[Magdalen] Like I Was Puzzled.

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

Educated folks have argued quite passionately for different forms on this.
I quit.

What? English is a living language that is evolving?  Maybe so, but not in
this case! It will always be just as I say it is.

Not.

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better
for people coming behind you, and you don’t do it, you're wasting your time
on this Earth.”  -- *Roberto Clemente

On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 8:53 AM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:

> I makes me nuts when people say "She graduated college." But I try
> to stifle my response (unlike one of our friends, who reliably begins to
> hurl invective at the teevee). "Graduated from" is going the way of the
> older "was graduated from."
>
> Oh, and I do use "like" in common informal speech. Rarely in writing,
> though. Only to establish mood and affect.
> -M, who thinks it's your language to use as you see fit
>
> Oh, and I observe the use of the verb "to make" is fading away with
> many substitutions now in use.  Can't help wondering if there's less
> "making" in a post-industrial society. And also the increasing need
> for a kind of affected specificity, My mother would have said
> "I made a meatloaf." or "I made a sweater," but we now cook & knit.
>
> > > Language evolves...or maybe unravels...
> > > >
> > > > Sally D
> >
> >
>