[LUconn]

He doesn't go there anymore. - This is using anymore in a correct way.

The Lynchburg citizens are a joke anymore - This sounds terrible to me. Can you use the word in this way? I've seen and heard it done by many people over the last few years.

[Fumblerooskies]

But does he go there anyless?

[Cider Jim]

I could answer the question, but I'd have to charge you tuition.

[ALUmnus]

I'm with you, it doesn't make sense, but I'm starting to hear it everywhere, even on tv (which makes it so). Besides, my wife has always used anymore that way, and I eventually found it wasn't beneficial to continue to mock her vocabulary. Things are just too objective anymore.

[SuperJon]

I've never heard it that way.

[JDUB]

me either. it doesn't make sense used like that

[Cider Jim]

Waiting for PeterParker to make a "Nevermore" reference...

[Libertine]

I'm with you, it doesn't make sense, but I'm starting to hear it everywhere, even on tv (which makes it so). Besides, my wife has always used anymore that way, and I eventually found it wasn't beneficial to continue to mock her vocabulary. Things are just too objective anymore.

My wife does the same thing. And she doesn't like being corrected. Go figure.

[Sly Fox]

A wife who doesn't like being corrected on grammatical errors. Imagine that. I think every married man on the board cringes at personal flashbacks of similar nature.

[PAmedic]

no idea to what any of you are referring.

Sexist Pigs

(FYI : also never "buck" your teeth, assume a "redneck accent" and/or make "sister-momma" jokes)

NOT



GOOD

[Libertine]

no idea to what any of you are referring.

Sexist Pigs

(FYI : also never "buck" your teeth, assume a "redneck accent" and/or make "sister-momma" jokes)

NOT



GOOD

Your wife's from Potter County, isn't she?

[cheerbren]

I love it when my husband corrects me - at least, I will when he actually has something to correct me about.

[El Scorcho]

Someone should start a thread of "things not to do" after getting married. I'm sure some young fellas wouldn't mind avoiding some of the potholes the rest of us have hit.

[PAmedic]

simple rule #1:

YOU ARE NOT FUNNY

DO NOT TRY TO BE FUNNY

YES- YOU OBVIOUSLY THINK YOU ARE, BUT YOU'RE NOT

SHE THINKS YOU'RE INCREDIBLY JUVENILE, BUT DEFINITELY NOT FUNNY


that's how it is, fellas.

at least WE appreciate each other.

[LUconn]

you can only learn these things by experience. I mean on the surface it seems pretty stupid to correct inconsquential mistakes, becuase obviously it makes people feel dumb. But when they're right in front of you, it's next to impossible to reisist unless you've been punished previously.

[PeterParker]

Waiting for PeterParker to make a "Nevermore" reference...

Once upon a midnight dreary... [ironically, also a Blues Traveler lyric]


Although, colloquialisms are very region specific...for instance, what's up with the Pennsylvania folks ending sentences prematurely:

Oh, just bring the jacket with. <---[um, where's the Object of the Prep, Keystone People?]

Also, the first time I spent time up in Eastern PA, the sentence cadence threw me off; it felt as though everyone one was asking me a question all the time with their declarative statements.

(As one whose family originates from the MA, I am fully aware of our own idiosyncrasies, but that's largely confined to the indigenous Bostonians stretching of the "r" and the use of the adjective "wicked" for everything...)

[Libertine]

What's worse than correcting your wife? Correcting your mother-in-law.

If she wants to refer to a particular type of fish as SAL-mun, just let her.

[JDUB]

Waiting for PeterParker to make a "Nevermore" reference...

Once upon a midnight dreary... [ironically, also a Blues Traveler lyric]


Although, colloquialisms are very region specific...for instance, what's up with the Pennsylvania folks ending sentences prematurely:

Oh, just bring the jacket with. <---[um, where's the Object of the Prep, Keystone People?]

Also, the first time I spent time up in Eastern PA, the sentence cadence threw me off; it felt as though everyone one was asking me a question all the time with their declarative statements.

(As one whose family originates from the MA, I am fully aware of our own idiosyncrasies, but that's largely confined to the indigenous Bostonians stretching of the "r" and the use of the adjective "wicked" for everything...)

the with thing... they do it in New York too. a couple of my female new york friends do that, and at first i was like.. huh? then i realized they just don't know how to talk. and people say southern people have bad grammar