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Re: PLURK PET PEEVES

[(Anonymous)]

I think what's causing some of the confusion might have to do with our respective childhoods. I was a pretty bookish kid and I feel like I saw it everywhere, but it's part of this amorphous blob of pre-internet knowledge. Was it actually everywhere or was it just in a lot of things that my local library carried or in magazines my family bought? I don't know, I was an idiot kid reading everything I could read. But it's possible that other anons had similar childhood experiences and heard it a lot during their language acquisition phase. Did it come from somewhere? Probably. But a lot of the general phrases we know and accept all came from somewhere, too. It could be regional, or maybe educational variances.

I'm one of the anons who will die mad about people who drop "to be" before a verb, so we all have a linguistic thing that doesn't translate to an online forum where people of different dialects come together and try to collab. This one doesn't bother me, but that's just because all my anger is in reserve for the next time someone tells me "this needs fixed" in a tag.