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Will this grammar mistake ever be fixed?

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    HaminHamin Posts: 2,444 ★★★★★
    shadow_lurker22 said:

    Hamin said:

    GroundedWisdom said:

    Hamin said:

    "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.
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    SnizzbarSnizzbar Posts: 2,144 ★★★★★
    Hamin said:

    shadow_lurker22 said:

    Hamin said:

    GroundedWisdom said:

    Hamin said:

    "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
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    LeNoirFaineantLeNoirFaineant Posts: 8,638 ★★★★★
    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.
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    CFreeCFree Posts: 491 ★★
    Hamin said:

    DarthPhal said:

    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.
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    SummonerNRSummonerNR Posts: 10,640 Guardian
    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 :smile:
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    DNA3000DNA3000 Posts: 18,660 Guardian
    Hamin said:

    DarthPhal said:

    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.
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    TheSquish671TheSquish671 Posts: 2,880 ★★★★★
    Snizzbar said:

    Hamin said:

    shadow_lurker22 said:

    Hamin said:

    GroundedWisdom said:

    Hamin said:

    "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
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    SnizzbarSnizzbar Posts: 2,144 ★★★★★
    TheSquish671 said:

    Snizzbar said:

    Hamin said:

    shadow_lurker22 said:

    Hamin said:

    GroundedWisdom said:

    Hamin said:

    "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
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    AhitlawAhitlaw Posts: 2,123 ★★★★
    Kabam Habanero said:

    DarthPhal said:

    Will this thread ever be taken off of the forum?

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

    ANY reason!
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    LoPrestiLoPresti Posts: 1,035 ★★★
    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.
    Hamin said:

    "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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    Ultra8529Ultra8529 Posts: 526 ★★★
    Its just a choice of English or American lol
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    Hector_1475Hector_1475 Posts: 1,783 ★★★★★

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    LrrrrLrrrr Posts: 234 ★★
    I mean, if we really have grammar issues can we fix GR’s ‘judgements’?
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    Colinwhitworth69Colinwhitworth69 Posts: 7,185 ★★★★★
    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.
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    LrrrrLrrrr Posts: 234 ★★
    Colinwhitworth69 said:

    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!
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    Spurgeon14Spurgeon14 Posts: 1,665 ★★★★
    Hamin said:

    DarthPhal said:

    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. 😂
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    shadow_lurker22shadow_lurker22 Posts: 3,243 ★★★★★
    Hamin said:

    shadow_lurker22 said:

    Hamin said:

    GroundedWisdom said:

    Hamin said:

    "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.
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    DNA3000DNA3000 Posts: 18,660 Guardian
    Spurgeo14 said:

    Hamin said:

    DarthPhal said:

    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.
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    Sundance_2099Sundance_2099 Posts: 2,811 ★★★★★
    edited April 2019
    Americans can bog off about grammar when they can't even spell proper.

    :p
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    HaminHamin Posts: 2,444 ★★★★★
    Sundance_2099 said:

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

    :p

    Properly
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    Sundance_2099Sundance_2099 Posts: 2,811 ★★★★★
    r/whoosh
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    HaminHamin Posts: 2,444 ★★★★★
    Sundance_2099 said:

    r/whoosh

    Whoosh your whoosh.
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