The tire needs patched. - instead of - The tire needs to be patched.
My hair needs combed. - instead of - My hair needs to be combed. - or even better - I need to comb my hair.
What do you need done? - instead of - What needs to be done?
Grrrrr
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There's a speech pattern here in Central Ohio that irks the crap out of me. Here are a few examples:
The tire needs patched. - instead of - The tire needs to be patched. My hair needs combed. - instead of - My hair needs to be combed. - or even better - I need to comb my hair. What do you need done? - instead of - What needs to be done? Grrrrr |
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Veelicious |
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loan as a verb is considered acceptable, although there are some that find it objectionable in the same way they find most noun/verb evolutions objectionable.
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After following a distress signal to our planet, the starship Arrogant Schoolmarm had sent a landing party to invesitigate. Upon finding myself, and my deformed mutant chums holed up in an abandoned school house. Headmistress Zeep and her youthful assistant, Mr. Spork, a deeply depressed and overly analytical bore with pointy ears had surmised that we couldn't have possibly sent that signal since we were merely uneducated imbiciles with radiation poisoning. Further investigation revealed that our parental units were the ones who sent the distress signal but were all dead from an unknown viral outbreak that only targeted adults. It was then that the Headmistress violated the prime directive and interfered with our happy lives by attempting to teach us the proper use of the English language instead of using heavy sticks to strike others on the head as a form of communication. Your humble narrator found himself forceably jammed into a small wooden seat attached to an accompanying desk while Headmistress Zeep taught him the grammatical differences between "affect" and "effect", but all I could think of was bonking her on the head with my pimp stick as she turned to face the blackboard. Scouring the rest of the room in a quizzical fashion I noticed the other childen were either asleep or dead. Mr. Spork, his face buried in a technical manual and deepy entrenched in thought, gave me an opportunity to wriggle out of my chair and sneak up behind the sour, humorless swine that wrote upon the blackboard. With a quick lift of my right arm and the downward thrust that followed, I had made contact with the cranium of my intended victim... "Bonk bonk on the head!" I yelled, as she fell crumpled to the floor. The others cheered and tossed random books and
filthy unwashed underwear on top of her lifeless corpse. Mr. Spork, oblivious to the revolution that was taking place around him , kept reading so we left him
alone since he had no real friends anyway
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goner1 |
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abonkbonk<3
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Modesty |
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Veelicious wrote:If you use "loan" as a verb I will hunt you down and hit your head with the Oxford Dictionary. |
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Modesty wrote: So long as you avoid using a stick or heavy club when bonking you won't be in violation of my schtick. Thank yew, and bonk bonk! |
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Veelicious |
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Get your book and chase these folks down first:
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/nonerrors.html http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/loan Here's the "Usage Note" from American Heritage: The verb loan is well established in American usage and cannot be considered incorrect. The frequent objections to the form by American grammarians may have originated from a provincial deference to British critics, who long ago labeled the usage a typical Americanism.
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Modesty |
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Vee, I know exactly what I'm talking about, which is why I referred to the Oxford Dictionary. |
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NlGHTCRAWLER |
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Can someone get Zeep a Xanax???
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Veelicious |
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which also lists it as a verb.
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Modesty |
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Can someone get Zeep a Xanax??? Get Xeep a Zanaz? |
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Cleofuss |
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Hah! Thanks, Vee. Those links lead me to the following which proves my point in my earlier post. NEEDS -ED/-ING In some dialects it is common to say "my shoes need shined" instead of the standard "my shoes need shining" or "my shoes need to be shined." |
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Veelicious wrote:Yup, they sure do, but not as a replacement of lend. Merriam-Webster, however says: usage The verb loan is one of the words English settlers brought to America and continued to use after it had died out in Britain. Its use was soon noticed by British visitors and somewhat later by the New England literati, who considered it a bit provincial. It was flatly declared wrong in 1870 by a popular commentator, who based his objection on etymology. A later scholar showed that the commentator was ignorant of Old English and thus unsound in his objection, but by then it was too late, as the condemnation had been picked up by many other commentators. Although a surprising number of critics still voice objections, loan is entirely standard as a verb. I will still hunt you down if you use loan as a verb. And so would my English teacher (RIP). |
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Veelicious |
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"v. give as a loan; lend" That's from OED.
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CountAsterisk |
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Textism is not even a real textism.
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Zeep |
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Is that what you call irony? ::makes McCain air quotes::
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Fuck I hate this kind of thing. What sexually frustrated grammarians like Zeep fail to realize is that language - like everything else in the fucking Universe
- changes and evolves. If "impact" replaces "affects" over time so be it. What kind of retardation insists that words be frozen in amber
and once they have a meaning, that meaning can never change? Get a fucking life.
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CountAsterisk |
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Textism up.
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Frodidnt |
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Greg Buis is a Dick stopped being funny..oh wait it never was lol
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Zeep |
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GregBuisIsADick wrote:Hahahahahahahahahaha! 100 laughs. |
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