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Grammatical quirks that once annoyed me but I now find charming
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Date: April 28th, 2026 4:14 AM Author: oomox - saying "anymore" instead of "nowadays," e.g. "kids are always looking at screens anymore" - saying "whenever" instead of "when," e.g. "whenever my dad died, I paid off my debts" |
Date: April 28th, 2026 3:15 PM Author: oomox (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2...id.#49849013) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 3:22 PM Author: Metal Up Your Ass I haven't heard people talk like this. Is this a regional thing?
I've also heard of people mixing leave and let, which is another one I've never actually experienced. |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 3:47 PM Author: oomox "Anymore" kinda gives midwest vibes but nah I've heard COASTAL ELITISTS say both of these (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2...id.#49849098) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 3:26 PM Author: Fucking Fuckface Worthy of death:
expresso could care less eckcetera disorientated eckspecially axe (me a question)
Charming:
less phrases and more certain regional and ethnic accents |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 3:38 PM Author: Is it not the case (Is it not the case) Axe a question is especially grating. I say this as someone who is a big fan of AAVE. I think it's a wonderful dialect. That being said I can't take anyone seriously who says axe. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2...id.#49849074) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 3:47 PM Author: oomox Yeah almost all of those make my ears bleed (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2...id.#49849101) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 3:51 PM Author: Is it not the case (Is it not the case) This is a fun one but in Québec they have an expression «Je m'en bas les couilles» which means "I'm beating my balls with it." It's used similarly to I could care less or I don't give a fuck. Often used sarcastically when someones says something they think is important and you have zero interest in it. Also rly funny how girls say this a lot. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2...id.#49849117) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 3:53 PM Author: oomox (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2...id.#49849124) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 4:03 PM Author: Fucking Fuckface I suddenly love Canada (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2...id.#49849146) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 3:26 PM Author: podcat anymore and nowadays are synonyms how is that a quirk (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2...id.#49849041) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 3:50 PM Author: oomox For me, "anymore" requires a negative, like, they don't do this thing (that they used to do) anymore. The positive construction sounds odd to me. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2...id.#49849112) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 3:30 PM Author: Is it not the case (Is it not the case) What's your stance on begs the question (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2...id.#49849047) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 3:31 PM Author: podcat we're doing "seggs the question" now (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2...id.#49849050) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 3:50 PM Author: oomox (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2...id.#49849114) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 3:51 PM Author: oomox I hate when people use it when they really mean it RAISES a question. But I hear smart people do that all the time and have accepted it as a fact of life. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2...id.#49849118) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 3:55 PM Author: Is it not the case (Is it not the case) Your life sounds like a Greek tragedy of epic proportions (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2...id.#49849128) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 3:35 PM Author: Creepy Chan Nationalism (πΎπ£) a-prefixing (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2...id.#49849059) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 3:36 PM Author: llm (lab lives matter) friend tp 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2...id.#49849066) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 3:52 PM Author: oomox (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2...id.#49849120) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 3:40 PM Author: Is it not the case (Is it not the case) My biggest pet peeve is when gunneratttt uses nonplussed in its nouveau Reddit-chic usage to mean not completely happy when it really means shocked to the point of speechlessness. It's supposed to mean "I can't even..." but the internet crowd has lazily repurposed it. gunneratttt says nonplussed wrong about 5 times per month. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2...id.#49849081) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 3:49 PM Author: .,.,.,.,.,...,.,,.,,.....,.,..,.,,...,.,.,,...,. you don't even know Gaulish (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2...id.#49849108) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 3:53 PM Author: Is it not the case (Is it not the case) I don't know jack about Gaulish, Gallo-Roman, Breton, Anglo-Norman, Gascon, Provençal inter alia and my life is a complete waste (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2...id.#49849125) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 3:57 PM Author: Creepy Chan Nationalism (πΎπ£) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2...id.#49849133) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 4:31 PM Author: llm (lab lives matter) friend tp (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2...id.#49849205) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 4:38 PM Author: Creepy Chan Nationalism (πΎπ£) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2...id.#49849213) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 4:15 PM Author: Rampart ( ) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2...id.#49849170) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 3:41 PM Author: .;:..;:.;.:.;.,,,..,.:,.;....;,;;;..;,..,,.,,...., I like 'irregardless' (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2...id.#49849085) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 3:46 PM Author: Is it not the case (Is it not the case) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2...id.#49849095) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 3:52 PM Author: oomox (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2...id.#49849121) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 3:52 PM Author: OYT and the Indie Reprieve ( ) “Lose” and “loose” really trip proles up, they are unable to contend with it ime. It’s an instant class/IQ tell. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2...id.#49849122) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 4:03 PM Author: oomox ππ« (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2...id.#49849145) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 4:05 PM Author: Fucking Fuckface Rogue and rouge too (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2...id.#49849152) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 4:06 PM Author: Creepy Chan Nationalism (πΎπ£) when a teacher came out swinging over the word "ain't" in the first month of school we understood it as useful code for "write like libs also TWD" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2...id.#49849155) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 4:16 PM Author: oomox What's TWD?
