[Jukebox-list] etymological

[Joey McDonald]

Thats an interesting study.
I agree with you. I most likely missed the words because I think faster
than I can type. I am probably missing words when I am typing to be able to 
keep up with my thoughts.

Did you ever think that maybe the popularity of RAP music
is rubbing off on us, altering the way we speak and compose sentences?
It sure is in the younger crowd. 18-25 yrs. The latest is " my bad ".
It drives me nuts. Instead of saying " its my mistake " or something 
similar,
it is replaced with " my bad ".  How uneducated does that sound???
Texting with cell phones is also having its effects on how sentences are
composed. Proper grammer is replaced with abbreviations / slang words /
or no words at all, just a letter. Example " OK " is replaced with " K".
Is it uneducated or just plain lazy???

This is way off list. Fun to talk about though.

Joey McDonald



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Breneman" <david_breneman at yahoo.com>
To: "Jukebox mailing list" <jukebox-list at lists.netlojix.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 10:27 PM
Subject: Re: [Jukebox-list] etymological


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> --- Joey McDonald <joe400f at shaw.ca> wrote:
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>> David,
>>
>> I am sure you are aware that etymological means the study or
>> words. I had to look it up.
>> I don't get the question.
>>
>
> Hi, Joey -
>
> I'm curious as to why you said "the wiring needs replaced" rather
> than the gramatically correct "the wiring needs *to be* replaced."
> "Needs" is future-looking, "replaced" is past-looking. I never
> heard sentences formulated this way until about 10 years ago,
> and most of the people I heard using this fromulation were
> from the Washington DC area.  I don't mean to be critical,
> it's just interesting; like where, geographically, "pop"
> gives way to "soda", or "standing in line" gives way to
> "standing on line".  About 15 years ago, I started to hear
> people use "anymore" to reinforce a *positive* observation,
> whereas it has always been used to reinforce a negative
> observation, ie "Nobody does that anymore" vs. "I'm doing
> that anymore" or even the more extreme "Anymore, people
> do that."  Formulations like "my house needs painted" are
> becoming more common in my part of the country and I'm
> fascinated to find out where that comes from, and if it's
> long established in those areas, or relatively new, like
> the positive assertion "anymore" is here in the Northwest.
> Your reaction leeds me to believe that it's long engrained
> in your area.  Sorry for being such a Henry Higgins! :-)
>
>
>
> David Breneman         david_breneman at yahoo.com
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