@cybette is forgetting
her English grammar already. :)
(It's okay, I actually was messing up my German while talking on
the phone to my grandmother yesterday... and I've been speaking
German all my life! I started using Portuguese words, it was really
confusing to the poor woman...)
Seriously, ðat irregularity has to go from ðe language! Why ðe
hell do ðe English speakers insist on "going home" as if ðe verb
"go" was taking a direct object? Wtf are you doing with it --
walking with ðe home in your pocket only to produce it at ðe
dest?
If you're hoping to eliminate all the irregularities in
language, you've got a lot of work ahead of
you...
Seriously, in this case, "home" is allowable as a general
direction/destination, like "going east", "going upstairs", "going
back" or "going downtown". It's adverbial! :)
Ok, prescriptively speaking, I understand that in this case
"home" is nowadays probably a petrified dative or locative case
even if it is equal in form to the nominative and only works
because it's used idiomatically with verbs of movement.
@bishop: I'm not
advocating the removal of all irregs. Just that as an international
speaker of English I would prefer that this frequently
used adverbial form would be different from the nominal form.
Something like "homewards" could be clearer. ;)
@bishop: I just might. You
may have noticed my butchering of the English language by my
alterings of orþografies and me's creolizin de speek a'cordin
to a set ov varying but relayted ruuls to a'cheev mai versjon of
'Newspeak' fittin fo de internet masses
@bishop: Ai ekspekt
langwij to make mai sens -- wich iz not just dat tings
mayk sens to me but dat mai sens becoms prevalent also! In fact to
hell with how others experience it, hehe. (j/k I
guess)
@bishop: Nou nou nou,
dount giv up, yo'r just getting ðe hang ov it -- indeed bravo for
ðe effort! Won þing ðou: Ai'd write "hurt" as it iz cos "hoort"
maykz me pronowns it like "hoo-ert" (wið a difþong) insted ov
"hert" (a rhotasaized middl vowl).
20 comments so far
please tell me that is an intentional grammatical error
6 months, 3 weeks ago by constantine.
what's the error now?
6 months, 3 weeks ago by cybette.
the fact that you can't even see it makes you officially Finnish.
6 months, 3 weeks ago by constantine.
delete the "to" and you'll be fine :)
6 months, 3 weeks ago by KevanV.
@cybette is forgetting her English grammar already. :)
(It's okay, I actually was messing up my German while talking on the phone to my grandmother yesterday... and I've been speaking German all my life! I started using Portuguese words, it was really confusing to the poor woman...)
6 months, 3 weeks ago by Bishop.
@stefan: lol..:)
6 months, 3 weeks ago by TheBlueNile.
Seriously, ðat irregularity has to go from ðe language! Why ðe hell do ðe English speakers insist on "going home" as if ðe verb "go" was taking a direct object? Wtf are you doing with it -- walking with ðe home in your pocket only to produce it at ðe dest?
6 months, 3 weeks ago by jkniiv.
If you're hoping to eliminate all the irregularities in language, you've got a lot of work ahead of you...
Seriously, in this case, "home" is allowable as a general direction/destination, like "going east", "going upstairs", "going back" or "going downtown". It's adverbial! :)
6 months, 3 weeks ago by Bishop.
But if you really want an answer, maybe we should ask Grammar Girl!
6 months, 3 weeks ago by Bishop.
Ok, prescriptively speaking, I understand that in this case "home" is nowadays probably a petrified dative or locative case even if it is equal in form to the nominative and only works because it's used idiomatically with verbs of movement.
6 months, 3 weeks ago by jkniiv.
@bishop: I'm not advocating the removal of all irregs. Just that as an international speaker of English I would prefer that this frequently used adverbial form would be different from the nominal form. Something like "homewards" could be clearer. ;)
6 months, 3 weeks ago by jkniiv.
@jkniiv: Good explanation! :D
Start using "homewards" and maybe it'll catch on...
6 months, 3 weeks ago by Bishop.
Nitpicking is as good a hobby as any. Nitpicks for the win!
6 months, 3 weeks ago by jkniiv.
I think the problem is that some people like @jkniiv expect language to actually make sense. :)
6 months, 3 weeks ago by Bishop.
@bishop: I just might. You may have noticed my butchering of the English language by my alterings of orþografies and me's creolizin de speek a'cordin to a set ov varying but relayted ruuls to a'cheev mai versjon of 'Newspeak' fittin fo de internet masses
6 months, 3 weeks ago by jkniiv.
@bishop: Ai ekspekt langwij to make mai sens -- wich iz not just dat tings mayk sens to me but dat mai sens becoms prevalent also! In fact to hell with how others experience it, hehe. (j/k I guess)
6 months, 3 weeks ago by jkniiv.
@jkniiv: u mayd mai hed hoort. :(
6 months, 3 weeks ago by Bishop.
@bishop: Nou nou nou, dount giv up, yo'r just getting ðe hang ov it -- indeed bravo for ðe effort! Won þing ðou: Ai'd write "hurt" as it iz cos "hoort" maykz me pronowns it like "hoo-ert" (wið a difþong) insted ov "hert" (a rhotasaized middl vowl).
6 months, 3 weeks ago by jkniiv.
Corr to the above:_ "maykz me pronowns it laik ...
6 months, 3 weeks ago by jkniiv.
@constantine officially Finnish? but there was no press release! ;) ok, i now bedwards. capisci?
6 months, 2 weeks ago by cybette.