Author Topic: 5 Grammar Mistakes that Make You Sound Like a Chimp  (Read 3441 times)

Methyl m1ke

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Re: 5 Grammar Mistakes that Make You Sound Like a Chimp
« Reply #25 on: April 07, 2020, 01:56:19 PM »
I can tolerate nearly all dialects with "valley girl" being one of the few exceptions.

For example a sentence should never start with "and, like" and a bunch of others.


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Re: 5 Grammar Mistakes that Make You Sound Like a Chimp
« Reply #26 on: April 08, 2020, 12:41:03 PM »
Media constantly using the term "on steroids" has become 'chimpish". Just this morning on talk radio, within 5 minutes I heard one reporter say "Corona Virus is the flu on steroids", then a weather guy said "We got more rain in L.A. because it was like a "cold front on steroids".

These media people are getting paid obscene amounts of money to use the English language to convey things,  and every fucking time something is large or excessive in any way, they fall back on this hack, tired fucking expression.

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Re: 5 Grammar Mistakes that Make You Sound Like a Chimp
« Reply #27 on: April 08, 2020, 01:28:06 PM »

basically, chad is more a "basically" guy, basically. But that's a close one. Maybe 60/40 basically/literally. Which makes him literally a douche, basically.