Good Grammar... please come back

[INQUISITOR63]

Is it I ( Not is it Me !)....or ........... are there any other people out there ......who hate/s bad grammar ? ------{ perhaps that should be.... "is there ....people" ( sing noun )...but it doesnt sound right.}
it is so prevalent these days especially on the telly. Even news readers say "I was SAT there, or I was STOOD there instead of, what we were all taught at school , i.e. "seated" and "Standing". The BBC announcers are no exception to this either. --- what a dreadful inheritance this is from what was always regarded as the pillar of English excellence.
Perhaps its because so many interfering govt education departments have seen in their wisdom to eradicate all proper grammar from school curricula over so many years. Also when we were greeted with "how are you?" we always said "fine thank you ". where /when did this Americanism crawl in from ? -- " Im good !" Surely this latter was meant to signify how excellent you were at something ......... but certainly not Grammar , it seems .

[ludwig]

// Precisely my point. Because you don't pronounce it as a monosyllable it must be therefore disyllabic. QED. //

But I do pronounce it as a monosyllable. It doesn't sound like weed though - it sounds like weird.

As I said before, whether it's got one or two syallables depends on how you say it, and there is no right or wrong way of saying things - the phonetics in dictionaries are guidelines not rules. Different regional accents put vowels all over the place, but they're not pronouncing things 'wrong', they're just pronouncing them differently.

[ludwig]

Think about the word 'really' as another example. I say it with 3 syllables, but a posher person might pronounce it more like 'rarely', which has 2 (I'm imagining Margot off the good life saying 'Well really Gerry!'
Neither is incorrect.

[naomi24]

//Even if there is not a God, there is someone else on the same level as me! //

We all have our cross to bear. ;o)

I agree with Ludwig. Weird, one syllable, really two (in my estimation at least). Just call me Margot. ;o)

[society]

Good grammar proper spelling is part of a good education. Schools / teachers who neglect those are defeating the purpose of having a good education. And I believe a teacher who neglects to correct grammar and spelling do not know better themselves. A habit once learned, is automatically implemented. As we speak, so we write.

[bednobs]

interesting debate. Just to let you all know, weird is pronounced with 1 syllable, as is known. You may all disagree with me, but sadly you would all be wrong :)

[society]

"Good grammar proper spelling".

My 'and' fell off in transit.

[ludwig]

Or to put it another way (and then I'll shut up about it - probably)..

Imagine a scouser saying the word 'WORD'. - one syllable.

[starone]

How about people who say "methinks" - what is that supposed to be Olde English?

[mike11111]

Sorry to disagree, Bedknobs, but it is impossible to pronounce 'weird' as a monosyllabic word because of the 'r'. Don't know what part of the country you come from, but I'd be interested to hear your speech patterns! Nevertheless, it must be comforting for you to know that you are the only one in step when everyone else is out of step, the lone Israelite amongst the Philistines.

[ludwig]

Mike, presumably you also find it impossible to pronounce the word 'word' in one syllable because of the R?

[naomi24]

:o)

[sandyRoe]

Marching to a different drum takes courage, or an astounding lack of sense of rhythm.

[Answerprancer]

Is this a wind-up ?
The OP is literally RIDDLED with grammatical errors and punctuation mistakes.

[sandyRoe]

would my last post have read better if I'd said: or an astounding lack of rhythmical sense?
This grammer business is a mine field. :-(

[DTCwordfan]

I agree with Sandy - a total minefield - there are all sort of errors, intentionally or not, that have infiltrated our language through the centuries and will continue to do do as English evolves.

The differences are them multiplied by regional dialects and language differences - and, again, our speech evolves. Even the Queen has changed her 'dialect' over time; just listen to one of her speeches from the 1950s and compare it to the way she speaks today.

Apparently, Inverness used to have the crown of the purest English spoken in the UK; who holds that title today?

[naomi24]

Sandy, ....and so is this grammar business. ;o)

[Marijn]

My pet hate is people writing ECT instead of ETC.