I can't take it anymore. (sentence, examples, paragraph, money)
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Out of the 19 people employed where I work, 18 of them use an apostrophe before the "s" to make a plural.
I bet they all think I'm the one with bad grammar skills for not doing that.
Something that I find particularly puzzling is the use of, "off", when somebody actually means to say, "on".
To what am I referring?
I am referring to people who say/write things like, "Then the alarm went off".
Based on the context clues in their speech/writing, they actually mean that, "the alarm went ON".
This idiom has been in use in English for about 500 years, and I doubt if you will have success in abolishing it.
Idioms & Phrases
go off
Explode, detonate; also, make noise, sound, especially abruptly. For example, I heard the gun go off , or The sirens went off at noon . This expression developed in the late 1500s and gave rise about 1700 to the related go off half-cocked , now meaning "to act prematurely" but originally referring to the slipping of a gun's hammer so that the gun fires (goes off) unexpectedly.
This idiom has been in use in English for about 500 years, and I doubt if you will have success in abolishing it.
Idioms & Phrases
go off
Explode, detonate; also, make noise, sound, especially abruptly. For example, I heard the gun go off , or The sirens went off at noon . This expression developed in the late 1500s and gave rise about 1700 to the related go off half-cocked , now meaning "to act prematurely" but originally referring to the slipping of a gun's hammer so that the gun fires (goes off) unexpectedly.
This may be why auto mechanics make so many mistakes.
That is my understanding also.
However, perhaps we are both wrong, and our language is merely, "evolving", again.
No, it's being mangled again. Just because someone uses a term incorrectly (even if it's repeated many times) does not make it evolution. It's more like a devolution. Someone has to maintain standards!
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