dear grammar ... so close to fryday ... maybe in england
where something is at...
what if one is a newfoundlander
and they are wondering where you are to
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnHV1WcqPP0&feature=related
yours

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans <
scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote:

> well, should wait till fridae ..
> but since so much traffic in this topic -
> I knew 'preventative' would be a recognized version of that word.
> 'preventive' is more natural and fewer syllables or course, and 'better.'
>
> on what bugs me language wise...
> two things I just have to not let get to me ....because they have crept
> universally into the language.
> one is 'where something is at.'
> it's 'where something is.'   Period.
> Even TV news announcers can't talk about the location of something without
> saying where it is AT, universally these days, it seems.
>
> the other is the dropping of the 'ly' ending for adverbs.
> this one I accept a little more.
> It's 'drive carefully' not 'drive careful' ...though as I said ...it's
> becoming the norm to leave 'ly' off adverbs.
> I would also wonder how many people graduating from our schools these days
> even know what an adverb is.
>
> you know...clever butchering of the language ........cleverly modifying it
> ..that is great intellectual fun, even poetic.
> Butchering it because someone doesn't know better..........that is grating
> to some for sure.
>
> oh.....Spelling. I can NOT spell for beans !  It takes me longer to
> spell-correct an email than it does to write it,
> Sometimes I'll correct a few words ............then just send the rest like
> it is.
> Apologies for all my misspellings. Not my forte at all.
>
> And even Road & Track Magazine, which SHOULD be a bastion of correct
> English, even they just wrote 'less weight, less cylinders' in the most
> recent issue. It's 'fewer cylinders' of course.
>  There's a bumper sticker that says 'less wars' . I wonder if they were
> doing that to be cute, like to grab attention, or they just don't know
> better.  ....cause it's 'fewer warS' ..................or 'less war'. I
> sure
> hope it was intentional, cause otherwise it just sounds uneducated  and is
> distracting from the real message.
>
> I'm sure I'm in trouble now !
> and I better get back to some PREVENTATIVE vanagon maintenance work !
>
> Now where did I leave the parts for that job at ?
> Work safe !
> Scott
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Beierl" <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 9:10 AM
> Subject: Oops re: Preventive maintenance
>
>
>  At 11:27 AM 4/15/2010, Loren Busch wrote:
>> Personal non-official request -- It's "preventive" and my teeth itch
>> slightly when I see it
>>
>> Well phooey -- it's in the American Heritage Dictionary as a variant
>> so I'm just going to have to suck it up and live with it.  <dons
>> dunce cap and sits in corner muttering "but it still moves...">
>>
>> Yours,
>> David
>>
>

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