Will this grammar mistake ever be fixed?

I realize grammar is on the low end of fixes at the moment... but this mistake has been here forever.

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"Off of" is incorrect grammar regardless if it's widely used.

E.G.: snuck, ain't, irregardless
What's funny is I grew up in the Country. If you asked my relatives, the first two are acceptable. At least that's what they learned us. XD
So did I.

I know slang like you've never heard.

Sunt: past tense of sent
Tooken: like taken, but more redneck
Correction sent is past tense of send

Whooshed is past tense of whoosh.

Snizzbar

"Off of" is incorrect grammar regardless if it's widely used.

E.G.: snuck, ain't, irregardless
What's funny is I grew up in the Country. If you asked my relatives, the first two are acceptable. At least that's what they learned us. XD
So did I.

I know slang like you've never heard.

Sunt: past tense of sent
Tooken: like taken, but more redneck
Correction sent is past tense of send
Whooshed is past tense of whoosh.

*is the
Your wellcome

LeNoirFaineant

The way people are abusing the language in other areas I just can't get up off the couch for this one lol. RIP reflexive pronouns.

Snizzbar

I know this thread has probably got a little tired, but I thought this was funny. And appropriate...

CFree

Just because you think it’s incorrect doesn’t make it incorrect either. I personally think your stance on the matter belongs in the loo.
I don't "think" it is. It is.

It's objectively wrong.

Prove it.

SummonerNR

So does the SOAP label get a ticket itself too ? Or is that just an extra level of sarcasticness (wait, is that a word, lol) built into the label in the picture ? “Smells like YOUR annoying” well either finish the sentence, or should be YOU'RE

Kabam Habanero

Will this thread ever be taken off of the forum?

At this time, I don't see no reason to.

DNA3000

Just because you think it’s incorrect doesn’t make it incorrect either. I personally think your stance on the matter belongs in the loo.
I don't "think" it is. It is.

It's objectively wrong.

Actually, you won't get consensus on that statement among linguists. First, the "grammatically incorrect" part of "off of" is mostly based on the presumption that "of" is redundant, and redundant words that are only there for syntactical purposes are grammatically incorrect by reductionary principle. But not everyone supports that principle, and honestly the people who first proscribed that principle literally just made it up.

But more directly, "off of" is now considered a valid American English idiom. As a generally accepted idiom, it does not need to honor any proscribed grammatical rule.

If you're operating in a context where someone wearing tweed and smoking a pipe regularly uses a copy of Strunk and White on the end of a long stick as a bludgeon, I would advise avoiding redundant double propositions. Anywhere else, it is reasonably fair game.

TheSquish671

"Off of" is incorrect grammar regardless if it's widely used.

E.G.: snuck, ain't, irregardless
What's funny is I grew up in the Country. If you asked my relatives, the first two are acceptable. At least that's what they learned us. XD
So did I.

I know slang like you've never heard.

Sunt: past tense of sent
Tooken: like taken, but more redneck
Correction sent is past tense of send
Whooshed is past tense of whoosh.
*is the
Your wellcome

*you're welcome
You're welcome

Snizzbar

"Off of" is incorrect grammar regardless if it's widely used.

E.G.: snuck, ain't, irregardless
What's funny is I grew up in the Country. If you asked my relatives, the first two are acceptable. At least that's what they learned us. XD
So did I.

I know slang like you've never heard.

Sunt: past tense of sent
Tooken: like taken, but more redneck
Correction sent is past tense of send
Whooshed is past tense of whoosh.
*is the
Your wellcome
*you're welcome
You're welcome

Whoosh

Ahitlaw

Will this thread ever be taken off of the forum?
At this time, I don't see no reason to.

ANY reason!

LoPresti

There are thousands of examples of “off of” in the Corpus of Contemporary American English, not just in spoken English, but in magazines, newspapers, and academic journals as well. “Off of” is well-established as standard in American English.

Something like "based on" may be stylistically preferable in many cases, but "off of" is still grammatically correct.

"Off of" is incorrect grammar regardless if it's widely used.

E.G.: snuck, ain't, irregardless

Ain't is actually grammatically correct. The rest of the examples are true though, they are all incorrect.

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Ultra8529

Its just a choice of English or American lol

Hector_1475

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Lrrrr

I mean, if we really have grammar issues can we fix GR’s ‘judgements’?

Colinwhitworth69

As a long-time editor, this is acceptable because the video game is using colloquial language, not highly standardized grammar styles, to impart information. The sentence in question makes complete sense, which in this context is all the matters.

Lrrrr

As a long-time editor, this is acceptable because the video game is using colloquial language, not highly standardized grammar styles, to impart information. The sentence in question makes complete sense, which in this context is all the matters.

“Let’s eat, grandma.”
“Let’s eat grandma.”

Proper grammar saves lives!

Spurgeon14

Just because you think it’s incorrect doesn’t make it incorrect either. I personally think your stance on the matter belongs in the loo.
I don't "think" it is. It is.

It's objectively wrong.

Language is not objective. Languages evolve over time. 😂

shadow_lurker22

"Off of" is incorrect grammar regardless if it's widely used.

E.G.: snuck, ain't, irregardless
What's funny is I grew up in the Country. If you asked my relatives, the first two are acceptable. At least that's what they learned us. XD
So did I.

I know slang like you've never heard.

Sunt: past tense of sent
Tooken: like taken, but more redneck
Correction sent is past tense of send
Whooshed is past tense of whoosh.

Washed is past tense of Wash.

DNA3000

Just because you think it’s incorrect doesn’t make it incorrect either. I personally think your stance on the matter belongs in the loo.
I don't "think" it is. It is.

It's objectively wrong.
Language is not objective. Languages evolve over time. 😂

Language is what the language users say it is. If everyone else says something, and one person disagrees, he's objectively wrong. If half the people say one thing and the other half say something else, neither side is likely to be objectively right or wrong.

Sundance_2099

Americans can bog off about grammar when they can't even spell proper.

Hamin

Americans can bog off about grammar when they can't even spell proper.

Properly

Sundance_2099

r/whoosh

Hamin

r/whoosh

Whoosh your whoosh.