[ SECRET POST #2142 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2142 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Sorry it's late!

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 066 secrets from Secret Submission Post #306.
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Comments

Re: using "anymore" at the beginning of a sentence

[blueonblue]

It's wrong, but don't be that person who corrects other people's grammar.

Re: using "anymore" at the beginning of a sentence

[(Anonymous)]

No worries, I'm not. My stepdad's stepmother I always uses singular "was" for plural subjects and I don't say anything. It's just that I've heard like 3 people put anymore at the beginning of their sentences, so I was just wondering if maybe it was something that was commonplace but not something I'd ever had exposure to. Seems that's not the case from the other comments though.

Re: using "anymore" at the beginning of a sentence

[(Anonymous)]

But then how will they ever learn?

Re: using "anymore" at the beginning of a sentence

[silverau]

If you can understand it, who cares?

Re: using "anymore" at the beginning of a sentence

[(Anonymous)]

Tons of people dislike being corrected and might very well decide to be stubborn in their mistake just to spite you or because they think you are the one in the wrong.

Also, great way to start enmities.

Re: using "anymore" at the beginning of a sentence

[cbrachyrhynchos]

But then, how will they ever learn?

Let me impart some basic linguistic truth to you, from someone who actually loves language to someone who probably just loves the formalisms they teach in grade school for your college applications.

First: Grammar is dependent on at least a half-dozen different factors of medium and mode. Spontaneous conversational language uses a wide variety of forms that you just couldn't get away with if you were writing for the New Yorker. We can use fragments, run-on sentences, colloquialisms, slang, and dangling modifiers freely, because the medium of face-to-face conversation has additional layers of meaning not conveyed on the printed page to negotiate things like turn-taking and corrections.

Second: A person using a less formal mode of language often already knows how to speak and write more formal modes as well. Pre-lingual infants can even identify differences between spoken-language modes.

Third: Unless you're a speech coach, speech therapist, editor, teacher or other person being paid to assist the person in adopting a more formal mode, the proper response to an unfamiliar or strange form is "pardon?," "huh?" or a blank stare.