Things We Say Wrong

You know the grammar in this country has really gone down hill.

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[Likety]

Without accents and dialects, everyone would sound like autistic robots. please shut up

[ImJustSayin2014]

You got the bad/badly thing wrong, but otherwise, funny!

[tangoflash]

@SpaceSamuraiKelsey: If you care so little about something and there is not much less you could care about it, then you "couldn't care less".

[derronsb]

This guy has never taken a linguistics course in his life, especially a sociolinguistics course!

[SpaceSamuraiKelsey]

I thought "I could care less" was the right way of saying it? Because if you couldn't care less that means that you care a little. I'm confused.

p.s. Everything you know is wrong.

[LennytheWicked]

@Likety Hey, not everyone who's autistic sounds like an 'autistic robot' asshole. :I

[MobiusCoin]

While I can appreciate his point to a certain extent this is just the natural evolution of language. Things change, language is organic, it is supposed to be organic. The rules are codes, no laws. We don't have to follow them, they just dictate what has already become an established trend. Look, before the invention of the printing press languages evolved slightly every couple of generations. Now, the evolution of language has slowed down. But does anyone really think the KJV sounds right?

[GalacticRaisinToast]

@AdGarUK Mmm, no. It's really not an embarrassing mistake. Especially because I didn't type that(:

[TheRsktek]

We say things?

[farmerchair]

"down hill"? Last time I went skiing, I did it downhill, you know, down the hill, downward...

[SOJ277]

All you people have it all wrong.

Every issue with English comes from Idaho, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico. Just draw a little lightning bolt across western US.

If you could hear the way I talk, you'd think I never went to elementary school. Gonna, could'a, I'mna, what're, etc...

Crick(creek), ma'in (mountain), hiw (hill), the list goes on.