I guess one good thing about woke is that people have become more descriptivist about grammar. Kids are (I think) being taught more that dialect-specific vernacular isn't WRONG, just nonstandard English. |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 4:37 PM Author: Creepy Chan Nationalism (πΎπ£) that kind of old world vernacular has been overshadowed by absurd gen slang, like "ain't" was abrasive to her but at least it's intelligible. Total White Death, she was one of two black teachers we had and didn't last long. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2...id.#49849212) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 4:06 PM Author: Is it not the case (Is it not the case) This is another fun one but I've met proles who call Haïti, "Hai Tai" unironically like Mai Tai (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2...id.#49849157) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 4:11 PM Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;.., i've heard del-HIGH
prole midwestern boomer in biz on my flight to india said he was going to del-HIGH |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 4:13 PM Author: Is it not the case (Is it not the case) It's almost unconscionable to say Iran or Iraq correctly. You have to say I-RAN and qaTAR or it's unpatriotic. Deli is easy because it's just the English word deli. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2...id.#49849167) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 4:17 PM Author: oomox I say Qatar with equal emphasis on the syllables, is that right? Seems like everyone is either saying "qaTAR" or "cutter" anymore (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2...id.#49849176) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 4:20 PM Author: Is it not the case (Is it not the case) It's definitely supposed to be QAT-ar. The turbo prole way is to say Cutter. The disrespectful chauvinist way is CaTAR like guitar. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2...id.#49849179) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 4:24 PM Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;.., now do Eid
tbf, proles dont even know wtf an eid is. |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 4:25 PM Author: Is it not the case (Is it not the case) I know a surprising number of British Muslim people so Eid comes up a fair amount imo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2...id.#49849193) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 4:13 PM Author: OYT and the Indie Reprieve ( ) lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2...id.#49849168) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 4:18 PM Author: oomox Lmao amazing (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2...id.#49849177) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 4:50 PM Author: Big Clique Energy Delhi, NY is pronounced “del-HI” by locals.
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Date: April 28th, 2026 4:51 PM Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;.., rofl @ The town was named after Delhi, India, in honor of founder Ebenezer Foote, who was known as "The Great Mogul". The pronunciation is attributed to Foote's rival Erastus Root, who reportedly exclaimed upon learning of the town's name, "Delhi, Hell-high! Might as well call it Foote-high."[4] An alternate explanation of its pronunciation and namesake is due to its location, high on the Delaware River.[3]
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Date: April 28th, 2026 4:23 PM Author: ..,;,.,;,..,.,...,.....,.,..,., i hate when people use mouth words (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2...id.#49849188) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 4:32 PM Author: Emperor CRISPR Chad von Neumann III My favorite little opera that you see play out around dissonant modern language is Southerners bewildered looks when Yankee shitlibs try to adopt regional vernacular and colloquialisms because they want to sound Black and don’t realize that they instead sound Hick.
Especially funny with shitlib transplants who got forcibly relocated by their NE megacorp overlords to Nashville, Tallahassee, Dallas, etc. |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 4:37 PM Author: oomox Sounds incredibly cringe. Ya I've noticed on the internet people seem to classify things as AAVE that I just think of as southern. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861263&forum_id=2...id.#49849211) |