The (grammar) bitch is back ...
9 July 2016 03:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
leethetI'm reading quite a bit of fanfic right now and although I am enjoying it, I've got to gripe:
The noun is exhalation or inhalation. Exhale and inhale are verbs. For fuck's sake, don't they teach kids anything in school any more? Is this like "That was a hard ask," which I keep seeing in formerly legitimate newspapers where people who are not illiterate would have written "That was a hard question"?
Sam Waterston did a Calvin and Hobbes about "verbing" language, but I thought it was a joke.
OK. I feel better. Thank you for listening (assuming someone is). As ever, anyone who wants to post a pet grammar peeve here is welcome to do so - I always find them interesting.
The noun is exhalation or inhalation. Exhale and inhale are verbs. For fuck's sake, don't they teach kids anything in school any more? Is this like "That was a hard ask," which I keep seeing in formerly legitimate newspapers where people who are not illiterate would have written "That was a hard question"?
Sam Waterston did a Calvin and Hobbes about "verbing" language, but I thought it was a joke.
OK. I feel better. Thank you for listening (assuming someone is). As ever, anyone who wants to post a pet grammar peeve here is welcome to do so - I always find them interesting.
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Date: 10 July 2016 03:27 pm (UTC)As Calvin said in the aforementioned Calvin and Hobbes cartoon: Verbing weirds language.