In poetry.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 13 April 2020 02:39 (four years ago) link
nah, anytime
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Monday, 13 April 2020 03:07 (four years ago) link
they're essentially harmless 'pillow words', unworthy of your ire.they’re like jamming 14 eggs into a carton made for 12
― karmic blowback for dissing pip and jane baker (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 13 April 2020 03:14 (four years ago) link
Who made the carton in that analogy?
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 13 April 2020 03:15 (four years ago) link
jesus
― karmic blowback for dissing pip and jane baker (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 13 April 2020 03:16 (four years ago) link
divinely mandated, eh?
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 13 April 2020 03:26 (four years ago) link
hosanna in eggshell sits
― ole uncle tiktok (darraghmac), Monday, 13 April 2020 03:28 (four years ago) link
that... that's just... I have no words
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 13 April 2020 03:31 (four years ago) link
"Off of" is the only way in Our Queen's English to explain which TV programme you've seen an actor in before.
― kinder, Monday, 13 April 2020 07:58 (four years ago) link
What's wrong with 'from'?
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Monday, 13 April 2020 08:24 (four years ago) link
Exactly, you need a from
"that's him from off of The Bill"
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Monday, 13 April 2020 09:43 (four years ago) link
Didn't Based Offov used to play up front for Bulgaria?
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Monday, 13 April 2020 10:00 (four years ago) link
I believe The Man Off Of UNCLE was one of the most popular TV shows of the 60s.
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Monday, 13 April 2020 11:00 (four years ago) link
ricky gervaise offive the office
― ole uncle tiktok (darraghmac), Monday, 13 April 2020 11:03 (four years ago) link
'From' is kind of clunky, the Scottish 'fae' is much more elegant.
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Monday, 13 April 2020 11:09 (four years ago) link
Round our way it's 'frae'
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Monday, 13 April 2020 11:09 (four years ago) link
Indeed.
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Monday, 13 April 2020 11:10 (four years ago) link
outside of a horse, a dog is man’s best friend. inside of a horse it’s too dark to see.- bob marley
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 13 April 2020 11:17 (four years ago) link
I need an around the frae girl
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 13 April 2020 11:19 (four years ago) link
Bamboo earrins
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Monday, 13 April 2020 12:00 (four years ago) link
based off of is good and correct
― mark s, Monday, 13 April 2020 12:06 (four years ago) link
im professional sub editor, i sub it in even if its not there
― mark s, Monday, 13 April 2020 12:07 (four years ago) link
With "off" being transitive I thought it didn't need "of," but I defer to you.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 13 April 2020 12:09 (four years ago) link
rhythmic necessity
― ole uncle tiktok (darraghmac), Monday, 13 April 2020 12:11 (four years ago) link
Based af.
― coviderunt omnes (pomenitul), Monday, 13 April 2020 12:13 (four years ago) link
deems is correct, english has no actual rules except what feels good, to me — bob marley again
― mark s, Monday, 13 April 2020 12:16 (four years ago) link
Don't let dem fool ya
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Monday, 13 April 2020 12:25 (four years ago) link
Emancipate yourself off of mental slavery
- Bob Marley
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Monday, 13 April 2020 12:36 (four years ago) link
dreadful quotes
― calzino, Monday, 13 April 2020 12:38 (four years ago) link
lolz! xp
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 13 April 2020 12:41 (four years ago) link
Get into my dreamsGet off of my car
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Monday, 13 April 2020 13:13 (four years ago) link
Get Offa my Dike
― Fleetwood Machiavelli (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 13 April 2020 13:36 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWXnVOgzqvc
― Fleetwood Machiavelli (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 13 April 2020 13:39 (four years ago) link
based off of = based on?
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 13 April 2020 14:11 (four years ago) link
"based off of" helps suggest that additional weird elements have crept in
― mark s, Monday, 13 April 2020 14:40 (four years ago) link
yep, analogous to copied off of = copied from (see also "got off on")
For some people "based off" is probably being parsed as a phrasal verb (and why wouldn't it, English famously has over ten thousand of them) so tacking a prepositional phrase at the end of it is perfectly natural. But if you insist the construction is "based + prepositional phrase" then "based off of" is not going to work for you.
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Monday, 13 April 2020 14:54 (four years ago) link
i am an accelerationist descriptivist who is also a professional sub-editor, its wild over here
― mark s, Monday, 13 April 2020 15:02 (four years ago) link
f hazel always making sensetrying to explain phrasal verbs to my students always leads to long faces -- there are SO many of them and the meaning of each one is not logical. we talked about "take ____" once and it actually reduced our morale :-/
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 13 April 2020 15:25 (four years ago) link
phrasal verbs are probably the most annoying thing about the english language, so intuitively understood by native speakers, so impenetrable to everyone else. I think being aware of them when grading your speech might be the biggest eureka moment for a novice esl teacher.
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 13 April 2020 15:29 (four years ago) link
the list of phrases with 'take' is only surpassed in ridiculousness by the many uses of 'set'
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 13 April 2020 15:30 (four years ago) link
yeah you could probably take fifty common verbs and the fifty most common prepositions and make a matrix of phrasal verb definitions from them that would be baffling in its randomness
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Monday, 13 April 2020 15:31 (four years ago) link
a matrix out of
― ole uncle tiktok (darraghmac), Monday, 13 April 2020 15:34 (four years ago) link
thinking about phrasal verbs makes me equal parts frustrated and sad -- frustrated for myself as a teacher and sad for my students that i have to tell them "it's possible u will never learn this"
i do enjoy explaining the difference between a phrasal verb and a prepositional phrase thoughthat's doable
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 13 April 2020 15:34 (four years ago) link
it always makes me smile when I think of my grandmother, who would routinely come down hard on us kids for the most trivial grammatical transgressions, but whose everyday speech was full of phrases like "don't take on so" and "get away with you"
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Monday, 13 April 2020 15:36 (four years ago) link
take uptake outtake intake withtake totake aftertake oneach with its own quite different distinct meaning
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 13 April 2020 16:32 (four years ago) link
the lovely Emma complained a lot about this iirc, see also every verb ever, i.e.see tosee outsee aroundetc
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 13 April 2020 16:33 (four years ago) link
take backtake forwardtake away
― ole uncle tiktok (darraghmac), Monday, 13 April 2020 16:34 (four years ago) link
take down
sure lookit
German is just as exasperating in this regard, perhaps even more so.
― coviderunt omnes (pomenitul), Monday, 13 April 2020 16:36 (four years ago) link
i like it
― mark s, Monday, 13 April 2020 16:38 (four years ago) link