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jon f mn · May 15, 2017

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db4600 · May 15, 2017

"Can I borrow a pen?" "Why, do you have a pig to put in it?" English is a tough languge!

SweetFeet · May 15, 2017

wjytexas · May 15, 2017

eschew obfuscation please

rrlund · May 15, 2017

Yes,just like may and might. I had it pounded in to my head in elementary school that might meant the possibility of something and that may gives permission. Yet it seems like the more educated a person pretends to be,the more likely they are to say may when they mean might.
So when somebody tells me "you may want to....",I thank them for giving me permission to want to.

db4600 · May 15, 2017

Central Mn has it's share of Germans. With that comes the language patterns of the German language. In high school we would drive the English teachers mad with this common farm boy phrase. "Throw the cow over the fence some hay."

steve_in_mo · May 15, 2017

That phrase is an example of a North American dialect
called Pennsylvania Dutch, the combination of German
and English most of our ancestors spoke in this part
of the US.

jeffcat · May 15, 2017

The proud this is when I read it I knew every word. Mrs. Bell was a task master of a teacher.

Steve@Advance · May 15, 2017

Must have been this kid...
TCU Grad

wjytexas · May 15, 2017

I grew up in a Czech-German community in Texas. I remember that phrase well!

rustygreen · May 15, 2017

"I Don't Know Nothing"

pete 23 · May 15, 2017

My dear wife can destroy the English language with her use of grammar. We had a neighbor, former English teacher I think who would often correct her. Then, one day, the neighbor, being of Norwegian decent, said she put gas on the car. Wife said, wouldn't it be better to put the gas in the gas tank. Gotcha.

Ellis Kinney · May 15, 2017

Run the stairs up, look the window out and watch the horse turn the corner round. Ellis

Alan K · May 15, 2017

LOL....my dad used to say things like that to have fun with us kids.

JerryS · May 15, 2017

There's some debate as to whether he actually said it, but Winston Churchill supposedly took issue with an editor who awkwardly challenged and corrected one of his sentences to avoid ending a sentence with a preposition. that ended with a preposition.

Legend has it that Churchill responded by writing in the margin, "This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will put."

A common street hustle in New Orleans French Quarter features a hip con man approaching a tourist with the challenge, "I bet you five dollars I can tell you where you got them shoes." The naive tourist thinks, "No way", and takes the bet. The con-dude then says, "You got them shoes on yo' feet, and yo' feet be standin' on Royal Street." Even those victims who are astute enough to understand the difference between the two usages of the word "got" realize that arguing the point with a street-wise but book-dumb hustler is pointless, and they usually pay up, poorer but wiser.

Hoofer B · May 15, 2017

throw the horse over the fence some hay

bmack95hd · May 15, 2017

Turn right here left.

farmerwithmutt · May 15, 2017

In the Spanish language they will say fan blue and we say blue fan. In a way theres is better you look for the fan then the blue one .

olgentdc · May 16, 2017

the italian language is like that ,,. then the sicilian talk gets really confusing ,, My Dear Sicilian born Sara has trouble understanding her aunt, who lives in Turin Which is very near Ftance and switzerland ,,.

Ozlander · May 16, 2017

(quoted from post at 19:45:24 05/15/17) In the Spanish language they will say fan blue and we say blue fan. In a way theres is better you look for the fan then the blue one .

But the fan blew air.

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