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"I'm not gonna lie". Well, I hope so! Does that mean everything else you told me is a lie?!?
How about "You'll never find anyone as honest as me." My insurance agent told me that once and I got rid of him within a month. I knew then he was lying his butt off.
Ugh, one that I have only recently noticed, I don't know if it is a regional thing or what, but I keep seeing it written: "needs replaced", "needs fixed", "needs renovated", etc. GAWD! "needs to BE replaced, fixed, renovated ..." it drives me nuts.
People say this here in Pennsylvania. I honestly don't think they know it's wrong as that's how everyone around them talks.
Here's another one that I frequently see on forums such as CD.
People for some reason must think it sounds affected or something to say "one would do such and such". They will write "you, general you, not you specifically would do ,"
I don't get it. Why not keep speech as simple as possible?
Ugh, one that I have only recently noticed, I don't know if it is a regional thing or what, but I keep seeing it written: "needs replaced", "needs fixed", "needs renovated", etc. GAWD! "needs to BE replaced, fixed, renovated ..." it drives me nuts.
Oh yes, same here. It sounds like baby talk.
It is a regional thing. Indiana, at least, but someone else said they lived in western PA near the Ohio border, and they talked like that there, too. So at least in some parts of the midwest.
I live in NJ and know a woman from Indiana. She's been here at least thirty years, and still she says, "The sink needs replaced." "The door needs fixed."
How about "You'll never find anyone as honest as me." My insurance agent told me that once and I got rid of him within a month. I knew then he was lying his butt off.
When someone says, "Can I be honest with you?" I respond, "Does that mean you usually aren't?"
People say this here in Pennsylvania. I honestly don't think they know it's wrong as that's how everyone around them talks.
Didn't they learn it in school, though? I mean, I had speech patterns and word usages I said growing up that I learned were not proper English. Sometimes I might slip back into those patterns, but only with family or people I knew growing up. Around people I don't know, or in a professional setting, I make an effort to speak decent English.
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