart. They think the english language is pretty cool as it is.
If they dropped the adverbs the english or humanities teachers would beat him with Sammy Salamander and, because the duty staff are the teachers, you can never really escape them.
If you whispered "I did it good" in one of the dorms they'll pop their head around the corner and shout "WELL", shortly followed by about ten of the grade twelves who'd beat some grammatical sense into you.
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Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 9:16 am
It comes naturally to me now. I have to use them correctly.
I live in the deep South, however. It makes me seem so much more smarter than everyone else. Even though I'm really not all that intelligent, people have this high opinion about me.
Of course, that doesn't come in handy when they're trying to mooch off you for answers. stressed
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Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 11:57 am
Johi (I'm bad with "in" and "at" sometimes)
Anyway I thought it was nicer than to say that it was just screaming at me.
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Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 1:43 pm
I ******** up 'who' and 'whom' sometimes and, thanks to my really stupid french class, I add unneccessary 'e's to a lot of words. I'll be typing, look up and realize I've just taked another e to form words like hopee or weathere or sevene.
But if there is one phrase I hate it's 'alot'. 'ALOT'. I just feel like screaming "TWO WORDS: TWOOOOOO WOOOOOORDS!"
Eeeeuw.
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