We're being infected with that too, particularly in "Malbourne" (Melbourne)

 

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The language we use in this country is a waste of intellect at best, it has no reason attached to it at all, and the better you learn it...the more ignorant you most probably are. Rote. Waste.

Things should be spelled how they sound, but that makes too much sense, so the English spell paradigm is "that looks good, yeah, we'll spell it like that".

Don't get me started on grammar.

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My personal favorite is "same difference".

 

5 - 3 = 13 - 11



(Sorry.)

 

I heard "same difference" the first time when I was a kid. It kind of hurt my brain at the time, but I can accept it now. It's just peculiar, but not wrong. What still hurts my ears is "these ones". And something that seems popular down here is only two forms of the verb see. It is see or seen. "I seen it." Or to give me an aneurysm one can say "I seen those ones and they is very fun".

 

I saw a license plate frame yesterday which read:

Every princess

has there prince

Where does one begin with this? That it should be "their", not "there"? Or that it should be "her", not "their"? Or, rather, "her", not "there"?

Sigh.

 

OK i think i might be able to explain this....
There=Place
Their=Possesive yet plural
They're=They are

The Phrase "Every Princess has there prince" is incorrect.
It should read: "Every Princess has her Prince". Because there is a place and adding their is a plural. Get it? Damn i hope i didn't make an @$$ of myself just now.

 

Seen on this board:
Prolly, instead of probably.
uuuuhhhhhggggg

 

Another license plate frame last night:

whose your

dadie

Whimper.